The Portugal Wire: the sources

Where the wire looks, and what each source's licence allows it to keep.

Opening the vault…

The registry is read from the wire’s vault in your browser, which needs a script. Anyone can read it with sgit clone sgit_public_read_faa3377d2556713fc959e68bc7bd8a2303cd4bd0862fdf18a4bf51c0c0d3ee08:p6twygul: it is data/sources.json.

The tiers

The wire’s sources policy (in the vault) gives each source a tier that decides what the wire may keep and show. Tier A is an open licence or public domain: the full text may be frozen, kept and shown. Tier B is quote and link: the bytes are frozen as evidence, and the public page carries a quote of 25 words or fewer with a link. Tier C is link only: headline, address and date, never the text. A source becomes verified when a person has opened its licence page; until then its tier is provisional. Outlets that keep appearing in coverage are proposed as sources, and a person confirms the tier.

For an agent

The source registry of The Portugal Wire: data/sources.json in vault p6twygul (sgit clone sgit_public_read_faa3377d2556713fc959e68bc7bd8a2303cd4bd0862fdf18a4bf51c0c0d3ee08:p6twygul). Each source has beats, a tier (A open licence, B quote and link, C link only), a licence and whether a person has verified it.