On 9/8/06, Gregory Kohs thekohser@gmail.com wrote:
Surprise, surprise, that past mistakes would come back to haunt me. Still, I felt that the content so linked on my blog would be of informational use to the community. Being that the 3 or 4 inbound hits per day that I received tended to spend an average of 1 to 5 minutes on the article, I guess it actually was of some value to most people, until the links were (appropriately) removed. (Remember, even Jimmy Wales edited his own article a number of times before "learning the rules".)
There is no strict prohibition against editing your own biography, but you are required to strictly conform to WP:V and WP:NPOV, and since *outsiders* often don't understand, such edit is generally discouraged.
I'm curious, how are you measuring how long people spent on your site?
Anyway, you surely won't believe it, but my customers are not at all the reason I'm asking this question. Instead, I have a larger, more universally interesting reason for asking; but I'm not quite ready to disclose my agenda. I will assure you, though, that it is in the interest of underscoring a major "conflict of interest" problem within Wikipedia -- not for my personal financial gain.
Honestly, it is highly variable. Although I don't have real data to support that nor do I know what factors drive influence the numbers.
As for funding Wikimedia to get a legitimate answer to the question... since I've already been a multi-time donor to Wikimedia fund drives, I would certainly entertain that. How much do you think it would cost to conduct such a study? Or, were you being facetious?
I'm not sure, but I was indeed being serious. It would be useful data that we don't currently have.