On 1/15/07, Oskar Sigvardsson oskarsigvardsson@gmail.com wrote:
On 1/14/07, Christopher Thieme cdthieme@gmail.com wrote:
As to other links in print sources. Whoever wrote up marketing
materials
with " http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page " on it should be dragged
into
the street and shot, or at least fired because anyone in ad copy will
tell
you to state shorter URLs on such materials, or your target audience
won't
find it or (worse) they'll ignore it. Heck, I type en.wikipedia.orgeach time I get to Wikipedia, but I'm not most people. Most people don't
think
when looking at or responding to ads, written materials, etc. Any smart marketing/adcopy person would have told you to get put together
materials
saying " www.wikipedia.com "
Jimbo, if that's the case, fire the marketing department.
What marketing? When did wikipedia ever do marketing? Never! Marketing has never ever been a priority in any way since page hits are fairly irrelevant to the development of wikipedia since we're an ad-free non-profit (well, atleast not pagehits beyond a certain point needed to get contributors).
And by the way, are you seriously arguing that having the main page where it is has hurt wikipedias popularity? Are you freaking kidding me? We're in the top 10 most visited websites! Popularity is the least of our concerns.
Heh. I'm sure that Wikimedia's marketers all have nice jobs in big fancy marketing firms by now for being so good at their jobs, so *incredibly* sneaky, that none of us knew they existed -- and yet they *still* managed to turn Wikipedia into a top-10 website! Nice work, ladies and gentlemen. And we got them so cheap, too!
-- phoebe