Wikipedia:Mirrors and forks/Archive
Mirrors and Forks : (Numbers) ABC - DEF - GHI - JKL - MNO - PQR - STU - VWXYZ - All - Archive
This page contains defunct mirrors and forks.
Archive
[edit]0po0
[edit]- Site: 0po0.com
- Example: 0po0.com/Mormaer_of_Moray
- States Free Info by Wikipedia
- No obvious mention of GFDL
- No obvious links to GFDL or original article
Defunct as of 22:32, 9 February 2015 (UTC)
1-1-2008.com
[edit]- See My Wiki
1-bike.com
[edit]| URL | http://www.1-bike.com |
|---|---|
| Description | |
| Sample | http://www.1-bike.com/articles/Miniature_motorcycle_racing |
| Rating | Medium |
| Compliance | Mentions Wikipedia and the GFDL; links to original article and local copy of the GFDL. |
| Contact info | edwinarif AT gmail.com |
| Actions | redirects to page holder 22:32, 20 September 2007 (UTC) so probably gone Site is gone. The Evil Spartan (talk) 16:02, 25 December 2007 (UTC) |
1-player.net
[edit]| URL | http://www.1-player.net |
|---|---|
| Description | |
| Sample | http://www.1-player.net/articles/Sony_HiFD |
| Rating | Medium |
| Compliance | Mentions GFDL and Wikipedia but does not link to original article or include history. Superm401 - Talk 09:39, 18 February 2006 (UTC) |
| Contact info | edwinarif AT centrin.net.id (whois), abuse AT serverpronto.com (host) |
| Actions | Web site is 404 as of 20:55, 27 January 2007 (UTC) and also 22:31, 20 September 2007 (UTC) so probably gone Still down. Archiving. The Evil Spartan (talk) 16:00, 25 December 2007 (UTC) |
100india.com
[edit]- Site: http://www.100india.com/
- Example: http://www.100india.com/india-wiki.html?view=mediawiki&article=Talk%3AState_religion
10baset.info
[edit]| URL | http://en.10baset.info/ |
|---|---|
| Description | |
| Sample | http://en.10baset.info/Bear_River_Massacre |
| Rating | None |
| Compliance | Neither does this site reference Wikipedia in spite of being a complete mirror, it also claims independent copyright on all content on Wikipedia in its own name. A rather bizzare word substitution is employed to avoid a "Google Search" of content. |
| Contact info | registerfly AT pmlinvestments.com; Phone # 1-408-767-6851 |
| Actions | Site is down as of 20:56, 27 January 2007 (UTC) and 22:33, 20 September 2007 (UTC) so probably gone |
10beststocks.com
[edit]| URL | http://10beststocks.com/index.php |
|---|---|
| Description | |
| Sample | http://10beststocks.com/index.php?title=Sony_HiFD |
| Rating | |
| Compliance | Gives error message; site seemingly replaced with domain parking as of 07:25, 19 February 2006 (UTC) |
| Contact info | techxpinc AT yahoo.com (whois), abuse AT 1and1.com (host/ISP) |
| Actions |
1bx.com and related
[edit]| URL |
|
|---|---|
| Description | |
| Sample |
|
| Rating | Low |
| Compliance | These are a group of interlinked mirror sites. The owner claims the duplication is for "load balancing". On all the sites I checked, there is a link to internal GFDL, the original article, and the original history, below the last ads. The sites use dynamic loading (the owner claims he has set up 1 year caching), and hotlink images. There is no mention of CC-BY-SA. Many registrations use whois cloaking services. |
| Contact info | jin AT 1bx.com, 1BX.COM AT domainsbyproxy.com, TOSHARE.INFO AT domainsbyproxy.com, emule2005 AT host.sk (donkeylink.com whois admin), jinhui AT jcomsoft.com (askmore.net whois), generalmanager AT domainsbyproxy.com (private registration), abuse AT sitelutions.com (DNS) (UTC) |
| Actions |
Talk 03:10, 23 January 2006 (UTC)
DOMAINS BY PROXY® Attn: Legal Complaints 15111 N. Hayden Road, Suite 160 PMB 353 Scottsdale, AZ 85260
|
2008/9 Wikipedia Selection for schools
[edit]| URL | http://schools-wikipedia.org/index.htm |
|---|---|
| Description | |
| Sample | http://schools-wikipedia.org/wp/a/Apple.htm |
| Site reported to use only GFDL, no CC-BY-SA(-only) content. | |
| Rating | Medium |
| Compliance | Footnote says "mainly selected from the English Wikipedia with only minor checks and changes (see www.wikipedia.org for details of authors and sources). The articles are available under the GNU Free Documentation License." The GFDL is linked and locally hosted, and the URL of the exact version of the article history used is given to help identify authors.
See also discussion on project pages for this copy at en, on the Wikitech mailing lists and at the wikimedia blog [1] |
| Contact info | info@soschildren.org |
| Actions | None. |
Defunct as of 17 April 2020. Probably defunct since late 2018.
21ma.com
[edit]| URL | http://www.21ma.com/mod3.php?title=Main_Page |
|---|---|
| Description | |
| Sample | http://www.21ma.com/mod3.php?title=froogle |
| Rating | Low |
| Compliance | Unacceptable as a real-time mirror. It mentions and links to Wikipedia, but there is no link to the original article and history is not included. There is no mention of the GFDL. No mention of my name. |
| Contact info | jim AT mvlife.com (whois), abuse AT comcast.net (host) |
| Actions |
2BuyGood.com/InfoPedia
[edit]- They've set up a "technical issues" message and a redirect to their store. JesseW 05:25, 25 Nov 2004 (UTC)
- Now redirects to dmoz mirror 22:35, 20 September 2007 (UTC)
2place.org
[edit]| URL | http://2place.org/ |
|---|---|
| Description | |
| Sample | http://2place.org/wiki/Cliff_Richard |
| Rating | "High" |
| Compliance | Gives both local copy of GFDL and Wikipedia backlink (backlink is broken) |
| Contact info | |
| Actions | Not necessary, unless for broken link |
Defunct as of 22:31, 9 February 2015 (UTC)'
4reference.net
[edit]| URL | http://www.4reference.net/ |
|---|---|
| Description | |
| Sample | http://www.4reference.net/encyclopedias/wikipedia/Bucharest.html |
| Rating | Medium |
| Compliance | Wikipedia content has now been removed. It mentions and links to both Wikipedia and the GFDL, but there is no link to the original article and the history section is not included. |
| Contact info | jaret AT msn.com, abuse AT ev1.net (host) |
| Actions |
|
7val
[edit]| URL | http://en.wikipedia.7val.com |
|---|---|
| Description | |
| Sample | http://en.wikipedia.7val.com/w/index.php?title=Knowledge |
| Rating | Medium |
| Compliance | Dynamic mirror. Links to local mirror of CC-BY-SA 3.0 and history section. Not made explicit that the material is under CC-BY-SA; the license notice is not kept intact. |
| Contact info | adminc-sponagl-nospam AT 7val.com (whois; presumably remove "-nospam"), http://www1.sevenval.de/mobile/index.php?id=9&L=1 |
| Actions | Sent standard violation letter to adminc-sponagl-nospam AT 7val.com and adminc-sponagl AT 7val.com . Superm401 - Talk 02:31, 19 January 2007 (UTC)
The problem was caused by an error in their rendering engine. Is now fixed. Added link to GFDL and page history. For future issues regarding 7val: Wikimedia Deutschland is in close contact with them. Please contact de:Benutzer:Akl in case there are any problems. Still dynamic mirror 22:40, 20 September 2007 (UTC) |
Defunct as of 22:33, 9 February 2015 (UTC)
999 Network
[edit]| URL | http://999network.com/ |
|---|---|
| Description | |
| Sample | http://999architects.com/ |
| Rating | Medium |
| Compliance | A network of sites, each covering one topic using one Wikipedia article. Articles carry a link to Wikipedia home, direct link to source article on Wikipedia, and a link to GFDL directly under article text. Articles are edited versions, based on a one-time export, and are not updated. Images are not used. Author names and dates are not listed. |
| Contact info | pat.fox[at]canall.com |
| Actions |
Defunct as of 22:34, 9 February 2015 (UTC)
aaez.biz
[edit]| URL | http://www.aaez.biz/ |
|---|---|
| Description | |
| Sample | http://www.aaez.biz/default.asp?t=User:Crazytales56297 |
| Rating | High |
| Compliance | Live leech. Damn, I hate these. Seems to handle syntax properly too. No mention whatsoever of Wikipedia or GFDL except ‘retrieved from (wikipedia url)’ at bottom. |
| Contact info | George Robertson 8554 122nd Ave. N.E. PNB 28 Kirkland WA 98033 USA 1-425-867-1671 george at renasoft dot com |
| Actions | None as of now.. ~ c. tales //dirty little secrets// 00:36, 19 August 2006 (UTC)
No longer leeching. 75.104.217.102 00:27, 13 July 2007 (UTC) 404 -- 22:42, 20 September 2007 (UTC) |
aardogs.com
[edit]| URL | http://www.aardogs.com/ |
|---|---|
| Description | |
| Sample | http://www.aardogs.com/pages10/95/wall-lamps.html |
| Rating | Low |
| Compliance |
|
| Contact info |
|
| Actions | Sent violation letter. -- WB 07:33, 23 January 2006 (UTC)
Site seems to be mostly down, wall-lamps page redirects to ads -- Dragonbeast 16:01, 20 March 2007 (UTC) No longer using content, or so it appears, though above message still present. The Evil Spartan (talk) 16:21, 25 December 2007 (UTC) |
Abaara
[edit]| URL | http://info.abaara.com |
|---|---|
| Description | |
| Sample | http://info.abaara.com/pac/Partial_differential_equation |
| Rating | "Medium"-"Low" compliance with GFDL (matches Wikipedia:GFDL Compliance). |
| Compliance | "This article is from Wikipedia. All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License" with link to local page; that has two paragraph description of GFDL and nonlinked URL for GFDL at gnu.org. No obvious link to Wikipedia or original article or history |
| Contact info | info AT abaara.com (local), telania AT gmail.com 5022914650 (whois) |
| Actions |
Defunct as of 22:37, 9 February 2015 (UTC)
Abbaci books
[edit]| URL | http://www.abacci.com/books |
|---|---|
| Description | |
| Sample | |
| Rating | |
| Compliance | |
| Contact info | http://www.abacci.com/books/page/contact.asp |
| Actions | Moved to high. The Evil Spartan (talk) 16:28, 25 December 2007 (UTC) Moved to None: no longer appears to reuse wikipedia content. 84user (talk) 16:15, 4 August 2009 (UTC) |
Defunct as of 10:44, 6 May 2018 (UTC)
ABC World
[edit]| URL | http://abcworld.net/ |
|---|---|
| Description | |
| Sample | http://abcworld.net/culture.html |
| Rating | Low |
| Compliance | I don't see any mention of "GFDL" or "Wikipedia". (I don't see any "Contact" information either). As far as I can tell, all the content on *every* page on this site comes from Wikipedia. |
| Contact info | Contact listed as "Joe Damien" with email address 4leenda AT gmail.com. The contact also includes a phone number +001.41512345678 (fake) and a real physical mailing address which is actually the location of the 5th Avenue Theatre in Seattle, Washington. |
| Actions | primary email sent Followup letter sent. The Evil Spartan (talk) 16:37, 25 December 2007 (UTC) |
Defunct as of 22:37, 9 February 2015 (UTC)
aboutsociology.com
[edit]| URL | http://aboutsociology.com |
|---|---|
| Description | |
| Sample | http://www.aboutsociology.com/sociology/Madrid_Metro |
| Rating | "Medium"/High |
| Compliance | GFDL and Wikipedia are mentioned. No link back directly to article, but an in depth on how to get to that page is given at http://www.aboutsociology.com/copyright.html ("further copyright" section) |
| Contact info | WHOIS: ABOUTSOCIOLOGY.COM AT domainsbyproxy.com |
| Actions |
Defunct as of 11 April 2019.
