[Wikipedia-l] Wikipedia:Top 10 Google hits

Fri Sep 6 02:33:45 UTC 2002

I've been randomly looking through the referer log for the last day or 
so, and have found a few amusing things.

Here's a site that republishes some Wikipedia articles:
   http://din-timelines.com/cyclopedia/dir/index.shtml

This is rather tasteful compared with the Fact Factory; there are ad 
banners at the top and bottom, but not too obstrusive, and everything is 
explicitly credited and linked to Wikipedia -- there's even links to 
take you to the article at Wikipedia for view or edit. It's not a fork, 
just an encapsulation.

This Fox News column links our article on [[Geosynchronous orbit]]:
   http://foxnews.com/story/0,2933,62200,00.html

This Salon column links our article on [[Leet]]:
   http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2002/08/28/0wnz0red/index.html

http://www.why-is-the-sky-blue.org/why-is-the-sky-blue.html
   links our [[Raleigh scattering]].

And of course in the middle east department, we have links to:

[[History of ancient Israel and Judah]] from
   http://www.palestinefacts.org/pf_early_palestine_israel_antiquity.php

[[Mohammed Atta]] from some site claiming 7 of the 9/11 hijackers are
   still alive: http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/stf3.html

-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)