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

[Andrew Turvey]

Just seen my first Wikinews link from Google news. Uploaded it to: 

http://www.flickr.com/photos/24667756@N04/3626171622/ 

(sorry for the poor quality) 

I also saw a google news link from the main "World" news linking to an article I'd created less than 24 hours previously - Harith al-Obeidi. Makes you wonder - what kind of criteria are they using? I'm extremely flattered, of course, but I wonder if they do a manual look through the article before deciding whether to link. 

Andrew 

----- "Joe Anderson" <computerjoe at gmail.com> wrote: 
> From: "Joe Anderson" <computerjoe at gmail.com> 
> To: wikien-l at lists.wikimedia.org 
> Sent: Monday, 8 June, 2009 18:42:59 GMT +00:00 GMT Britain, Ireland, Portugal 
> Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] Google thinks Wikipedia is a news source 
> 
> On 2009-06-08 17:47:10 +0100, Andrew Turvey 
> <andrewrturvey at googlemail.com> said: 
> 
> > 
> > ----- "Joe Anderson" <computerjoe at gmail.com> wrote: 
> >> From: "Joe Anderson" <computerjoe at gmail.com> 
> >> To: wikien-l at lists.wikimedia.org 
> >> Sent: Monday, 8 June, 2009 17:18:29 GMT +00:00 GMT Britain, Ireland, Portugal 
> >> Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] Google thinks Wikipedia is a news source 
> >> 
> >> On 2009-06-07 08:48:26 +0100, David Gerard <dgerard at gmail.com> said: 
> >> 
> >>> http://www.flickr.com/photos/chiropractic/3601011581/ 
> >>> 
> >> 
> >> Could someone speak to Google? 
> >> 
> >> Surely isn't this entering Wikinews' territory somewhat? 
> > 
> > Why? The more Wikimedia content is made available to others the better, 
> > surely? This is a great endorsement of our material. 
> > 
> > If anyone complained, all they'd do is take Wikipedia off their list. 
> > They wouldn't necessarily add Wikinews. 
> > 
> > Andrew 
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> Wikinews is carried by Google, fyi. So it may be confusing for them to 
> see two WMF links. 
> 
> 
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