On Mar 8, 2008, at 5:02 AM, Matthew Brown wrote:
On Sat, Mar 8, 2008 at 12:36 AM, Ian Woollard
<ian.woollard(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On 08/03/2008, Matthew Brown
<morven(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Firstly, we honestly should not give a damn
whether our Google
rankings are high or low.
Um. I think we want people to read the wikipedia though. Why would
people bother contributing if nobody reads it? Do our audience want
us
to be high in google rankings? I would think so. A *lot* of people
find wikipedia articles that way. You more or less seem to be saying
you don't care about what our audience wants. Well, it's an argument.
If Wikipedia has good content people will read it. We have had little
trouble finding readers without doing anything in particular to play
to the search engines, and I suspect this will continue.
Well, and more to the point, we hit top ten Alexa status well before
deletionism became as terrifyingly in vogue as it is now.
Remember our list of top 100 articles. It turns out our readers mostly
do use us for anime and porn. Now, that means we should give really
good anime and porn coverage. But the idea that if we allow these
articles to flourish we'll lose readers is utterly unsupported by any
evidence.
-Phil