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Another experiment showing how influential Wikipedia is on the real world: Adding two paragraphs of text & nice pictures to randomly selected articles about small European cities led to an over 9% increase in hotel stays; the edit is worth $190k per year! marit.hinnosaar.net/wikipediamatte

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

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Ethan Mollick

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2020年9月13日

As any academic will tell you, influencing the direction of science through research is hard... so here is an easier path. One quality Wikipedia article written by chemistry experts influenced the content of 250 published peer-reviewed academic papers! papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf

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Another example of the usefulness of Wikipedia in the real world that seems pretty current: it can help show when challengers will win elections. Page views let you predict when a challenger has broken though so voters are trying to learn more about them. arxiv.org/pdf/2010.14627

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This is so interesting (and a little concerning). I am a librarian who lives in a rural area and edits local town articles just so they will show up on Google above the spammy links "Buy a cemetery plot in $TOWN" This is both great if done well and a mess for WP if done poorly.

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See also the review of this paper in our monthly newsletter (including more information about the Wikipedia editor communities' reactions to this experiment):

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Research:Newsletter/2017/May - Meta

Joe at signs dot codes

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With respect to helping improve things, yes! Look to WikiProject Women in Red to get connected with like-minded editors there who are experiencing at navigating the very real beuracracy.

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