[WikiEN-l] SEO

[Brock Weller]

On 9/5/07, Steve Bennett <stevagewp at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 9/3/07, William Pietri <william at scissor.com> wrote:
> > You and I know that's the road to hell, of course. Meaning well is no
> > excuse. But when dealing with them, it does keep my blood pressure lower
> > to imagine that most of Wikipedia's spammers are like that: clueless but
> > well-intentioned.
>
> Solution: when mediawiki detects that most of a change consists of
> adding an external link, it reads them the riot act. It takes them to
> another page confirming that, yes, they really really really think
> it's in Wikipedia's best interests to be adding this external link.
>
> On the whole, we'd be better off just automatically reverting urls
> submitted by anons.
>
> Steve




Better off auto reverting anons? Are you insane? Anon's are our most
> prolific contributors. Much vandalism comes from them, to be sure, but as of
> a couple years ago, the *majority* of our actual content was initially
> submitted by anonymous and new users. I don't have updated numbers, but I'd
> imagine it's still quite high. Throwing out and discouraging anonymous
> contributors because undesireable content comes from other anons as well is
> the height of throwing out the baby with the bathwater, and incredibly
> elitist.
> --
> -Brock