Title: Odd WordPress “Articles”
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# Odd WordPress “Articles”

 *  [TomPreuss](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tompreuss/)
 * (@tompreuss)
 * [21 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/odd-wordpress-articles/)
 * I have no idea what to make of this:
 * [http://wordpress.org/articles/](http://wordpress.org/articles/)
 * There’s plenty of topics too; articles on [credit](http://wordpress.org/articles/credit.htm),
   [health care](http://wordpress.org/articles/health-care.htm), [insurance](http://wordpress.org/articles/insurance.htm),
   [home business](http://wordpress.org/articles/home-business.htm), [home buying](http://wordpress.org/articles/home-buying.htm)
   and [web hosting](http://wordpress.org/articles/web-hosting.htm).
 * Did I miss something?

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 *  [Kafkaesqui](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kafkaesqui/)
 * (@kafkaesqui)
 * [21 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/odd-wordpress-articles/#post-146030)
 * Hmm. Some interesting reading, but no idea the purpose for it being there.
 *  [zerok](https://wordpress.org/support/users/zerok/)
 * (@zerok)
 * [21 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/odd-wordpress-articles/#post-146095)
 * Perhaps someone was just a little bit too motivated? 😉
 *  Thread Starter [TomPreuss](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tompreuss/)
 * (@tompreuss)
 * [21 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/odd-wordpress-articles/#post-146547)
 * I still don’t have any idea, but it seems to have generated well over 50,ooo 
   something links to wordpress.org according to a [Google search](http://www.google.com/search?q=%22wordpress.org/articles/%22).
 * Is it some kind of marketing thing? It just doesn’t seem like something WordPress
   would do.
 *  [philpeeps](https://wordpress.org/support/users/philpeeps/)
 * (@philpeeps)
 * [21 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/odd-wordpress-articles/#post-146548)
 * [http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/02/11/0333219&from=rss](http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/02/11/0333219&from=rss)
 * might be related to this same concept….
 *  Moderator [Matt Mullenweg](https://wordpress.org/support/users/matt/)
 * (@matt)
 * [21 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/odd-wordpress-articles/#post-146689)
 * The content in /articles is essentially advertising by a third party that we 
   host for a flat fee. I’m not sure if we’re going to continue it much longer, 
   but we’re committed to this month at least, it was basically an experiment. However
   around the beginning of Feburary donations were going down as expenses were ramping
   up, so it seemed like a good way to cover everything. The adsense on those pages
   is not ours and I have no idea what they get on it, we just get a flat fee. The
   money is used just like [donations](http://wordpress.org/donate/) but more specifically
   it’s been going to the business/trademark expenses so it’s not entirely out of
   my pocket anymore.

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