On 27 February 2010 00:48, Peter Kaminski kaminski@istori.com wrote:
Gerard Meijssen writes,
As far as leeches go, this takes the price as far as I am concerned. It sells scripts to leech any Wikimedia project and all this to have the rating of a website go up.
The best long-term solution would be to work with Google and other search engines to encourage them to efficiently recognize Wikimedia content and reduce rankings of sites mirroring it just for SEO.
It wouldn't make much sense to leech Wikimedia if it adversely affected site rankings.
*cough*But... these sites make a service to wikipedia and the public in general, creating multiple mirrors of articles. If wikipedia is down, you can still read the articles elsewhere, if the articles are deleted, you can read these articles on these sites*cough*