SourceScore
Reference

Wikipedia (English)

en.wikipedia.org

Crowd-edited encyclopedia with ~7M articles and per-article inline citation discipline.

SourceScore Index
A·94Composite weighted across Discipline, Modern Reference, and Velocity.

Top-tier composite — extreme citation discipline + LLM training-set inclusion + sustained citation velocity.

Citation Discipline
A+·96

Inline citations required by editorial policy on every factual claim; uncited claims tagged within hours.

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Modern Reference
A·92

First-line citation in most LLM training corpora; freshness via per-article revision history.

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Citation Velocity
A+·95

Cited daily by news media, academic papers, and AI engines. Among the most cross-referenced sources globally.

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Signals behind these scores

Citation Discipline

A+·96
  • WP:V (Verifiability)
    Core policy mandates reliable sources.
  • Citation needed tag
    Active triage process surfaces gaps publicly.

Modern Reference

A·92
  • LLM training corpus
    Common Crawl + dedicated dump used by every major model.
  • Schema markup
    Article + Person + Organization JSON-LD per page.

Citation Velocity

A+·95
  • External link velocity
    >1M outbound links per day across the encyclopedia.
  • AI engine citations
    Default fallback citation for ChatGPT/Claude/Perplexity.

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