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Wikipedia Links Pt. 3 - Chumbawumba Method

Posted By Eli On October 22, 2006 @ 8:42 pm In General Articles | 38 Comments

Hopefully by now you’ve read parts [1] Wikipedia links series and are ready for the slightly more aggressive part three. I affectionately call this technique the Chumbawumba method because when my links get knocked down I put them back up again. Never gonna keep them down. Don’t pretend like you don’t know the song. :) This more aggressive method is not only great for keeping your Wikipedia links up but works just as well for many other sites. I would love to hear some brain storms in the comments for other sites that this would work for as well. There are more than you would imagine. Off the top of my head I can think of six.

Methodology

This process will be ran from a timed cronjob (schedule server task) and will aggressively ensure that your links stick and stay on all your Wikipedia submissions. This technique will, once again, require knowledge of some form of server side language and will assume you have already finished and have a working version of [2] Wikipedia Links Pt. 2. I will also assume you have been keeping a database record of all the Wikipages you have submitted to.

The Process

1. Write a script that pulls (LWP) all the edit pages that you have submitted your article links to. Parse out the actual article, the EXTERNAL LINKS, and everything below the external links.

2. Check the EXTERNAL LINK for your domain. This is easily accomplished through a simple regex command =~ /$domain/.

3. If your link exists than ignore the page and move on. If it’s gone then just readd it. Someone mentioned in the previous posts’ comments that they are in a link war with some of their competitors on Wiki. Their competitors are removing their links and adding their own and visa versa. I could not imagine a worse waste of time. Plus the links disappearing and reappearing does no one any good if neither one can’t get any trusted link age on the pages. I suggest just stomping them out for good by also parsing for their links and just automatically removing them as they appear. They will eventually tire of fighting your automated system and bow down to the king. I know this sounds mean and unfair but fuck ‘em if that’s the way they are going to be.

4. When the script submits back to Wiki be sure to use a solid and tested [3] proxy. That way you can protect yourself from being banned. I’ve never heard of Wikipedia banning domains from the external links but I suppose it is possible. In which case if this happens just buy a second domain and do a 301 path to direct path redirect to your real domain. No big deal problem solved.

5. Set the script on a cronjob. I recommend setting it for once every 48 hours starting out. Then keep a log of all the times your script has to actually make a change. This will give you a good way to gauge the link loss. Then just adjust the timing accordingly. If you find your links never getting removed than go ahead and just set the cron to run once a week or so. If you got some competitors than set it to every 24 hours during nonpeak hours.

Dun dun dun dun…can’t touch this! Btw today is national gay song day. So don’t mind me. I’m just having fun with it.


38 Comments To "Wikipedia Links Pt. 3 - Chumbawumba Method"

#1 Comment By Jose Fernandes On October 23, 2006 @ 7:30 am

Hi,

Do you really mean a 401 or did you meant to say a 301?

Regards,
JF

#2 Comment By aeroguy On October 23, 2006 @ 12:55 pm

Does someone have a php version of this script for us noobs?

#3 Comment By Terry On October 23, 2006 @ 2:37 pm

Yes a script would be so appreciated for us none coders !! :D I am also trying to think of some other sites where this would work — it has to be something that doesnt require login and is open to be edited by the public — hmmmm…

#4 Comment By Eli On October 23, 2006 @ 5:01 pm

I’m confused. I thought it was 301?
Sorry guys. I do have a script that does it but all my scripts are intigrated into a giant system. I don’t sell or distribute any of them. I guess thats teh dangers of posting techniques that require knowledge of code. I try to avoid them but sometimes they are necessary. For you noncoders though. They are not hard to make, if you found yourself a freelancer they should be able to make one fairly easy.

#5 Comment By Terry On October 25, 2006 @ 8:03 pm

There is no such thing as a 401 redirect. Maybe Jose meant a 401 error page redirect? Like a custom error page sort of thing?

#6 Comment By BurgerKing On March 5, 2007 @ 2:15 pm

Hi Eli,

I know this is a pretty old post, but Wikipedia started banning posts from open proxies in March 2005
[4] http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Proxy_blocking

7 months before you made this post. Does your technique still work?

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This method would work good but can only be used with sties that don’t require a log in.

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There is no such thing as a 401 redirect. Everything is fine.

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