faktfact

Faktfact is a term used to describe a collaborative, crowd-sourced repository of factual statements and their sources. Intended as a lightweight, platform-neutral layer of verifiable information, faktfact aims to present concise claims with citations, enabling users to verify statements quickly and track the provenance of each fact. Entries are organized by topic and anchored to primary or credible secondary sources.

The name faktfact combines the idea of a fact with a repetition or reinforcement motif, reflecting a design goal of redundancy through multiple independent sources. The concept emerged in online information-literacy communities in the mid-2010s and has since inspired various community-driven projects that emphasize accessibility, transparency, and verifiability over narrative depth.

Contents within faktfact entries typically include a core factual statement, a short neutral explanation, and a bibliography with links or citations. Each entry carries a confidence tag (for example, proven, likely, disputed) and a revision history that records edits and source updates. Some implementations integrate with existing knowledge bases via export formats such as JSON or CSV.

Governance relies on an editorial workflow with volunteer editors and moderators who enforce sourcing standards and neutral tone. Quality control relies on cross-verification, discussion threads, and appeal processes for disputed items. Critics warn that faktfact can reflect the biases of its contributors or skew toward highly sourced topics at the expense of context, highlighting the need for clarity about uncertainty and provenance.

See also fact-checking, information literacy, open knowledge bases.