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Protection again
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== Protection again == | |||
This article has been protected for a month again (by Liberapedia bureaucrat Proxima Centauri). | |||
I have tried to make the second paragraph understandable to human beings, but apparently it is forbidden to touch anything Proxima writes, no matter how bad it is. | |||
So allow me to explain [http://www.wikiindex.org/index.php?title=Liberapedia&diff=prev&oldid=69073 my edit]: | |||
:[[wikia]] where the new “founder” is -> the [[Wikia]] [[Wiki farm]], under the leadership of a new "founder" | |||
:: nothing controversial here, merged the Wikia wiki farm thing from the last paragraph | |||
:Unfortunately no one bought up the URL of [[Old Liberapedia]] and the domain name now hosts a placeholder site with [http://www.liberapedia.com/index.php?title=Main_Page Spam]. | |||
::That is not spam. It's called advertisements, and it's standard procedure for domain hosts to put up advertisements on expired domains. They have every right to do so. | |||
:This could matter because on March 7th 2009 Google put that site on top when users look for Liberapedia. [http://liberapedia.wikia.com/index.php?title=Forum:Old_Liberapedia_cyber_squaters&t=20090308075834 A forum] was set up to discuss it. As of March 8th 2009 this has stopped at least in the UK but the future is uncertain and as of June 30th Yahoo still give the spammed wiki URL just below the link to New Liberapedia. We cannot guess what would have happened if Liberapedia users had overlooked the spam going on top of Google's answers. | |||
::Horribly written, contains irrelevant and probably outdated details | |||
:[http://www.palaeos.org/Special:RecentChanges?title=User_talk:Proxima_Centauri&curid=8287&diff=20855&oldid=19869 Suggested action] if other wikis get comparable problems. | |||
::I followed the link and had no idea what that post was about (google ads apparently, what has that got to do with google rankings?). Also this article isn't the place to put helpful tips about running the site. PROTIP: Don't change the domain name. | |||
What I replaced it with: | |||
:Unfortunately no one bought up the URL of [[Old Liberapedia]]. For a while, search engines ranked the old site higher than the new one, leading to confusion and possible loss of traffic and users. The old domain name now hosts a placeholder site with [http://www.liberapedia.com/index.php?title=Main_Page advertisements]. This situation is gradually improving as search engines rank the placeholder lower than new Liberapedia. | |||
I don't know why I didn't include the external link to the discussion on LP, but I'd include it now. I'm talking about this: http://liberapedia.wikia.com/index.php?title=Forum:Old_Liberapedia_cyber_squaters&t=20090308075834. That's about the only thing that could be considered objectionable about my edit, but it was not on purpose. Other than that and except the "useful" suggestion and the details, there's no loss of information here. | |||
I also removed the last paragraph: | |||
:Liberapedia now is yet another Wiki from the fertile [[Wiki farm]] of [[Wikia]]. | |||
since that was also mentioned in the first paragraph. | |||
[[User:Nx|Nx]] 16:09, 26 August 2009 (EDT) | |||