On Mon, Nov 8, 2010 at 8:04 PM, Fred Bauder <fredb...@fairpoint.net> wrote: > >> An interesting idea would be a standalone static copy of >> wikipedia that really tried their utmost to make the product >> visually appealing, and used the generated money from the >> advertisements purely to fund ever more timely database dumps >> >> It would be interesting to see how frequent database dumping could be >> financed by advertisement on such a >> site; the synergy should be obvious -- the more money they generate >> from adverts, the more resources they can devote to making ever more >> frequent dumps, so the more timely is the content, which will again >> make therir product more attractive, and so on >> >> >> -- >> Jussi-Ville Heiskanen, ~ [[User:Cimon Avaro]] >> > > Whether this is great idea or not I don't know, but this is the kind of > out of the box thinking that is potentially productive. We could produce > periodic "polished" editions.
Not likely to work as long as the regular site is in the search engines, due to the duplicate content penalty. _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l