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    1. I've been thinking about how digital media can deal with reporting on lies and the liars who tell them while minimizing amplification. Putting social media aside for a moment, why don't we consider Wikipedia style citations as guidelines towards a mechanical standard?
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    Wikipedia has effectively trained a significant portion of the web in its citation standard, I think we can consider it a learned UX pattern for most users. Why isn't it used anywhere else? The deep linking and user time on site seems a significant financial incentive?
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      It would seem to me that linked footnote citations plus citation-needed marks would create significantly more context and likely more reader confidence, especially if it is treated as a living document, updated with additional citations in editorial fact check cycles.
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        Bonus points: if the process is time stamped it would provide clarity on article update cycles, a process where the lack of transparency has caused problems for publications in the past.
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          I feel like this idea has come up on the year cycles at journalism conferences and everyone nods heads and does nothing. But Schema-dot-org provides the promise of giving additional context to citations and possibly creating a space for a full in page standard.
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            A full and supported standard would be super useful as it could be picked up and replicated on to platforms and aggregation apps to provide context and illustrate site structure more usefully.
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              Fact checkers are checking records already, why not bring their work into the open, attach their bylines to citation work like Wikipedia uses? There's a lot of bonus internal referral that could be built. Why haven't we ever done this as an industry?
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                I know versions of this have been approached, but no one has just taken Wikipedia and done it like they do. That, it seems to me, is where the promise of good UX lies.
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