[WikiEN-l] An obscene example of remote loading

[Roberto Alfonso]

I believe reference.com and about.com are, along with answers.com,
the biggest reusers in profile and size.

RB

On 1/28/07, Andrew Gray <shimgray at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 28/01/07, William Pietri <william at scissor.com> wrote:
> > Rob Church wrote:
> > > Legitimate mirrors and people who want to reuse our content are free,
> > > and encouraged, to download a database dump and process it for their
> > > needs.
> >
> > Say, are there examples of people who do this well, contributing back to
> > Wikipedia or to the general public? The examples I've seen are all a bit
> > disappointing, but perhaps that's just because the outrageous ones
> > generate more attention.
>
> answers.com is perhaps our most high-profile reuser, but we have an
> agreement with them for a live feed. I'm not offhand aware of a
> particularly shining example of a database-dump site, partly because
> we tend to outstrip them quite fast (and because enwiki dumps were
> iffy for quite a while, meaning most of them are long-stagnant)
>
> There are certainly some decent offline projects using dumps, though,
> in one form or another.
>
> --
> - Andrew Gray
>   andrew.gray at dunelm.org.uk
>
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