It's been know since the 2005 London bombings attacks that Wikipedia is good when it comes to evolving stories because the Wikipedia article will always be the most complete and concentrated article about a developing event. It helps journalists as well. The google link you provide below refer to the 2009 Iranian presidential election and Air France Flight 447 exclusively. I don't know if google are doing it manually but I appreciate the idea.
Fayssal F.
Date: Sun, 14 Jun 2009 15:33:53 -0400 From: Sage Ross <ragesoss+wikipedia@gmail.comragesoss%2Bwikipedia@gmail.com
Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] Google thinks Wikipedia is a news source To: English Wikipedia wikien-l@lists.wikimedia.org Message-ID: 40c6a93a0906141233k11ab72c0i4741754f2a17d97e@mail.gmail.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1
On Sun, Jun 14, 2009 at 3:30 PM, Sage Ross<ragesoss+wikipedia@gmail.comragesoss%2Bwikipedia@gmail.com> wrote:
Inclusion of Wikipedia articles in Google News appears to be based on a) having been created recently, and b) having as its title a term that is part of the core topic of a collection of articles that Google News determines to be related.
Strike that. Creation date doesn't seem to figure in. [[Murder of Meredith Kercher]] was created quite a while ago, but is linked from Google News results about the recent related developments.
-Sage
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2009/6/15 Fayssal F. szvest@gmail.com:
It's been know since the 2005 London bombings attacks that Wikipedia is good when it comes to evolving stories because the Wikipedia article will always be the most complete and concentrated article about a developing event.
I think our first really famous success in this regard was [[2004 Indian Ocean earthquake earthquake]]. We even had the QuakeAid scammer spamming the page!
- d.
On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 2:08 PM, David Gerarddgerard@gmail.com wrote:
2009/6/15 Fayssal F. szvest@gmail.com:
It's been know since the 2005 London bombings attacks that Wikipedia is good when it comes to evolving stories because the Wikipedia article will always be the most complete and concentrated article about a developing event.
I think our first really famous success in this regard was [[2004 Indian Ocean earthquake earthquake]]. We even had the QuakeAid scammer spamming the page!
<me, with my mouth half-open, glares half-annoyedly at David>
I was about to say... :-)
I always like to say that it was the articles on these two incidents (the 2004 tsunami and 2005 London bombings) that got me interested in editing Wikipedia. But then people start to look bored and talk about other things.
And then I ask what sparked other people's interests in Wikipedia, and a really long thread results.
Carcharoth