----- Original Message ----- From: Jimmy Wales jwales@bomis.com Date: Friday, March 12, 2004 1:52 pm Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] Re: New sidebar poll

True, we are not a newspaper, but I suspect that I'm in the vast majority when I say that I often get my daily background information about what's going on in the news from Wikipedia's homepage.

I learned a lot about Basque separatists and ETA and so on in the past two days. I read a lot about the South Korean impeachment.

The "In the news" feature on the homepage is one of the best things that we do, in my opinion.

Much agreement. It's like a reporter looking for background info. I'll often wander by the Jerusalem Post, NY Times, and CNN, then follow it up with background from Wikipedia.

John