It's been know since the 2005 London bombings attacks that Wikipedia is good when it comes to evolving stories because the Wikipedia article will always be the most complete and concentrated article about a developing event. It helps journalists as well. The google link you provide below refer to the 2009 Iranian presidential election and Air France Flight 447 exclusively. I don't know if google are doing it manually but I appreciate the idea.
Fayssal F. > Date: Sun, 14 Jun 2009 15:33:53 -0400 > From: Sage Ross <[email protected]<ragesoss%[email protected]> > > > Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] Google thinks Wikipedia is a news source > To: English Wikipedia <[email protected]> > Message-ID: > <[email protected]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 > > On Sun, Jun 14, 2009 at 3:30 PM, Sage > Ross<[email protected]<ragesoss%[email protected]>> > wrote: > > > > > 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. > > > > Strike that. Creation date doesn't seem to figure in. [[Murder of > Meredith Kercher]] was created quite a while ago, but is linked from > Google News results about the recent related developments. > > -Sage > > > > ------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > WikiEN-l mailing list > [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l > > > End of WikiEN-l Digest, Vol 71, Issue 29 > **************************************** > _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
