📝Contributing to news
The Pool view is split into three main components:
Editor: you can read the news text and add labels and comments to each paragraph
Sidebar: you can assign a quick score to the news and read about the indicators
Work Feed: you can review other people's work on the news, reply and vote
Usually when reviewing a news you would:
Read the text and use your sources to form a general idea about the news truthfulness
Read the indicators to have some more context about the website and publisher
Add comments and labels to the text using the editor
Add a quick score to the news to sum up your final sentiment about it
Debate with other users by replying to comments in the work feed, if needed
This page contains explanations about how to work with the components and their meaning.
Editor
1. Joining the pool
After you've found a news pool you'd like to contribute to, the first thing you should do is to join the pool:
2. Working on the news
Work on the news is performed on individual paragraphs.
For each paragraph, you can add a comment and a label, ideally you would do both.
To add a label, hover on the paragraph and click on the + sign on the left:
To add a comment, hover on the paragraph and click on the pencil icon on the left:
3. Reviewing and saving your work
By hovering on the icons to the right side of the paragraphs you will be able to review any labels and comments you've added.
You can change your comments by clicking again on the + sign or on the pencil icon.
When you're done you can commit your work by clicking on the Save button:
Sidebar
Quick Score
A quick score is a vote you can assign to the overall sentiment of a news.
You need to cast a vote before you can see other people's votes.
You can change your vote at any time before the pool is closed.
Pool Data
Contains information about validators, supervalidators, news topics and pool creation date.
Indicators
Collection of external data that can help gauge the truthfulness of the news.
These indicators do not necessairly reflect the veridicity of a news but they can help you better assess the context in which it is published.
Includes data from:
Tranco List: the higher the domain rank, the more it is known to the world
Iffy Index: list of known unreliable sources
Media Bias Fact Check: data from the MBFC fact checking website
News Data
Contains data about the news itself, such as author, date, publisher.
Related Pools
Shows related pools by topic.
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