adago.com
[edit]- Site http://www.adago.com
- Example: http://www.adago.com/Sony_HiFD.html
More research requested
- not responding 22:50, 20 September 2007 (UTC)
- site is 404ing. My guess is it's dead. The Evil Spartan (talk) 22:36, 25 December 2007 (UTC)
Defunct as of 22:41, 9 February 2015 (UTC)
Adorons.com
[edit]| URL | http://adorons.com/wiki |
|---|---|
| Description | |
| Sample | http://www.adorons.com/wiki/Your_Choice_Live_Series_Vol.10 |
| Rating | None |
| Compliance | Page bears all the licenses at the bottom, as it is a straight copy from Wikipedia, without any indication that you are actually not on Wikipedia anymore; it even contains a Login link at the upper right hand corner (which, thankfully, doesn't work). |
| Contact info | |
| Actions | None Fram 13:29, 11 October 2007 (UTC)
|
Defunct as of 22:42, 9 February 2015 (UTC)
Advantacell.com
[edit]| URL | http://advantacell.com |
|---|---|
| Description | |
| Sample | http://advantacell.com/wiki/University_of_California%2C_Santa_Barbara, http://it.advantacell.com/wiki/Verde |
| Rating | Medium |
| Compliance | Wikipedia pages are attributed to Wikipedia. At the bottom of every page that includes a Wikipedia article is reported: "Retrieved from "http://wiki.riteme.site/wiki/..." and "This article is from Wikipedia. All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License." |
| Contact info | webmaster AT advantacell.com |
| Actions | None
Suffering from technical issues so little or no Wikipedia content Rumping 22:52, 20 September 2007 (UTC). |
Defunct as of 22:43, 9 February 2015 (UTC)
Africhoice
[edit]| URL | http://www.africhoice.com |
|---|---|
| Description | |
| Sample | http://www.africhoice.com/downloads/Birds_of_Kenya_Checklist.pdf, http://www.africhoice.com/downloads/Birds_of_Tanzania_Checklist.pdf, http://www.africhoice.com/downloads/Birds_of_Uganda_Checklist.pdf |
| Rating | Low/None |
| Compliance | No mention of Wikipedia or the GFDL. The three pdf files listed are copies of the text of our articles List of birds of Kenya, etc. |
| Contact info | africhoice AT africhoice.com |
| Actions | None |
Defunct as of 16 April 2020
Afropedea.org
[edit]| URL | http://www.afropedea.org, https://sites.google.com/site/afropedia/ |
|---|---|
| Description | |
| Sample | https://sites.google.com/site/afropedia/africa |
| Rating | Medium (generally compliant, where applicable, except for disclaimer of warranties) |
| Compliance | Article on Africa |
| Contact info | afropedeain AT gmail.com, afropedeaout AT gmail.com, bloowis AT netzero.com |
| Actions | 2010-10-18: E-mailed standard CC-BY-SA violation letter to afropedeaout AT gmail.com and bloowis AT netzero.com 2010-10-25: Received response; website owner stated his intent to comply, but claimed to have created most of his webpage's content. Still no Wikipedia attribution. |
Agenda.z1.ro
[edit]| URL | http://agenda.z1.ro |
|---|---|
| Description | |
| Sample | http://agenda.z1.ro/baba.php |
| Rating | "Low/None" |
| Compliance | Article on Corneliu Baba appears to be an uncredited translation of our English-language article. |
| Contact info | marius.gheghici AT gmail.com |
| Actions | None so far. |
Defunct as of 22:46, 9 February 2015 (UTC)
Aheadofnews.com
[edit]| URL | http://aheadofnews.com/enc-en/ (Wikipedia) and http://aheadofnews.com/dict-en/ (Wiktionary) |
|---|---|
| Description | |
| Sample | http://aheadofnews.com/wikipedia |
| Rating | Medium |
| Compliance | Now redirects to freakingnews.com, which seems to have no Wikipedia content. Acknowledges Wikipedia as a source and mentions GFDL on every page. No link to original article or inclusion of history section. |
| Contact info | |
| Actions |
aircraft-list.com
[edit]| URL | http://aircraft-list.com/ |
|---|---|
| Description | |
| Sample | http://www.aircraft-list.com/db/Antonov_An-225/59/ |
| Rating | |
| Compliance | Copy of Wikipedia articles about aircraft combined with copyrighted images (some maybe without permissions from authors). GFDL notice applied only to text, not entire derived work (website). |
| Contact info | Trimbitas Sorin, Romania. trimbitassorin AT hotmail.com, +40.0724540234 |
| Actions | None so far. |
Defunct as of 11 April 2019.
albumartexchange.us
[edit]| URL | http://www.albumartexchange.us |
|---|---|
| Description | |
| Sample | http://www.albumartexchange.us/2011/05/variations-on-a-theme-the-nude-series-bare-bottoms.html |
| Rating | |
| Compliance | Part copy of Wikipedia article Lovehunter without attributing wikipedia, and adding a more restrictive CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 license, see Talk:Lovehunter#Reuse without attribution |
| Contact info | |
| Actions | None so far. |
Defunct as of 16 April 2020.
All About-kittens.com
[edit]| URL | http://www.about-kittens.com |
|---|---|
| Description | |
| Sample | http://www.about-kittens.com/563/Korat |
| Rating | |
| Compliance | Mirrors various WP articles on breeds of cats. Pages carry the notice, "© 2005-2006 about-kittens.com. All Rights Reserved ", but do not mention Wikipedia or the GFDL at all. The article on the Korat breed at All About-kittens appears to be a copy of the Wikipedia article as it appeared between July 5 and August 19, 2006, and includes a copy of an image with a limited-use license. |
| Contact info | Administrative Contact: Adrian Agafitei, Calea Nationala nr. 67 Bl. J1, Botosani, BOTOSANI 710006, RO ( )745125530 adiaga AT gmail.com
Technical Contact: Administrator DNS, 1 N State Street, 12th Floor, Chicago, IL 60602, US (312)2362132 administrator AT siteprotect.com. |
| Actions | As I am not a contributor to any of the cat breed articles, I have not tried to contact the site. I did leave a note at Talk:Korat advising the contributors that they could contact the site to complain. Posted notice on Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Cats. -- Donald Albury 01:20, 23 January 2007 (UTC)
Contacting with letter 1, ST47Talk 21:05, 27 January 2007 (UTC)
|
Defunct as of 22:51, 9 February 2015 (UTC)
All Science Fair Projects Encyclopedia
[edit]- Site: http://www.all-science-fair-projects.com/science_fair_projects_encyclopedia
- Copies of many science and science-related articles (example: http://www.all-science-fair-projects.com/science_fair_projects_encyclopedia/Massachusetts_Institute_of_Technology)
- Copies of every single Wikipedia article (Examples: http://www.all-science-fair-projects.com/science_fair_projects_encyclopedia/Barry_Bonds Barry Bonds, http://www.all-science-fair-projects.com/science_fair_projects_encyclopedia/House_rules_of_Monopoly House Rules for Monopoly)
- Link to www.wikipedia.org exists but is not clickable
No GFDL link
* "Copyright (C) 2003 All Science Fair Projects.com All Rights Reserved" listed on every page
* http://www.all-science-fair-projects.com/copyright.html Copyright notice and http://www.all-science-fair-projects.com/disclaimer.html disclaimer, albeit very informative, are not linked to from either the main page or the article pages
- Standard letter sent. Telso 04:24, 29 Aug 2004 (UTC)
** Article pages show update as of 10-05-04 but still not compliant. JamesMLane 12:49, 9 Oct 2004 (UTC)
Update statement removed
Copy of WP content. Maybe just taking the science articles. Although mentions where it is from, does not mention GFDL, link back to wikipedia or the articles. Dunc_Harris|☺ 16:10, 29 Aug 2004 (UTC)
- No, this site has every WP article. I linked examples above (http://www.all-science-fair-projects.com/science_fair_projects_encyclopedia/Barry_Bonds Barry Bonds, http://www.all-science-fair-projects.com/science_fair_projects_encyclopedia/House_rules_of_Monopoly House Rules for Monopoly) -- Daniel Pritchard 20:41, 7 April 2006 (UTC)
- MIT example says "The contents of this article is licensed from www.wikipedia.org under the GNU Free Documentation License. Click here to see the transparent copy and copyright details"
- Mentions GFDL and has local copy [4]
- Acknowledges wikipedia source
- No Link back to wikipedia original article
moved from main page Davelane 22:47, 14 Sep 2004 (UTC)
All About-puppies.com
[edit]| URL | http://www.about-puppies.com/ |
|---|---|
| Description | |
| Sample | http://www.about-puppies.com/721/Yorkshire_Terrier |
| Rating | |
| Compliance | Mirrors various WP articles on breeds of dogs. Pages carry the notice, "© 2005-2006 about-puppies.com. All Rights Reserved ", but do not mention Wikipedia or the GFDL at all. The article on the Yorkshire Terrier breed at All About-puppies appears to be a copy of the Wikipedia article as it appeared during July, 2006. |
| Contact info | Administrative Contact: Adrian Agafitei, Calea Nationala nr. 67 Bl. J1, Botosani, BOTOSANI 710006, RO ( )745125530 adiaga AT gmail.com
Technical Contact: Administrator DNS, 1 N State Street, 12th Floor, Chicago, IL 60602, US (312)2362132 administrator AT siteprotect.com. |
| Actions | None, as I am not a contributor to any of the dog breed articles. Added notice to Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Dog breeds. -- Donald Albury 01:21, 23 January 2007 (UTC)
Contacted this one as well ST47Talk 21:11, 27 January 2007 (UTC) |
Defunct as of 22:52, 9 February 2015 (UTC)
All2know.com
[edit]| URL | http://www.all2know.com |
|---|---|
| Description | |
| Sample | http://www.all2know.com/de/wikipedia/t/to/tonga.html |
| Rating | Medium |
| Compliance | There is a link to www.wikipedia.org, but no link to the article copied. There is a GFDL notice with a link to Wikipedia's copy of the GFDL. |
| Contact info | |
| Actions |
Defunct as of 19:29, 11 February 2015 (UTC)
Allabout.cc
[edit]- Site: http://www.allabout.cc/wiki/
- Link to GNU FDL
- Link to www.wikipedia.org
- Says that "it [the article] uses material from Wikipedia"
- No link to original article
Defunct as of 19:29, 11 February 2015 (UTC)
allegro
[edit]| URL | http://www.w2.bezkarni.pl/ |
|---|---|
| Description | |
| Sample | http://www.w2.bezkarni.pl/Jack_Kerouac.html |
| Rating | Low |
| Compliance | GFDL is included on the site. However, no credit to Wikipedia is given. Images are loaded directly from upload.wikimedia.org. |
| Contact info | |
| Actions |
Defunct as of 16 April 2020.
allexperts
[edit]| URL | http://en.allexperts.com/ |
|---|---|
| Description | |
| Sample | http://en.allexperts.com/e/s/sn/snagglepuss.htm |
| Rating | unknown |
| Compliance | GFDL is included on the site. Links to "reference article from the English Wikipedia." |
| Contact info | |
| Actions |
Defunct as of 16 April 2020: "After more than 19 years, and over two million questions answered, AllExperts.com is now closed. We apologize for any inconvenience."
