Google's $2MM Gift to Wikimedia Foundation

February 17, 2010

Conspiracy theorists and anti-Googlers may disagree, but I think that Google’s recent $2,000,000 donation to the Wikimedia Foundation is a great step forward. Here’s the full press release. A notable quote from Google co-founder Sergey Brin: “Wikipedia is one of the greatest triumphs of the internet. This vast repository of community-generated content is an invaluable [...]

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More Prominent Edit Links

January 14, 2010

Just logging in a couple subtle changes to the MediaWiki installation that may encourage more visitors to edit articles. By highlighting the edit buttons and links, I suspect a higher percentage of visitors will be likely to contribute or edit content. We’ll measure this against the previously established Goal Tracking in Google Analytics that tells [...]

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2009 Year in Review

January 13, 2010

2009 Visits by Month: 13,709 visits (64.5% of the site total) came from 168 cities within Virginia: Editing Statistics 7.6% of visits “converted” by editing an article, resulting in 1,610 edits to articles. 0.4% of visits resulted in a new account creation, or 88 new accounts. Top 50 Articles by Views: Article Page Views /wiki/Tacky_Lights_Tours [...]

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Advice for New City Wikis

October 30, 2009

Update 11.10.09: CantonWiki.org has launched. Through my affiliation with ArborWiki.org, I was approached by a guy that wants to start a city wiki for Canton, MI. He had some specific questions about starting a city wiki and building momentum. Here is my response, which I felt is appropriate for anybody wishing to start a wiki: [...]

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Welcome Aboard, Piwik!

October 23, 2009

I just installed Piwik, an open source website analytics package. It is running alongside Google Analytics to give us another set of data to track the wiki’s performance and visit statistics. Why, you might ask? Well, mainly just for fun. Google Analytics is great and provides the basis for our monthly Site Statistics posts. But [...]

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