No, it's not a mirror site. This french start-up is making all its business with Wikipedia. This company has a cache system and some kind of search engine that are both integrated by default in the french Wikipedia. I don't know if other Wikipedias use it.
Try doing a search on the word "sex" in Wikipedia fr ( http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Recherche ) with the option "Wikiwix". You will see ads related to porn sites, escort girl sites (!!), viagra.... Well, it's certainly a good deal for this start-up... But how is that possible?? Such partnership is simply... unbelievable. Le 21 janvier 2011 18:24, Marco Chiesa <[email protected]> a écrit : > > On 1/21/11, F.-F. Duron <[email protected]> wrote: > > Bonjour, > > > > J'espère m'adresser au bon endroit. > > > > Aujourd'hui, ma nièce m'a appelé à l'ordinateur en me disant que Wikipédia > > faisait de la publicité pour un site pour adultes. Je lui ai dit que > > Wikipédia n'affichait pas de publicité. Elle a insisté et voilà ce que j'ai > > découvert : > > > > http://img204.imageshack.us/img204/5869/wikipediasocietewikiwix.jpg > > > > C'était sur ce lien : > > http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Quatri%C3%A8me_Proph%C3%A9tie > > > > ???? > > > > Pourquoi ces liens publicitaires ? Je suis vraiment très étonné. > > > > Sorry I cannot speak French. The screenshot you put is from a website > called wikiwix.com which has nothing to do with Wikipedia or the > Wikimedia Foundation, they only redistribute the content. Wikipedia > cannot control what kind of advertising third party website uses > together with its articles. > > Cruccone > > _______________________________________________ > foundation-l mailing list > [email protected] > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