Allrss.com
[edit]| URL | http://allrss.com/ |
|---|---|
| Description | |
| Sample | http://allrss.com/wikipedia.php?title=Harmonic_coordinate_condition |
| Rating | Low |
| Compliance | Using PHP script at http://www.vacilando.org/index.php?x=7065
to copy without page history, author credit, or link to article. GFDL available at site, but only on searching for "GFDL"; otherwise, no license mention on article pages. Other mirrors may exist. |
| Contact info | Peter Scott: pscontent AT gmail.com |
| Actions | none as of 20:22, 19 May 2007 (UTC)
|
As of 17 April 2020, the mirror part of the website is not online.
Allsportblog.net
[edit]| URL | http://www.allsportblog.net/ |
|---|---|
| Description | |
| Sample | http://www.allsportblog.net/detroit-red-wings-stadiumjoe-louis-arena |
| Rating | High |
| Compliance | Stadium profile pages consist entirely of content copied and pasted from Wikipedia (compare sample to diff pre-dating post date of sample URL) without any credits, and a claim of copyright. |
| Contact info | None listed |
| Actions |
|
Defunct as of 23:00, 9 February 2015 (UTC)
Alma Latina
[edit]| URL | http://www.alma-latina.net |
|---|---|
| Description | |
| Sample | http://www.alma-latina.net/MarialadelBarrio/MarialadelBarrio.shtml |
| Rating | Low/None |
| Compliance | *No mention of GFDL and of Wikipedia
|
| Contact info | info@alma-latina.net |
| Actions | None as of Dec 6 2008 |
Defunct as of 17 April 2020.
Alternative To Reality
[edit]| URL | http://www.alternative2reality.com |
|---|---|
| Description | |
| Sample | http://www.alternative2reality.com/history/CBS |
| Rating | None |
| Compliance | *No mention of GNU FDL and of Wikipedia
|
| Contact info | |
| Actions | email
|
Defunct as of 19:30, 11 February 2015 (UTC)
Amazon.com/wiki
[edit]| URL | http://www.amazon.com/wiki/Main_Page |
|---|---|
| Description | |
| Sample | |
| Rating | |
| Compliance |
|
| Contact info | |
| Actions |
Defunct as of 17 April 2020.
america.pink
[edit]| URL | http://america.pink |
|---|---|
| Description | |
| Sample | http://america.pink/midwifery-the-middle-ages_3002625.html |
| Rating | No compliance with CC-BY-SA (matches Wikipedia:CC-BY-SA Compliance) (compare against GFDL if they choose that license). |
| Compliance | Content on many pages copied verbatim from Wikipedia without any attribution. eg. from Midwifery in the Middle Ages |
| Contact info | http://america.pink/contact.html |
| Actions | Wikipedia:Standard CC-BY-SA violation letter "Letter for website that does not acknowledge Wikipedia as a source form" sent 16 February 2016. Now redirects to |
Defunct as of 17 April 2020.
andamannicobarin.com
[edit]- Site: www.andamannicobarin.com
- Example: www.andamannicobarin.com/wiki-Mormaerdom_of_Moray
- States twice: This article is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License. It uses material from Wikipedia with 2 links to GFDL at gnu.org, link to avoo.com wiki main page and link to en.Wikipedia main page
- Page ends Copyright © 2005 AndamanNicobarin.com. All rights reserved.
- No obvious link to article or history
Defunct as of 17 April 2020.
animalwebguide.com
[edit]| URL | http://animalwebguide.com |
|---|---|
| Description | |
| Sample | http://www.animalwebguide.com/Alligator.htm (compare to Alligator) |
| Rating | "None" |
| Compliance | The articles are direct copies from from en.wikipedia, but neither Wikipedia nor the GFDL are mentioned anywhere |
| Contact info | author is listed as Chuck Ayoub (chuck_ayoub AT hotmail.com ) |
| Actions |
Defunct as of 19:32, 11 February 2015 (UTC)
Annlongfineart.com
[edit]| URL | http://www.annlongfineart.com |
|---|---|
| Description | |
| Sample | http://www.annlongfineart.com/artists/magritte |
| Rating | "Low/None" compliance with GFDL |
| Compliance | No mention of GNU FDL and of Wikipedia. c 2007 ann long fine art on all pages |
| Contact info | ann AT annlongfineart.com |
| Actions | 2006 version of page taken. First letter sent. The Evil Spartan (talk) 10:34, 26 December 2007 (UTC) |
As of 17 April 2020, the reported sample is no longer online.
Anoca.org
[edit]| URL | http://www.anoca.org |
|---|---|
| Description | |
| Sample | http://www.anoca.org/information/computing/computer_science.html |
| Rating | High |
| Compliance | |
| Contact info | domains AT quigibo.com (whois), legal-response AT theplanet.com |
| Actions |
Defunct as of 17 April 2020.
Archaeologics
[edit]| URL | Archaeologics.com |
|---|---|
| Description | |
| Sample | http://www.archaeologics.com/Health-RtoZ/Syphilis.php |
| Rating | Low/None |
| Compliance | Claims copyright in our page. |
| Contact info | ARCHAEOLOGICS.COM AT domainsbyproxy.com, DBP AT domainsbyproxy.com (webmaster listed in dns), noc AT godaddy.com/abuse AT godaddy.com (isp admin) |
| Actions | sent "Letter for website that doesn't acknowledge Wikipedia as a source" to first address. 17:34, 26 September 2006 (UTC)
sent reminder letter to first address. 21:27, 9 March 2007 (UTC) Third letter sent. No change or reply. ~a (user • talk • contribs) 06:06, 25 March 2007 (UTC) NOTE - someone needs to finish the final step for this domain (the DMCA takedown notice). The reason is: this fork is very old and I am a fairly new editor so none of the material on the fork infringes on any of my copyrights. An older editor needs to look through their old (2005?) original contributions and find it on this site before a takedown notice could be sent. ~a (user • talk • contribs) 13:55, 14 May 2007 (UTC) |
Defunct as of 17 April 2020.
area51.ipupdater.com
[edit]| URL | http://area51.ipupdater.com |
|---|---|
| Description | |
| Sample | http://cedilla.area51.ipupdater.com |
| Rating | Medium-High |
| Compliance | Links to corresponding Wikipedia article, links to copy of GFDL on GNU's site. Purpose may be spammy: has Google Ads, no real content of its own |
| Contact info | admin AT area51.ipupdater.com |
| Actions | none
No response 23:01, 20 September 2007 (UTC)
|
Defunct as of 19:33, 11 February 2015 (UTC)
Arizona Gardens
[edit]| URL | http://www.arizonagardens.org |
|---|---|
| Description | |
| Sample | http://www.arizonagardens.org/Grapefruit |
| Rating | "High", compliance with GFDL (matches Wikipedia:GFDL Compliance). |
| Compliance | Uses articles from wikipedia, provides links back to Wikipedia in each article. Site is licensed GFDL 1.2. |
| Contact info | sherman.boyd AT gmail.com |
| Actions | I actually run the site, and I'm adding this Mirror entry. If my site doesn't comply notify me and will strive to reach the highest standard of compliance. |
Defunct as of 19:35, 11 February 2015 (UTC)
Arkansas Encyclopedia
[edit]- Site: Arkansas Encyclopedia
- I didn't see this listed anywhere. It strikes me as very odd. I initially came accross this through a Google hit that led me to this http://lakewoodrepublicans.8m.com/michigan.html. They do state that the text content is GFDL ("All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License."), but there is no link to the license and no link back to Wikipedia and no history. What is really odd though, is that it looks as though the content is actually spread across various domains. For example this entry on Germany: http://beerot.itgo.com/germany.html (which does not even mention GFDL anywhere). Or the "main" page: http://www.geocities.com/arkencyclo/. Seems like every click is a different domain. Bkonrad | Talk 14:14, 13 Mar 2004 (UTC)
- The pictures of the article Michigan are not hosted by them but directly form Wikipedia. That is not a nice thing to do. Walter 09:11, 15 Apr 2004 (UTC)
- I just examined this site and they're no longer stealing bandwidth, and are now linking the article. I'd move them to high degree. Derrick Coetzee 13:03, 19 Oct 2004 (UTC)
- Each article links to the GFDL on www.gnu.org, and to the corresponding article on Wikipedia.
- All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.
- Source: Original text from the article in Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia: <article name>.
- In my book, that puts them at least into medium compliance, which is where I will move them. -Rholton 05:17, 28 Nov 2004 (UTC)
- Not functioning as described in examples 23:04, 20 September 2007 (UTC)
Defunct as of 19:34, 11 February 2015 (UTC)
ArsenalHQ
[edit]| URL | http://www.arsenalhq.com/ |
|---|---|
| Description | |
| Sample | http://www.arsenalhq.com/history.php |
| Rating | None |
| Compliance | Direct copy of History of Arsenal F.C. (specifically, this version) but marked "All Rights Reserved". No credit to Wikipedia. |
| Contact info | Details available here. |
| Actions | Violation letter sent. Qwghlm
|
Defunct as of 19:36, 11 February 2015 (UTC)
ArticleHead.com
[edit]- Site: ArticleHead.com
- Very recent, apparently almost complete mirror, utilising categories. No mention of Wikipedia, no mention of GFDL, claiming their own copyright. I've sent a first warning notice. --195.11.216.59 13:50, 6 Sep 2004 (UTC)
- I see GFDL and backlinks at the bottom of every article page; either you didn't see them (because they don't appear on the category pages?) or your warning was instantly effective. ←Hob 17:36, 2004 Sep 6 (UTC)
- The latter - I received the following email:
- "Thanks for keeping me informed of my obligations. The following changes have been made:
- a) on article pages, the note information at the bottom of the page is automatically expanded.
