[WikiEN-l] Google thinks Wikipedia is a news source

Mathias Schindler mathias.schindler at gmail.com
Sun Jun 7 09:14:21 UTC 2009


On Sun, Jun 7, 2009 at 4:43 AM, geni<geniice at gmail.com> wrote:
> 2009/6/7 David Gerard <dgerard at gmail.com>:
>> http://www.flickr.com/photos/chiropractic/3601011581/
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>> - d.
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> Unfortunate but unsurprising.

Fortunate and surprising, actually. Wikipedia articles actually serve
the purpose of an news source (with the restriction on original
reporting, yadda yadda), so the inclusion somehoe makes sense.
Especially considering that "infoboxes" are common in newspapers, too.
Our infobox just happens to be 50.000 words long on average :)



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