[Foundation-l] wikipedia.de shut down

[Ian A. Holton]

BTW, reading the comments on the donations shows nicely the main motivation
for donating suddenly:

* Against censorship
* Against the former Stasi
* To benefit the growth of free knowledge

Ian

On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 6:31 AM, Ian A. Holton <poeloq at gmail.com> wrote:

> I don't have any statistics, but I would say the http://www.wikipedia.deis the most common way of accessing Wikipedia in Germany.
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> On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 1:45 AM, Thomas Dalton <thomas.dalton at gmail.com>wrote:
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>> > 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.
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>> 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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