On the day that Wikipedia is temporarily blacked out, it seems like one of its most prominent groups of critics has had a possibly more permanent "blackout" of its own... the infamous BADSITE, Wikipedia Review, might be dead. Going to its site today yields a GoDaddy parking page saying that its domain is expired.
I was equally surprised (and saddened) to learn a few months ago that Ripway's domain expired...I went through this week and {{dead}}'d all the ripway links on the English Wikipedia.
Bob
On 1/18/2012 6:48 PM, Daniel R. Tobias wrote:
On the day that Wikipedia is temporarily blacked out, it seems like one of its most prominent groups of critics has had a possibly more permanent "blackout" of its own... the infamous BADSITE, Wikipedia Review, might be dead. Going to its site today yields a GoDaddy parking page saying that its domain is expired.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Bob the Wikipedian" bobthewikipedian@gmail.com To: "English Wikipedia" wikien-l@lists.wikimedia.org Sent: Thursday, January 19, 2012 12:53 AM Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] WR bites the dust?
I was equally surprised (and saddened) to learn a few months ago that Ripway's domain expired...I went through this week and {{dead}}'d all the ripway links on the English Wikipedia.
Bob
Were they not in the Wayback Machine?
They might've been, though I doubt their members' files were. It was a wonderful free host for practically any non-media file upload and public file sharing (provided you didn't exceed their daily bandwidth limits); guess all good things that are too good to be true eventually cease being true.
Bob
On 1/18/2012 7:14 PM, Phil Nash wrote:
----- Original Message ----- From: "Bob the Wikipedian" bobthewikipedian@gmail.com To: "English Wikipedia" wikien-l@lists.wikimedia.org Sent: Thursday, January 19, 2012 12:53 AM Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] WR bites the dust?
I was equally surprised (and saddened) to learn a few months ago that Ripway's domain expired...I went through this week and {{dead}}'d all the ripway links on the English Wikipedia.
Bob
Were they not in the Wayback Machine?
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This happens from time to time. Usually, somebody stumps up another few months rental, and it's up again the following day.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Daniel R. Tobias" dan@tobias.name To: wikien-l@lists.wikimedia.org Sent: Thursday, January 19, 2012 12:48 AM Subject: [WikiEN-l] WR bites the dust?
On the day that Wikipedia is temporarily blacked out, it seems like one of its most prominent groups of critics has had a possibly more permanent "blackout" of its own... the infamous BADSITE, Wikipedia Review, might be dead. Going to its site today yields a GoDaddy parking page saying that its domain is expired.
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Put 184.172.174.94 for wikipediareview.com in your hosts file. (Fortunately, as SOPA has not passed, this is legal :)).
On Wed, Jan 18, 2012 at 7:48 PM, Daniel R. Tobias dan@tobias.name wrote:
On the day that Wikipedia is temporarily blacked out, it seems like one of its most prominent groups of critics has had a possibly more permanent "blackout" of its own... the infamous BADSITE, Wikipedia Review, might be dead. Going to its site today yields a GoDaddy parking page saying that its domain is expired.