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.
This happens from time to time. Usually, somebody stumps up another few months rental, and it's up again the following day.
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----- 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?
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.
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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