[WikiEN-l] Tabloid sources (was Wikipedia leadership})

[wiki]

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special%3ASearch&redirs=1&search=t
hesun.co.uk+%22Living+people%22&fulltext=Search&ns0=1&title=Special%3ASearch
&advanced=1&fulltext=Advanced+search

'Nuff said.

Scott

-----Original Message-----
From: wikien-l-bounces at lists.wikimedia.org
[mailto:wikien-l-bounces at lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Carcharoth
Sent: 04 February 2011 16:13
To: English Wikipedia
Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] Tabloid sources (was Wikipedia leadership})

On Fri, Feb 4, 2011 at 3:53 PM, Andreas Kolbe <jayen466 at yahoo.com> wrote:

> For better or worse, Wikipedia in its present state is more of a news
> aggregator than an educational resource, and the reason is that the
> community likes it that way.

Parts of Wikipedia are more like a news aggregator, yes. Other parts
are clearly not. Most obviously the stuff that newspapers don't cover,
or where other sources exist. Has anyone tried to do one of those
network diagrams showing correlations between types of articles and
particular types of sources? Some interesting patterns might emerge
there.

Carcharoth

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