Your concerns are well-placed, Laura -- bit I think that points out the need for local information templates within Wikipedia, that can get readers to relevant non-Web info.
See for instance: http://everybodyslibraries.com/2013/03/04/from-wikipedia-to-our-libraries/ -Jodi On Sat, Mar 16, 2013 at 9:27 PM, Laura Hale <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On Sat, Mar 16, 2013 at 6:31 PM, Sumana Harihareswara < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> http://www.dlib.org/dlib/march13/szajewski/03szajewski.html >> >> "This case study examines the use of Wikipedia by the Ball State >> University Libraries as an opportunity to raise the visibility of >> digitized historic sheet music assets made available in the university's >> Digital Media Repository. By adding links to specific items in this >> collection to relevant, existing Wikipedia articles, Ball State >> successfully and efficiently expanded the user base of this collection >> in the Digital Media Repository by vastly enhancing the discoverability >> of the collection's assets... >> > > While this research is incredibly valuable, I would be almost hesitant to > put it out into the wider English Wikipedia community because adding links > for traffic, or the perception there of, could cause backlash. Companies > doing that intentionally across pages is often viewed as a form of > marketing, and there are pockets of the community that are extremely > hostile towards this sort of action because inside the English Wikipedia > community, it is viewed as little different than paid editing and link > baiting. :/ > > Sincerely, > Laura Hale > > -- > twitter: purplepopple > blog: ozziesport.com > > _______________________________________________ > Wiki-research-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l > >
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