[WikiEN-l] Recognition for en.Wikipedia's cricket articles

[Nick Boalch]

Hey all,

Some of the WikiProject Cricket editors have spotted that Cricinfo, the
largest cricket-related website and part of main cricket publisher the
Wisden group, has started using (and crediting) Wikipedia as a source on
its articles and player profiles:

* Thompson, J, 'When Test cricket came to India', 29th April 2006
  http://content-uk.cricinfo.com/columns/content/story/245528.htm

* Williamson, M., 'A familiar tale of riots & betting', 15th April 2006
  http://content-uk.cricinfo.com/columns/content/story/244384.html
  (sourced from our featured article [[Sydney Riot of 1879]])

* Player profile of Edmund Barton (first Prime Minister of Australia)
  http://content-uk.cricinfo.com/columns/content/player/4432.html
  (credited and GFDL-marked copy of [[Edmund Barton]])

Obviously this is really pleasing for our cricket coverage; Cricinfo may
be 'only' a website but it's one that every cricket fan with an Internet
connection uses (not to mention one that we ourselves have raided
mercilessly for information as a source!), so this is a nice recognition
of the quality of Wikipedia's articles in this area.

Cheers,

N.

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