Your concerns are well-placed, Laura -- bit I think that points out the need for local information templates within Wikipedia, that can get readers to relevant non-Web info.
See for instance: http://everybodyslibraries.com/2013/03/04/from-wikipedia-to-our-libraries/
-Jodi
On Sat, Mar 16, 2013 at 9:27 PM, Laura Hale laura@fanhistory.com wrote:
On Sat, Mar 16, 2013 at 6:31 PM, Sumana Harihareswara < sumanah@wikimedia.org> wrote:
http://www.dlib.org/dlib/march13/szajewski/03szajewski.html
"This case study examines the use of Wikipedia by the Ball State University Libraries as an opportunity to raise the visibility of digitized historic sheet music assets made available in the university's Digital Media Repository. By adding links to specific items in this collection to relevant, existing Wikipedia articles, Ball State successfully and efficiently expanded the user base of this collection in the Digital Media Repository by vastly enhancing the discoverability of the collection's assets...
While this research is incredibly valuable, I would be almost hesitant to put it out into the wider English Wikipedia community because adding links for traffic, or the perception there of, could cause backlash. Companies doing that intentionally across pages is often viewed as a form of marketing, and there are pockets of the community that are extremely hostile towards this sort of action because inside the English Wikipedia community, it is viewed as little different than paid editing and link baiting. :/
Sincerely, Laura Hale
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