- b) on article pages, the footer information at the bottom of the page has been changed from
- "Articles and category structure on this site have been graciously provided by Wikipedia. Please consider donating to their cause."
- TO
- "This article is licensed under the [linked] GNU Free Documentation License. It uses material from Wikipedia: [linked] Wiki entry."
- If only all of our mirrors were so ready to meet their legal obligations. --195.11.216.59 21:54, 6 Sep 2004 (UTC)
- Moved to High although i would like them to have a link on the front page to wikipedia and GFDL --Davelane 22:40, 17 Sep 2004 (UTC)
- It appears, as of March 2005, to have reverted to non-compliance. Burgundavia 20:49, Mar 24, 2005 (UTC)
- On further inspection, they hide the notice. You can view through clicking Notice+. I am moving to medium.
- How can this be even considered medium compliance? I clicked on the Notice+, and get this:
- It appears, as of March 2005, to have reverted to non-compliance. Burgundavia 20:49, Mar 24, 2005 (UTC)
- This article is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License. It uses material from Wikipedia: Wiki entry.
- When I click on Wiki entry I get http://www.articleshead.com/#, and not a link back to the original article. When I click on the GNU FDL link I get the page from http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/fdl.html . But there is no mention of the GFDL or the correct copyright notice unless I click on Notice+, surely this is non-compliance? -Wikibob | Talk 17:48, 2005 May 22 (UTC)
- Looks dead Rumping 23:08, 20 September 2007 (UTC)
Arts and Design Info
[edit]| URL | http://www.arts-design-info.com/ |
|---|---|
| Description | |
| Sample | http://www.arts-design-info.com/data/Digital_art.html (from Digital Art) |
| Rating | |
| Compliance | Mentions GNU FDL license and links to a local copy of it. Acknowledges Wikipedia authorship. No link to original article |
| Contact info | |
| Actions |
No response 23:14, 20 September 2007 (UTC) Defunct as of 19:38, 11 February 2015 (UTC)
Asia Information 01
[edit]- Site: Asia Information 01
- Mentions GNU FDL license and links to a local copy of it
- Acknowledges Wikipedia authorship.
- No link to original article
- Offline since Nov. 2005 [5]
Defunct as of 19:39, 11 February 2015 (UTC)
ask.dyndyns.dk
[edit]- Sample article: http://article.ask.dyndns.dk/
- Acknowledges Wikipedia as source, says content is GFDL.
- Links back to corresponding WP page and to FDL on GNU site.
- Main page seems to be http://ask.dyndns.dk/ which offers search of local content.
- Contains a list at the bottom of every article of (computer-generated) misspellings of the title, each one of which links to a subpage identical to the parent (which contains the copy of the article, of course), probably in order to rank high on Google searches.
- Does not handle the interwiki or category links properly, which causes a load of rubbish to appear at the end of every article (apart from the aforementioned list of misspellings) - see, for example, http://richard-stallman.ask.dyndns.dk/. --Fibonacci 05:07, 2 December 2005 (UTC)
- Now redirects to empty web directory --Rumping 09:22, 21 September 2007 (UTC)
Defunct as of 19:40, 11 February 2015 (UTC)
AskFactMaster
[edit]| URL | http://askfactmaster.com/enc-en/ |
|---|---|
| Description | |
| Sample | http://askfactmaster.com/?title=United%20States |
| Rating | Medium |
| Compliance | There is a text notice saying "This article is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License. It uses material from the Wikipedia article" (the actual name of the article does not appear). There is no link to the original article or the GFDL and they do not include the history section. All instances of Wikipedia are changed to AskFactMaster.com (e.g. http://askfactmaster.com/?title=Wikipedia) but there is no history section entry for this change.
|
| Contact info | support AT lukol.com, abuse AT sagonet.com (host) |
| Actions |
|
Defunct as of 19:42, 11 February 2015 (UTC)
AskMyTutor
[edit]| URL | http://www.askmytutor.co.uk/ |
|---|---|
| Description | |
| Sample | http://www.askmytutor.co.uk/o/op/optimization__mathematics_.html from our Feb 5, 2004 revision |
| Rating | Low/None |
| Compliance | No mention of Wikipedia or the GFDL. Probably static dump from February, 2004. |
| Contact info | John Swindells (from whois with no accompanying address), http://www.beamhost.co.uk/dev/contact-cs.php (host form) |
| Actions |
|
AssistiveTechnology.cc
[edit]| URL | http://www.assistivetechnology.cc/ |
|---|---|
| Description | |
| Sample | http://www.assistivetechnology.cc/wiki/1992 |
| Rating | |
| Compliance | Live mirror of Wikipedia, includes copyright notice |
| Contact info | |
| Actions | None |
Defunct as of 19:44, 11 February 2015 (UTC)
Atlas Words
[edit]- Site: http://www.atlaswords.com
Defunct as of 19:44, 11 February 2015 (UTC)
Avapedia
[edit]| URL | http://atla.wikispaces.com/ |
|---|---|
| Description | |
| Sample | http://atla.wikispaces.com/Aang, http://atla.wikispaces.com/Zuko, http://atla.wikispaces.com/Azula |
| Rating | Undetermined |
| Compliance | Site links back to specific Wikipedia articles in a few cases, but most Wikipedia links are generic, and all together absent in some articles. Notice appears licensing all contributed content under GFDL, with link to http://www.gnu.org/licenses/fdl.html#TOC1. |
| Contact info | help AT wikispaces.com (for the hosting site, only email I could find) |
| Actions | None as of yet. |
Defunct as of 19:45, 11 February 2015 (UTC)
avoo.com
[edit]- Site: www.avoo.com
- Example: www.avoo.com/wiki/Mormaerdom_of_Moray
- States: This article is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License. It uses material from Wikipedia with link to GFDL at gnu.org and link to en.Wikipedia main page
- Page ends © 2007 www.avoo.com. All rights reserved.
- No obvious link to article or history
azplayers.com
[edit]| URL | http://www.azplayers.com |
|---|---|
| Description | |
| Sample | http://www.waynerooney.azplayers.com/wayne-rooney-biography.html is the intro of our bio of Wayne Rooney |
| Rating | Medium |
| Compliance | Links back to Wikipedia source articles, no mention of GFDL, claims "Copyright © 2006. All rights reserved. by AzPlayers.com", using bios of various footballers. Seems cooperative, hopefully should get to full compliance soon. |
| Contact info | email address office AT azplayers.com is shown. whois says domain is registered to Nicolae Adrian Chirica, email nachirica AT gmail.com, phone +40.744992325, post Sos. Barajului nr.22 bl.1 sc.D et.3 ap.13, Tulcea, 820222, RO. Hosted on IP address 66.118.138.197, whois says this is Sago Networks, reverse DNS says delta.fastbighost.com |
| Actions |
|
Defunct as of 19:47, 11 February 2015 (UTC)
BambooWeb Dictionary
[edit]- Site: http://www.bambooweb.com/
- At the bottom of every article page is a link to the Wikipedia article and a notice that says it is from wikipedia and under the GFDL.
Defunct as of 19:51, 11 February 2015 (UTC)
Banglavasha
[edit]| URL | http://www.banglavasha.com |
|---|---|
| Description | |
| Sample | http://www.banglavasha.com/image_gallery.php?action=browse&spot_id=148 |
| Rating | None |
| Compliance | Copies certain articles about locations in Bangladesh without any attribution whatsoever. |
| Contact info | ? |
| Actions | None yet. |
Defunct as of 19:54, 11 February 2015 (UTC)
Base Science 24
[edit]- Site: http://www.base.science24.org/
- Example:[6] from Albania
- Article ends with "Albania provided by Science 24 Base; Our source is Wikipedia. Albania - licensed under GNU Free Documentation License 1.2"
- No link to Wikipedia or original article
- No link to GFDL
- As of 00:21, 14 December 2005 (UTC) --Henrygb
- Seems to have changed to en.science24.org:
- Albania example now [7]
- Page ends with "This page is a mirror of Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia All the content is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License 1.2. Trec Nurkowanie implanty kredyt got�wkowy casinos online" with links to Wikipedia and to GFDL at gnu.org
- Internal and external links are invisible (apart from Google ads)
- As of 01:33, 26 January 2007 (UTC) --Henrygb
- Seems to have disappeared --Rumping 14:03, 23 September 2007 (UTC)
Basic Famous People
[edit]| URL | http://www.basicfamouspeople.com/ and http://www.basiccelebrations.com/ |
|---|---|
| Description | |
| Sample | http://www.basicfamouspeople.com/index.php?aid=899 and http://www.basiccelebrations.com/ |
| Rating | Low/None |
| Compliance | No mention of Wikipedia or the GFDL on either. Basic Famous People says both "It is believed that all material on this web site is in the public domain." and "Basic Famous People Copyright © 2004 - 2006 By Steven J. Hayes. All rights reserved. " Both are completely wrong. The Famous People site modifies the articles, removing external links and references and changing formatting. Basic Famous People copies biographical articles. Basic Celebrations copies our date pages (such as February 25). It has only a copyright notice. |
| Contact info | sjhayes2 AT verizon.net (whois), abuse AT godaddy.com (host and registrar) |
| Actions | Sent standard violation letter to whois address and address given on site. Superm401 - Talk 19:43, 25 February 2006 (UTC)
|
Defunct as of 19:55, 11 February 2015 (UTC)
behindthefridge.com
[edit]- Site: behindthefridge.com
- Have large excerpts of Wikipedia content.
- Mentions Wikipedia and GFDL.
- No links at all, no links to the original article.
- Has "© THIS PAGE ON American Expatriates, COPYRIGHT 2004 ALL RIGHTS RESERVED" on it.
