[Foundation-l] Advertising on Wikipedia

[F.-F. Duron]

The integration of this search engine into wikipedia (which seems to be a
very lucrative deal for this company) is just one of the problems. The ads
that I've mentioned are unacceptable (escort girl = prostitution). I will
never see such kind of ads on Google. And there is a big difference between
Google, Bing and this company. The two first major companies are sending you
the majority of your trafic. This little company is only making business by
monetizing the trafic that Wikipedia send to them.

The second problem is the cache system. I don't understand why the French
Wikipedia is using their commercial cache system instead of the Internet
Archive which 1) is a well known non profit organization and 2) has been
advocating for free content for a long time and 3) doesn't show ads at all.

2011/1/21 Béria Lima <berialima at gmail.com>

> There are no such thing as a "partnership" whit Wikiwix (or Google,
> Exalead, Bing
> and Yahoo). They are there only to improve the results of a search in case
> you don't find anything in Wikipedia.
> _____
> *Béria Lima*
> Wikimedia Portugal <http://wikimedia.pt/>
> (351) 963 953 042
>
> *Imagine um mundo onde é dada a qualquer pessoa a possibilidade de ter
> livre
> acesso ao somatório de todo o conhecimento humano. É isso o que estamos a
> fazer.*
>
>
> 2011/1/21 F.-F. Duron <ff.duron at gmail.com>
>
> > Yes, but maybe you can control the partnerships you're making! Wikipedia
> is
> > one of the most visited websites in the world. Don't you think there is a
> > problem here??
> >
> > 2011/1/21 Béria Lima <y1030903 at mail.aesbuc.pt>
> >
> > > 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.
> > > _____
> > > *Béria Lima*
> > > Wikimedia Portugal <http://wikimedia.pt/>
> > > (351) 963 953 042
> > >
> > > *Imagine um mundo onde é dada a qualquer pessoa a possibilidade de ter
> > > livre
> > > acesso ao somatório de todo o conhecimento humano. É isso o que estamos
> a
> > > fazer.*
> > >
> > >
> > > 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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