????現(xiàn)實有點觸目驚心：貴公司客戶“首選”的信息源，也就是他們用來了解貴公司概況、歷史和相關(guān)事實的網(wǎng)站絕大多數(shù)時候都錯誤百出。我指的是維基百科（Wikipedia）。在谷歌（Google）和必應(yīng)（Bing）上，這一在線百科全書在70%的情況下（谷歌英國更是高達99%）都位列搜索結(jié)果前3位。然而，維基百科上的公司介紹頁面有60%都含有事實性錯誤。

????貴公司及其主要高管、投資者，甚至產(chǎn)品的頁面很有可能就屬于這60%。茲事體大，是因為如今一些大型新聞機構(gòu)里，總有不夠勤快的記者在報道中整段借用維基百科上的信息。如果你認為自己的潛在客戶、合作者和新員工不會依賴維基百科上的信息做決策，那你就是在自欺欺人。今天，維基百科已成為全世界網(wǎng)民的重要信息來源。

????所以，你不但得要有個維基頁面，而且它一定要公允準確地反映貴公司的真實情況。但是因為代碼笨拙，規(guī)則不透明，網(wǎng)絡(luò)社區(qū)敵視情緒日益高漲，維基百科已成為無數(shù)初創(chuàng)公司、小型企業(yè)、社會名流和著名高管們新的眼中釘，肉中刺。我之所以了解這一點，是因為他們都在向我尋求幫助。

下面就為大家支幾個招：

1. 提高媒體知名度才能擁有維基頁面

????不是每個人都能擁有維基百科的頁面。要想擁有維基頁面，必須達到網(wǎng)站所規(guī)定的“著名程度”的門檻才行。你的企業(yè)可能是個本地機構(gòu)，每年服務(wù)好幾百萬人，但如果你希望在維基頁面上顯示的特定信息從來沒有被知名媒體報道過，那么從維基百科的角度看，這些信息就不值得登載。如果某種言論從未被知名媒體明確表達過或支持過，維基百科的編輯就會把它從數(shù)據(jù)庫中剔除。

????因此，如果你想要有個維基頁面，就需要可信賴的第三方媒體對你進行報道，比如報紙、雜志、書籍和期刊，而不是你自己的個人博客、新聞稿或Facebook的個人主頁。

????要做到這一點，其實并沒有想象的那樣難。如果是從零開始，你可以去HelpAReporterOut.com看看，從知名記者的免費、簡單的報道起步。如果你希望公眾了解公司的某些信息，最好是將它們透露給媒體，否則維基百科無法呈現(xiàn)這些信息。實際上我的建議是，在和媒體交流時，腦子里得時刻記著維基百科的頁面才行。

2. 切勿盲目編輯自己的頁面

????營銷人員和公關(guān)專家試圖控制客戶的專題頁面，而維基百科對這種做法極其警惕。他們的理由十分充分：有利益沖突的編輯往往會違背維基百科的神圣原則，比如保持觀點中立及充分論據(jù)的原則。不要認為直接編輯自己的頁面就能挽回局面，這么做可能適得其反，讓局面變得不可收拾。

????但這并不意味著你完全無能為力——因為如果你本人或某個員工從來沒建立過維基賬戶，沒花時間了解維基百科的運作模式，就永遠不會知道對自己的頁面到底能做什么、不能做什么。如果正好讀到了一篇上乘的報道，那就往維基的相關(guān)主題頁面上添加一些內(nèi)容吧。清除那些空白的URL鏈接，做點修改語法和編輯語句的工作，觀察網(wǎng)上社區(qū)的情況，弄清維基編輯的獨特個性。這是一個費時費事的試錯過程，但很重要。

????Here's the scary reality: your customers "go-to" source for information -- where they learn about your company, read your history and get their facts -- is wrong the majority of the time. I'm talking about Wikipedia. The online encyclopedia shows up in the top 3 results of more than 70% of Google and Bing searches (99% for Google UK) yet 60% of company Wikipedia pages contain factual errors.

????Odds are, those numbers include pages about your company, its prominent executives, investors, and possibly even its products. And that matters because today lazy journalists from major publications copy entire Wikipedia paragraphs in their coverage. If you think that your potential customers, partners, and new hires aren't using Wikipedia to make decisions, then you're fooling yourself. Wikipedia informs the world.

????So it's critical that you not only have a Wikipedia page, but that it fairly and accurately presents the truth about your business. But with its clunky code, obscure rules, and an increasingly hostile community, Wikipedia has become the new thorn in the side of countless startups, small businesses, celebrities, and prominent executives. I know this because they come to me for help.

Here's how you can solve the problem:

1. Be notable enough for a page

????Not anyone can have a Wikipedia page. Wikipedia pages must meet the site's threshold of "notability." Your business could be a local institution, serving millions of people a year, but if you or the specific fact you wish were mentioned on your page has never been written about by the right media outlets, it's not noteworthy, as far as Wikipedia is concerned. If a statement hasn't been explicitly stated or backed by a reputable media outlet, Wikipedia editors yank it from the database.

????So if you want a page, seek out coverage from third-party, reliable sources. Think newspapers, magazines, books, and journals, not your personal blog, press releases, or a Facebook page.

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????But it's easier to hack this than you think. If you're starting from scratch, check out HelpAReporterOut.com and start getting free, easy press from reputable reporters. If there are things you want people to know about your business, you better make sure you've communicated them to the media. Otherwise Wikipedia is incapable of presenting that information. I'm actually suggesting you speak to the media with your Wikipedia page in mind.

2. Do not blindly edit your own page

????Wikipedia is extremely wary of marketers and PR experts trying to control their clients' Wikipedia pages. And for good reason. Editors with conflicts of interest often violate Wikipedia's sacred rules, like having a neutral point of view and verifiability. You might think that rushing in to edit your page will fix things, but it will likely lead to disaster.

????But that isn't to say you shouldn't contribute to the site at all -- because if you or an employee have never built an account and spent some time learning how Wikipedia works, you'll never know what you can and can't do with your own page. Read a good news article? Add a few facts to the subject's Wikipedia page. Clean up a few bare URL references. Do a bit of grammar and copyediting. Observe the community and figure out the quirks of the Wikipedia editors. This is tedious trial and error, but it's important.