Saturday, December 12, 2009

Wikipedia Reporting is fast




Wikipedia reporting is quite fast. The given link is about Miss World 2009 Kaiane Aldorino. The result was there by 10.57 pm IST (+5.30 GMT).

I am also watching Copenhagen UN Summit. The updates are coming regularly.

However, in case of BIMSTEC, the taking of Myanmar as the next chairman, was not updated even after 24 hours.

On the whole, the reporting is quite fast and must be giving the regular media run for their money.

I have found that even the bloggers are quite fast in reporting the new events. They are there with news just missing couple of seconds as compared to regular media. Wikipedia remains third but it is there within in couple of minutes.



Check the news item:
Miss World 2009 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Thursday, December 10, 2009

Wikipedia is DOWN



I was browsing as per my general pattern of surfing the net on December 10, 2009. It was 6.17 pm in India, when I tried to check a detail of a personality. I tried to learn about Shyamala Gopinathan, one of the existing Deputy Governor of Reserve Bank of India. When I tried to further explore the links of the page I received a message that Wikipedia is down now. I made a print screen copy of the message which I reproduce below.