- As of 12:55, 15 January 2006 (UTC)
Bing
[edit]| URL | http://www.bing.com/reference/ |
|---|---|
| Description | |
| Sample | http://www.bing.com/reference/semhtml/The_39_Clues |
| Rating | "High" |
| Compliance | |
| Contact info | |
| Actions |
Defunct as of 17:46, 11 June 2019 (UTC)
Biography.ms
[edit]| URL | http://www.biography.ms/ |
|---|---|
| Description | |
| Sample | http://marie-curie.biography.ms/ |
| Rating | Low |
| Compliance | Without images, no mention of Wikipedia or the GFDL. With images, there is a single rectangular image with text "The wikipedia content included on this page is licensed under the GFDL." The entire image is a link (redirected) to the original article. There is no link to the GFDL. Even if there were a link to the GFDL (which must be "reproduced" somehow), using an image is a violation because text-only users (like Lynx) are shown the page but not the mandatory GFDL notice (Section #2). Contains all Wikipedia articles (though only biographies are indexed) and other materials. Mirrroring is badly done and not all wikitext is processed. Includes advertising. |
| Contact info | webmaster AT unitio.com, registro AT unitio.com, nq7fa8d84dk AT networksolutionsprivateregistration.com, https://www.networksolutions.com/help/domain-service-request.jhtml (registrar and nameserver contact form), abuse AT iberbanda.es (host) |
| Actions |
|
- Not responding --Rumping 16:37, 23 September 2007 (UTC)
- Archived. The Evil Spartan (talk) 11:05, 26 December 2007 (UTC)
bird-center.net
[edit]- Site: www.bird-center.net
- Example: http://www.bird-center.net/articles/Main_Page
- Link to local copy of the GFDL (As of JesseW 20:34, 11 August 2005 (UTC))
- Link to original Wikipedia article (As of JesseW 20:34, 11 August 2005 (UTC))
- State that content is under the GFDL (As of JesseW 20:34, 11 August 2005 (UTC))
- State that content is from Wikipedia. (As of JesseW 20:34, 11 August 2005 (UTC))
- Seems to be HIGH compliance, as far as I can see. Will someone move them to that list, please? JesseW 20:34, 11 August 2005 (UTC)
blogopt.com
[edit]| URL | http://dic.blogopt.com/ |
|---|---|
| Description | |
| Sample | http://dic.blogopt.com/Winston_County%2C_Alabama |
| Rating | None |
| Compliance |
|
| Contact info | alfredo_fetuccini AT blogopt.com (admin), legal AT nlayer.net (ISP) |
| Actions |
|
book-spot.co.uk
[edit]| URL | http://www.book-spot.co.uk |
|---|---|
| Description | |
| Sample | http://www.book-spot.co.uk/index.php/Book_of_Exodus |
| Rating | |
| Compliance | Now inaccessible. A strange site that is apparently running Mediawiki, as pages are editable, although there is no edit button on the site. It has no contact info, but does list wikipedia and the GFDL, with links, at the bottom. Odd. JesseW 10:18, 20 Nov 2004 (UTC) |
| Contact info | |
| Actions |
Brujula.net
[edit]| URL | http://www.brujula.net/english/wiki/Main_Page.html |
|---|---|
| Description | |
| Sample | http://www.brujula.net/english/wiki/Bank_of_China_%28Hong_Kong%29.html |
| Rating | High |
| Compliance | |
| Contact info | jaime AT wifi.com.ar (whois), http://www.globalgate.com.ar/contenido/eng/20contacto.htm (host/ISP contact form) |
| Actions |
|
cassiopedia.org
[edit]| URL | www.cassiopedia.org |
|---|---|
| Description | |
| Sample | http://www.cassiopedia.org/wiki/index.php?title=Manchester_City_F.C. — see how this page (created on 09/2006) compares with the wikipedia version of the page on the same date: [8] |
| Rating | "Low/None" |
| Compliance | Site has now removed all Wikipedia content and references to the project.The site appears to be essentially a wikipedia fork, but claims that "This site is NOT affiliated in any way with Wikipedia or any of its sister sites" at [9]. Mentions GFDL but has the audacity to assert (e.g., in the sample link above) that "An uncorrected copy of this article might be available at wiki.riteme.site/wiki/Manchester_City_F.C.", implying that cassiopedia.org is the originator of the content rather than the other way around. The edit history of most of their articles mirrors only the most recent edit in the history of the Wikipedia article at the time of capture, (usually September 2006). In the example above the edit histories of both the Wikipedia article and the Cassiopedia article show AntiVandalBot as the contributor of the article version (including identical edit summaries). They further have the audacity on their copied copyright problems page to assert that their designated agent is Jimmy Wales!
They also appear to be modifying the pages to substitute "Wikipedia" with their encyclopedia: http://www.cassiopedia.org/wiki/index.php?title=Wikipedia http://www.cassiopedia.org/wiki/index.php?title=Jimmy_Wales The site currently collecting donations: http://www.cassiopedia.org/wiki/index.php?title=Cassiopedia:Fundraising |
| Contact info | editors AT cassiopedia.org |
| Actions | First email sent on 20 April, 2008.
Second email sent on 27 April, 2008 after receiving no response. |
catalogofcasinos.com
[edit]| URL | http://www.catalogofcasinos.com/ |
|---|---|
| Description | |
| Sample | http://www.catalogofcasinos.com/Hurricane_Katrina.html |
| Rating | None |
| Compliance | Site is now inaccessible, as DNS has been blocked. No mention of Wikipedia or the GFDL. Complete mirror of all namespaces, despite name. Uses remote loading, serves Wikimedia versions of images (bandwith stealing), and does not link to image pages (violating attribution requirements of many image licenses). |
| Contact info | slijim AT gmail.com (whois), vitali AT esthost.com (DNS), alex AT pilosoft.com (host) |
| Actions |
|
Chess and beyond
[edit]| URL | http://www.chessandbeyond.com |
|---|---|
| Description | |
| Sample | http://www.chessandbeyond.com/the_club/stratigies_openings.htm |
| Rating | Low |
| Compliance | No longer accessible. No mention of Wikipedia or the GFDL. Claims to own copyright. |
| Contact info | mhollist AT cox.net, Support AT hiteknet.com (host) |
| Actions | Standard letter sent by Arvindn 15 Nov 2003. |
Clan MacNicol
[edit]| URL | http://clanmacnicolutah.com/aboutus.aspx |
|---|---|
| Description | |
| Sample | URL |
| Rating | "Low/None" |
| Compliance | Blatantly copies material from Clan MacNeacail, to the extent that linked words and images link back to WP. Additionally, the page is marked All rights reserved...Western States Clan MacNicol |
| Contact info | There's a contact form on the site's home page. |
| Actions | None so far. |
Defunct as of 22:31, 30 June 2017 (UTC)
creotec.com
[edit]| URL | http://www.creotec.com/index.php?title=ebusiness&page=ebusiness_solution |
|---|---|
| Description | |
| Sample | http://www.creotec.com/index.php?page=ebusiness_solution&title=homeopathy |
| Rating | Low |
| Compliance | Appears to contain allnamespaces and appear live (see [10]). No mention of GFDL but does claim to be Syndicating from Wikipedia with a link back to wikipedia but not to any of the articles in question. |
| Contact info | |
| Actions |
csf.colorado.edu
[edit]- Site: csf.colorado.edu
- seems to be dead Davelane 23:16, 14 Sep 2004 (UTC)
- Moved from main page
- confirmed site dead. -Rholton 16:54, 3 Dec 2004 (UTC)
- still dead. Superm401 | Talk 01:20, 6 November 2005 (UTC)
- still dead. ℬastique▼parℓer♥voir♑ 02:46, 12 April 2006 (UTC)
- still dead. 1ne 17:11, 18 September 2006 (UTC)
CustomerServiceCareers.com
[edit]| URL | http://www.CustomerServiceCareers.com |
|---|---|
| Description | |
| Sample | http://customerservicecareers.com/wiki6/y/Yugur.asp |
| Rating | Low |
| Compliance | No longer seems to include Wikiepdia articles; redirects to main page. Uses Wikipedia content. Gives credit to Wikipedia, including a confusing link back to the site (but not to the article). The word "Wikipedia" actually links to www.free-definition.com/Wikipedia.html. They also have an incorrect copyright statement. They seem to be at least trying, but it needs some major improvment. |
| Contact info | http://www.customerservicecareers.com/feedback.asp (contact form), admin AT customerservicecareers.com (whois) |
| Actions | I sent them a friendly e-mail. -Rholton 05:28, 2005 Feb 18 (UTC) |
definition-info.com
[edit]| URL | http://www.definition-info.com |
|---|---|
| Description | |
| Sample | http://www.definition-info.com/Parthenon.html |
| Rating | Low |
| Compliance | Mention of GFDL, but only on front page. No copyright statement, history section, or link to any Wikipedia page. Appears to be a copy of entire English Wikipedia. |
| Contact info | abuse AT serverkompetenz.de (host) |
| Actions | Sent standard violation letter to millioner AT t-online.de , but it bounced. Superm401 - Talk 01:52, 27 February 2006 (UTC) |
DefinitionCenter.com
[edit]| URL | http://www.definitioncenter.com/ |
|---|---|
| Description | |
| Sample | http://www.definitioncenter.com/def/parthenon |
| Rating | Low/None |
| Compliance | Uses first paragraph only. Falsely claims copyright. GFDL is not mentioned at all. No mention of Wikipedia or link to original article. Because it is a modified version, it must follow more rigorous requirements. No "History" section. Does not perserve network location of original. Superm401 - Talk 15:56, 19 January 2006 (UTC) |
| Contact info | jessica AT interactivegroupinc.net (whois admin), lgoffi AT hotmail.com (whois tech), abuse AT sagonet.com (host) |
| Actions |
|
- now appears to be a domain parking site without wikipedia content --Rumping 13:26, 25 September 2007 (UTC)
dellpda.info
[edit]| URL | http://*.dellpda.info/ |
|---|---|
| Description | |
| Sample | http://copyleft.en.dellpda.info |
| Rating | Low |
| Compliance | Now mentions GFDL and Wikipedia, but does not link to article. Links to GFDL on gnu.org. Pure search-engine spam. |
| Contact info | |
| Actions |
- Give "page unavailable" --Rumping 13:27, 25 September 2007 (UTC)
didgeridooman.com
[edit]| URL | http://www.didgeridooman.com |
|---|---|
| Description | |
| Sample | http://www.didgeridooman.com/267297_elaine-cunningham_111796163xdarkjourneynewjediorder10booksonsale.html |
| Rating | Medium |
| Compliance | Mentions and links to GFDL, but also claims "All Rights Reserved". Backlinks to the article, history, and edit this page, but doesn't actually mention Wikipedia. None of these links are visible except on mouseover. |
| Contact info | Cannot find contact information. |
| Actions | none taken |
- Example leads to domain parking site without Wikipedia content--Rumping (talk) 23:42, 26 June 2008 (UTC)
DigiMelon.COM
[edit]| URL | http://www.digimelon.com/Main_Page/index.html |
|---|---|
| Description | |
| Sample | http://www.digimelon.com/Cosmos_1/index.html |
| Rating | Low |
| Compliance | No mention of the GFDL whatsoever. Pages say "From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia." |
| Contact info | sirek AT biznespoczta.pl (admin; invalid email), abuse AT ev1.net (ISP) |
| Actions | Standard violation letter sent. Email address is invalid. -- WB 03:59, 13 February 2006 (UTC) |
DuranDuranFans.com
[edit]- Site: DuranDuranFans.com
- Non-commercial fansite, uses articles on Duran Duran and its five members - see Duran Duran
- Removed "From Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia"
- Links removed, lightly edited
- Pictures added -- looks like professional promo pics, probably copyrighted
- Footer provides links to current articles and contains link to gnu.org copy of GFDL
- "This biography is licensed under the [Free Documentation License]. It uses material from the Wikipedia article "Duran Duran." "
- Example fails. Rest of site looks like a message board--Rumping (talk) 23:49, 26 June 2008 (UTC)
Dutch wiki freeler
[edit]- Site: http://static.machine.freeler.nl/cgi-bin/wiki.pl
- Mentions the dutch wiki and freeler are partners
- No link from freelerhomepage, so not yet in production
- They (as yet) have not yet contacted the dutch wiki
- They have a simple perl script directly querying the wiki servers, it is NO MIRROR. They are using wiki bandwidth, cpu and memory.
