On Fri, Nov 27, 2009 at 12:03 PM, Bod Notbod bodnotbod@gmail.com wrote:
On Fri, Nov 27, 2009 at 7:46 PM, geni geniice@gmail.com wrote:
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.
Is there any data to show that people make click-thru purchases from Wikipedia?
Yes, Bundesarchiv's online sales of high resolution digital images rose
significantly after they donated 100,000 medium resolution images to Wikimedia Commons. Informally, the word is that their sales approximately doubled.
-Durova