Methodology
For journalists, researchers and anyone deciding how far to rely on an entry. Dori summarises what published sources report. It does not investigate, and it makes no findings of its own.
14 maps of Sri Lankan public life, holding 461 people, organisations, events and records joined by 740 connections. Those connections cite 465 published articles and documents from 48 publishers. The newest source is dated 18 Oct 2026.
Entries concern public office, court proceedings, official inquiries and the conduct of organisations. Home addresses, contact details, health information and relatives with no public role or part in the matter are left out.
Every connection carries at least one published source: an established news outlet, a news agency, a court record, an official document or a recognised reference work. Each citation gives the publisher, the headline, the publication date and a link to the original.
Wire reports read on a site that republished them are labelled as such, for example “AFP (via The Peninsula)”. The sources cited so far are almost all English-language.
The note beside each citation stays inside what that article reports. It does not add background from elsewhere, round a claim up, or turn “is expected to” into “did”.
What a minister, lawyer, police spokesman or party says is attributed to them, not stated as fact. Where sources disagree, for example on a date or a figure, the entry cites the one relied on or gives the range.
A connection is marked Allegation, and drawn as a dashed line, whenever no court has upheld it. That covers accusations, arrests, remands and summonses, charges and indictments without a verdict, and investigations. 237 of the 740 connections are marked this way.
Any reported denial or response is given beside the allegation. Where the cited article carries none, the note says so.
Convictions, acquittals, rulings, appointments, family relationships and election results are not marked as allegations.
Red ring (Convicted): a cited source reports a criminal conviction. Arrests, charges, civil findings and allegations never earn it. A conviction can be under appeal; the entry says so where the sources do.
Closed padlock and chain (In custody): the entry’s dated status line reports the person in prison, remand or detention. Open padlock (On bail): it reports them free on bail. Neither is a finding of guilt, and both follow the last report found, so they can be behind events.
Grey (Deceased): the cited sources report that the person has died. The mark is a plain grey with no symbol. Allegations about someone who died before any court ruled on them stay marked as allegations.
Before an entry is published, each statement is read against the article it cites, along with the headline and date. Automated checks confirm that every connection has a source and that every link still answers; they cannot judge whether a statement is true to its source, which is done by reading.
Court cases move quickly. Last checked on an entry is the date someone last searched for newer reports about it. It is not a guarantee that nothing was missed. An entry with no such date has not been rechecked since the date of its newest source.
An entry may be behind events, and the maps are not complete: a person’s page shows the reports found, not everything reported about them. Absence from a map means nothing.
Appearing on a map is not a finding of wrongdoing. Many entries are officials acting in their role, witnesses, or people named only because they are connected to someone else.
For a fact, cite the original source linked beside it, after reading it yourself. Cite Dori for the map or the summary, using the entry’s own address, such as dori.wiki/person/…, which does not change.
New reports are listed on the updates page and in the RSS feed.
Anyone can ask for an entry to be corrected, replied to or removed by writing to corrections@dori.wiki. The process is set out under Corrections, replies and removal, and changes made as a result are listed in the corrections log.
Publishers whose work is cited can ask us to change how it is cited, remove a quotation or link, or stop citing their work, at the same address. We will do it, usually within 7 days.