[Foundation-l] wikipedia.de shut down

[Ian A. Holton]

I don't have any statistics, but I would say the http://www.wikipedia.de is
the most common way of accessing Wikipedia in Germany.

Ian
[[User:Poeloq]]

On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 1:45 AM, Thomas Dalton <thomas.dalton at gmail.com>wrote:

> > 26 thousand Euro in the last 40 hours. Normal figures appear to be
> > 3000 EUR per day. That's quite impressive. I wonder whether there is
> > an actual net gain.
>
> Do we have statistics on how many people actually access the German
> Wikipedia via the wikipedia.de domain? If it's not many, then there's
> really no loss (although most of the donations are probably coming
> from people seeing the temporary page, so there must be some people
> using it!). I can't see how it could be enough to make it a net loss
> overall - people can still find the site via google, etc., and the
> page they've put up to replace the forwarding includes the URL anyway
> (although they've avoided making it a link, for obvious reasons, but
> hopefully most readers know what to do with a plain text URL!).
>
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