Virgil Griffith’s Wikiscannner has helped uncover some new naughtiness by Sony, this time involving Wikipedia and a forthcoming competitor’s game title.
Wikipedia Stats Support Ron Paul
If Wikipedia’s users get to determine the next president, it seems like we’ll be seeing Ron Paul in the White House; according to an analysis of four different factors, the Republican candidate is popular in just about every way.
Wikipedia Gets Grub
You may not have heard of Grub, but the Web crawler company was just acquired by Wikia. And now Jimmy Wales, founder of Wikipedia and co-founder of Wikia, thinks he may “change the balance of power from the search companies back to the publishers.”
Ethically Updating Wikipedia
An article was published today on Search Engine Land called "SEO Tips & Tactics From a Wikipedia Insider" and it has to be one of the most interesting and best written articles I have seen in a while.
Wikipedia Does Well In Global Warming Searches
According to some people, global warming may have catastrophic effects on the world around us. But in the meantime, it’s doing Wikipedia a lot of good – the site is receiving tons of traffic from that term.
Wikipedia Benoit Posting Mystery
Authorities are investigating who changed professional wrestler Chris Benoit’s Wikipedia entry to mention his wife’s death hours before police found the bodies of the couple and their 7-year-old son.
Wikipedia Logo Gets It Wrong
I’m pretty good at spotting spelling mistakes and grammatical errors, but this is something that I wouldn’t ever have noticed: Wikipedia’s logo contains two goofs.
Wikipedia’s Google Penetration
Via ThreadWatch, this study of where Wikipedia pages appear in Google results for a search for that phrase, and found that in about 580 out of 600 randomly chosen Wikipedia pages, the Wikipedia page appeared in Google’s top 10. That’s just incredible, a number we can pretty much point to and show how much power Wikipedia has in Google, with 96.66% of those pages surveyed making it into the top 10. The only ones that didn’t make it:
German Government To Give Wikipedia A Boost
This is a stereotype, but at least it’s a positive one: the Germans are an efficient and precise people. Now, for less of a stereotype and more of a fact: Wikipedia can be far from precise. You may be surprised to learn, then, that the German government is going to give resources to the German version of the site.
Wikipedia / Wikimedia Traffic
Leuksman.com published some revealing statistics on Wikimedia traffic.