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From: Jimmy Wales <jwales(a)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