[oezi]

Now that Google is down-ranking Wikipedia anyway couldn't Wikipedia relax their notability requirements? I understood why they didn't want anybody to create a marketing page for themselves ten years ago, but I don't understand the rational now. The long term goal for Wikipedia should be to collect information on anything that is of interest to one or more person.

[tshaddox]

> The long term goal for Wikipedia should be to collect information on anything that is of interest to one or more person.

That is very explicitly not a goal of Wikipedia. Of course you're free to disagree with what Wikipedia ought to be, but they're at least fairly clear and explicit about their own goals.

[echelon]

> Now that Google is down-ranking Wikipedia anyway

Can you expand on this? I wasn't aware Google penalized Wikipedia now.

Why?

[Viliam1234]

Just a guess, but probably because Wikipedia does not contain AdSense, so there is no money in putting it to the search results.

No one would officially admit this, of course, but whenever I see that Google prioritizes X over Y, X is usually a type of thing more likely to contain AdSense than Y.

[peterlk]

Wikipedia actually seems like a good replacement for personal "websites" in the social media era. I'd love to see the wikimedia social network

[standardUser]

Do you mean this?

https://wt.social/

I joined long ago but have never used it.