[WikiEN-l] Mention that Bomis hosts Wikipedia

[Daniel Mayer]

On Tuesday 27 May 2003 02:51 am, wikien-l-request at wikipedia.org wrote:
> The bottom of [[fr:Accueil]], the French Wikipedia's home page, contains
> the text "Site gracieusement hébergé par _Bomis_", with a link to the
> website. Loosely translated, it says, "Site graciously hosted by Bomis."
> Should we add something like this to the [[en:Main Page]], e.g., "Thanks to
> [[Bomis]] (www.bomis.com) for hosting the Wikipedia!"? It's awfully nice of
> them to provide for what's probably the last big site on the Internet
> without banner ads and popups; we really ought to say thanks somehow, and
> at the least give them a bit of traffic.
>
> -Geoffrey

Actually I just tried to go to http://www.bomis.com on my work's computer and 
was blocked by our censorware because Bomis has sports content and/or porn in 
its directory (we had to install this censorware to make sure state workers 
don't spend half their day reading sports or looking at porn). 

That is fine with me except for the possibility that by having such a link to 
Bomis.com on en.wiki's Main Page we may get Wikipedia similarly blacklisted 
(thus blocking about 100,000 California state workers from even reading 
Wikipedia). 

Something to think about at the very least... 

-- Daniel Mayer (aka mav)