The Wikipedia Index: The Edits that Matter
It turns out that the vast majority of all edits to Fortune 500 company pages are just one of four types – text, infobox, links, and references. Text and infobox changes are the most crucial.
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Knowledge is Power: Wikipedia Fact Sheet
The 5th most visited website in the world has changed the way we seek out information, and the way we think about knowledge as a collaborative effort. If you are a CEO with a Wikipedia page, that [...]
Editing the Wikipedia Article about You or Your Company
Clients often ask should they edit their brand’s Wikipedia article – Is it okay to edit these articles yourself? Wikipedia says: “You are discouraged from writing articles about [...]
By Five Blocks
In Blog, Brand Reputation Management, Digital Reputation Management, Public Relations, Reputation Management, Search Engine Optimization, SEO, Wikipedia
Posted Five Things PR Professionals Need to Know about Digital Reputation Management
While you’re busy creating a carefully crafted image of your client or company, the majority of your stakeholders will form an opinion based on information available online, often drawing quick [...]
Five Blocks Releases 2016 Hang Seng Index Corporate Digital Reputation Study Results
Executive Summary: Wikipedia is ubiquitous, but often sparse in content. Social media is all but missing in the digital reputation landscape. HSI companies are not engaging their stakeholders [...]
Wikipedia Page Visits – Have You Measured Your Mobile Visits Lately?
A good way to gauge the popularity of a topic is to look at traffic to that topic’s Wikipedia page. Traffic to the page is a quantifiable measure that is easily understood and easily compared [...]
In Blog, Brand Reputation Management, Digital Reputation Management, Public Relations, Reputation Management, Wikipedia
Posted Digital Reputation Management: It’s Not All About Burying Results
I posted the following on Business Insider in response to a post that focused on the underbelly of the Digital Reputation Management industry. Many companies and individuals who have online [...]
