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Taxacom: Research Gate question

John Grehan calabar.john at gmail.com
Thu Nov 17 17:20:36 CST 2022


Thanks Andy. The web is a convoluted place. At least I now understand the
context. Don't know Siobhan, but then I don't work on NZ moths.

Cheers, John

On Thu, Nov 17, 2022 at 6:03 PM Deborah Paul via Taxacom <
taxacom at lists.ku.edu> wrote:

> Ooh thank you Andy Mabbet for being another voice pointing out the power
> of the wiki world to amplify our voices and our reach.
>
> Debbie
>
> On 2022-11-17 4:28 PM, Andy Mabbett via Taxacom wrote:
> > On Thu, 17 Nov 2022 at 18:39, John Grehan via Taxacom <
> taxacom at lists.ku.edu> wrote:
> >> I had a notification of 'congratulations, your article reached 800
> reads', but this is for a rather obscure taxonomic article on a single
> species that was published just earlier this year. So the quantity seems
> out of proportion to the time, although it is an open access article. Can
> anyone comment on this?
> > Some of your papers are cited on Wikipedia. If one of the citing
> articles was listed on the home page under "What's New", or as a
> > featured article, it could easily get a quarter-million or more views.
> 800 click throughs from that would be a tiny and plausible proportion.
> >
> > You may have heard of my friend, Siobhan Leachman, whc is worting lots
> of new Wikipedia articles, and improving others, on New Zealand's moths.
> >
>
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