[Foundation-l] Advertising on Wikipedia

[Nathan]

On Fri, Jan 21, 2011 at 2:52 PM, F.-F. Duron <ff.duron at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.
>

I performed the search you suggested (here is the link:
http://fr.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Sp%C3%A9cial%3ARecherche&redirs=0&search=sex+wikiwix&fulltext=Search&searchengineselect=mediawiki&ns0=1)
and did not find any advertisements. Perhaps you are mistaken?