[WikiEN-l] SEO

[K P]

On 9/5/07, Brock Weller <brock.weller at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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
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> 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
The publisher SEOs aren't all anons, anyhow.  In fact most of the ones
I've uncovered aren't anons.

KP