I have a suggestion:
While our main page has a high pagerank, individual articles probably
don't (depending on how well they're linked to). So, it would help to
link to Special:Allpages from the main page (the static cached version
is fine). That way, it would take at most 3 links from the main page
to any article. Further, the second level pages should also be made
static and updated once in a while, because crawlers don't request
dynamic pages (I think).
Arvind
On Mon, Apr 12, 2004 at 03:49:37AM +0200, Erik Zachte wrote:
I know this is not new, but I'm rather pissed off
to see Google returns
several commercial sites featuring all Wikipedia articles on a request
explicitly specifying "Wikipedia" as search term, and on top of the real
thing.
I figure more and more of these sites will pop up when people realize how
easy it is to make money this way, and probably loads of it.
E.g. "rembrandt wikipedia"
http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&a…
a+rembrandt
shows Wikipedia only behind two other sites, one of which uses "Rembrandt -
Wikipedia" even in the <title>..</title> tags, which is shown
prominently in
the Google response.
I know GDFL is very permissive, but is there nothing we can do about this?
Even if we don't want the money, which is also an old discussion, we might
at least attract more contributors if parasitic sites (not all mirrors are
in this category) were less succesful.
Could we not strike a deal with Google similar to the one with Yahoo by
which Google favours the original content instead of outdated copies, should
be in their interest too.
Erik Zachte
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