Paid editing:
Horror and Humor
- Where do we stand with paid editing, 3 years after the ToU change?
- How many businesses (advertise) on Wikipedia?
- How many can we handle?
- Who advertises on Wikipedia
3 years after the ToU change
edit- Old scandals
- User:Morning277 still editing
- Orangemoody still sending the same emails to potential clients
- Other recent activity
- Bell Pottinger still trying to ruin the world for pay (now in South Africa)
- Old paid editing firms still openly advertising on the web
- Just google "Wikipedia page creation service"
- about 40 firms
- Submit Express [1]
- "Even if you don't have enough press coverage yet, we may still be able to set up a Wikipedia page for you. To generate press coverage, we put you in contact with multiple press agencies and guarantee a minimum of 5-7 major media mentions."
- "a Wikipedia page will instantly give you and/or your company more credibility. Get started today."
- Wikimedia.org on page 7
- And just this summer
- VA gubernatorial/senatorial candidate admits campaign edited his page
- PA House leader
- Whopper's whopper of a lie
- Burger King has over 60 subarticles
- Entrepreneur magazine's 2 articles
How many businesses (advertise) on Wikipedia?
edit- Business articles on Wikipedia in 2015
- very roughly 50,000 companies
- How many company articles do we get each day?
- Pure guess 50 per day, or about 10,000-20,000 per year
- Pure guess 80% are deleted ==> an increase of 2,000 - 4,000 each year
How many businesses in the US, in the world?
edit- How many businesses in the US?
- 28,000,000 but 21,000,000 don't have any employees (2016 census)
- Very roughly multiply by 4 or 5 to estimate the # in world
- Detailed data from 2012 business census
| Enterprise employment size | Number of enterprises | Revenue ($1,000,000 | Annual payroll ($1,000,000) | Number of employees |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| All enterprises | 5,107,603 | 30,084,295 | 5,093,405 | 107,729,850 |
| 1- 499 employees | 5,091,273 (99.7%) | 11,223,348 (37.3%) | 2,077,874 (40.8%) | 50,913,231 (47.3%) |
| 500 -2,499 employees | 12,833 (0.3%) | 3,798,896 (12.6%) | 650,900 (12.8%) | 12,794,791(11.9%) |
| 2,500 employees or more | 3,496 (0.1%) | 15,062,050 (50.1%) | 2,364,630 (46.4%) | 44,021,828 (40.9%) |
Examples
edit- Miss Spicer's Lemonade Stand
- What does it take to get an article on Wikipedia?
- Mud Coffee
- One of 225+ NYC "restaurants" with articles
- 10+ NYC pizzerias
- One of 225+ NYC "restaurants" with articles
- Donut Diner
- Hypnotic Donuts
- World's Best Donuts
- 1 store in small town far north MN
- open only in summer
- some good national reviews, orphan, 1 RfD - 2 votes
- Pincho Man
- "one of Miami's top five food trucks"
- "you like food trucks? Well, this dude’s been serving food out of his unmarked white truck from undisclosed locations since..." don't know when
- Beneva Flowers
- Small flower store in Sarasota, FL
- Open on Sundays
- Karolina Laskowska
- Won an award
- One person online lingerie seamstress
- Our article started January 2015
- Business 2014 - Sept. 2017
- Spanish Fly Pro, a deleted article on a specific brand of Spanish fly.
- Binary options and/or retail forex
- Banc De Binary
- FXCM
- TFI Markets
- TFIFX - online version of above