On 9/8/06, Gregory Kohs <thekohser(a)gmail.com> wrote:
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".)
There is no strict prohibition against editing your own biography, but
you are required to strictly conform to WP:V and WP:NPOV, and since
*outsiders* often don't understand, such edit is generally
discouraged.
I'm curious, how are you measuring how long people spent on your site?
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.
Honestly, it is highly variable. Although I don't have real data to
support that nor do I know what factors drive influence the numbers.
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?
I'm not sure, but I was indeed being serious. It would be useful data
that we don't currently have.