[Foundation-l] WP edit/access blocking in the UK - statement from the WMF

[geni]

2008/12/8 Florence Devouard <Anthere9 at yahoo.com>:
> geni wrote:
>> 2008/12/8 Florence Devouard <Anthere9 at yahoo.com>:
>>> A link
>>>
>>> http://stats.grok.se/en/200812/Virgin_Killer
>>>
>>> Ant
>>>
>>
>> More up to date:
>>
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Popular_articles
>>
>> If the current rate continued we would be looking at close on half a
>> million views of that article today.
>
> A sudden thought... and what if the whole story had been entirely made
> up ? As in "Amazon staff member made the complain to the UK foundation
> in hope it would give a kick to the album sale ?"
>
> Right, I am dreaming, but I like the "what ifs" :-)
>
> I would be curious to know sales for that album in dec 08 compared to
> other months. My brother also was a big fan of scorpions (and I must
> confess it was the least bad of all heavy metal groups he was listening
> to), and I regret we dumped all these old albums. It feels like it could
> become a collector...

No single item will have a significant effect on Amazon sales and the
Scorpions appear to have long since dissowned the cover.

There is also the factor that it is unlikely that anyone could be sure
that we would be able to figure out that the IWF was invovled.

-- 
geni