Wikipedia Continues to Gain Respect
(p. B5) Recognizing that the online encyclopedia Wikipedia is increasingly used by the public as a news source, Google News began this month to include Wikipedia among the stable of publications it trawls to create the site.
A visit to the Google News home page on Wednesday evening, for example, found that four of the 30 or so articles summarized there had prominent links to Wikipedia articles, including ones covering the global swine flu outbreak and the Iranian election protests.
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The move by Google News was news to Wikipedia itself. Jay Walsh, a spokesman for the Wikimedia Foundation, said he learned about it by reading an online item on the subject by the Nieman Journalism Lab."Google is recognizing that Wikipedia is becoming a source for very up-to-date information," he said, although "it is an encyclopedia at the end of the day."
For the full story, see:
NOAM COHEN. "Google Starts Including Wikipedia on Its News Site." The New York Times Company (Weds., June 22, 2009): B5.
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