Playing my Wikipedia

[french-webbie]

Hi,
I'm interviewing artists on one of my site, and when they have a page on Wikipedia, I put a link to the interview in the external links section . Usually the links stay there and I've just noticed for one of them that parts of the interview has been integrated in the main article with references to my page. Not too many visitors, but some recognition of the work as is.
However, when I try to put links to more general informational sites, they are usually erased within hours.
I guess the trick is to direct to some real content.
But does it help for the ranking? I have no idea if it helps or not, even if some are talking about trust rank.
Do you think it worths it? What's your experience with Wikipedia?

[apcwebmaster]

It depends if they are using 'nofollow links', if they are then apart from traffic & possible faster spidering the link won't be worth much, in google atleast. Check the source code for the words nofollow

[friporr]

Wikipedia does nofollow, so it'd be purely for the traffic.

I'd say it's a great way to get your mainstream site some quality traffic though. =) And if they come via wikipedia they've already proven willing to click external links which should mean they can click ads or trades.