On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 8:35 AM, Anthony <wikim...@inbox.org> wrote: > On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 4:20 AM, David Gerard <dger...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> I know some Wikipedians were asking Google "wtf? Could you at least >> not rank us three pages behind our own mirrors?" >> > > And Google complied, implementing a duplicate content penalty which > eliminated mirrors and forks alike (and is probably hurting Citizendium > right this very moment). My point exactly.
I thought Citizendium had declined to copy any Wikipedia content. How then could such a algorithm tweak matter to them? (I will note that things have gotten much better. Back in 2004 or so if I had ran a Google search for [[Medici Bank]], the results would've been all cluttered up by mirrors of WP; but now it's pretty rare to run into a mirror, and I think the last one I found unbidden was Wapedia, which admittedly isn't exactly the same content as WP.) -- gwern _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
