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As of 40 minutes after the event, someone has already created a Wikipedia article about it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2024_Taiwan_earthquake https://en.wik
by comex 3y ago
As of 40 minutes after the event, someone has already created a Wikipedia article about it:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2024_Taiwan_earthquake https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2024_Taiwan_earthquake
- yazzku 3y agoAnd with a timeline of events, assessment of impact, and all 21 references, damn.
- OsrsNeedsf2P 3y agoWhile it's cool that Wikipedia could be used for breaking news, "Recentism"[0] is generally not seen favorably on Wikipedia [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Recentism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Recentism
- TillE 3y agoWikipedia itself isn't ideal for this, but I keep waiting for some major news institution to migrate away from the ancient newspaper article format and towards something more wiki-like for covering stories. I think you could productively fit any kind of news coverage into a wiki article plus a stream of recent updates.
- dewey 3y agoHaving a newspaper article giving context and then having updates at the bottom isn't really something that doesn't exist. It happens all the time.
- pests 3y agoThat's just love coverage CNN and major news do nowadays. Find the live event page and there's minute by minute updates, background information / quick recap, other sources and links, images, etc all updated in real time.
- diggan 3y agoThat seems to nail the "news" aspect, but missing the vital "wiki" aspect which is all about collaboration and user-edits, which I think the parent was hinting at.
- _ache_ 3y agoWhat impress me the most is not that there is a Wikipedia article. But it's translated in 19 languages already !