http://www.inc.com/managing/articles/201001/wikipedia.html
'Wikipedia is a complex culture, and sometimes it can feel like the free encyclopedia everyone can edit -- except me, acknowledges Jay Walsh, a spokesperson for the Wikimedia Foundation, the nonprofit organization that oversees Wikipedia. He notes that Wikimedia has only about 30 paid staff, and that Wikipedia is edited by a huge number of volunteers. And he says, though its not an absolute rule, people are strongly discouraged from creating articles about themselves or their organizations because the site strives for neutrality.
If you want your organization to be listed in Wikipedia, Walsh and others whove succeeded recommend the following steps:...'
Fred
User:Fred Bauder
On Tue, Dec 7, 2010 at 17:31, Fred Bauder fredbaud@fairpoint.net wrote:
It is not a bad article. Basically tells the company to establish their presence, to join the general work on Wikipedia, and start a short article and let the community to join.
g
--- On Tue, 7/12/10, Peter Gervai grinapo@gmail.com wrote:
On Tue, Dec 7, 2010 at 17:31, Fred Bauder fredbaud@fairpoint.net wrote:
It is not a bad article. Basically tells the company to establish their presence, to join the general work on Wikipedia, and start a short article and let the community to join.
Yes, not a bad article. They are referring to the WP article on their own company, which is not exactly an advertisement, given its prominent COI template at the top (since January 2010, roughly the date of the article):
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PacketTrap
A.
On Tue, Dec 7, 2010 at 17:31, Fred Bauder fredbaud@fairpoint.net wrote: http://www.inc.com/managing/articles/201001/wikipedia.html
It is not a bad article. Basically tells the company to establish their presence, to join the general work on Wikipedia, and start a short article and let the community to join.
g
Ekhm
"The more mentions you have in the press, and the more visibility you have in social media and blogs, the more likely you are to seem legitimate and “notable” -- a precondition for inclusion."
legitimate and notable by facebook, twitter and blogs?
przykuta
On Tue, Dec 7, 2010 at 9:38 AM, Przykuta przykuta@o2.pl wrote:
On Tue, Dec 7, 2010 at 17:31, Fred Bauder fredbaud@fairpoint.net
wrote:
It is not a bad article. Basically tells the company to establish their presence, to join the general work on Wikipedia, and start a short article and let the community to join.
g
Ekhm
"The more mentions you have in the press, and the more visibility you have in social media and blogs, the more likely you are to seem legitimate and “notable” -- a precondition for inclusion."
legitimate and notable by facebook, twitter and blogs?
przykuta
"legitimate" as any kind of inclusion criterion at all?
FT2
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