Laura Hale wrote:
>...
> [Avoiding SEO spamming is] a Wikipedia thing, by putting
>
> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text"
>
> in the article source code....
Of the mirrors that come and go from time to time, it always seems to
be about even odds as to whether they keep rel=nofollow in external
and citation links. So, some months being linked to from Wikipedia
does increase search engine ranking, if such mirrors are reliably
catching up, and other months not so much.
I'm enthusiastic about the academic establishment using Wikipedia
citations as performance metrics, but agree with everyone who wants to
keep an eye on gaming. At present, commercial gaming is thousands of
times more prevalent than academics trying to enhance their CVs. Let
us know when Altmetric.com or Wikipedia is mentioned in a decision to
grant or deny tenure (track hires.)
I would love to see this become an easier way to find the secondary
peer reviewed literature reviews, because they aren't always where
people expect them to be published at all. If we attract academics in
whose interest it is to help with that, and they understand how and
actually do help, that would be great.
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