On 7/14/07, John Vandenberg jayvdb@gmail.com wrote:

On 7/14/07, David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com wrote:

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If they can't see us, we're not there!

http://www.distilled.co.uk/blog/seo/search-google-without-wikipedia-a-firefo...

Personally, I prefer the google+wikipedia Firefox search plugin:

http://mycroft.mozdev.org/download.html?name=Wikipedia+(3rd+Party+-+Google)

With the CustomizeGoogle plugin you can remove Wikipedia mirrors from Google search results. It's very handy. The list of mirrors is maintained on Meta and is pretty complete.

Extension: http://www.customizegoogle.com/

The list on Meta: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mirror_filter

On 7/15/07, Charlotte Webb charlottethewebb@gmail.com wrote:

If there were a more reliable way to do this, it would be much easier to avoid mistaking sources for mirrors (copyright infringement on our part), or mistaking mirrors for sources (circular spread of information that was never properly verified).

Somehow I doubt it's as fool-proof as you say.

It's as accurate as the list on Meta, which is pretty accurate, since there are always people looking out for mirrors and forks and keeping track of them at pages like this:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Mirrors_and_forks

...as part of efforts to ensure GFDL compliance among reusers:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:GFDL_Compliance

The plugin doesn't completely remove those sites from the result, it just replaces the usual listing which is several lines long with a greyed out link to the mirror. So it's possible to spot false positives, should they ever occur.