Should Commission staff edit Wikipedia articles?

On the EU Commission social media blog "Waltzing Matilda" Alenka is asking a number of pertinent questions:

"In your opinion, should the European Commission edit EU-related Wikipedia pages? If yes, when and how should we do it? If no, what alternatives would you suggest? I am looking forward to your comments."

So, should EU Commission staff edit Wikipedia articles to correct, for example, factual mistakes?

The single peak: European Parliament elections online statistics

Florent from the European Parliament web editors is reporting about the post-electoral emptiness and the lack of interest they are experiencing now.

And it is clear: The interest in the EP elections has peaked on Sunday/Monday/Tuesday, when everyone was looking for results, and has then dropped sharply afterwards.

A very good impression of the importance of this peak gives the June statistic on the visitors to the EP 2009 election article on Wikipedia:

European Parliament elections 2009 (54): Rising interest in the European elections?

Wikipedia statistics for the English Wikipedia article on the 2009 EP elections show that visitors' numbers have doubled since December, making yesterday the best day so far (608 visitors).

It has been discussed before in this blog whether the Wikipedia statistics are a good measure, but the figures show at least that the attention level has been rising significantly compared to the last month(s) of 2008.

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Under the category "European parliament elections 2009" I am following up national and European activities on the path to the European Parliament elections 2009.

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Tracking: European parliament elections 2009 (XXV)

Via Steffen's blog I found an interesting site that published visitors' statistics of Wikipedia.

Having a look at the statistics of the article on the 2009 EU Parliament elections, which appears on top of Google's list when you search for "European Parliament Elections 2009", one can see that between 70-250 people have been visiting this site per day during the last 3-4 month; in average around 120-130.

And although this is double the amount of the beginning of 2008, it is still a clear sign of low interest in the matter. The article on the European Parliament receives 7 times more attention these days.

Interesting to see is that the German and the French version of the article attract more interest than the English version, while the Italien version has less visitors. Any blind guesses, why this could be the case?

I will keep track of the development of these statistics in order to see whether there will be raising interest in the matter. Interesting to see would be a "turning point".

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Under the category "Tracking: European parliament elections 2009" I am following up national and European activities on the path to the European Parliament elections 2009.

For an overview over all articles in this category have a look at the overview article.

For the five newest post see also the sidebar.