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

[Charles Matthews]

Thomas Dalton wrote:
> 2009/6/7 Fred Bauder <fredbaud at fairpoint.net>:
>   
>>> Unfortunate but unsurprising. Not that long ago Google was telling
>>> traditional media that they should construct their articles in a more
>>> wikipedia like manner (ie continuously update a single article per
>>> event rather than creating a string of new articles).
>>>
>>> --
>>> geni
>>>
>>>       
>> The New York Times does that with breaking news. It is a better practice
>> even if it is only a few reporters and editors that are involved.
>>     
>
> The BBC News website does too. I'm not a great fan of that approach,
> it makes it hard to find out what the new information is (they don't
> have "(diff)" links like Wikipedia, so you have to play a game of
> spot-the-difference manually).
>
>   
Perhaps "happily overwrites totally while updating information" ought to 
be part of the definition of "news source", in new-media analysis. It 
does serve as a distinction, say BBC versus us.There's a bit more to it, 
of course.

Charles