2009/11/27 Bod Notbod bodnotbod@gmail.com:
On Fri, Nov 27, 2009 at 5:59 PM, Charles Matthews charles.r.matthews@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.