On 9/8/06, Gregory Kohs <thekohser(a)gmail.com> wrote: on +++ Date: Fri, 8 Sep 2006 14:52:31 -0400 From: "Gregory Maxwell" <gmaxwell(a)gmail.com> You should know, you spammed your blog on a number of pages. If your customers are really interested in this data, perhaps you could fund wikimedia to perform a proper study. +++ +++ 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".) 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. 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? Greg