Wednesday, February 17, 2010

Apple has best Wikipedia Entry

According to "Lundquist", a consulting firm, out of all the fortune 500 companies, Apple has the top Wikipedia entry.  I just learned this from the article, "Companies on Wikipedia: Apple's Fans Get it Right". I thought it was interesting that the article recommended that companies should not edit their own Wikipedia entries, but leave it to others who are supporters of the company. It makes sense that the source for more credible and less biased information is not the company itself. The article did mention however, that some appropriate roles for these companies to take in terms of increasing the quality of their company's Wikipedia entry are using the discussion board feature to communicate with those who do edit the page (I know what this is talking about since becoming a wiki user for this class), making non-copyrighted images available, modifying factual information/statistics, and checking for errors/inaccurate information.  After checking out the entry on Wikipedia itself, it is easy to see why this entry was given such high ratings. The information is very clear and presenterd in a well-organized fashion. I also noticed lots of interesting images throughout. Another neat feature of this entry is a "Timeline of Apple products". You can tell that users of Apple products are proud to back the company as they did a nice job with the entry.

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