• Your Own Wikipedia Page: What Does it Take?

    Your Own Wikipedia Page: What Does it Take?

    On October 2, 2018, in the pre-dawn hours in Ontario, Donna Strickland received a phone call that would change her life. It was Göran Hansson, secretary general of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, calling from Stockholm to inform her ...

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  • WikiAlerts empowers companies to fight vandalism on Wikipedia

    WikiAlerts empowers companies to fight vandalism on Wikipedia

    Monitoring changes to corporate or executive Wikipedia pages is an essential component of reputation management. WikiAlerts™ by Five Blocks facilitates monitoring by sending real-time email alerts when edits are made to tracked Wikipedia pages. First launched as a beta last ...

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  • The Wikipedia Index: Facts and Big Business

    The Wikipedia Index: Facts and Big Business

    We’ve said it before, but it’s worth saying again: Monitoring changes to corporate or executive Wikipedia pages is an essential component of reputation management. As we’ve noted previously on this blog, Wikipedia is the 5th most visited website in the ...

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  • The Wikipedia Index: Edits to the Fortune 500

    The Wikipedia Index: Edits to the Fortune 500

    Wikipedia editors worldwide make 1 million edits every week. How many of these are edits to pages of major companies? Does it vary by industry? We found out for you:     There’s no doubt about it: Monitoring changes to ...

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  • Trash Talk in the Edit Field: The Vandalism Wars

    Trash Talk in the Edit Field: The Vandalism Wars

    For real sports fan trolling, center court is Wikipedia.  Sporting events in the 21st century are played both on and off the field. As highly paid athletes compete for fame and glory on televised fields and courts the world-over, an ...

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