Posts Tagged ‘Wikipedia’

Well, we finally made it – we’ve come to the final whistle stop in our Wikipedia Master Class journey. Along the way, we’ve discovered what it takes to get started, Wikipedia’s process and the various pages you’ll encounter; and the Five Pillars (and the Very Bad Things that happen should you choose to ignore them). […]

John Green, author of that four-hanky tearjerker The Fault in Our Stars once said, “Oh, Wikipedia, with your tension between those who would share knowledge and those who would destroy it.” It’s probably the purest description I’ve heard of the conundrum that defines Wikipedia to this day. In the first two installments in this Master […]

“A Wikipedia article is a process, not a product.” – Clay Shirky, writer and social media theorist Welcome back to our Wikipedia Master Class series. In the first installment, we covered the question of how to know whether your brand is ready for a Wikipedia article, and the first steps you need to take to […]

Talk about chutzpah. In case you missed it, Burger King recently pulled off a brazen stunt using emerging voice technologies. In a cheeky TV spot, the fast food giant tricked Google devices into reading Wikipedia’s article about its flagship Whopper hamburger…after some wanton editing by the marketing team. It almost got away with it. Almost. […]

In part one of a two-part series discussing the importance of Wikipedia, we explored the reasons why your organization might – should, really – want to add a Wikipedia article to its communications toolbox. Its status as the sixth most-visited website on the Internet, prominence in organic search engine results, and frequent use as a research resource by the media should make the decision to join the hallowed pages of Wikipedia a no-brainer.

The question is no longer should your business have a Wikipedia article, but why doesn’t it?

If you’ve ever visited or stopped over in the land of my ancestors, you’ve probably come across this Hawaiian travel staple – the whimsically named “Wiki-Wiki” bus. In the native Hawaiian language, the word “Wiki” means “quick”. At the Honolulu International Airport, the Wiki-Wiki bus serves as a quick way for travel-weary passengers to scoot between the various terminals.