I have a suggestion:
While our main page has a high pagerank, individual articles probably don't (depending on how well they're linked to). So, it would help to link to Special:Allpages from the main page (the static cached version is fine). That way, it would take at most 3 links from the main page to any article. Further, the second level pages should also be made static and updated once in a while, because crawlers don't request dynamic pages (I think).
Arvind
On Mon, Apr 12, 2004 at 03:49:37AM +0200, Erik Zachte wrote:
I know this is not new, but I'm rather pissed off to see Google returns several commercial sites featuring all Wikipedia articles on a request explicitly specifying "Wikipedia" as search term, and on top of the real thing.
I figure more and more of these sites will pop up when people realize how easy it is to make money this way, and probably loads of it.
E.g. "rembrandt wikipedia" http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&am... a+rembrandt shows Wikipedia only behind two other sites, one of which uses "Rembrandt - Wikipedia" even in the <title>..</title> tags, which is shown prominently in the Google response.
I know GDFL is very permissive, but is there nothing we can do about this? Even if we don't want the money, which is also an old discussion, we might at least attract more contributors if parasitic sites (not all mirrors are in this category) were less succesful.
Could we not strike a deal with Google similar to the one with Yahoo by which Google favours the original content instead of outdated copies, should be in their interest too.
Erik Zachte
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