WikiBunk

This is a proposal for a new Wikimedia sister project.

WikiBunk
Status of the proposal
Status	rejected
Reason	no interest. Pecopteris (talk) 06:50, 19 August 2023 (UTC)
Technical requirements

WikiBunk is a crowd-sourced fact-check for rumors, hoaxes, political or corporate claims, viral videos, and pop-culture memes that are currently subject to little or no scrutiny.

Deficiency of Snopes.com

Currently the default lookup tool for conspiracy theories, hoaxes, urban legends, and old wives' tales is Snopes.com. It serves a useful purpose; it just does a poor job of it. It has uncorrected technical problems dating back to the 1990s such as outdated pop-up ads, right-click blocking, and ancient design. It also succumbs to perils common to any site with centralized, amateur content curation: limits to breadth of information, preachiness and lack of NPOV, and inability to respond to the changing nature of rumors and hoaxes.

Purpose of WikiBunk

On the internet proliferates a wealth of garbage. Conspiracies, fake viral videos, and misleading viral memes run rampant. WikiBunk would serve as a community-run verification and debunking resource providing links to sources that can prove or disprove myths and hoaxes and also backstory information where available.

Alternative names

WikiCheck

WikiRumor

WikiFact

People interested

1. KenjiCrosland (talk)

Kenji Crosland