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

[Fayssal F.]

It's been know since the 2005 London bombings attacks that Wikipedia is good
when it comes to evolving stories because the Wikipedia article will always
be the most complete and concentrated article about a developing event. It
helps journalists as well. The google link you provide below refer to the
2009 Iranian presidential election and Air France Flight 447 exclusively. I
don't know if google are doing it manually but I appreciate the idea.

Fayssal F.


> Date: Sun, 14 Jun 2009 15:33:53 -0400
> From: Sage Ross <ragesoss+wikipedia at gmail.com<ragesoss%2Bwikipedia at gmail.com>
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> On Sun, Jun 14, 2009 at 3:30 PM, Sage Ross<ragesoss+wikipedia at gmail.com<ragesoss%2Bwikipedia at gmail.com>>
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> >
> > Inclusion of Wikipedia articles in Google News appears to be based on
> > a) having been created recently, and b) having as its title a term
> > that is part of the core topic of a collection of articles that Google
> > News determines to be related.
> >
>
> Strike that.  Creation date doesn't seem to figure in.  [[Murder of
> Meredith Kercher]] was created quite a while ago, but is linked from
> Google News results about the recent related developments.
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> -Sage
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