2011/11/26 Bod Notbod <bodnot...@gmail.com>: > On Mon, Nov 21, 2011 at 5:56 PM, Fred Bauder <fredb...@fairpoint.net> wrote: > >> There has been some discussion in journalism circles that newspapers, who >> after all, provide the raw material for many of our topical articles >> might copy our system of organizing material under a subject heading > > The Guardian already does this in a way, try clicking on one of the > headings here: > > http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/list/allnewskeywords > > The BBC News site also used to put together something akin to our > portals for some subjects but perhaps they disappeared in the last > redesign since I can't find them now. > > Bodnotbod
Yes, it's an interesting development, but not exactly news in the news industry: http://www.niemanlab.org/2011/02/the-context-based-news-cycle-editor-john-oneil-on-the-future-of-the-new-york-times-topics-pages/ : "O’Neil said he had read a statistic that roughly a third of Wikipedia’s traffic came from only about 3,000 of its now more than 17 million pages. “We’re concentrating more on that upper end of the spectrum.”" http://www.niemanlab.org/2009/08/how-the-associated-press-will-try-to-rival-wikipedia-in-search-results/ :"The document states flatly, “The Wikipedia model of standing, authoritative pages could be challenged.”" _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
