WikiTribune, a project initiated by Wikipedia’s Jimmy Wales, aims to ‘fix the news’ by combining the work of a professional editorial team with contributions from citizen journalists who can provide additional information and help to eliminate bias and error.

The project requires a fine balance of freedom, trust and accountability, and we helped WikiTribune to extend WordPress’s native functionality to:

• allow many people to open the same article for editing at the same time – with the Fabrica Collaborative Editing plugin
• give professional editors control over publication of edits – with the Fabrica Pending Revisions plugin

We have jointly open-sourced the plugins with WikiTribune to help other civic media organisations, community journalism projects and multi-author WP sites who require similar functionality.

The plugins can be downloaded and forked from WikiTribune’s GitHub via the links above.