[Foundation-l] Advertising on Wikipedia

Fri Jan 21 20:18:29 UTC 2011

There are no such thing as a "partnership" whit Wikiwix (or Google,
Exalead, Bing
and Yahoo). They are there only to improve the results of a search in case
you don't find anything in Wikipedia.
_____
*Béria Lima*
Wikimedia Portugal <http://wikimedia.pt/>
(351) 963 953 042

*Imagine um mundo onde é dada a qualquer pessoa a possibilidade de ter livre
acesso ao somatório de todo o conhecimento humano. É isso o que estamos a
fazer.*

2011/1/21 F.-F. Duron <ff.duron em gmail.com>

> Yes, but maybe you can control the partnerships you're making! Wikipedia is
> one of the most visited websites in the world. Don't you think there is a
> problem here??
>
> 2011/1/21 Béria Lima <y1030903 em mail.aesbuc.pt>
>
> > I did what he ask:
> >
> >
> http://fr.wikiwix.com/index.php?title=Sp%C3%A9cial%3ARecherche&redirs=1&action=sex&fulltext=Search&searchengineselect=wikiwix&ns0=1
> >
> > But note that now you are not anymore in french wikipedia, but in
> Wikiwix.
> > And we can't control what they put on their site.
> > _____
> > *Béria Lima*
> > Wikimedia Portugal <http://wikimedia.pt/>
> > (351) 963 953 042
> >
> > *Imagine um mundo onde é dada a qualquer pessoa a possibilidade de ter
> > livre
> > acesso ao somatório de todo o conhecimento humano. É isso o que estamos a
> > fazer.*
> >
> >
> > 2011/1/21 Nathan <nawrich em gmail.com>
> >
> > > On Fri, Jan 21, 2011 at 2:52 PM, F.-F. Duron <ff.duron em gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > > > No, it's not a mirror site. This french start-up is making all its
> > > business
> > > > with Wikipedia. This company has a cache system and some kind of
> search
> > > > engine that are both integrated by default in the french Wikipedia. I
> > > don't
> > > > know if other Wikipedias use it.
> > > >
> > > > Try doing a search on the word "sex" in Wikipedia fr (
> > > > http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Recherche ) with the option
> > > "Wikiwix".
> > > > You will see ads related to porn sites, escort girl sites (!!),
> > > viagra....
> > > >
> > > > Well, it's certainly a good deal for this start-up... But how is that
> > > > possible??
> > > >
> > > > Such partnership is simply... unbelievable.
> > > >
> > >
> > > I performed the search you suggested (here is the link:
> > >
> > >
> >
> http://fr.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Sp%C3%A9cial%3ARecherche&redirs=0&search=sex+wikiwix&fulltext=Search&searchengineselect=mediawiki&ns0=1
> > > )
> > > and did not find any advertisements. Perhaps you are mistaken?
> > >
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