Pete/Pcb21 wrote:
This time last year WP was very often top of
typical searches.
Now our
mirrors always come out ahead except for very
recently breaking
news
(where they don't have the new content yet).
What I term the
"second
generation" mirrors (such as
thefreedictionary.com) are "gaming"
the
Google algorithm much better than Wikipedia is,
and in a way the
older
mirrors (
4reference.net etc) didn't.
But... think about it... what we want is information to be made
available... after all, this is what mirrors are offering... they
distribute information, and relieve our servers.
Hum ?
Ant has a point. Let them pay for the bandwidth and the servers.
Of course, I would send them the "be a Wikipedia Donor" letter first.
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