I'm sure by now most everyone has heard of YouTube's new plan to link questionable videos to YouTube articles:
https://techcrunch.com/2018/03/24/are-corporations-that-use-wikipedia-giving-back/ which was probably a reaction to the recent coverage of the issues with their recommendation engine, that was changed around 2015 to maximize viewer time instead of legitimately predict interests: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/10/opinion/sunday/youtube-politics-radical.html This morning someone showed me how stark this problem is; please have a look at this: https://i.imgur.com/od86eeD.jpg I'd recommend that we reach out to Google and suggest that changing their recommendation engine back would be a whole lot better than linking to Wikipedia articles (which they should also do.) _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l New messages to: [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe>
