vis4/citation-needed

Chrome extension that highlights anonymous sources in news articles

citation-needed's Issues

False positives

Francis also said the need for dialogue between religions is “essential” during a Mass in Nairobi on his first official trip to Africa.

check for "lawmaker"

if someone is referred to as "lawmaker", it is very likely to be an anonymous source

Attribution needed

Someone should create a browser extensions that detects use of cc licensed content without appropriate attribution...

https://xkcd.com/285/

How to internationalize this?

Nice extension. I can see this being useful to me in many articles I read. However, I know and read more than one language, and this would be just as useful for those other languages.

How would that fit in? If it has a lot of languages it might load too many regexes and in the end become slow. A method could be to have several modes (checkbox languages you want it to check on each site), so by default only [x] English is added, but there are some open checkboxes for other languages that are supported. That way the extra weight is negligible and there's no chance of random false positives for strange languages.

Another method would be to just fork the extension into citation-needed-<language_code> for each language.

I bet there's other ways too. What are your thoughts?

make it work in newly opened tabs, too

currently the extension only listens to chrome.tabs.onUpdated which doesn't seem to fire when a link is opened in a new tab.

check for “x familiar with”

Such as “people familiar with the matter”.

match multiple times in same paragraph

In this paragraph only the first "official said" is matched

Turkey scrambled fighter jets to its border with Syria on Thursday after gunmen on the Syrian side opened fire on a Turkish outpost, killing one military officer and wounding five soldiers, a senior government official said. The official said the gunmen were Islamic State militants.