Category: Wikipedia

Why am I linking to Wikipedia? »

Because of Wikipedias adoption of the rel=”nofollow” attribute there is a campaign on the growing with the goal of reducing the PageRank of Wikipedia, by adding the rel=”nofollow” attribute to all links into Wikipedia. At this very moment there are people writing plugins for Wordpress and other popular content management systems to do this automatically. [...]

Wikipedia has added “nofollow” on external links. »

The Wikipedia is now offically unable to deal with the huge amount of spammers that target their articles, they have decided to add the rel=”nofollow” attribute to all external links! This is not a unexpected move, I had expected that Wikipedia would decleare defeat this soon. I sort of expected that the huge community of [...]

The Citizendium will replace Wikipedia as the number one resource on the web »

Wikipedia is being forked, and I think people will notice quickly.
You can read about Citizendum: here, here, here and here.
I would think of it as the next logical step in the evolution of free information. We got the Wikipedia, it is very nice, but at the same time a lot of short [...]

Getting traffic from Wikipedia »

Wikipedia is become the number one resource for almost anything. More and more people are using wikipedia as a reference and it has even become normal to search wikipedia instead of Google. I do not like the fact that people are trying to spam the wikipedia however I do understand that Wikipedia is a key [...]