Wikipedia currently sucks for women scientists (their entries are shorter; they get edited harshly by entrenched and powerful editors; few people add to them) and here's a randomized experiment that shows how important Wikipedia can be. Please go add to to entries of people!

And here’s a randomized experiment on the impact of Wikipedia on scientific research.

#Wikipedia turizm deneyi: İspanyol şehirlerinin yabancı dildeki rassal wiki'lerine 2 paragraf ve 1 foto eklenmesi; şehirlerdeki gecelik konaklamaları %9 artırmış. Sayfası çok kısa olan yerlerde artış %33'e çıkmış.

Turist gelmiyor demeyelim; yabancı dilde wiki girişi yapalım 😉

One thing that was poorly considered at the dawn of the World Wide Web is how lucrative seemingly objective user generated content would be for businesses. From paying $6 per Amazon review to influencers on IG making millions and now tourism being boosted by Wikipedia edits.

Alcaldes de ciudades y pueblos pequeños, poned buenas fotos en la wikipedia.

I'd be really interested in seeing whether something like this also applied for Wikipedia articles about smaller languages

I mentioned in The Particle at the End of the Universe that the Wikipedia page for Cessy, France, was clearly aimed at workers at the nearby CMS experiment of the Large Hadron Collider. Sadly pointers to the best lunch options have since been edited out.
en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?ti…

This is really quite astonishing. And, concerning, honestly.

Is it ethical to selectively edit Wikipedia entries for research on user behavior? The authors don’t address this question.

Não imaginava: impressionante a dimensão do efeito

Wikipedia influences the real world because it's part of the real world

Pro tip: get you own Wikipedia page. Much more useful than anything you can put on your resume.

I know that @SamuelBaltz has been doing a great service for our discipline, but now I’m curious about the effects of his daily(!) contribution of articles about underrepresented political scientists on Wikipedia.

Makes me think I should start contributing to @Wikipedia in a geographic sense the way I do with @openstreetmap

Vale a pena uma câmara municipal ter alguém responsável por acompanhar o município na Wikipedia. A influência dela no turismo é quantificável, por exemplo...

Information reduces uncertainty and increases social benefits.

Ping @adzebill, who has been touring the country helping improve Wikipedia profiles.

Wow.

Relevant for anyone working in tourism, heritage or placemaking - this would be a good digital experiment to test out and see if it drives more visits / footfall to your town. #musetech @JeanBall1 @ATCmanagement

Takeaway: scholars should add two paragraphs of text and nice pictures to their wikipedia pages

This is wild!

Now imagine what Google is doing to us by controlling all of the search terms.

@ismailMSezgin @mahmutakpinar1 Gördüğüm Siz aklı başında büyük sorunlara basit küçük çözümler arayan insanlarsınız. Yaşanan sıkıntıları, mağdurları, zalimleri, olayları Wikipedia entryleri ile anlatmayı da değerlendirseniz insanları bu yönde teşvik etseniz.

The power of big tech (crowd-sourced version).

Fascinating.

Cc’ing my His 384 students on this

Bruh...

Your teachers lied to you.

Also don't let people who specialize in "SEO" find out about this.

Impressionante

Ea ba, @OriokoUdala

Interesting results on how Wikipedia edits can have economic consequences #dmcit

@NNieuwenhuijsen kleine investering, grote winst

I wonder how much is due to organic views, or user in online services (eg Airbnb).

Woow for Wikipedia 🗺

@BenjaminCook I think you'll find this interesting

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Uau! O poder da Wikipedia

Wikipedia Matters

.@Wikipedia matters
cc @adzebill

@JorgeRodrigz_ @ajOntinyent @CompromisONTI @SocialistesOnti

Interesting finding, but one which will accelerate the demise of wikipedia