- With the complete database of course also comes the GNU/FDL.
- site unreachable on morning fr Jan 9, possibly in reaction to discussions on dutch wikitech.
- Appears to be gone now. [ alerante 02:16, 11 Mar 2004 (UTC) ]
Egenas Encyclopedia
[edit]- Site: Egenas Encyclopedia
- Example page: Hypnosis
- States, "From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License".
- Links to Wikipedia's GNU license
Electric Fence Australia
[edit]| URL | http://www.electricfenceaustralia.com.au/electric_fencing_tips.html/ |
|---|---|
| Description | |
| Sample | http://www.electricfenceaustralia.com.au/electric_fencing_tips.html |
| Rating | None |
| Compliance | A straight copy of Electric fence. Claims 'All Rights Reserved © Braithwaite'. |
| Contact info | mail AT electricfenceaustralia.com.au |
| Actions | Sending a standard GFDL violation letter. Littleteddy (talk) 11:49, 14 December 2007 (UTC) |
- Example not found --Rumping (talk) 22:30, 27 June 2008 (UTC)
Elexi.de
[edit]- Site: Elexi.de
- Example mathematics
- States that the article is from Wikipedia.
- Links to GFDL.
- The problem is that even the articles from English Wikipedia are explained as taken from de.wikipedia, and link back goes to de.wikipedia's URL, and its accompanying history page.
- Confirm status (I guess). We probably need the help of someone who can read/write the language. -Rholton 23:10, 3 Dec 2004 (UTC)
- This site is deep-linking images. [11]
![[11]](http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://wiki.riteme.site/upload/4/42/Mtr-map.png&imgrefurl=http://www.elexi.de/en/m/mt/mtr.html&h=597&w=1123&sz=119&tbnid=qidWjVrl1uQJ:&tbnh=79&tbnw=150&hl=en&start=15&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dpng%2Bsite:wikipedia.org%26imgsz%3Dxxlarge%26svnum%3D100%26hl%3Den%26lr%3D%26newwindow%3D1%26safe%3Doff%26sa%3DG){kind=link}
Vacuum c 03:29, August 29, 2005 (UTC)
ElResearch
[edit]- Site: ElResearch
- Sample article: Quadratic - http://www.elresearch.com/wiki/Quadratic
Links to local copy of GNU FDL.Says, "This content from Wikipedia is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License."Links to Wikipedia- Complete copy without any mentions of GFDL. No links to the original article. Small thing at the top says "Wikipedia Entry," besides that, nothing.
- As of 08:36, 15 January 2006 (UTC)
- Invalid e-mail contact. Time to move on to the ISP. -- WB 08:38, 15 January 2006 (UTC)
emeagwali.com
[edit]- Site: emeagwali.com
- Example page: [12]
- No mention of Wikipedia
- No mention of the GFDL
- Site mentions its own copyright, no others
encyclopaedic.net
[edit]Archived because site doesn't seem to be using English content anymore. I notified the other languages. Superm401 - Talk 06:50, 12 January 2007 (UTC)
- Site: http://www.encyclopaedic.net
- Example page: http://encyclopaedic.net/portug/pi/pierre_joseph_phroudhon.html
- Has a metion of GFDL and Wikipedia at the bottom of the article pages, for each language:
- Examples:
- If the article is from WP:PT
- Fonte deste artigo: Wikipedia. Os textos estao disponíveis sob os termos da GNU Free Documentation License.
- If the article is from WP:EN
- This article is from Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia. All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.
- Examples:
- Also has a link to the article on wikipedia, at the top, before the start of the content.
- License page: http://encyclopaedic.net/english/license.html
- GNU Free Documentation License
- Version 1.2, November 2002
- Copyright (C) 2000,2001,2002 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
- 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307 USA
- Everyone is permitted to copy and distribute verbatim copie of this license document, but changing it is not allowed. [13]
- -- Get It 18:22, 3 Apr 2005 (UTC)
engine.blogsome.com
[edit]| URL | http://engine.blogsome.com/ |
|---|---|
| Description | |
| Sample | http://engine.blogsome.com/2006/10/05/ from Austin A-Series engine |
| Rating | None |
| Compliance | Doesn't credit Wikipedia anywhere. Doesn't mention the GFDL. Doesn't link back to Wikipedia. |
| Contact info | legal AT blogsome.com / Hosted by blogsome.com |
| Actions | Sent a polite message suggesting they either take down the content or comply with GDFL. |
SteveBaker 05:04, 3 November 2006 (UTC)
- now removed by Blogsome admins
English-football
[edit]| URL | http://www.english-football.org.uk |
|---|---|
| Description | |
| Sample | http://www.english-football.org.uk/owners-chairmen/bill-kenwright |
| Rating | Medium |
| Compliance | Has weak notice "This article may use some material from the Wikipedia article "<ARTICLE>".
All Wikipedia content is licenced under the GNU Free Documentation License." It links to the original article and an offsite GFDL. |
| Contact info | No contact details on site, WHOIS gives registrar name and postal address only:
1 Grange Cottage
Pinwall
Atherstone
CV9 2EN
United Kingdom
|
| Actions | 11 April 2006 - Standard letter mailed to postal address given by WHOIS. |
- Example has no substantial content --Rumping (talk) 22:34, 27 June 2008 (UTC)
Enlightenweb
[edit]- Site: Enlightenweb
- Example: Astronomy
- Javascript links to original Wikipedia article
- Javascript links to Wikipedia copy of GFDL
- Javascript links to Wikipedia.
- Unhelpfully turns up in "-wikipedia" searches
- but also provides a link from each page to a dynamic HTML page (www.websitings.com/enlighten-html.cfm) which provides HTML source code with HTML links designed for copying by third parties
Enquirerworld
[edit]| URL | http://www.enquirerworld.com/ |
|---|---|
| Description | |
| Sample | http://www.enquirerworld.com/standards/tai.html from International Atomic Time, http://www.enquirerworld.com/calendars/gregorian.html from Gregorian calendar, http://www.enquirerworld.com/zones.html from Time zone |
| Rating | Low |
| Compliance | Doesn't credit Wikipedia anywhere. Doesn't mention the GFDL. Doesn't link back to Wikipedia. Every page says "© enquirerworld.com. All Rights Reserved" |
| Contact info | E-mail from domain registration: ENQUIRERWORLD.COM AT domainsbyproxy.com (proxy), abuse AT godaddy.com (host) |
| Actions | Sent standard violation letter to ENQUIRERWORLD.COM AT domainsbyproxy.com . Superm401 - Talk 02:38, 13 January 2007 (UTC) |
- No substantial content at examples; site is domain parked --Rumping (talk) 22:38, 27 June 2008 (UTC)
EssayCrawler.com
[edit]Says essays are no longer being hosted on that site [14]
- Site: EssayCrawler.com
- Advertises as "free essays for students" (sounds like plagiarism)
- No link to Wikipedia main page
- No link to original article
- No mention of GFDL
- Claims "© 2000-2004 essaycrawler.com" at the bottom of each page
- Example: Parthenon from Parthenon.
eurofreehost.com
[edit]- Site: eurofreehost.com
- plus they do some dirtyness to boost their google rating. Kim Bruning 14:27, 4 Sep 2004 (UTC)
- Mentions GFDL (with no link). Does not mention Wikipedia. - Evil saltine 09:37, 13 Sep 2004 (UTC)
Below moved from main page... Davelane 21:39, 17 Sep 2004 (UTC)
The site http://www.eurofreehost.com/ appears to be a mirror of Wikipedia; each page claims to be under the GFDL but I found no link to Wikipedia on either a random article (http://www.eurofreehost.com/co/Compulsator.html) or the main page. Also, no Wiki source seems to be available, specifically violating the intent of the GFDL as I see it. Finally, the pages have no link to the text of the GFDL. I've sent a more-or-less standard complaint letter (although I didn't claim to be delighted to see another out-of-date broken mirror of Wikipedia) but it was taken before I made any major contributions, so if someone with more seniority would like to take over, that'd be great. Andrew 04:00, 18 Aug 2004 (UTC) (Update: mail to webmaster AT www.eurofreehost.com bounced; I'll leave this for now, awaiting comment from others. Andrew 04:08, 18 Aug 2004 (UTC))
That site now has the standard disclaimer (as at http://wiki.riteme.site/wiki/Wikipedia:Copyrights#Example_notice)
Confirmed. High compliance. -Rholton 03:20, 4 Dec 2004 (UTC)
ExplainPlease.com
[edit]| URL | http://www.explainplease.com |
|---|---|
| Description | |
| Sample | http://www.explainplease.com/call-center.htm from Call center |
| Rating | Medium |
| Compliance | External links section have been removed in articles. Titles of some pages have been changed (Oracle:Oracle database, Linux:GNU). Directory part of site using Wikipedia articles. Has notice with mention of Wikipedia and GFDL. Links to local GFDL and Wikipedia main page; no direct article link. |
| Contact info | hoteldealeo AT yahoo.com, contactprivacy.com |
| Actions | *Standard letter sent by mav 10:34, 4 Jan 2004 (UTC)
I upgraded the status and sent a reply that the only outstanding item is the direct article linkbacks. --mav 22:05, 28 Mar 2004 (UTC) |
exsudo.com - Konwledge Base
[edit]| URL | http://exsudo.com |
|---|---|
| Description | |
| Sample | http://suny.exsudo.com/ |
| Rating | High |
| Compliance | Was almost complete mirror of English Wikipedia. Linked to original article. Linked to local copy of the GNU/FDL. Did not link to wikipedia main page. |
| Contact info | |
| Actions |
exsudo.de - Wissen und mehr
[edit]- Site: exsudo.de - Wissen und mehr
- indicates Wikipedia as source
- links to original article
- links to local copy of the GNU/FDL
- links to german wikipedia main page
- links to article edit page
- links to article history
- license text in German now
exsudo.dk - Konwledge Base
[edit]- Site: exsudo.dk - Konwledge Base
- almost complete mirror of Danish Wikipedia
- links to original article
- links to local copy of the GNU/FDL
- does not link to wikipedia main page
- license text in English, not Danish... not sure if this is in agreement on GNU/FDL?
exsudo.se - Konwledge Base
[edit]- Site: exsudo.se - Konwledge Base
- almost complete mirror of Swedish Wikipedia
- links to original article
- links to local copy of the GNU/FDL
- does not link to wikipedia main page
- license text in English, not Swedish... not sure if this is in agreement on GNU/FDL?
ezorange.com
[edit]- Site: www.ezorange.com
- Example: http://www.ezorange.com/articles/Sony_HiFD
More research requested
fablis
[edit]| URL | http://encyclopedia.fablis.com |
|---|---|
| Description | |
| Sample | http://encyclopedia.fablis.com/index.php/Photography |
| Rating | |
| Compliance | Was an exact copy of the English Wikipedia, including Main Page. No longer accessible. Should be monitored occasionally. |
| Contact info | customerservice AT starlodging.com (Fablis.com) |
| Actions |
Factdex - the fact index
[edit]- Mainpages: Has two: a coverpage at http://factdex.com/ with links to Wiki articles with conventional main page at http://factdex.com/Main_Page
- Example: http://factdex.com/Australia - Australia
- Software: A wiki using Wikimedia software
- Content: Data dump from late August, 2004
- Linkback: None
- References to Wikipedia remain in place (not changed to Factdex).
