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Now that Google is down-ranking Wikipedia anyway couldn't Wikipedia relax their notability requirements? I understood why they didn't want anybody to create a m
by oezi 4y ago
Now that Google is down-ranking Wikipedia anyway couldn't Wikipedia relax their notability requirements? I understood why they didn't want anybody to create a marketing page for themselves ten years ago, but I don't understand the rational now. The long term goal for Wikipedia should be to collect information on anything that is of interest to one or more person.
- peterlk 4y agoWikipedia actually seems like a good replacement for personal "websites" in the social media era. I'd love to see the wikimedia social network
- standardUser 4y agoDo you mean this? https://wt.social/ https://wt.social/ I joined long ago but have never used it.
- tshaddox 4y ago> The long term goal for Wikipedia should be to collect information on anything that is of interest to one or more person. That is very explicitly not a goal of Wikipedia. Of course you're free to disagree with what Wikipedia ought to be, but they're at least fairly clear and explicit about their own goals.
- echelon 4y ago> Now that Google is down-ranking Wikipedia anyway Can you expand on this? I wasn't aware Google penalized Wikipedia now. Why?
- Viliam1234 4y agoJust a guess, but probably because Wikipedia does not contain AdSense, so there is no money in putting it to the search results. No one would officially admit this, of course, but whenever I see that Google prioritizes X over Y, X is usually a type of thing more likely to contain AdSense than Y.