Re: [WikiEN-l] Another Mirror Question

2008-12-11 Thread geni
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

Re: [WikiEN-l] Another Mirror Question

2008-12-11 Thread Oskar Sigvardsson
On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 4:14 PM, geni [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 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 From the Astronomy