Do Not Link is a popular tool, especially in the Internet Skeptic community. As the package says, Do Not Link lets you link to a site, without improving a site's hits and hence, its search engine's rankings.
In the past 24 hours, someone posted a Do Not Link to my article on Susan Gerbic and the skeptical Wikipedia activism movement, which means that this site actually has the attention of the Internet Skeptic activist community.
I have no idea why they would take interest in a site whose main focus is argumentation against rabbinic tradition, involving mainly philosophical arguments and biblical exegesis. But hey, who am I to judge?
Basically, my article explained why Wikipedia is so extremely important for swaying the opinions of the public. While the people who you debate on the Internet are set in their ways, most people do not have a strong opinion on culture war issues, because they do not think about them everyday, nor do they discuss them very often. People go to Wikipedia often when they do not know a subject, which usually means that they have not formed an opinion. This means that they are open to be swayed in either direction. That is why for the Evangelical Christian movement, it is so important to have a Wikipedia presence.
For those of you who want to get started with Wikipedia editing, the following links are useful.
Overview of a Wikipedia Page
Talking About Talk Pages
Graph Cells
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