On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 4:20 AM, David Gerard <dgerard(a)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?"