Wikipedia, SEO, and "co-"founder porn history
[How's that for bait!]
seroundtable.com: Wikipedia, Yahoo Answers & Answer Sharing
I want to extract this gem from the article for some examination (and note they said it not me!):
Wikipedia has its own politics: Jimmy Wales doesn't like being "co-"founder of Wikipedia so his friends try to make the edits. He also wants to bury his history in the porno industry. But the rest of us know - or we do now.
I've sometimes wondered if that "Bomis Babe Report" project has become a classic case of "It's not the crime, it's the cover-up". Or alternatively, if contrary to the previous, Wales is demonstrating that sometimes taking a few hits for suppressing a story can be worth it, to avoid even greater embarrassment.
Given the breadth of human sexuality which can be found on the Net, I find it hard to get worked-up over someone once having been involved in pimping nudie pics (err ... puns unintended). But if you're trying to build a marketing image of doing it all for the starving children of Africa, it does seem to be a problem in terms of public relations. I really can't find any evidentiary basis to decide whether the attempted "cover-up" is overall worthwhile or not.
By Seth Finkelstein | posted in wikipedia | on October 17, 2007 11:10 PM (Infothought permalink)
Aww, that's not such a big deal. I'm still trying to figure out whether Jimbo was born on August 7th or 8th.
The local Toronto paper recently had a story on how many times some local politicians had their Wiki profile edited from city halls IP address. Some were doing it ever few days. Glowing tributes all around apparently.