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Deploy Source Verification as an experimental suggestion
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Description

Deployment plan

#TODO

Story

As an experienced editor motivated to ensure the claims on Wikipedia are supported by the sources they are accompanied by, I want to be made aware when a published claim may not be substantiated by its associated reference, so that I can more efficiently identify claim-source pairs worth investigating further, improving, or potentially, removing it.

Open questions

  • 1. As T425808 demonstrates, there are many instances where a citation might contain multiple URLs and for those URLs to be embedded within templates. How will this Suggestion decide which URL(s) to evaluate?
  • 2. There can be cases where a reference is wrapped within a template and for that template to generate a URL and for that URL not to be expressed within the wikitext source. How will this Suggestion generate those URLs and subsequently evaluate them?
    • Potentially unblocked by T425808.
  • 3. .

Meta

  • Link to relevant wish, policy, guideline, template, etc.: WP:Verify
  • Suggestion scope: English Wikipedia

Requirements '

Meta

  • Default configuration
    • maximumEditcount: N/A
    • minimumEditcount: 250 edits
    • Type: Suggestion and/or Check: Suggestion
  • Detection heuristic:

User experience

Instrumentation
As with all Edit Checks and Suggestions, we will want to know:

  • Any time a Suggestion of this type is activated within an edit session
  • Any time someone views a Suggestion of this type within an edit session
  • Any time someone engages with a Suggestion and how they engage with it

References

Event Timeline

  1. As T425808 demonstrates, there are many instances where a citation might contain multiple URLs and for those URLs to be embedded within templates. How will this Suggestion decide which URL(s) to evaluate?

The single most common case of multiple urls in a reference is having the original link and archived link. In that case almost* always the archived link should be used as it's not subject to link rot. For everything else, a heuristic like "use the url from the url template field if it exists, if not skip references with multiple citations" or smth similar would be sufficient. If there are other common special cases additional rules can be added later.

'* "almost always" because I encountered cases when the original page was updated with a correction - in these rare cases the original url should be preferred to the archived link