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.
Of interest to this thread, is a related project of mine, that is still quite pre-alpha, but:
*Cocytus - realitme, Identifer tracking: * http://events.labs.crossref.org/events/types/WikipediaCitation
I read the *entire Recent Changes* stream of all langauges and projects in realtime, then *parse the text* of every change *for a DOI. *Then we republish the stream. So whereas other techniques rely on static dumps of backfollowing specific templates, this literally scans the text of every change as it's made.
In the future I hope to allow users to register arbitrary regexes to be filtered-for in realtime. We are still getting working on production-level stability will announce more when it's something you can rely on.
Make a great day, Max Klein ‽ http://notconfusing.com/
On Fri, Feb 6, 2015 at 2:45 PM, James Salsman jsalsman@gmail.com wrote:
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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