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Wednesday, December 20, 2006

Wikipedia and us

I noticed this morning on Google Alerts that the Tracy Press has made the big time. Somebody recently listed us in Wikipedia, the online encyclopedia. I really like the second line.

Can anyone explain how items are added to Wikipedia? Who wrote this, and would you have written it the same way?

Take a look!

The newspaper of Tracy, California that's been run by the Matthews since 1898. Bob Matthews is the publisher and Cheri Matthews is the editor. It's probably the only San Francisco East Bay newspaper not owned by MediaNews Group.

The Tracy Press endorsed Republican Richard Pombo when he was defeated by Jerry McNerney in the 2006 midterm election and the same year endorsed Celeste Garamendi, the sister of Democrat John Garamendi, when she was defeated by Republican Brent Ives for mayor. Its editorials are usually more conservative than its articles.

1 comment:

Tonya said...

From the Wikipedia FAQ page:

Thousands of people have contributed information to different parts of this project, and anyone can do so, including you. All you need is to know how to edit a page, and have some encyclopedic knowledge you want to share. The encyclopedia provides users with a certain amount of freedom.
You can learn who is responsible for the most recent versions of any given page by clicking on the "Page history" link. Nevertheless, if you spot an error in the latest revision of an article, you are highly encouraged to be bold and correct it. This practice is one of the basic review mechanisms that maintains the reliability of the encyclopedia. As a result, Wikipedia has become one of the most extensive information libraries available on the Internet.