[Foundation-l] Advertising on Wikipedia

Béria Lima y1030903 at mail.aesbuc.pt
Fri Jan 21 20:02:35 UTC 2011


I did what he ask:
http://fr.wikiwix.com/index.php?title=Sp%C3%A9cial%3ARecherche&redirs=1&action=sex&fulltext=Search&searchengineselect=wikiwix&ns0=1

But note that now you are not anymore in french wikipedia, but in Wikiwix.
And we can't control what they put on their site.
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2011/1/21 Nathan <nawrich at gmail.com>

> 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?
>
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