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

[Sage Ross]

Nieman Journalism Lab has some more about what's going on, including
details direct from Google:
http://www.niemanlab.org/2009/06/google-news-experimenting-with-links-to-wikipedia-on-its-homepage/

“Currently, we’re showing a small number of users links to Wikipedia
topic pages that serve as a reference on current events,” as an
experiment.

The post also does a nice job of explaining why Wikipedia (and not
something like Wikinews, which is striving to do the same sorts of
datelined stories as traditional newspapers) is what Google wants to
promote.

-Sage (User:Rageoss)