{"id":6863,"date":"2019-09-12T16:27:28","date_gmt":"2019-09-12T13:27:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fiveblocks.com\/?p=6863"},"modified":"2019-12-24T12:05:53","modified_gmt":"2019-12-24T10:05:53","slug":"the-wikipedia-index-facts-and-big-business","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wikialerts.fiveblocks.com\/blog\/the-wikipedia-index-facts-and-big-business\/","title":{"rendered":"The Wikipedia Index: Facts and Big Business"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We&#8217;ve said it before, but it&#8217;s worth saying again: Monitoring changes to corporate or executive Wikipedia pages is an essential component of reputation management.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As we&#8217;ve noted previously on this blog, Wikipedia is the 5th most visited website in the world, with 80 million registered users and 200,000 editors. <\/span><b>Wikipedia has changed the way we seek out information and determine its accuracy<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, with two thirds of US adults saying that they sometimes or always trust what they read on Wikipedia, according to our recent&nbsp; research &#8212; which also found that half of Fortune 500 CEOs (and 94% of companies) have an entry that ranks on page one of Google for searches of their names. Wikipedia is a key component of online reputation for notable organizations and individuals.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em>With that in mind, look how frequently major brands have their pages edited by Wikipedia&#8217;s many editors:&nbsp;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fiveblocks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/WikiAlerts1-FINAL.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6866\" src=\"https:\/\/www.fiveblocks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/WikiAlerts1-FINAL.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"2430\" height=\"1800\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wikialerts.fiveblocks.com\/\"><b>WikiAlerts<\/b><\/a><b>\u2122 by Five Blocks facilitates monitoring by sending real-time email alerts when edits are made to tracked Wikipedia pages.<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ve said it before, but it&#8217;s worth saying again: Monitoring changes to corporate or executive Wikipedia pages is an essential component of reputation management. 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