[Foundation-l] Wikinews

Tue Aug 21 15:04:58 UTC 2007

One proposed way to deal with Google's concerns was with a community run 
mirror [1]. They rejected it , though we may be able to convince them in 
the future :). Our absence from Google news certainly hurts our 
readership. If anyone has any contacts with Google, we would greatly 
appreciate your help in convincing them to let us in.
-Craig Spurrier
[[n:Craig Spurrier]]

[1] http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Wikinews:Community_Mirror

Brian McNeil wrote:
> Wikinews cannot be featured in Google news - we've been told this by them
> several times. This is due to lack of a formal editorial process/board and
> the fact that articles may be in a vandalised state when they are spidered.
>
> Hence the blogs to get at least a synopsis and link into Google news.
>
> Brian.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: foundation-l-bounces at lists.wikimedia.org
> [mailto:foundation-l-bounces at lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Jerome Banal
> Sent: 21 August 2007 16:45
> To: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List
> Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] Wikinews
>
> Isn't the lower score due to traffic being diverted to
> http://wikinewsreports.blogspot.com (that seems to contain a small subset of
> Wikinews) which appears to be used by Google News whereas Wikinews itself
> does not seems to be known by this service? It seems it has been created in
> November 06.
>
> Being featured in Google News, Google Mail's headline or other news
> aggregators would probably give a nice boost to its reach, if it is a
> high-priority objective. Wikinews is probably not known enough yet for the
> buzz to drive the audience there. Maybe that's something the Foundation
> would actually like to use to get a little "thanks" from big G?
>
> Jerome
>
>
>
> 2007/8/21, Przykuta <przykuta at o2.pl>:
>   
>> Since January 2007 something is wrong :/
>>
>> http://www.alexa.com/data/details/traffic_details?url=wikinews.org
>>
>> but one message is good - pl Wikinews has reached 5,000 articles ;) We
>> have to write more articles per day (min. 10-20) in every bigger project.
>>
>> przykuta
>>
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