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[edit] Ideas for Improving Wikipedia

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[edit] Discussions and Comments

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[edit] add use of nofollow for control of PR flow within your own website

Very important and highly recommended to page that go supplementary like affiliate pages. Igor Berger (talk) 06:52, 21 January 2008 (UTC)

I mentioned earlier already that it was on my to-do list to add something to the nofollow article regarding the use of it to control internal PR flow on a website. It just happened that this came up earlier today again. I added a small paragraph to the article that refers to the Matt Cutts interview with Eric Engel where this was discussed. But what has this to do with affiliate pages that go supplemental? --roy<sac> ^Talk! .oOo. 10:16, 21 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] WikiPedia cononical redirects

You may want to chime in on this being it consernce WikiPedia SEO bugzilla foo/ redirect to foo request Igor Berger (talk) 10:02, 21 January 2008 (UTC)

What? --roy<sac> ^Talk! .oOo. 10:17, 21 January 2008 (UTC)

Go to bugzilla and read the story, I am sure you will understand what I am talking about, being that SEJ did a post on this a years or so back. Igor Berger (talk) 10:24, 21 January 2008 (UTC)

Here is the post SEJ protect yourself against canonical triggers Igor Berger (talk) 10:26, 21 January 2008 (UTC)

That's old stuff. I put even source code up on my site to fix this problem programmatically in classic ASP, if you don't have an ISAPI filter for rewrites installed on your MS IIS webserver. [1]. If you use Apache, simply use a simple mod-rewrite statement to 301 one version to the other. I mentioned that in several posts of mine at SEJ as well. What is your point? --roy<sac> ^Talk! .oOo. 10:51, 21 January 2008 (UTC)

I brought it as a bug to bugzilla, maybe it will get traction..:) Igor Berger (talk) 11:11, 21 January 2008 (UTC)

I still don't get what you are talking about. --roy<sac> ^Talk! .oOo. 11:35, 21 January 2008 (UTC)

This is a bug User:Cumbrowski/ no such page right? it should point to User:Cumbrowski blog editors will add a trailing slash to the end of the directory. Igor Berger (talk) 11:47, 21 January 2008 (UTC)

no, it's a different URL, thus you get the screen to create a page. There is no duplication. There is a duplication though, which has to do with Wikipedia and not the MediaWiki software. http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User:Cumbrowski is the normal URL as created by the MediaWiki, but Wikipedia does a mod-rewrite to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Cumbrowski. The same is true for articles and other pages, such as http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Affiliate_marketing and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Affiliate_marketing. Wikipedia does not have a rewrite rule that changes the /w/index.php?title= URL to /wiki/. They also have to be careful, because if additional parameters are added, such as &action=edit then a rewrite would cause a problem (probably). It is overall not such a big deal, because Wikipedia does a good job with making sure that the /wiki/ URL is used everywhere. Also some bot parse through the Wiki and correct internal linking. --roy<sac> ^Talk! .oOo. 02:40, 24 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] WikiProject Germany Invitation

Hello, Cumbrowski! I'd like to call your attention to the WikiProject Germany and the German-speaking Wikipedians' notice board. I hope their links, sub-projects and discussions are interesting and even helpful to you. If not, I hope that new ones will be. Wikipedia:WikiProject Germany | finger on pulse Wikipedia:German-speaking Wikipedians' notice board | finger on pulse

--Zeitgespenst (talk) 16:37, 24 January 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for the info and invite. I joined the project and ported some of the content from the German Wikipedia over to the article about East German mark. :) --roy<sac> ^Talk! .oOo. 06:36, 26 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Thanks for letting me know that Google does not index Talk: pages

Hello, I was investigating a problem with the {{Google custom}} template: it doesn't find any results in the Talk: namespace, even though it does appear to work for the Wikipedia talk: namespace. This confused me until I Googled for clues and found your All Wikipedia Links Are Now NOFOLLOW posting which includes your comment that says "Google excluded the talk pages from the index". Thanks for helping me find the answer to this problem. Do you know of any other search engine that indexes Wikipedia's Talk: namespace? That would be useful for allowing searches on some of the lengthy talk page archives (when a talk page becomes very long, and Wikipedia users program a bot to archive it off to subpages). --Teratornis (talk) 09:12, 6 March 2008 (UTC)

