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Jimmy Wales shows favoritism on WikipediaExaminer.comAccording to his e-mail auto-reply, Wikipedia's co-founder Jimmy Wales is on a “semi-holidayâ€, most likely to play the supporting role for Kate Garvey, the new mother of his second child. Garvey is British and is the former diary secretary of UK Prime Munster …
Jon (or whichever mod, but I have to believe it was Jonny), thanks for putting this here. After about 4 hours (the usual maximum amount of time it takes Google to decide if a particular submitted Examiner story is actual "news" for its feeder), I had given up on this particular piece gracing their feed.
However, it looks like they took about 24 hours to decide that my work this time was, in fact, suitable for their wider distribution. What does that mean for the article?
Pre-Google, with only a post on Wikipedia Review to pump the article … 30 page views.
Post-Google, at least 120 additional page views.
I also sent the link to Julia Allison, so that might have accounted for another 10 page views as she forwarded it to a circle of friends. She replied to me:
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Thank you for sending this to me, Greg. I appreciate it.