Just seen my first Wikinews link from Google news. Uploaded it to:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/24667756@N04/3626171622/
(sorry for the poor quality)
I also saw a google news link from the main "World" news linking to an article I'd created less than 24 hours previously - Harith al-Obeidi. Makes you wonder - what kind of criteria are they using? I'm extremely flattered, of course, but I wonder if they do a manual look through the article before deciding whether to link.
Andrew
----- "Joe Anderson" computerjoe@gmail.com wrote:
From: "Joe Anderson" computerjoe@gmail.com To: wikien-l@lists.wikimedia.org Sent: Monday, 8 June, 2009 18:42:59 GMT +00:00 GMT Britain, Ireland, Portugal Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] Google thinks Wikipedia is a news source
On 2009-06-08 17:47:10 +0100, Andrew Turvey andrewrturvey@googlemail.com said:
----- "Joe Anderson" computerjoe@gmail.com wrote:
From: "Joe Anderson" computerjoe@gmail.com To: wikien-l@lists.wikimedia.org Sent: Monday, 8 June, 2009 17:18:29 GMT +00:00 GMT Britain, Ireland, Portugal Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] Google thinks Wikipedia is a news source
On 2009-06-07 08:48:26 +0100, David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com said:
Could someone speak to Google?
Surely isn't this entering Wikinews' territory somewhat?
Why? The more Wikimedia content is made available to others the better, surely? This is a great endorsement of our material.
If anyone complained, all they'd do is take Wikipedia off their list. They wouldn't necessarily add Wikinews.
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Wikinews is carried by Google, fyi. So it may be confusing for them to see two WMF links.
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