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Jimmy Wales speaks with Poynter about AP topic pages

By Michael Becker | Published: November 16, 2009

Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales spoke with Poynter about the Associated Press’s plan to produce some sort of topics pages for news. This comment from Wales stuck out to me. People do often come to Wikipedia when major news is breaking. This is not our primary intention, but of course it happens. The reason that it happens [...]

Posted in New Media, Print Culture | Also tagged Associated Press, Jimmy Wales, Steve Myers, topic pages, wikipedia | Comments closed

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