Wikipedia:Newspaper search engines by country
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These are country-specific search engines for newspapers. The purpose is to quickly search for reliable sources in newspapers within a country, which is useful for AfD debates, and when sourcing articles.
Creating a new search engine
Instructions for creating a search engine.
- 1. Pick a country and find a list of newspapers at :Category:Lists of newspapers by country.
- 2. For each newspaper to include in the engine, make a note of its homepage URL e.g. http://nytimes.com
- 3. Log into Google Custom Search (create an account it's free).
- 4. Follow Google's instructions to create a new search engine. Add the newspaper website URLs noted in step 2.
- 5. Create HTML like below.
- 5. Host the HTML somewhere of your choosing.
Each country will have an HTML file like the below and will be hosted on a server somewhere of your choice.
Example search engines
=Romania=
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
Romanian newspaper search engine
Romanian newspaper search engine This is a country-specific newspaper search engine. Created for Wikipedia AfD and finding reliable sources.
For more see Newspaper Search Engines by Country at Wikipedia.
Newspapers: List of Romanian newspapers (ro.wikipedia.org)
Scope of search: All blue-linked newspapers in the "National" section.
Date updated: June 19, 2014
=Kenya=
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
Kenya newspaper search engine
Kenya newspaper search engine This is a country-specific newspaper search engine. Created for Wikipedia AfD and finding reliable sources.
For more see Newspaper Search Engines by Country at Wikipedia.
Newspapers: List of Kenya newspapers (en.wikipedia.org)
Scope of search: All blue-linked newspapers.
Date updated: June 20, 2014
=Iran=
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
Iranian newspaper search engine
Iranian newspaper search engine This is a country-specific newspaper search engine. Created for Wikipedia AfD and finding reliable sources.
For more see Newspaper Search Engines by Country at Wikipedia.
Newspaper list source: List of Iranian newspapers and magazines (en.wikipedia.org)
Scope of search: All blue-linked newspapers and magazines where available
Date updated: June 19, 2014