Reliable sources for Wikimedia in the time of Minnesota in Winter

There are government engineered riots in the streets of Minnesota, people are dying. The sources for what transpires; the traditional sources of repute are suspect. Government sources deliberately polish what transpires to the extend that its lies are obvious given video documentation showing proof of the opposite. News cooperations operate on the basis of "balanced reporting" consequently obvious falsehoods get equal attention invalidating reliability for these traditional sources.

The best that can be said about USA government publications is that it publishes its policy however it no longer provides us with a reliable source. It no longer has the organisations that had a quality making their publications qualify as reliable. Examples abound; think health, climate, traffic, trade, military.

Wikimedia serves a global public. Arguably foreign sources became more reliable and respectable, more likely to provide a narrative that clashes with what some in the USA expect to hear. 

The Wikimedia Foundation is an organisation based in the United States, its infrastructure is centred in the USA. I fear for for the continuity of its products and its quality. It is not a given that this will remain given a US government going to court with the BBC because of what it considers partisan reporting. Wikimedia aims to provide a neutral point of view but given that its traditional sources are increasingly suspect, that it operates in an environment that is no longer free. Given that its bias is also in what it does not cover, I wonder how we measure Wikipedia as a reliable source.

Thanks,

       GerardM

Arboga, a stad in #Sweden

Arboga is a municipality in Sweden. Like many others it once enjoyed town privileges, thus it is entitled to call itself stad. As you can imagine, there has been a constant change in the size and the relevance of these places. All the pertinent facts are maintained by the Swedish authorities and, it is possible to update the items of the Swedish municipalities in this way.

Much of the data about these municipalities has been harvested from the English language Wikipedia. Research on the quality of the data indicated that 96% of the data is correct. People from the Swedish community had hoped for 98% and, their aim is to raise the reliability of the information on Wikidata to 99,8%.

As they started their project, they found that the "communcode" or "towncode" was missing. This information is critical if automated updates from the Swedish authorities are to be considered.  There are 2190 towns and communes and automated updates is what makes it feasible to realise the 99,8% reliability objective.

Setting this up is doable. The big question is who will maintain it once it has been set up. When you consider this problem for all countries and when you expand it to other domains, it becomes obvious that this needs serious consideration.
Thanks,
       GerardM