Key insights Wikipedia has its own culture. Knowing the jargon will help you navigate the online encyclopedia. There are terms in different categories: about users, policies, creating content, and references. …
Key takeaways Wikipedia will delete a page for a variety of reasons – mainly due to a lack of notability You partly control the odds of whether or not a…
Wikipedia shows up as the No. 1 search result on more than 56% of all Google searches and appears on page one of 99% of all searches. Part of protecting…
Highlights: Anyone can edit Wikipedia, but that doesn’t mean you should. Wikipedia doesn’t want spammers to make non-useful edits, so they track some editors. While it is possible to make…
Key takeaways What Wikipedia says about you matters a lot Despite the setup of Wikipedia as an open-source program, not just anyone can edit everything Seeing who edited a Wikipedia…
People try to exploit Wikipedia’s open editing policy to add false information, but the online encyclopedia has tools and volunteer teams to suss them out. Highlights Wikipedia uses powerful tools…
Summary To create a Wikipedia page, a subject must meet notability guidelines. Notability differs from popularity. Notability means attracting sustained, significant attention based on merit. Subjects must be the primary…
Highlights: Making your own Wikipedia article is tougher than it looks. The Internet is replete with articles that say creating a Wikipedia article for your company as simple and easy…
Many vandalized Wikipedia articles about a person make the article’s subject want to correct inaccuracies or outright lies. But editing one’s own Wikipedia article has its pitfalls. Wikipedia is a…
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