Business Model:  We'll tell you when someone changes your page, and you pay us for doing that. Will -----Original Message----- From: Carcharoth <carcharothwp(a)googlemail.com> To: English Wikipedia <wikien-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org> Sent: Tue, 5 May 2009 10:54 pm Subject: [WikiEN-l] Wikialarm Spotted on another mailing list: http://wikialarm.com/ "Don't let your company get caught out in a damaging online reputation management situation or even a Wiki Circularity disaster – signup to wikiAlarm today and safeguard your reputation on the Internet’s most popular information channel. " http://wikialarm.com/home/why/ http://wikialarm.com/home/how/ They seem to be doing this in a responsible way, providing the following links: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Conflict_of_interest http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:FAQ/Organizations I wonder what their business model is? Carcharoth _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l

2009/5/6 Mark Nilrad <marknilrad(a)yahoo.com>om>:

> Why is this needed when there are already RSS/Atom feeds for every article history? > http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Peloponnesian_War&feed=rss&am… > That's one, for example. Did they just happen to overlook that?

I suspect the people running the site are quite aware of and happy with that sort of thing, but are equally confident their target market won't be...