On Sun, Jun 14, 2009 at 2:45 PM, Andrew
Turvey<[email protected]> wrote:
> Just seen my first Wikinews link from Google news. Uploaded it to:
>
> http://www.flickr.com/photos/24667...@n04/3626171622/
>

Wikinews has been included in Google News listings for a while now,
since shortly after Stable Revisions went into operation.

> 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.

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.

Also, it looks like Wikipedia links have been rolled out to more
(all?) Google users.  A few days ago, I wasn't getting the Wikipedia
link yet; now I am.  Does anyone NOT get links to Wikipedia articles
now? http://www.google.com/news?pz=1&topic=w&ict=ln

-Sage (User:Ragesoss)

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