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

[Ray Saintonge]

Thomas Dalton wrote:
> 2009/6/8 Joe Anderson <computerjoe at gmail.com>:
>   
>> Could someone speak to Google?
>>
>> Surely isn't this entering Wikinews' territory somewhat?
>>     
> Sure it is, but that's not Google's problem, it's ours. Google will
> link to wherever the best article on news topics are. At the moment,
> that is very often Wikipedia, not Wikinews. I would like to encourage
> people to go to Wikinews when they want to write about current affairs
> and only create a Wikipedia article after the event is over, but I
> don't think there is anything approaching a consensus for that.
>
>   
True enough. Wikinews is inevitably subject to Darwinistic 
considerations.  Unless it produces material that attracts readership it 
will just be ignored. 

Ec