Daily News War Wiki:About
What this wiki is, and how a page on it is made.
This is the published face of a personal news archive. Twice a day a script reads a fixed set of news feeds, keeps what looks like conflict reporting, and stores it. These pages are generated from that store.
How a page is assembled
No model writes a conflict page. Each one is built directly from archived records, which is why they read as records rather than as narrative. The archive stores headlines, and a page does not pretend to more than a headline supports.
A conflict page shows, in order:
- a situation card — the most recent archived item and its date
- a coverage note — how many items, over what span. Stated so a thin page is visibly thin
- reporting by provenance — headlines grouped by the side each is associated with. A state outlet is named with its affiliation attached
- other archived reporting — items with no side recorded
- background — encyclopedic context, retrieved from a reference work, not from memory
- sources — where a durable link exists
What is checked before anything is published
Prose that cites nothing is refused rather than published. The checks are in code, not in an instruction:
- every paragraph must cite a retrieved record
- a disputed subject needs at least two distinct sides among what it cites
- a paragraph citing a state outlet must name that outlet
- every figure must appear in a cited record — a number that appears from nowhere fails
- no links in prose. Links are rendered from the citation record, never written
When a subject cannot support a page, no page is written and the gap is recorded. A stub is worse than an absence: an entry implies a subject has been covered.
What it does not do
- It does not say whether a claim is true. If a claim appears, some outlet made it.
- It does not cover the world evenly. It covers what its sources publish, in the languages they publish in, and the coverage measurements are kept precisely because that is uneven.
- It is not a news service and sells nothing.
Terms
See Project:General disclaimer for what is quoted, what is ours, and under what licence.
