On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 3:54 PM, Aryeh Gregor <simetrical+wikil...@gmail.com<simetrical%2bwikil...@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. -- -george william herbert george.herb...@gmail.com _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
