[WikiEN-l] Is Wikipedia a News Portal (among other things)?

[geni]

On 9/20/06, Delirium <delirium at hackish.org> wrote:
> I guess as a reader I don't see the benefit in *not* covering
> everything.  I agree there is a slant towards more coverage of recent
> news events, but that's simply because they're easier to cover.  The
> solution, IMO, is not to cover recent events less, but to cover older
> events more.  I want to know the equivalent of this stuff for other time
> periods!  Were there short-lived but at the time massively-covered
> events in the 1890s, equivalent to today's frenzies over child
> kidnappings?  What about the thousands of political scandals, major and
> minor, that have at various times shortened governments' tenures, forced
> cabinet reshuffles, etc., etc.?  It's all good info we're missing!
>
> -Mark

Problem is that a lot of the data that would be useful in answering
your question is stored on microfilm and there isn't really a quick
way to scan that.


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geni