On 29/01/2008, Rory Stolzenberg
<rory096(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On Jan 28, 2008 6:03 PM, Gregory Maxwell
<gmaxwell(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> On Jan 28, 2008 5:41 PM, Nathan <nawrich(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> > Except that this one is a small group of admins (mostly) in
userspace
and there hasn't been any enraged reports of
hacking. Are there
policies related to linking *into* Wikipedia? I'd be surprised. I
think (but I'm not 100% sure) that this has already survived an MfD.
I missed that fact, but that just makes it all the more baffling.
Using CSS hacks to hide the site and make it claim to be some other
domain is pretty darn outrageous... at least the airline didn't use
clever kludges to rewrite the page.
I wouldn't really call that a CSS hack, considering they could have also
done it using a magic word ({{DISPLAYTITLE}}). It doesn't seem to be
using
Wikipedia as a web host, more like using the
domain to make a parody
page in
userspace more amusing/realistic.
Gotta say its pretty close to free web host. Anyone that buys a domain
and redirects it to wikipedia is using wikipedia non-profit foundation
funds for something that is completely unrelated to the encyclopedia.
The userpage guidelines and the what wikipedia is not policy have been
designed specifically to restrict this frivolous use of bandwidth and
server resources, although the community may have enough powerful
supporters to make it an exception, it would break the rule and not be
consistent IMO. Recent happenings with spoofing the wikipedia UI may
also come into play.
Its always hard to say anything bad about humour pages that
established wikipedians create, but buying a domain and making a
straight redirect without prior authorisation from the non-profit
foundation is pretty clear.
On a side note, I am completely anti putting underage childrens photos
on personal user pages. It is utterly irresponsible for a parent to do
that. But that isn't really the issue here.
Peter Ansell
The only thing they're using WMF funds for would be the hosting, and it's a
userspace page like several others, and it's been kept in MfD. It's not like
this is using the foundation as a host for something completely irrelevant-
this is a parody Wikipedia cabal, for which the creators decided to buy a
domain to redirect to it. I don't see what the problem is.