Are You My Spammer?

April 19, 2010

Does this spam belong to you? If so, knock it off. jRsXZO <a href=”http://xjwjhwhamwon.com/”>xjwjhwhamwon</a>, [url=http://geeollbgdvuv.com/]geeollbgdvuv[/url], [link=http://dvrwpktikfvc.com/]dvrwpktikfvc[/link], http://gftynqhyetij.com/ Strings like this have shown up about a half dozen times this week in edits to seemingly random articles. The edits originate from IP addresses, not logged-in users. In one case, I reverted a spam edit and it [...]

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Removed AddThis Button

April 18, 2010

You may have noticed the AddThis button is missing from the left-hand toolbars on the wiki. Actually, you probably didn’t notice considering it was only used 16 times in the previous 6 months. Given that Google is now officially including page load times in their ranking algorithms, I didn’t think the extra server calls were [...]

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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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