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Wiki.from pedia to voyage - or the greed of Napoleon
The greed of Napoleon
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Msg#: 4537544 posted 2:05 am on Jan 20, 2013 (gmt 0)

Is not enough with the top positions they got on every place on earth (not to mention the other commercial cousin).....now they start a new project the "wikivoyage". What's the point and the reason behind it? any ideas?

 

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Msg#: 4537544 posted 2:56 pm on Jan 20, 2013 (gmt 0)

It's not a "new" project.

They have imported the entire "wikitravel" site - at least several months ago.

It remains to be seen whether editors stay with wikitravel, move to wikivoyage or continue to edit both.

Whatever happens, their content will diverge; err, already has, as many of the edits made at wikitravel in the last 3 or 4 months have not been made at wikivoyage. However, the number of edits per day now being made at wikivoyage is far greater than had previously been made at wikitravel.

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Msg#: 4537544 posted 8:49 pm on Jan 20, 2013 (gmt 0)

Nice of them to do that import - now I have 4 wiki* links instead of two :-)

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Msg#: 4537544 posted 9:53 pm on Jan 20, 2013 (gmt 0)

It will be interesting to see if Google hides one of them as duplicate content.

It will be very interesting if wikivoyage ranks a LOT higher than wikitravel ever did.

Technically, wikivoyage should be buried by Google as it is a copy of wikitravel.

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Msg#: 4537544 posted 3:13 am on Jan 21, 2013 (gmt 0)

So true I'm afraid.

Me being in a niche of a niche in the top level niche the scale of links in my world is a LOT lower than the other 99% here.

A gargantuan 20+ year old site in my niche has about 200 backlinks. The mid-weights are typically 25-75 backlinks.

The rest puff along on the fumes of a few mentions of their domain name in text (unlinked) to 2-15 backlinks for those who seek them actively.

So, for the last case those 2 more links matters a lot :-)

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Msg#: 4537544 posted 10:40 am on Jan 22, 2013 (gmt 0)

wonder how one page of limited content overranks mega sites dedicated to the place, really when google will rank fair both wiki and wikitravel/voyage not for the links or "authority" but for the content? and by the way how can be an authority articles written by anonymous editor/s.....

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