[pydotorg-www] Pakt Publishing using wiki for SEO

[Steve Holden]

I'd agree this is abuse. We should revert the content to include the
deleted links, and stop these automated updates.

regards
Steve Holden


On Wed, Jan 2, 2019 at 10:22 AM M.-A. Lemburg <mal at egenix.com> wrote:

> I don't know if you are aware, but Pakt has been publishing (apparently)
> their complete list of Python books on the wiki, adding new titles
> to the top of the page in an apparently automated way:
>
> https://wiki.python.org/moin/AdvancedBooks
> https://wiki.python.org/moin/AdvancedBooks?action=info
>
> Not only that, but they removed older entries from the page:
>
>
> https://wiki.python.org/moin/AdvancedBooks?action=info&max_count=100&offset=200
>
> e.g. the Python Cookbook is no longer listed.
>
> I don't think the purpose of the wiki should be SEO and even less
> removing competitor links.
>
> I think we should take action here, e.g. restore the old version of
> the page and add a single link to the Pakt website instead of
> the current endless list of entries.
>
> Thoughts ?
>
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