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Jude from Golden here. TLDR answer on this important question and I’m interested in the community ideas on this problem set:

1. High visual transparency and open edit logs eg golden.com/wiki/Morphogenetic_Engineering/activity

2. Using real profiles so we can prevent bots / multi accounts etc.

3. Cross checking SPO/fact triples in the prose against our structured data to validate information.

4. Cross checking against multiple sources

5. Using high resolution citations where we actually highlight the claim (please test our highlighting of a claim and citation tool to see this in action).

6. Having source trust ranked citation URLs.

7. Opening up primary sources eg articles of incorporation as evidence for claims.

8. Having a strong audit log of where information comes from.

9. Using a github style ‘issues’ rather than wiki talk in order to discuss content issues.

10. Giving UI affordances to argue out points and give evidence to claims made in these arguments.

We are still working on this UI / AI and general community to really dig into this core challenge.

Please reconsider the real names policy, it is perfectly appropriate to keep my legal name separate from what I write online, and I don't even live in a country where I can be arrested for my opinions.

I would much rather see a 'durable identity' process, whereby when someone sees my username as an author, they know it was authored by me. This goes beyond allowing or not allowing duplicate screennames (where you swap an I for l and impersonate a politician etc) -- consider authenticating edits and transactions with public key cryptography so I can assert my identity -- just not necessarily the one I can't change.

keybase.io is, of course, an innovator in this space and you should consider adopting their strategy for asserting identity online !

You can still make it a pain in the ass to create multiple accounts without asking for a government ID (which can be faked too, by the way!). ban multiple log-ins from single IP, have a phone number challenge, put a waiting period on the account, nothing is perfect but all of this is better than having to use my real name.

9. Github style issues feels much more modern, as a semi-regular wiki editor talk pages are one of my least favorite (and hardest to audit) parts of Wikipedia

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