We're playing directly into their hands with the "Combat overlinking!" campaign that is today's rage. There is even a pat edit summary I've been seeing a lot, that ends with "You can help too! See [[I forget what page]]". Nathan

----- Original Message ----- From: "Skyring" <skyring(a)gmail.com> To: "English Wikipedia" <wikien-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org> Sent: Wednesday, November 26, 2008 9:07 AM Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] How to sabotage Wikipedia, for SEO spammers I'm glad they're not manipulating the ratings themselves. I'm more than happy to put a project's rating template in and give it the best of my judgement, and I've never argued with someone else's rating, except upward. I did not add the CompSci template to [[gossip protocol]], and I am not finished with it, either. It won't get a high rating for importance, because it is only theory. There is so much of a record in a radio host that won't matter in two years that I wouldn't pay much attention. Shock jock, newscaster, opinion columnist -- don't care. That guy who does "The Rest of The Story" will persist beyond his death. Weasel words [[ad populum]] and other stilts (clues about POV) go in and out of [[prion]], and there does not seem to be much to know about prions. A great many people can conceive of self-modification with only protein. I cannot, and it is out of my field, so I do not really know. Maybe I should get Brown's book. I wonder if it's in the library. I got into wikipedia, because of [[prion]] in the Oxford dictionary of Phrase and Fable. I want to take out every mention of "hypothesis" from [[prion]], except ones in a section header.

On 11/26/08, geni <geniice(a)gmail.com> wrote: In proportion to the number of distinct pages available on *large* wikis the amount of internal linking is unusually low. But yeah, whatever way this and other factors are measured one would be a fool to assume Wikipedia isn't a special case in determining them. —C.W.

Domain authority. Lots of people link to Wikipedia from lots of reputable sites which benefits all Wikipedia pages, not just those linked to. The same applies to Investopedia, although to a lesser extent.