FactSite.co.uk
[edit]- Site: FactSite.co.uk
- Content: static copies of en: (Sept 2004) and cy: (March 2005) Wikipedia
- Linkback: each article links back to current version on wikipedia.org
famous.tc
[edit]- Site: www.famous.tc
- Uses Wikipedia articles. Seems to have the lot (though their index only shows a small selection biographical articles).
- No mention of GFDL
- No mention of Wikipedia, though they don't seem to specifically filter it out of articles (see [15] from Main Page). Wikipedia namespace articles are redirected back here.
- Examples: [16] from Louisa May Alcott, [17] from United States Department of State (complete with broken interwiki links at the bottom).
flyfloss.com
[edit]| URL | http://www.flyfloss.com |
|---|---|
| Description | |
| Sample | http://www.flyfloss.com/pages10/95/wall-lamps.html |
| Rating | Low |
| Compliance |
|
| Contact info |
|
| Actions | Shut down mostly, the main page redirects. Watch for a while though. -- WB 07:33, 23 January 2006 (UTC) |
Free definition
[edit]- Site: www.free-definition.com
- Example: http://www.free-definition.com/Baie-des-Chaleurs.html
- Links to original Wikipedia article
- Links to original article history
- Links to GFDL in each article (to gnu.org site)
- Mentions wikipedia in each article
- Says "based on Wikipedia" on the "info" page.
golf-corner.net
[edit]| URL | http://www.golf-corner.net/articles/ |
|---|---|
| Description | |
| Sample | http://www.golf-corner.net/articles/Cape_Horn |
| Rating | |
| Compliance | |
| Contact info | |
| Actions |
information.static.net
[edit]| URL | information.static.net |
|---|---|
| Description | |
| Sample | information.static.net/insulated-panel.html |
| Rating | Low |
| Compliance |
|
| Contact info | |
| Actions | DNS admins contacted. No longer connects to that IP address. IP still remains
however. -- WB 00:24, 20 January 2006 (UTC) |
information.ysdn.net
[edit]| URL | information.ysdn.net |
|---|---|
| Description | |
| Sample | information.static.net/insulated-panel.html |
| Rating | Low |
| Compliance |
|
| Contact info | the same owner as above. |
| Actions | DNS admins contacted. No longer connects to that IP address. IP still remains however. -- WB 00:24, 20 January 2006 (UTC) |
Intelipedia
[edit]| URL | http://www.intelipedia.com |
|---|---|
| Description | |
| Sample | |
| Rating | Medium |
| Compliance |
|
| Contact info | |
| Actions | Domain expired -- WB 03:33, 19 January 2006 (UTC) |
Lex-24.de
[edit]| URL | http://www.lex-24.de |
|---|---|
| Description | |
| Sample | http://www.lex-24.de/es/Top/Ser_vivo |
| Rating | Medium |
| Compliance | No longer accessible. Previously, GFDL was mentioned, and a very hard-to-read full text of the license linked from each page. Wikipedia was mentioned as the source, though all links went to main page. No links were to the live article. |
| Contact info | birgit AT kubaszewski.de (whois) |
| Actions |
Live Edit Demo
[edit]| URL | http://bpt.yi.org/ |
|---|---|
| Description | |
| Sample | http://bpt.yi.org/live-edit.html |
| Rating | Low/None |
| Compliance | Inaccessible. No link to current velsion of article. No link to Wikipedia or GFDL. No attribution. |
| Contact info | |
| Actions | First standard letter sent 23/8/05 9cds 09:05, 23 August 2005 (UTC) |
Lockergnomes
[edit]- Site: Lockergnomes Free Encyclopedia
- Examples: Archaeology, Wikipedia
- Seems to be a mirror of Smartpedia. Note that the article on Wikipedia replaces all occurrances of the word "Wikipedia" with "Smartpedia".
- Mirrors all namespaces, including Wikipedia: and User:
- Links to Wikipedia (under each article, the "SOURCE" link leads to Wikipedia's version of the article, except for the main page which links to the nonexistent mainpage.inc
- Links to GFDL
— Gwalla | Talk 03:00, 14 Apr 2005 (UTC)
lotsofinformation.com
[edit]| URL | http://wikipedia.lotsofinformation.com |
|---|---|
| Description | |
| Sample | |
| Rating | Low |
| Compliance | |
| Contact info | |
| Actions | Was a clone of Wikipedia running MediaWiki with no links back to Wikipedia. Main page was copied daily. Definitely should be monitored, as it may be used for password phishing. |
"Mandelbrot fractal" at fractalmovies.com
[edit]| URL | http://www.fractalmovies.com/ |
|---|---|
| Description | |
| Sample | http://www.fractalmovies.com/index.php4?mode=experte&frage=35&rubrik=2 |
| Rating | Low/None |
| Compliance | It appears this is the only article copied, but this has not been verified. There is no mention of Wikipedia or the GFDL. |
| Contact info | trifox AT gmx.net (whois) |
| Actions | Sent violation notice. Superm401 - Talk 01:03, 22 January 2006 (UTC). Recieved notice that content removed. Superm401 - Talk 23:18, 22 January 2006 (UTC) |
My Wiki
[edit]- Site: www.1-1-2008.com
- Example: www.1-1-2008.com/wiki/?title=Mathematics
- Appears to be a live mirror: see meta:Live mirrors (currently line 62).
- States "All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License." but has broken link to wiki.riteme.site/wiki/My_Wiki:Text_of_the_GNU_Free_Documentation_License
- Link to "History" fails
- No obvious link to original article
- Defunct since ~2008.
Palestine article
[edit]- Site: Palestine article
- No link to Wikipedia article
- no link to GFDL
- No contact information on the main page of their website. Can anyone find it?
- Standard letter sent by: ?
- I checked the link and got a 404 error. I checked http://www.huntsvillehelp.com/ as well and all there is was text saying "HuntsvilleHelp.com". Seems to me this site is dead. --Bash 04:47, 1 May 2005 (UTC)
perfectsushi.com
[edit]- Site www.perfectsushi.com
Research requested. JesseW 22:36, 18 July 2005 (UTC)
- Site has apparently been down since 2005. [18] — Feezo (Talk) 06:58, 13 May 2007 (UTC)
Persian Football
[edit](from the article Ali Daei, see Talk:Ali Daei)
- No link to Wikipedia article
- No link to GFDL
- Claiming a different author
- Claiming copyright at the page footer
- Site no longer appears to contain the above content. — Feezo (Talk) 07:04, 13 May 2007 (UTC)
phatnav.com
[edit]- Site: phatnav.com
- Confusing display of license and authorship information
- No link to wikipedia homepage or the specific article page
- Standard letter sent by mav 11:59, 4 Jan 2004 (UTC)
Response:
- I did have a link at one time. My engineer has been making some changes
- to the template, so I guess we dropped the link at some point. I'll make
- sure it's put back.
--mav 23:21, 7 Jan 2004 (UTC)
- Unchanged still. Also, it'd be nice if they'd avoid titling their pages "Articlename - Wikipedia", which seems like borderline trademark infringement (though the line between attribution and infringement is fine, I'll acknowledge). --Delirium 12:37, Feb 6, 2004 (UTC)
- I just sent a standard Violation Letter Follow-Up. Andrewlevine 04:01, 19 Apr 2004 (UTC)
UNCONFIRMED Contact info via online sources: 508-481-3336 listed for three names:
- Frances A Barry, 1126 Concord Rd, Marlborough, MA 01752
- Skip Guss, East Coast Golf Academy, 333 Southwest Cutoff Northboro MA 01532 Golfrite AT aol.com
- Shawn P. McCarthy, Diagonal Media Group, Inc. 37 Woodridge Road Marlborough, MA 01752
- service AT diagonalmediagroup.com
- shawn.mccarthy AT diagonalmediagroup.com
- internaut AT diagonalmediagroup.com
Notes:
- McCarthy appears to be author of 'The Art of .COMbat', and a Lycos developer
- Phatnav is shaping up to be the top leech site of Wikipedia content.
Jokestress 05:06, 28 Apr 2004 (UTC)
Phatnav's pages still claim copyright. Straight mirror of WP content. Makes near fraudulent claims (they copy some of our pages that say "content provided by visitors to this site", further implying content is theirs). I can still see no GFDL or WP links, pages imply they are owned by PhatNav.
