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Wikipedia Used For Apparent Viral Marketing Ploy

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the inevitable-abuses-of-trusting-systems dept.

jangobongo writes "An article over at BoingBoing discusses what appears to be a viral marketing ploy appearing in a Wikipedia entry. Quote: "Someone has apparently abused collaborative reference site Wikipedia in a viral marketing campaign for a BBC online alternate reality game." "

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  1. Wow, posting it on the front page of /. by deminisma · · Score: 4, Funny

    That'll really teach those BBC punks!

    1. Re:Wow, posting it on the front page of /. by mshiltonj · · Score: 3, Funny

      It's okay. It seems the target market of the game is "14-18 year old girls," and there are no 14-18 year old girls on slashdot.

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    2. Re:Wow, posting it on the front page of /. by Lars+T. · · Score: 3, Funny

      But some here scream like them ;-)

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  2. Re:And on slashdot by Ihlosi · · Score: 5, Funny

    Yes !

    Viral marketing at its very best. Well done, folks.

  3. Re:Hmm by Breakfast+Pants · · Score: 5, Funny

    Hah nice try. It is obvious that your post is a part of that same viral marketing ploy.

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  4. Marketing people twisting facts? by mwvdlee · · Score: 3, Funny

    Really????
    I can't believe it!

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  5. Re:Wikipedia will survive this by Spacejock · · Score: 3, Funny

    A bit of sensationalist nonsense is all.

    What, here?

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  6. OMG by Michael_Munks · · Score: 2, Funny

    It's infected slashdot.

  7. Re:Their Name will be Bukkake by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    Wow. a informal article about bukkake. All bow for the mighty wikipedia!

  8. Re:NO, it is NOT a viral Campaign by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    It was nothing more than common garden vandalism for which I am sorry.

    So it was you who trashed the Blue Peter garden, you unspeakable bounder.

  9. Re:Nice by RidiculousPie · · Score: 2, Funny

    However, the article is linked on the front page of slashdot, but it is only one of many pages in wikipedia.

    "Aw, people can come up with statistics to prove anything, Kent. Forfty percent of all people know that."

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  10. It's obvious! by dancallaghan · · Score: 2, Funny

    ... that the fan site is fake, because it doesn't look like my 12-year-old sister made it using 1997-vintage Geocities Page Builder (cf a lot of other fan sites out there).

  11. wikipedia archive by cinnamon+colbert · · Score: 1, Funny

    this thread points out the need for a wiki archive; on historical/scholarship grounds this aritcle should not be deleted into nothing, but deleted into the archive - or am i unaware of, say, the wiki snapshot, that takes asnapshot of thew ikipedia every 15 minutes..

  12. Re:Yeh but it was the BBC corrupting it by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    Hey, everyone! Let's get drunk and naked and do some blow off a whore's back! And kill defenseless baby animals!

    Shhhh, don't tell anyone I work for Microsoft.

  13. BBC? Nooo!.. by mi · · Score: 3, Funny
    A profit-driven corporation -- maybe. But for people-owned BBC to do anything remotely unethical? No way!..

    Gebyy zl oruvaq...

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  14. The only thing of interest... by dame4jc · · Score: 2, Funny

    The only thing I found interesting about this whole mess is the reference to wikipedia being slashdotted...and then the pageview reports comparing wikipedia to slashdot.

    Holy crap! I had NO idea that Wikipedia was getting that much traffic.

    One month comparison http://www.alexa.com/data/details/traffic_details? &range=1m&size=medium&compare_sites=slashdot.org&y =p&url=wikipedia.org and a two year comparison, http://www.alexa.com/data/details/traffic_details? &range=2y&size=large&compare_sites=slashdot.org&y= p&url=wikipedia.org#top

  15. Good by nuclearpenguins · · Score: 2, Funny

    Not to turn this into "flamebait" or whatever you kids are calling it nowadays, I am no huge fan of Wikipedia. I'd much rather have a resource that's peer-reviewed and professional, i.e. no sources/ "facts" from the general population. Sure, a free resource of info is all well-and good, but this allowing everyone and their brother to edit articles is unacceptable.

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  16. Interesting by jonoton · · Score: 3, Funny

    That the same day the BBC have an article about wikipedia....

    http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/4152860.stm