Re: [WikiEN-l] How to sabotage Wikipedia, for SEO spammers

2008-11-27 Thread Thomas Dalton
> Google way overvalues internal linking anyway. Why else would Wikipedia and > Investopedia, with their useless three sentence answers, rank so high for > searches like http://www.google.com/search?q=debtor+in+possession+financing Domain authority. Lots of people link to Wikipedia from lots of r

Re: [WikiEN-l] [Foundation-l] Trouble in Ireland

2008-11-27 Thread Michael Everson
On 27 Nov 2008, at 01:51, Ray Saintonge wrote: > So Ireland as the Republic or the State or whatever term you choose > to use is clearly about what happened in the part that successfully > cast off the shackles of occupation since 1922. For certain > partisans of the "Republic" to assume a m

Re: [WikiEN-l] [Foundation-l] Trouble in Ireland

2008-11-27 Thread Sam Blacketer
On 11/27/08, Michael Everson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 27 Nov 2008, at 01:51, Ray Saintonge wrote: > > > So Ireland as the Republic or the State or whatever term you choose > > to use is clearly about what happened in the part that successfully > > cast off the shackles of occupation since

Re: [WikiEN-l] [Foundation-l] Trouble in Ireland

2008-11-27 Thread Michael Everson
On 27 Nov 2008, at 12:05, David Gerard wrote: > 2008/11/27 Michael Everson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > >> We haven't proposed that. We proposed "Ireland (state)". > > That has a slight smell of neologism - is the term used anywhere > outside Wikipedia? It is no different from "Georgia (country)" >

Re: [WikiEN-l] [Foundation-l] Trouble in Ireland

2008-11-27 Thread Michael Everson
On 27 Nov 2008, at 12:12, Sam Blacketer wrote: >> We haven't proposed that. We proposed "Ireland (state)". >> > > I come at it from the opposite perspective. To have the article on > the 26-county Republic at [[Ireland (state)]] would be to gloss over > the fact that it is an incomplete Republ

Re: [WikiEN-l] How to sabotage Wikipedia, for SEO spammers

2008-11-27 Thread Charlotte Webb
On 11/26/08, FT2 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Out of interest, do any edit summaries actually say "Trim internal links to > reduce overlinking. You can help, see [[WP:Overlinking]]"? :) The exact edit summary produced by the script is "Delink common terms. See: wp:overlink" http://en.wikipedia.or

Re: [WikiEN-l] [Foundation-l] Trouble in Ireland

2008-11-27 Thread Andrew Gray
2008/11/27 David Gerard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > 2008/11/27 Michael Everson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > >> We haven't proposed that. We proposed "Ireland (state)". > > That has a slight smell of neologism - is the term used anywhere > outside Wikipedia? Eh? It's a disambiguation note, not a name. (though

Re: [WikiEN-l] [Foundation-l] Trouble in Ireland

2008-11-27 Thread David Gerard
2008/11/27 Michael Everson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > We haven't proposed that. We proposed "Ireland (state)". That has a slight smell of neologism - is the term used anywhere outside Wikipedia? At least "Republic of Ireland" is something it's called in an official document on the state's formation

Re: [WikiEN-l] How to sabotage Wikipedia, for SEO spammers

2008-11-27 Thread Anthony
On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 12:27 PM, Charlotte Webb <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote: > On 11/26/08, geni <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > In theory it should as long as you assume that google treats wikis > > like other websites. Due to their unusually high levels of inline > > linking in wikis this is ques

Re: [WikiEN-l] How to sabotage Wikipedia, for SEO spammers

2008-11-27 Thread Puppy (KillerChihuahua)
Simplest to find that (almost trivially simply) with a db query - I suggest seeing if there is a developer who doesn't mind running one. FT2 wrote: > Out of interest, do any edit summaries actually say "Trim internal links to > reduce overlinking. You can help, see [[WP:Overlinking]]"? :) > > FT2

Re: [WikiEN-l] [Foundation-l] Trouble in Ireland

2008-11-27 Thread Ray Saintonge
Michael Everson wrote: > On 27 Nov 2008, at 12:05, David Gerard wrote: > >> 2008/11/27 Michael Everson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> >>> We haven't proposed that. We proposed "Ireland (state)". >>> >> That has a slight smell of neologism - is the term used anywhere >> outside Wikipedia?