2008/12/11 Andrew Famiglietti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Also, I'm just curious as to why on earth they have decided to do this. Why > host an (awful) machine translation of the french site when you could just > as easily host the english wikipedia content? What gives? Does anyone have > any idea? > > - Andy
Hosting the English wikipedia will get you hammered with a duplicate content penalty so you tend not to rank very high in search results. In theory a machine translation of French would avoid that. -- geni _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l