[Foundation-l] Dealing with Live-mirrors

Brion Vibber brion at wikimedia.org
Wed May 30 15:05:44 UTC 2007


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Mathias Schindler wrote:
> I can imagine that this is a time-consuming and sometimes frustrating
> effort.

Honestly we don't spend a lot of effort on it.

> My suggestion would be not to block these IP addresses any
> more but to deliver slightly modified content to them, basically the
> same Wikipedia text plus a ad banner or Google Adsense box right above
> the text or next to it. That way, it would at least be of some sort of
> reward for the foundation running the servers...

That would probably violate the terms and get our Adsense account
canceled. :)

- -- brion vibber (brion @ wikimedia.org)
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