Verified entries
Authored or reviewed by at least two Filipino editors and passed against the 12-point checklist.
Built by Filipino editors, for Filipino topics — and verified, line by line, before anything is published.
WikiPhilippines is not a wiki mirror and not a crowdsourced scrapbook. It is a working reference publication — 142 Filipino editors, 18,400+ entries, an ISO 9001:2015 workflow, and a two-signature rule on every page that ships. We treat every island, dialect, and revolutionary hero as headline material because Filipino readers deserve a reference that takes them seriously.
Editorial Standards
The 12-Point Verification Checklist
Every entry passes all twelve gates before it is published, and again on a rolling 18-month cadence. The checklist is what lets a DepEd curriculum reviewer, a Manila journalist on deadline, or a Cambridge doctoral candidate cite us with confidence.
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Authored or reviewed by a Filipino editor
Every entry is owned by at least one editor on our 142-person roster, all based in the Philippines or in Philippine-studies programs abroad.
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Two-editor sign-off rule
No entry ships with one signature. A primary author and a subject-matter reviewer — usually one of our 18 PhD editors — both sign the publication record.
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Primary-source citation required
Footnotes link to NHCP holdings, PSA tables, NAMRIA cartography, peer-reviewed journals, or the named archival collection — never to a single secondary blog.
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Cross-checked against three sources minimum
Contested facts require triangulation across at least three independent sources before they enter the canonical text, with disagreements footnoted in place.
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Dialect and place-name verification
Spelling of regional terms, indigenous place names, and dialect variants is confirmed with a regional editor or partner state university before publication.
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Tone and voice review
A senior editor confirms the entry reads as warm and authoritative — never encyclopedic-flat, never promotional — and free of unattributed superlatives.
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Image rights and captions cleared
Every photograph, map, or illustration carries a verified rights statement and a caption written from the image, not borrowed from a stock description.
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Translation parity for six languages
Where an entry ships in Tagalog, Cebuano, Ilocano, Bikol, Hiligaynon, or Waray, the translation is reviewed by a native-language editor — not machine-output.
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Sensitivity and community review
Entries on living persons, indigenous communities, or unresolved historical trauma pass an additional review by a designated community-affairs editor.
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Citation export ready
Each entry exports clean APA, MLA, Chicago, and RIS citations so it can be dropped directly into a thesis, lesson plan, or news brief.
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ISO 9001:2015 audit trail
The full review history — drafts, comments, sign-offs, revisions — is retained against the entry DOI for the lifetime of the platform.
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18-month refresh commitment
Every entry carries a "last verified" date and is reassigned for review within 18 months — the fastest refresh window of any Philippine reference platform.
Audited
The 12-point checklist was last reviewed by our certification body on 14 March 2025 and is published in full in our open editorial handbook.
The People Behind Every Entry
142 Editors, Two Signatures on Every Entry
WikiPhilippines was founded in 2014 by a consortium of Filipino librarians and historians based in Quezon City. Today the masthead reads like a working university department: historians, linguists, marine biologists, cartographers, ethnomusicologists, and culinary historians — plus a cohort of working journalists who keep the entries readable.
- Editorial team
- 142 contributors
- PhD subject-matter editors
- 18 across history, linguistics, biology, anthropology, and cartography
- Founding consortium
- Filipino librarians and historians, Quezon City, 2014
- Editorial certification
- ISO 9001:2015 — current certificate valid through 2027
- Governance
- Independent editorial board, chaired by Dr. Lourdes Bautista; no single funder holds a majority seat
Our board reads every citation complaint, every correction request from a living person, and every challenge from a state-university partner. The institution behind the entries is named, accountable, and reachable at the address below.
Institutional Backing
Primary-Source Partners
WikiPhilippines holds formal data-sharing and review agreements with the agencies that hold the Philippines' primary record. When you cite us, you are ultimately citing the NHCP reading room, the PSA table, the NAMRIA chart.
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NHCP
National Historical Commission of the Philippines
Primary-source access to the Aguinaldo, Quezon, and Bonifacio archival collections; joint review of entries on the revolutionary period and Martial Law.
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PSA
Philippine Statistics Authority
Direct feed of census, household income, and vital-statistics tables; PSA-supplied figures cited verbatim in every population and province entry.
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NAMRIA
National Mapping and Resource Information Authority
Authoritative cartography for the 7,641 islands, municipal boundaries, and dialect distribution maps; co-published nautical and topographic references.
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SU
23 State Universities Consortium
Regional faculty serve as primary editors for their respective island groups and dialect zones, including UP Diliman, MSU-Naawan, and USC.
WikiPhilippines is an independent private publisher. Partnerships grant primary-source access and editorial review; they do not imply government ownership of any entry.
Corpus & Coverage
The Largest Curated Filipino Reference Corpus Online
These are the figures our editors track internally and report to the editorial board each quarter. They describe scope, not supremacy — the work of filling the gaps is ongoing.
Islands with dedicated entries
Each mapped to NAMRIA cartography, with regional dialect and ecological context where available.
Ethnolinguistic groups
Each community profile reviewed by a designated community-affairs editor before publication.
Municipalities, 82 provinces
Local-government and PSA figures reconciled against current administrative boundaries.
Philippine-language editions
Tagalog, Cebuano, Ilocano, Bikol, Hiligaynon, and Waray — alongside the English canonical text.
Academic citations since 2019
Including 60+ Philippine high-school textbooks that adopt WikiPhilippines as a recommended reference.
"Recommended Reference Source" — Philippine Department of Education, 2022. "Best Cultural Digital Platform" — ASEAN Digital Media Awards, Jakarta, 2023.
How an Entry Travels
How an Entry Travels from Draft to Verified Update
The 18-month refresh commitment is procedural, not aspirational. Every entry carries a "last verified" date in its masthead, and our editorial calendar reassigns it for review on a rolling schedule — the fastest refresh window of any Philippine reference platform.
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Author assignment
Day 0
An entry is opened by a primary author from the editorial roster, drawn from the subject-matter pool. The author receives the brief, the prior version's diff, and the current primary-source bibliography.
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Peer review by a Filipino subject-matter editor
Weeks 2–6
A second editor — usually one of our 18 PhD-holding subject-matter editors — reads the draft, leaves margin comments, and either requests revisions or signs off. Single-author entries never advance past this gate.
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Primary-source verification
Weeks 6–10
Footnotes are checked against the original sources at NHCP, PSA, NAMRIA, or the named archive. Unverifiable claims are demoted to "reported but unverified" or removed entirely.
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Editor-in-chief sign-off and ISO audit trail
Week 12
The senior editor confirms checklist items 1–12, the entry is stamped with a "last verified" date, and the full review trail is filed against the entry DOI for future audit.
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Publication in English and selected Philippine-language editions
Week 13
The canonical English entry publishes first; translations into Tagalog, Cebuano, Ilocano, Bikol, Hiligaynon, or Waray ship as native-edited versions, never machine-output.
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Scheduled revisit within 18 months
≤ 18 months later
The entry is reassigned for the same review cycle. Readers see a "last verified" date and a "next scheduled review" date on every entry page — our public commitment to freshness.
Read the full editorial handbook
The 12-point checklist, the ISO 9001:2015 audit scope, and the corrections policy are published in full in our open editorial handbook. Citations and corrections can be sent directly to our editorial desk.