[Foundation-l] Advertising on Wikipedia

[F.-F. Duron]

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 at gmail.com> a écrit :
>
> On 1/21/11, F.-F. Duron <ff.duron at 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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