What you can do right now

Kept by incident.board@web-summit.dinis, 11 November 2026, 11:35 UTC

19 things a reader could do now. Each helps close a card on the board. How to send what you find, and what we publish back: Contribute. We take public sources only: an address anyone can open, the time it was published and the time you read it (UTC). No private messages, no contact details, nothing about private people.

Validate

C-06 · Is your by-line and time right?: By-lines and times in the media watch are copied from each page's own metadata. If yours is wrong, say so. Best placed: the reporters and their desks. A good answer: "Correct", or the right time and by-line.
C-07 · Is our reading of your terms right?: Each outlet's page quotes its terms on reproduction and what its robots.txt says. Best placed: the outlets' legal or digital teams. A good answer: "Correct", or the clause we should have quoted.
C-08 · Check our weather analysis: The meteorologist's analysis (labelled as analysis, never a forecast of ours): the peak window, and the reading of the airport forecast against the district warning. Best placed: meteorologists, atmospheric scientists. A good answer: What is wrong or overstated, and why, as your professional view (it comes in as a labelled hypothesis).
C-09 · Live-blog entry times: Entries in four live blogs were timed from page data; two pages stop showing times after midnight. Best placed: the live desks (Negócios, DN, Observador, RTP). A good answer: Confirmation, or the right time of the entries in the ranking tables.
C-14 · Check any row of the timeline against its source: Pick a row of the timeline, open its source, and tell us if the time, the wording or the label (fact, evidence, hypothesis) is wrong. Corrections are shown, never silently rewritten. A good answer: A standing task: it stays while the incident is open.
C-15 · When exactly did Lisbon's mayor speak on Tuesday?: We have 13:19 and 13:23, both press times. If you know the original (a broadcast, the Câmara's channel, an agency line with its time), point us to it. A good answer: A public source that carries the statement with its own time.
C-18 · Read the Câmara de Lisboa's measures page for us: The Câmara's pages refuse robots. Open its page on the alert situation ("Situação de Alerta: medidas excecionais em Lisboa") and tell us what measures it lists for Wednesday 11 November. A good answer: An issue with the page's address, the measures in one or two sentences, the time the page shows and the time you read it (UTC).

Send public data

C-01 · Who first reported that IPMA moved Lisbon's red rain to 09:00?: IPMA sent the change at 21:23 on Tuesday. By 00:15 we had found no article title or live-blog entry reporting it, but we cannot read SIC Notícias, JN, TSF or Renascença. If one of them (or anyone) reported it earlier, send the address. Best placed: anyone who saw it on TV, radio or a site we cannot read (SIC, TSF, JN, Renascença). A good answer: An article or live-blog entry with its publication time.
C-02 · Find the government's recommendation to Web Summit as a published text: Web Summit says the government "formally advised" it. We have the Prime Minister's words through a press live blog only. Is the advice published on a government page? Best placed: a journalist who covered it; the ministry's press office. A good answer: A government address (portugal.gov.pt or a ministry) with the text, or a report in which the government says it was given by word only. A second independent report also helps (it stays evidence).
C-03 · Wednesday's service, operator by operator: Metro, Carris, CP, Fertagus, the ferries, the bridges, the airport: what ran, what stopped, and at what times on Wednesday 11 November, each from the operator's own notice. Best placed: the operators' press offices; commuters with the operator's own notice. A good answer: A link to the operator's notice for each change, with its time.
C-04 · When did you receive the organisers' notice, and what did it say changed?: If you received the organisers' notice (the email of 19:38 on Tuesday, or a notice in the app), tell us the time you received it and what it said changed. Do not send us the email itself: until Dinis confirms how such a copy may be taken, we ask only for the time and the change, in your words. Best placed: attendees. A good answer: The time you received the notice and what it said changed. It comes in as evidence ("an attendee's account of the organisers' notice"), never as the source of a fact: Web Summit's own public page stays the source.
C-05 · First reports from outlets we cannot read: SIC Notícias, Jornal de Notícias, TSF, Renascença, The Guardian and AP refuse our reader. We want their first report on each of the seven facts in the media watch's ranking. Best placed: their own newsrooms; any reader. A good answer: A link and the publication time for each fact.
C-16 · Send us any public Web Summit notice on talks, tickets or side events: If Web Summit publishes what happens to Wednesday's talks, tickets and refunds, or side events, on a page anyone can open, send its address. Not an email to attendees and not the app: we take public pages only. A good answer: A public address on websummit.com or the organiser's official account, and the time you read it.
C-20 · Send us an operator's notice about Thursday's service: Metro, Carris, CP, Fertagus, the ferries (TTSL) and the bridges (Lusoponte): when one posts what runs on Thursday 12 November, send the address. Several of their sites cannot be read by our tools. A good answer: The operator's own page or official account, and the time you read it.

Research

C-10 · Who is quoted on the storm, and in what role?: For each expert quoted on the storm in the press: the role and institution as printed, the outlet, the time. Roles as printed only; no private details. Best placed: readers of the coverage; journalism students. A good answer: A table of role, institution, outlet, link, time.
C-11 · Wind limits of temporary event structures: What closes a temporary event structure in wind, and by what standard. Web Summit's page names "high winds on external structures" among its reasons. Best placed: structural engineers, event-safety practitioners. A good answer: The standard or guidance, with a link.
C-12 · How Charles compares with Kristin: Once station data is in: gusts, rain, and the warnings' lead times, side by side. Best placed: meteorologists; anyone with IPMA's station records. A good answer: A table with sources.
C-13 · Coverage in other languages: Coverage of the storm in the Spanish, French, English and Italian press. Best placed: readers of that press. A good answer: A list with link and publication time for each, to add to the coverage.
C-19 · Specialists: answer one of our open questions in your field: Meteorology, civil protection, transport, event safety: our questions are listed by field in the outreach section. An answer with your reasons comes in as a labelled hypothesis, or as a fact if you point to the body's own page. A good answer: An answer to a listed question, saying whether it is your own view or your organisation's.

Not a warning service: for the weather itself, IPMA and ANEPC.