[WikiEN-l] Google Starts Including Wikipedia on Its News Site

[Thomas Dalton]

2009/6/22 David Gerard <dgerard at gmail.com>:
> 2009/6/22 Fred Bauder <fredbaud at fairpoint.net>:
>
>> Such awesome responsibility we have now...
>> http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/22/technology/internet/22wiki.html
>> This includes an explanation of why these links were seen only occasionally.
>
>
> "So, in essence, many Wikipedia articles are another way that the work
> of news publications is quickly condensed and reused without
> compensation."
>
> What the fuck. Is there a journalist in the last four years who hasn't
> used Wikipedia as their handy universal backgrounder? I'm not seeing
> donations to WMF from newspapers as "compensation." I'd expect Noam
> Cohen to know better than such rubbish.

Journalists use each other's work all the time without, as far as I
know, paying each other anything. It's a completely ridiculous
complaint.