How to Get News Fast with Wikipedia

How to Get News Fast with Wikipedia Hello everyone this is Anthony Montalbano with Internetriot.com and today’s site I have for you is Wikipedia.org. I'm sure many of you views the site to do a lot of searching I'm sure people who’ve done any type of research have referred to Wikipedia for some type of piece of information. But what I'm going to show you here something that I use of Wikipedia for that not too many—I'm not too sure that many people know how to or even the world you can do this. As you all know Wikipedia is edit by well a millions of people and basically anybody can edit the content of Wikipedia, so that means that when certain things happened for certain item such as popular people or different events this stuff is update to almost immediately because somebody is right at it. Social psych, you know if a sports he wins a national championship it will be on Wikipedia within like minutes even seconds. So realizing that thing to update that much on Wikipedia I know that there has few with I should be reminds through that and basically there is. And what Wikipedia has is then called their watch list where you can add different items from the Wikipedia to your watch list and then from time to time you can check you watch list and find new upcoming things so in case you are in Wikipedia is a new source for whatever you're looking for. What I do is I fallow a lot of music and I like to know things the specific things about different artist and bands, so I actually heavy watch list of a bunch of my bands that I fallow of and then every now and then I can go look at my watch list and see what's going on. So I was going to give you a quick preview of housing works, you do need a Wikipedia account, you can see up here on the top right I'm already actually log in, you can see up here it says my user name and unlog, I can log out but what you will do is just sign up create an account and log in. So here we are this is my watch list up here on top. If click on this my watch list and you can see right here in front of you it says in currently watching 38 pages which is actually 38 different artist that I'm watching. So the first thing I like to do is what I do is hide the minor and edits, so I'm really care what the minor edits and then I'll always do probably just all show last all and they give us a pretty good amount. Now, what you see here is the edits to these different pages which are different artist as you can see here that I've selected and this is the edit I'm having in the past about some days or something like that, let say about a month here. But what I do as you can see over here on the right hand side it tells you what things where edit like what section of this has been edited. So you can kind of see base up here was edit and then this number here shows you how many characters where edit plus new specs team characters for edit four means four on the move. So obviously larger numbers of characters edit is more content more than likely there something new about with our page are following so for instance like I'm doing here different bands so that’s why I'm seeing here. Well, what we can do here is kind of look at the stuff and say for instance here is Incubus and you can see that it says Hiatus, Monuments and Melodies and Pending Seventh Studio album. Well, okay there must be something in that Seventh about maybe their new album, so what I do is I click on diff which is the difference, change and you can see here that there's a little bit of information and you can see that one song a singles is now peak to number ten making the bands, 15 most top ten standing on the chart. So gather a piece of news just like that. Further down we can see here a lot of time and try to find out when new artist have new album coming out or the status of the album in recording just trying to figure out whether all will that, so a lot of times I do as a same thing as well right here using Wikipedia. Well, you can see for instance here is a band called Finch and says new album present, something been add about it, well what is it? So let see if I click on it you can see here how in red says that says March 09 Finch is in the studio for release date before the end of the year. Okay, so there we go I got a little bit some I need to know without having to constantly think of all different artist I have, I have them all saves here on my watch list. So again, we can keep scroll down I can see that obviously the larger one is more content and you can see what's going on here touring my pen new tour come up so may go I guess some can take us check it out. So I guess that’s quick in short what I do or how can use Wikipedia as a new source. You can apply this same exact feature to different artist that you follow, maybe different events, different sporting, teams and just maybe celebrities, I mean just all kinds of different things that on Wikipedia that you expect to be updated such as you know, the stuff that up here and then you can follow on. So if you're looking to learn how to follow something once you are log in for instance if I type in Def Leppard that was just a band. Here is the band page here in this and lot things going on as you know Wikipedia things are always being added and change or I want to watch what's being added and change and like I showed before we’re looking at what's being added so we can learn new things about, you know, for instance band here. Up here on the top is this little tab it says watch. If I do is click watch that’s it, it has all I had to do, so once again go back over my watch list and now if there's anything new about Def Leppard you can see something right here I can click on difference and then in red you can see what they say. That’s it that’s the Wikipedia this is Anthony Montalbano with Internetriot.com and I'll see you guys again.