No, it's not a mirror site. This french start-up is making all its business with Wikipedia. This company has a cache system and some kind of search engine that are both integrated by default in the french Wikipedia. I don't know if other Wikipedias use it.
Try doing a search on the word "sex" in Wikipedia fr ( http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Recherche ) with the option "Wikiwix". You will see ads related to porn sites, escort girl sites (!!), viagra....
Well, it's certainly a good deal for this start-up... But how is that possible??
Such partnership is simply... unbelievable.
Le 21 janvier 2011 18:24, Marco Chiesa chiesa.marco@gmail.com a écrit :
On 1/21/11, F.-F. Duron ff.duron@gmail.com wrote:
Bonjour,
J'espère m'adresser au bon endroit.
Aujourd'hui, ma nièce m'a appelé à l'ordinateur en me disant que
Wikipédia
faisait de la publicité pour un site pour adultes. Je lui ai dit que Wikipédia n'affichait pas de publicité. Elle a insisté et voilà ce que
j'ai
découvert :
http://img204.imageshack.us/img204/5869/wikipediasocietewikiwix.jpg
C'était sur ce lien : http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Quatri%C3%A8me_Proph%C3%A9tie
????
Pourquoi ces liens publicitaires ? Je suis vraiment très étonné.
Sorry I cannot speak French. The screenshot you put is from a website called wikiwix.com which has nothing to do with Wikipedia or the Wikimedia Foundation, they only redistribute the content. Wikipedia cannot control what kind of advertising third party website uses together with its articles.
Cruccone
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