--- title: What you can do right now summary: Tasks a reader, a journalist or a specialist could do now for the Storm Charles record: validate, send public data, research. --- # 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](index.md). How to send what you find, and what we publish back: [Contribute](../contribute.md). 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?](items/t-bylines-and-times.md)**: 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?](items/t-outlet-terms.md)**: 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](items/t-check-weather-analysis.md)**: 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](items/t-live-blog-times.md)**: 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](items/t-check-a-row.md)**: 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?](items/t-mayor-time.md)**: 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](items/t-read-camara-measures.md)**: 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?](items/t-first-report-red-rain-0900.md)**: 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](items/t-government-text.md)**: 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](items/t-wednesday-service.md)**: 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?](items/t-what-attendees-were-told.md)**: 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](items/t-unread-outlets-first-reports.md)**: 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](items/t-organiser-notices.md)**: 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](items/t-thursday-transport.md)**: 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?](items/t-who-is-quoted.md)**: 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](items/t-temporary-structures-wind.md)**: 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](items/t-charles-against-kristin.md)**: 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](items/t-other-languages.md)**: 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](items/t-specialist-questions.md)**: 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.