[WikiEN-l] Re: Wikipedia growth since February 2004 greatly slowed

Anthere anthere9 at yahoo.com
Thu Jul 15 18:40:35 UTC 2004



Pete/Pcb21 wrote:

> This time last year WP was very often top of typical searches. Now our 
> mirrors always come out ahead except for very recently breaking news 
> (where they don't have the new content yet). What I term the "second 
> generation" mirrors (such as thefreedictionary.com) are "gaming" the 
> Google algorithm much better than Wikipedia is, and in a way the older 
> mirrors (4reference.net etc) didn't.


But... think about it... what we want is information to be made 
available... after all, this is what mirrors are offering... they 
distribute information, and relieve our servers.

Hum ?





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