Talk:Critical views of Wikinfo
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Low Traffic?
From the original poster: "Wikinfo remains a low traffic site which is not surprising when the site offers little more then out of date Wikipedia articles. People looking up information on a topic are more likely to go to Wikipedia, and are therefore more likely to edit Wikipedia instead of Wikinfo."
We could import the up to date set of articles from Wikipedia if we chose to periodically. The question is how we would save our original material as the bulk importing was done. I suppose we could have a name space for modified or original material. Fred 14:48, 25 Aug 2006 (EDT)
- I noticed that some articles are of the form "Topic X: according to Wikipedia". I would suggest that if someone wants to update an article from wikipedia to a wikinfo article that has original content, then the wikipedia content should be updated to the "... according to wikipedia" version of the article so that the article can be updated but the wikinfo content can remain. Q0 19:37, 25 Aug 2006 (EDT)
I think that most of the problems on Wikinfo are the result of it being a low traffic website. If it had more traffic, then there would be more SPOV articles and less articles written from a NPOV (or, Wikipedia's editors' interpretation of NPOV). However, I don't know how to increase activity on Wikinfo. Q0 19:59, 25 Aug 2006 (EDT)
- I am heartily discouraged. My article Classical definition of republic at Wikinfo can not be found by any search engine!!! It is found on many other websites but not a single search engine will come up with "Wikinfo". In searching for any information, I have never seen "Wikinfo" show up. I constantly see Wikipedia. I don't know how to rectify the situation.WHEELER 09:57, 26 Aug 2006 (EDT)
- Proteus can fix that but the google spider also indexes all Wikipedia articles even if not imported. Fred 13:41, 26 Aug 2006 (EDT)
You all have to remember that there are many sites which use Wikipedia content, and even Google searches include the "defintion" link at the top-right, which when you go there you get an Answers.com page, which has - guess what - Wikipedia content (alas, it used to be the much better dictionary.reference.com content). Add in all the "mirror" websites which duplicate Wikipedia verbatim and the mushrooming multilanguage Wikipedias, and you get several dozen sites linking directly to every Wikipedia article - and Wikinfo is one of them - and maybe one or two linking to Wikinfo articles. The only way we could help the situation is to eliminate every direct link to Wikipedia without breaking the license (one way is to eliminate the language links at the top, and modify the GFDL stub at the bottom - somehow), and increase the links to our own pages (more mirrors, a redundant "trackback" link on every page, etc). That's how Google works, and Wikipedia has played that game very well (among others). Still, though, we're probably the second or third biggest and most surfed wiki - it's just that the huge WP machine is SO MUCH bigger. You want to do your part? Stop editing over there and encourage everyone you know to come over here. I can look into the links issue - I'd love to stop being another mirror. -proteus 23:19, 26 Aug 2006 (EDT)
