Saturday, February 21, 2015

Last Week: 2/15/15-2/21/15

Article: General Motors
Category: Business, Science, & Technology
Owner: Giant Clam (Team 1, benched)
Pageviews in February 2014: 86,011
What happened: Recently, General Motors has been linked to Harry Wilson, who helped restructure the company in 2009, and now seeks to join the board of the company. This is part of a trend towards shareholder activism. This activism has caught the eye of some big name investors, including George Soros and William Buffett
It has not yet, however, translated into more pageviews for General Motors the Wikipedia page. The algorithm that picked Fantasy Wikipedia pages selected General Motors as an article that would do well, but it hasn't. It's possible that the algorithm was oversensitive to news in November about states suing General Motors, which would have caused the article to get more pageviews.

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