> > I'm bothered by wikis when the duplication they have causes them
> > to have a higher search engine page rank than the source they
> > duplicated.
> >
> > "D. Stussy" <spam@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>
> Please give us a specific example of this.
>
> Of the four genealogy wiki's that I'm familiar with the focus in
> each is on laying out family histories. (Of course, that's not the
> focus on the LDS wiki where facilitating doing genealogy seems to be
> the main point.) At anyrate, this is not at all dissimilar from
> what's being done on Ancestry, GenCircles, etc, or on most peoples
> personal family history web sites for that matter. I suppose when
> they do a good job with their work, cite sources, quote passages
> from wills, or a small section of a census record, a bible record,
> etc. that this would generate some additional search engine hits in
> addition to all those other folks citing those particular items.
>
> Exactly how is it that this is a problem on wiki's and not in all of
> the other places which are much more systematically duplicating
> genealogical materials on their sites?
>
> "Q" <quolla6@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
I already gave you an example, albeit a non-genealogical one:
Aboutus.com
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