Just seen my first Wikinews link from Google news. Uploaded it to: http://www.flickr.com/photos/24667...@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" <[email protected]> wrote: > From: "Joe Anderson" <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > 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 > <[email protected]> said: > > > > > ----- "Joe Anderson" <[email protected]> wrote: > >> From: "Joe Anderson" <[email protected]> > >> To: [email protected] > >> 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 <[email protected]> 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 > > _______________________________________________ > > WikiEN-l mailing list > > [email protected] > > To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: > > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l > > Wikinews is carried by Google, fyi. So it may be confusing for them to > see two WMF links. > > > > _______________________________________________ > WikiEN-l mailing list > [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l > _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
