--- Daniel Mayer maveric149@yahoo.com wrote:
On Tuesday 27 May 2003 02:51 am, wikien-l-request@wikipedia.org wrote:
The bottom of [[fr:Accueil]], the French
Wikipedia's home page, contains
the text "Site gracieusement h�berg� par _Bomis_",
with a link to the
website. Loosely translated, it says, "Site
graciously hosted by Bomis."
Should we add something like this to the [[en:Main
Page]], e.g., "Thanks to
[[Bomis]] (www.bomis.com) for hosting the
Wikipedia!"? It's awfully nice of
them to provide for what's probably the last big
site on the Internet
without banner ads and popups; we really ought to
say thanks somehow, and
at the least give them a bit of traffic.
-Geoffrey
Actually I just tried to go to http://www.bomis.com on my work's computer and was blocked by our censorware because Bomis has sports content and/or porn in its directory (we had to install this censorware to make sure state workers don't spend half their day reading sports or looking at porn).
That is fine with me except for the possibility that by having such a link to Bomis.com on en.wiki's Main Page we may get Wikipedia similarly blacklisted (thus blocking about 100,000 California state workers from even reading Wikipedia).
Something to think about at the very least...
-- Daniel Mayer (aka mav)
How does the blocking software work? Does it review the words in the page requested or just block a database of sites? If it just blocks some sites without reviewing current content, then it should be OK to put a link to bomis. Or, you could put in some kind of request to allow Wikipedia. When looking randomly through wikipedia, I've found at least one article on a pornography site, with a direct link to it. That should be enough to get wikipedia banned, anyway, but it isn't --LittleDan
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