Wikipedia's impact on tourism

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Wikipedia's impact on tourism

Unread post by HRIP7 » Fri Jul 28, 2017 7:49 am

https://qz.com/1021932/it-pays-to-keep- ... p-to-date/

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Unread post by thekohser » Fri Jul 28, 2017 12:07 pm

It's an outstanding study concept, but in my cursory glance through the report, it feels like they did an insufficient job demonstrating how their control group was equivalent to the test sample, and how the test sample's hotel night increase from 2014 actually exceeded the control group's year-over-year trend.

I wonder how the Wikipediots will react to their project being (ab)used for experimental purposes like this? I remember an admin account being shut down (Cool3) when it was believed that it was associated with an experiment I was conducting related to low-watched BLPs with no reference sources.
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