--- On Wed, 25/5/11, Ian Woollard <ian.wooll...@gmail.com> wrote: > From: Ian Woollard <ian.wooll...@gmail.com> > Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] Wikipedia article on [[Santorum (neologism)]] > To: "English Wikipedia" <wikien-l@lists.wikimedia.org> > Date: Wednesday, 25 May, 2011, 7:53 > On 23/05/2011, geni <geni...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > Google's search results are entirely their business. > > Actually not entirely, we do have quite a bit of control. > > In an absolute worse case we could noindex the entire > article (I'm not > suggesting it, in fact I strongly recommend against it). > > But google pay attention to how many articles link to it, > and there's > an enormous 'political neologism' template at the end of > the article, > which makes them all mutually link. > > I can't estimate how much link juice that pushes into the > article, but > it may well be substantial, there's probably relatively few > Wikipedia > articles that link to the term otherwise, terms don't > usually get that > many links, but I don't know how many external links in > there are, or > how much link juice they supply. > > There is probably a reasonably strong argument for > nofollowing > internal 'link farms' like that, I don't see that one term > should > inherit another's link juice, but I couldn't see any > obvious way to > nofollow internal links when I checked briefly.
Okay, now we are getting somewhere. There are actually three templates at the bottom of the article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Dan_Savage http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Political_neologisms http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Sexual_slang The sexual slang one in particular is massive, listing more than 100 terms. These templates are all new creations by Cirt, the Santorum article's main author. They were created between 10 and 15 May, shortly after Santorum announced he might run for President, and then added to all the other articles listed in the templates, thus creating a couple of hundred incoming links, and enhancing the article's Google ranking. Now, *that's using Wikipedia for political campaigning.* By the way, Cirt's GA articles include this highly flattering portrait of a gay porn company: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corbin_Fisher Andreas _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
