Wikipedia 101
Wikipedia articles are highly relevant for businesses, individuals and causes. Their prominent positions in search results make them a top source for gathering information. Furthermore, the site [...]
Your Wikipedia Article Is Up For Deletion. What Do You Do?
Your company or your CEO has a Wikipedia article. Suddenly, you notice a tag on the top of the article screaming that the article is about to be deleted. What happened? Why is the article being [...]
Let’s Talk About It: How Wikipedians Resolve Their Problems
Wikipedia’s “Talk pages” are a vital resource, not just for Wikipedia editors, but for anyone who wants to understand human interaction among strangers who share a common goal. Wikipedia users [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
