[WikiEN-l] Wikipedia is ... free web hosting?

Nathan nawrich at gmail.com
Mon Jan 28 22:41:31 UTC 2008


Except that this one is a small group of admins (mostly) in userspace
and there hasn't been any enraged reports of hacking. Are there
policies related to linking *into* Wikipedia? I'd be surprised. I
think (but I'm not 100% sure) that this has already survived an MfD.

Nathan

On Jan 28, 2008 5:34 PM, Gregory Maxwell <gmaxwell at gmail.com> wrote:
> Some time ago I ran into a case where a small airline managed to
> purchase a domain name with redirection service, pointed it to the
> Wikipedia article about them, and then later angrily contacted the
> foundation enraged that we were 'hacking' their website simply because
> users were editing the article normally.
>
> I didn't think that I'd run into another one as weird as that, but I
> think this comes close:
>
> http://bathrobecabal.org/
>
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