User:Digi-ark/news articles and wikidata

The goal of this page is to understand the nature of the relationship between news articles and the Wikimedia ecosystem.

The end goal of this analysis is to understand the if and how news articles can exist within wikidata to sustain claims made on wikipedia and possibly even extend beyond what's on wikipedia to enhance wikipedia editor's tool-set as a news agreegator and explorer for finding new hot topics that should be covered.

Notability

Notability means worthy of being noted.

• Wikipedia:Notability
• Wikipedia:Notability (media) - this is just for articles about news media

Nature of News Sources

• Wikipedia:Reliable sources

Events Modeling

List of common properties

• image (P18) (example: 2019–2020 Hong Kong protests (Q64509602))
• has part(s) (P527) (example: 2019–2020 Hong Kong protests (Q64509602))
• has cause (P828) (example: 2019–2020 Hong Kong protests (Q64509602))
• start time (P580) (example: 2019–2020 Hong Kong protests (Q64509602))
• location (P276) (example: 2019–2020 Hong Kong protests (Q64509602))
• part of (P361) (example: 2019–2020 Hong Kong protests (Q64509602))

News Websites Modeling

Challenges:

• a lot of times a news organization has also a news website but is not limited to it. In these cases should a separate entity be created for the ".com" (example: CNN (Q48340) and the counterpart CNN.com (Q12217473))
• formatter URL (P1630)

News Articles Modeling

In this section we evaluate the various properties that a news article may have have related to the content they are reporting about and it's origins.

https://schema.org/NewsArticle

List of common properties

• main subject (P921) or facet of (P1269)??? (or multiple - example: WikiCite (Q21831105))
• title (P1476)
• full work available at URL (P953)
• publication date (P577) - use refine date (P4241) for minute precision (or point in time (P585)?)
• point in time (P585)
• be reprints items of News Agencies (Wikipedia:Reliable sources)
• opinion or factual
• on focus list of Wikimedia project (P5008)
• cites work (P2860)
• number of words (P6570) and number of sentences (P6695)
• publication date (P577)
• country (P17)
• location (P276)
• publisher (P123) (or published in (P1433) but probably not)
• author name string (P2093)
  • affiliation string (P6424)
• last update (P5017) - for tracking changes (newsdiff?)
  • refine date (P4241)

Articles may have:

Example artilces

• 'I've always wanted to look like a bimbo': Human Barbie spends £10,000 to look as 'plastic as possible' and says she will make her J cup boobs even BIGGER (Q98433759)

News articles' sources (inputs)

What makes up a news article? We can think of a the journalistic process of creating a news article as a series multiple inputs and a single output (the article itself).

Inputs of news articles:

• citations of other news articles
  • explicit
  • implicit
• explicit citations of primary sources
  • people, organizations, etc
  • reports
  • anonymous sources
• implicit citations of primary sources - confidential sources (source which journalists don't put in the story)
• investigative work - mainly for investigative journalism