Wikipedia the Nets Newest News Portal
According to Reuters, Wikipedia is the new hot spot for breaking news ...
Wikipedia, which has surged this year to become the most popular reference site on the Web, is fast overtaking several major news sites as the place where people swarm for context on breaking events.
Traffic to the multilingual network of sites has grown 154 percent over the past year, according to research firm Hitwise. At current growth rates, it is set to overtake The New York Times on the Web, the Drudge Report and other news sites.
While I use Wikipedia from time to time, and I've even ... err ... contributed a few times, but I'd never consider it a reliable news source for anything that's happened this century, this year or even this week. There's a reason news agencies have editors. It's one thing put "news" on your blog or website, it's quite another to let anyone in the global village, including the resident idiot, edit the homepage of something like CNN.
psst .. hey New York Times how much market share do you guys have to lose before you tear down the walled garden already?
cant see it
Story not available
grrr
link is one character to long, try link in the post
doesn't seem to be anyway to
doesn't seem to be anyway to change it either :( I removed that part of the post to avoid confusion...
If Wikipedia's so important
how come Google isn't crawling new pages on it? I posted an article there in July, and as of this morning the page wasn't cached by G.
Google doesn't
determine worth.
Besides I would be suspect to of crawling Wikipedia, all those nofollows pointing out. The ScotToogle Algo would conclude they have little or no editorial control.
Didn't they stop using
Didn't they stop using nofollow only a day or two after initiating it?
The article is back up, and
The article is back up, and CNN repost the entire article here:
http://money.cnn.com/2005/09/06/technology/wikipedia.reut/index.htm
From what I've seen the
From what I've seen the Wikipedia is an excellent news source. Maybe more for the bigger stories, but it was very hot for news on the London Bombings for example. I spent most of the day searching for updated news, and Wikipedia seemed the most reliable and actually had the most information. I think the only other decent site I found was the BBC's.
It's about organization
Do a news search and you'll get millions of affiliated stoires, while the original is buried. Choose a news source, and you'll get some stories, but miss others.
What wiki is doing, is sorting it out for you: http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Main_Page
Proving, as ever, that humans can make order out of machine chaos. But don't worry - wikis have a tendency to implode just as they're getting useful!