2008/7/30 Jussi-Ville Heiskanen cimonavaro@gmail.com:
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?
Probably. Wikipedia mirrors have various approaches. The bulk content to hang ads around approach would consider non project namespace stuff to be worth having. Others looking to run encyclopedic mirrors less so. Still others take selected pages to pad existing content. Then there are various sites that use wikipedia to feed Markov chain generators or as blog posts.