On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 4:20 AM, David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com wrote:
I know some Wikipedians were asking Google "wtf? Could you at least not rank us three pages behind our own mirrors?"
And Google complied, implementing a duplicate content penalty which eliminated mirrors and forks alike (and is probably hurting Citizendium right this very moment). My point exactly.
But the thing is: huge popularity for the wikipedia.org website isn't
necessarily a win for Wikipedia and writing an encyclopedia. Mostly it's been an expensive pain in the arse.
Agreed, but the question this thread came from was implicitly equating popularity with success: "Will Citizendium become a top 1000 website within the next five years?"