Tips to disable users from editing mediawiki pages

In Mediawiki installation root, locate a file called "LocalSettings.php":

Set wgReadonly to true, either way works, no matter O is upper or lower case:

$wgReadonly = true;
$wgReadOnly = true;

To enable users to edit pages in Mediawiki, do:

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China Internet marketing: Why should you care?

First, China is the world's second-largest Internet market. The number of Web surfers in 2005 has reached 111 million, and this number is still growing steadily fast. More than half of China's Web population accessed the Web via broadband connections, and many of them use mobile phones to access the internet. It is becoming apparent that China's Internet market has great potential. As a matter of fact, it has already become China's fastest-growing, most influential sector.

Major players in internet marketing, attracted by the market's big growth potential, have set up shop in China, including online auctioneer eBay, retailer Amazon.com, search engine leader Google, yahoo, msn...

More and more international companies are making full-scale efforts to enter China markets while Chinese local companies are growing in size, too. No matter you are dot com or brick-and-mortar, you need to know about China Internet marketing well so as to win your market share in China. This is a global business and you pay big price if you become ignorant in china internet marketing.

Search Engines in Chinese language world

Most search engines in Chinese world use Chinese with two versions: 1) simplified Chinese 2) traditional Chinese. The Simplified Chinese is used in mainland China and Singapore , while the traditional Chinese is used in Hong Kong, and Taiwan.

In mainland China, almost all search engines only accept Simplified Chinese. On the other hand, in Taiwan, most of the search engines like to accept Traditional Chinese. Singapore' search engines would prefer your web page submission in English. Hong Kong's search engines vary.

So if you wnated to market your products or web sites in this side of the world, you will submit your URLs (webpages) manually according to local China search engines' official language, or even in English. So far there is no good tool to automate this process.

The followings are some popular search engines.

Baidu
Google.cn
Yahoo China

Sougou

Baidu dominates Chinese search engine market, Google is shrinking

We have to research Baidu as it is the dominant search engine for Chinese. See below.

Source: http://www.cwrblog.net/841/cnnic-report-shows-baidu-strengthened-its-position.html

China Internet Network Information Center (CNNIC) released its latest search engine survey report, its third annual China’s search engine market development report.

The report showed that 74.5% users take Baidu as their primary search engine, increased from 62% from one year ago, while Google China’s market share slipped significantly from 25.3% to 14.3%. The recent report by China IntelliConsulting Corporation (CIC) also made similar conclusion that Baidu’s market share keeps increasing. But according to CIC’s result, Google’s market share in China only decreased 1.1 percentage in last twelve months

While in English world, there are tools like keywordtracker developed by non-search-engine companies, using data from metacrawlers. Is there such a thing in China? Any keyword search service offered other than search engine companies?

That is my next topic to research on internet marketing in China.

Shame on Google

Jut doing some link analysis in my Internet Marketing research. I came across this page when searching "free speed reading" in google.

FreeSpeedReading.org
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www.freespeedreading.org/ - 8k - Cached - Similar pages - Note this
#9 | PR: 0 | Google Cache Date: ? | Age: ? | del.icio.us: ? | Y! Links: 1 | Y! .edu Links: 0 | Y! .gov Links: ? | Y! Page Links: 0 | Y! .edu Page Links: ? | Technorati: ? | Alexa: ? | Compete.com Rank: ? | Compete.com Uniques: ? | Cached: ? | dmoz: ? | Bloglines: ? | dir.yahoo.com: ? | MSN Links: ? | MSN .edu Links: ? | MSN .gov Links: ? | MSN Page Links: ? | MSN .edu Page Links: ? | Whois

Anyone has any idea why it can be listed as #9?

Today (Around 1:20PM EST, 10/22/2007) I saw their page is not optimized(a squeeze page only). Almost no external links. (Yahoo link is 1, yahoo page link is 0.

How come this page was listed as #9? The only optimized part is the domain. This makes me wonder if Google lists paid site in here, disguising it as a good site. (but without sponsored link sign so it's the best ad for a company).

Or it is a real shame on Google to rate such a useless content page (a squeeze page) as #9.

I did not see a reason why that is listed as #9? Or am I missing sth. here? BTW, this is not the only one I found.


Or google got paid by sprinkling some junk into search results in exchange of money, as long as the percentage is small? The pay should be pretty high as those sites disguised themselves as "authority sites" without any meaningful data regarding keywords user entered?

Google should be smart enough only to pull those junk from first 10-20 pages. However, those pages are not rare in first page - let me wonder Google is corrupted in exchange of MONEY.

Time for another search engine ???


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BTW, this is what they have in that page: (What a crap, Google can not find it out???)

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