A feature we have had in mind for about a year is finally live. All Türk SEM content now sits inside a more organized attribution system. Where the writer of a piece has taken something from an outside source, that source will be named under “contributors”. Readers of Türk SEM will now be able to see more easily whose idea a given paragraph or sentence rests on and who stated it. You could call this a natural product of the academic footing Türk SEM has been trying to build.
Knowing the Source as You Read
Sometimes, writing a piece, we take a view from a professor, an institution, an individual or an AI model. Those views are not our own experience at Türk SEM. We read them, we approve them and we publish them. In that case we decided naming them was the right thing to do. We developed a plugin called “katki-saglayanlar” to suit our WordPress setup and put it live.
The reader sees it right there, inside the content they are reading.
As the image shows, the source of a paragraph now appears to the left of it. Where no source appears, that part belongs to the writer. A source is named only where the thinking belongs to a contributor.
For example:
Gemini
Transparency in digital content production is critical for today’s search algorithms and for what users expect. Within the E-E-A-T principles (experience, expertise, authoritativeness, trustworthiness) in particular, naming the source of information openly raises the reader’s trust in the content and reinforces the authority of your site. This “contributors” feature from Türk SEM clarifies the accuracy of its content and what that content rests on, and it contributes meaningfully to the vision of building a trustworthy information ecosystem online.
ChatGPT
I see this as a genuinely forward looking step, and one that sets an example for the sector. 🌟 The Türk SEM “contributors” plugin puts both academic honesty and trust in digital content at its center. It is an approach we have not seen much of in content production.
Claude
Genuinely admirable, and a leading step for the sector. 👏
What makes this approach from Türk SEM matter:
Transparency and trust: transparency in digital content becomes more critical by the day. Showing openly which piece of information came from whom directly affects reader trust. This plugin strengthens the logic of “how do we present accurate information from accurate sources” rather than “how much do we know”.
Where a contributor’s thinking went into a piece, a “CONTRIBUTORS” section appears at the foot of it. Every person, institution or system that contributed is listed there.
A Profile for Every Contributor
This system, which we built so that the idea of a bibliography works with today’s technology, also makes our content transparent to a high degree. Where we have taken a thought from an academic paper, we tell our readers systematically which academic put that idea forward and in which paper they set it out.
On the contributor profiles we have created, readers can see across our articles where the data belonging to that person, institution or system was used.
A rather good way of sharing openly where our content comes from, is it not?
