[Foundation-l] The systematic and codified bias against non-Western articles on Wikinews

John Vandenberg jayvdb at gmail.com
Tue Sep 6 08:35:59 UTC 2011


On Tue, Sep 6, 2011 at 6:28 PM, M. Williamson <node.ue at gmail.com> wrote:
> Note that Google News, a popular news aggregator, often includes a link to
> the Wikipedia article about breaking news and recent events, but never links
> to Wikinews.

'never' is not quite correct.  Wikinews is aggregated into Google News.

http://www.google.com/search?aq=f&hl=en&gl=au&tbm=nws&btnmeta_news_search=1&q=wikinews

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John Vandenberg




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