Oops, I overlooked your message. I was also very busy lately and did only little amount of time at Wikipedia. I reduced it primarily to check some of the most important things in a "semi automated" way. Regarding your question about alternative ways to search user talk pages. I am not aware of any, but the advanced search options provided by the wiki itself (standard Media-Wiki option) does help a little bit. You know what I am referring to, right? The screen where you can specify which name spaces to search and which not? I hope that somebody will do something one day with the Wikipedia database dumps in that direction. It would not be something that allows searches for new comments that were recently added, but would be good to find past discussions.--roy<sac> ^Talk! .oOo. 05:02, 22 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] AfD nomination of Search Engine Strategies

I have nominated Search Engine Strategies, an article you created, for deletion. I do not feel that this article satisfies Wikipedia's criteria for inclusion, and have explained why at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Search Engine Strategies. Your opinions on the matter are welcome at that same discussion page; also, you are welcome to edit the article to address these concerns. Thank you for your time. ZimZalaBim ^talk 16:34, 7 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Orphaned non-free media (Image:Clickbooth.png)

Thanks for uploading Image:Clickbooth.png. The media description page currently specifies that it is non-free and may only be used on Wikipedia under a claim of fair use. However, it is currently orphaned, meaning that it is not used in any articles on Wikipedia. If the media was previously in an article, please go to the article and see why it was removed. You may add it back if you think that that will be useful. However, please note that media for which a replacement could be created are not acceptable for use on Wikipedia (see our policy for non-free media).

If you have uploaded other unlicensed media, please check whether they're used in any articles or not. You can find a list of 'image' pages you have edited by clicking on the "my contributions" link (it is located at the very top of any Wikipedia page when you are logged in), and then selecting "Image" from the dropdown box. Note that all non-free media not used in any articles will be deleted after seven days, as described on criteria for speedy deletion. Thank you. BJBot (talk) 04:21, 8 March 2008 (UTC)

a prankster replaced my image with a fake logo (with the intention of making a joke). I replaced the fake image with my image again in the article about the company. --roy<sac> ^Talk! .oOo. 07:49, 8 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Social network aggregation

Roy, when you have time can you contribute to this article. Thanks, Igor Berger (talk) 02:58, 4 April 2008 (UTC)

Roy, you removed quite a bit from what I wrote. I know it may looks as WP:OR, but don't you think it is useful information? Can we rewrite it some how to make it notable? Igor Berger (talk) 11:35, 5 April 2008 (UTC)

I reinserted the part you deleted and referenced it per WP:V. If you think it should be tweeked, please do, but do not delete it entirely. Igor Berger (talk) 12:05, 5 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Branded Asset Management

This is another new article that you may find interesting. Please check how Branded Asset Management and Brand management fit together. Igor Berger (talk) 12:22, 5 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] What's with your userpage vandalism?

Don't have much time to talk, but whatever you're doing, you can take off "adding userboxes to my page" off, for a change. I hope you get what you did... --Jw21/PenaltyKillah^{CANUCKLEHEAD?} 02:45, 22 April 2008 (UTC)

I apologize to you. There was obviously a misunderstanding. It seemed to me that it would be okay to add additional userboxes, since you had already a big list to various subjects. I didn't know that you created it all by yourself and hand-picked them. I will remove the changes to your page, if you have not already done so yourself. --roy<sac> ^Talk! .oOo. 02:49, 22 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Code of Conduct (affiliate marketing) GAN review question

Regarding your question: In terms of not having references...I honestly can't help you. I have encountered the same problems myself when editing articles about obscure articles. There is a desire to add information, but also the knowledge that you need to add reliable citations as well. And it's very, very frustrating when there are no references for something you know' is true.

I'm afraid to say that the simple truth is that some articles simply can't become Good Articles, because they have no references for them. It's rather disappointing, but you just have to deal with it.

Hope that helps.

Noble Story (talk) 03:59, 22 April 2008 (UTC)

Thank you for your comment and kind words. You obviously know what I am talking about, because you know the same pain.

Regarding references, I am currently experimenting and testing a custom search engine for reliable sources. You can find it here [2]. You can play around with it and see, if it is useful for your research. It helped me already a lot, but I am not 100% happy with it yet. If you have any suggestions let me know.

With Internet marketing is the problem that it is just emerging. I also contributed to articles that are about subjects that are fading away. My editing at Wikipedia made this more obvious than it would have otherwise and lead me to start working on or support preservation efforts. There are not only bad examples though. I am glad that the article to nofollow earned the GA status. The article to affiliate marketing is also a good candidate, which only lacks some fine tuning to be ready. Well, there is plenty of stuff left to do. :) --roy<sac> ^Talk! .oOo. 04:16, 22 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] nofollow

Hi after a glass of wine (or two!) I have added some comments to the nofollow talk page, see what you think (make allowances for the wine!). All the best. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 62.173.86.208 (talk) 21:34, 28 May 2008 (UTC)