On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 3:54 PM, Aryeh Gregor <Simetrical+wikilist@gmail.comSimetrical%2Bwikilist@gmail.com
wrote:
Anyway, the reason live mirrors are prohibited is not for load reasons. I believe it's because if a site does nothing but stick up some ads and add no value, Wikimedia is going to demand a cut of the profit for using its trademarks and so on. Some sites pay Wikimedia for live mirroring. So the others, in principle, get blocked.
Right, but a live mirror is a very different thing than a search box link.