geni wrote:
2008/7/30 Gregory Maxwell gmaxwell@gmail.com:
What a great idea!
(which is why it's already done that way :) ... Also, I don't believe that most mirrors which actually use the dumps copy anything but the articles though I don't have any data to back that up)
Depends. Some take the lot on the basis that it gives the more content to put adds next to. And if we go noindex on all that stuff it will stop getting whacked by the duplicate content penalty.
This is all very interesting.
I wonder if I am reading this correctly.
Do I understand correctly that those who do not just download our non-mainspace (you know the real wikipedia stuff of articles like of an encyclopaedic value), do it with full knowledge that isn't really encyclopaedic matter, but download it anyway?
On the gripping hand the arguments I have heard against adjusting the licencing of the non-mainspace pages has been on the basis of not providing free web-hosting, so everything has to be copy-left.
Somehow I don't think that equation passes the sniff test.
Particularly in the light of the fact that the MediaWiki help-pages are already definitely *not* copy-left, but decisively PD.
Yours,
Jussi-Ville Heiskanen