[WikiEN-l] BBC blog on WSJ study

[geni]

2009/11/27 Bod Notbod <bodnotbod at gmail.com>:
> On Fri, Nov 27, 2009 at 5:59 PM, Charles Matthews
> <charles.r.matthews at ntlworld.com> wrote:
>
>>> If anything, Wikipedia's habit of referencing historic news articles
>>> would help Mr. Murdoch's bottom line because it sends traffic to old
>>> articles...
>
> I wonder how true this is.
>
> Perhaps I'll be laughed out of court... but my tendency when I read
> Wikipedia is that I see a sentence in an article, note that it is
> referenced, click the number to see what the reference is but *hardly*
> *ever* click the reference link either to confirm that the reference
> is accurate nor to find out more.


We know that there is enough traffic for the SEO/spammer mob to think
it is worth trying to get there links into the reference section of
wikipedia. Wikipedia's traffic is also highly targets and actually
buys stuff and clicks ads from time to time which makes getting some
of it worthwhile.


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geni