This is just about the worst possible violation (straight copy / adding ads / claiming copyright / not crediting authors) and given that they have not responded to previous letters, I propose we escalate according to standard protocol (please drop me a line if you want to work with me on this one). Mat-C 20:41, 30 Apr 2004 (UTC)
Violation still going stong. <quote>PhatNav's Encyclopedia - A "Wikipedia"</quote> sounds like trademark dilution to me. --Spikey 21:28, 21 May 2004 (UTC)
- Appears to be compliant now. "A Wikipedia" no longer displayed, and although it's in VERY tiny print, at the very bottom of each page they say "The Wikipedia is a project of the Wikimedia Foundation Inc. It is offered as open source and is free to reuse according to the GNU Free documentation License. The original version of this page can be found at http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/<ARTICLENAME>." Their copyright notice states "All content Copyright 2003 - PhatNav and Diagonal Media Group Inc. (Except as noted on pages containing separately licensed content.) All rights reserved." Catherine | talk 18:33, 15 Jun 2004 (UTC)
| URL | http://www.phatnav.com/wiki/index.php?title=Main_Page |
|---|---|
| Description | |
| Sample | http://www.phatnav.com/wiki/index.php?title=Physics |
| Rating | |
| Compliance | Bottom of each page from Wikipedia states "The Wikipedia is a project of the Wikimedia Foundation Inc. It is offered as open source and is free to reuse according to the GNU Free documentation License." At the bottom of the page, there is a link to the original article in fine print. It does not explicitly say that the displayed article is under the GFDL, which is wrong. They link to our GFDL article, not the text and not on their own site. There is also no mention of the GFDL or Wikipedia on the printable version. |
| Contact info | service AT diagonalmediagroup.com |
| Actions |
- Seems to 404 Not Found --Henrygb 21:33, 24 March 2007 (UTC)
Poncier
[edit]- Site: Poncier.com
- Example [19] for Albania
- No graphics
- Redlinks ignored
- Problems with diacritics
- Each article ends with This article is from Wikipedia. All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License with link to local version of GFDL
- No link to Wikipedia or original article
- Each article ends with "Copyright © 2004 www.poncier.com"
- As of 14:53, 4 November 2005 (UTC) - Henrygb
Previewseek
[edit]| URL | http://beta.previewseek.com |
|---|---|
| Description | |
| Sample | http://beta.previewseek.com/?query=albania |
| Rating | Low |
| Compliance | The engine displays parts of Wikipedia articles above related searches. While there is no link to the associated article, there are links to other searches. Thus, it is possible to surf the previews without even knowing there is a larger article or where the text comes from. The engine claims copyright. However, there is a vague notice that "Portions of these search results are used under the GNU Free Documentation License. You may redistribute it, verbatim or modified, providing that you comply with the terms of the GFDL."; there is no way to tell what "portions" are being referred to. The notice has an offsite link to the GFDL and there is neither an article history nor a link to the original article. |
| Contact info | http://beta.previewseek.com/?query=albania&vid=l7122419274I1137922796&twin=n&con=y&where=&sttname=_contact_us (contact form), chris.hong AT previewseek.com, abuse AT secure.net (host) |
| Actions |
|
protectedplanet.net
[edit]| URL | http://protectedplanet.net |
|---|---|
| Description | |
| Sample | http://www.protectedplanet.net/sites/Great_Himalayan_National_Park |
| Rating | High |
| Compliance | Attributes Wikipedia with link back to the site- encourages new wikipedia pages to be created |
| Contact info | protectedareas@unep-wcmc.org |
| Actions | None; the site changed significantly in recent years and this report does not seem to apply anymore (as of 16 April 2020). |
protoillyrian
[edit]| URL | http://www.geocities.com/protoillyrian/ |
|---|---|
| Description | |
| Sample | http://www.geocities.com/protoillyrian/serb.html |
| Rating | None |
| Compliance | Uses at least Serbs without mention of Wikipedia or the GFDL. Extent of infringement undetermined. |
| Contact info | copyright AT yahoo-inc.com |
| Actions | GeoCities closed down; site is gone. PleaseStand (talk) 00:55, 17 December 2012 (UTC) |
pseudodoxia.flawlesslogic.com
[edit]- Site: pseudodoxia.flawlesslogic.com
- Makes attempts to meet GFDL. Does not include all revisions of a page.
- Currently under attack from some Wikipedia users, as they see it as offensive Nazi site.
- Some have been blanking pseudodoxia's copies of their user pages as the word wikipedia has been replaced with pseudodoxia in many places (everywhere?), which may mislead people into believing that those users are associated with pseudodoxia.
- I see nothing. --WCQuidditch ☎ ✎ 15:18, 8 January 2006 (UTC)
- We should ask them to add meta noindex so we can remove the Google cached copies among the search engines... -- WB 08:20, 15 January 2006 (UTC)
- As of June 27, 2006, site seems dead. DS 13:30, 27 June 2006 (UTC)
- Poking at http://www.flawlesslogic.com & http://flawlesslogic.com yields Apache server 404 messages. Lights on but nobody home. -- llywrch 19:50, 1 September 2006 (UTC)
- library.flawlesslogic.com is still up, but that doesn't seem to contain Wikipedia material. Superm401 - Talk 04:39, 3 January 2007 (UTC)
Quickseek.com
[edit]Uses subdomains to incompetently mirror Wikipedia articles without rendering the markup. Quickseek copyright notice, no Wikipedia or GFDL mention. Appears to be intended as search engine spam.
Examples:
update: They appear to be a live leech, delayed a few minutes. Replaces all mention of ‘Wikipedia’ with ‘QuickSeek Encyclopedia’. They copy the Wikipedia: namespace, but not the User:. Low compliance. Chris Chan {t|c} 12:20, 29 April 2006 (UTC) update²: They appear to be running Mediawiki, and be editable. However, there is no easily accessible edit link, and they are not a live leech. They appear to be using a copy of all articles from 15 Feb 2006. Still low-compliance. Chris Chan {t|c} 12:28, 29 April 2006 (UTC) update: They have a "Wikipedia" phrase in black on their main page, but no link, and not the Wikipedia logo. They also claim to be associated with the Columbia University Press. User:Zoe|(talk) 21:47, 17 June 2006 (UTC)
No mention of Wikipedia on main page or subdomains, not even hidden away in the HTML. Cheekily asserts that copyright is theirs. Kenguest 13:28, 27 June 2006 (UTC)
- This site was also reported to info (ät) wikimedia.de, I just sent a standard violation letter. --InterwikiLinksRule 13:51, 29 June 2006 (UTC)
- I received an answer from the owner of the site claiming that the issues will be adressed. --InterwikiLinksRule 15:00, 29 June 2006 (UTC)
- I came across this "mirror" when checking to see if an article was a copyvio. To date, the issue has not been addressed and the sites Terms & Conditions state:
You agree that you are only authorized to visit, view, and retain a copy of pages of this Site for your own personal use, and that you shall not duplicate, download, publish, modify, or otherwise distribute the material on this Site for any commercial use, or for any purpose other than as described in these Terms.
You agree that you will not copy, reproduce, alter, modify, create derivative works from, or publicly display any content (except for your own personal, non-commercial use) from our Web site without the prior expressed written permission of QuickSeek.
- Are these conditions also in breach of the GFDL? TheJC TalkContributions 06:49, 2 July 2006 (UTC)
- I think they are. How long do they have to "address the issues" before someone else should send another warning? Ardric47 19:34, 8 July 2006 (UTC)
- Still live 15:00, 12 July 2006 (UTC). Found a clear violation at http://evan.quickseek.com/ as it includes the stub marker "This name-related article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it." while working on an AFD for Evan (mythology). Their page contains "(C) 2005 QuickSeek.com All rights reserved. Evan" at the bottom. This page http://etruscanmythology.quickseek.com/ is another clear violation as it shows the interlanguage links we use but doesn't include the word Wikipedia anywhere. GRBerry 15:00, 12 July 2006 (UTC)
Here's some more fun: Look up Bob Dylan on both QuickSeek and Wikipedia. Same content. Now, look up Wikipedia on both. The self-referential link here is kosher, of course. However, look at the one on Quickseek: It's completely blank. Looks like there has been some half-hearted effort to scrub their site of references to Wikipedia. 66.187.233.202 19:53, 12 July 2006 (UTC)
This one has come up on IRC today, but contact info is hard to get. I think more warning e-mails have been sent after thorough hunting around, but this is lower than low compliance, infact the "all rights reserved" bit puts it at just about nill, and the removal of all wikipedia references makes it lower yet. MichaelBillington 10:12, 28 July 2006 (UTC)
Well, Copyrights "are theirs" but editrights aren't. Think about it: this may be of questionable legality but it's completely editable, and not exactly a *real* encyclopedia. It ain't moderated (that's for sure), so why not get some benefit out of their wrongdoing? Based on the good-faith assumption that it's within legal limits, I'd condone mass vandalism of the site, although I probably won't be doing it myself. --Utopianfiat 18:43, 4 August 2006 (UTC)
Update: I've sent a GFDL violation notice citing Senpai as the "proof" or whatever. I'm going to wait two weeks (the 18th is an important day, so I hope I'll remember) before I notify Rackspace just in case this guy is just misled. If he doesn't respond in 2 weeks, I think it's safe to assume that even if his intents are not malicious, everyone's lives would be better without search engine spam. --Utopianfiat 19:09, 4 August 2006 (UTC)
- Check Utopianfiat's userpage for the email thread. --Utopianfiat 20:13, 4 August 2006 (UTC)
- Update: http://cheese.quickseek.com and http://kangaroo.quickseek.com no longer work. No wikipedia content on main page, http://www.quickseek.com. 69.140.152.55 (talk) 23:12, 28 May 2008 (UTC)
realestate.ca
[edit]- Site: realestate.ca/Real-Estate/reference/search
- Example: http://realestate.ca/Abstract-of-title/reference/fullview/wikipedia/597773
- Absolutely no mention of GFDL or Wikipedia, except in the URL, with Javascript off (As of JesseW 21:09, 11 August 2005 (UTC))
- Whois email: info at email dot ca
- Standard letter sent by JesseW 21:09, 11 August 2005 (UTC)
- Update: they now appear to be a squatter site. Chris Chan {t|c} 12:31, 29 April 2006 (UTC)
Rolex fakes
[edit]- Site: Rouell article (example)
- No link, GFDL, etc
- sorry i will be taking that site down soon anyways
- Seems to be down as of now. Should be moved to not-current-users-of-our-content section. Thanks. JesseW 20:39, 11 August 2005 (UTC)
savage-comedy.com
[edit]| URL | http://www.savage-comedy.com/ |
|---|---|
| Description | |
| Sample | http://www.savage-comedy.com/_Antarctica |
| Rating | Medium |
| Compliance | Uses a boilerplate footer "All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License (see Copyrights for details). It uses material from the http://wiki.riteme.site", but no link back to article. |
| Contact info | |
| Actions |
School Explorer
[edit]- Site: http://www.school-explorer.com
- Example: http://www.school-explorer.com/info/Albania of Albania
- Ends with 'Retrieved from "http://wiki.riteme.site/wiki/Albania"' with link to original article
- No mention of GFDL
- "Disclaimer" states "distributed by Web Exploring Consultancy (W.E.C.) The Netherlands"
- As of 00:11, 14 December 2005 (UTC) --Henrygb
sicherheitsmeister.com
[edit]| URL | http://www.sicherheitsmeister.com/mv/index.php/Main_Page |
|---|---|
| Description | |
| Sample | http://www.sicherheitsmeister.com/mv/index.php/Pediatrics |
| Rating | Low |
| Compliance | Appears to have removed all Wikipedia articles. Now redirects all traffic to Amazon affiliate page. Probably complete copy from end of May 2004 (contained 5 out of the 5 random articles I tried). Every page mentions "based in parts on the wikipedia project, the free encyclopedia, which will stay free always." Every article page contains mention of the GNU FDL (but the link is broken). No authors mentioned, page history is last edit only. No images |
| Contact info | marc AT beauchamp.de |
| Actions |
stalkerpedia.org
[edit]| URL | http://stalkerpedia.org/ http://stalkerpedia.org/ |
|---|---|
| Description | |
| Sample | http://stalkerpedia.org/ http://stalkerpedia.org/ |
| Rating | "Low/None" |
| Compliance | This site currently presents itself as a new, unedited Wikimedia Foundation wiki |
| Contact info | The domain registrant name and address (Thomas Archer, 345 Middlefield Road, Menlo Park, CA) are bogus. The address is a USGS office in Menlo Park. The phone number is clearly bogus: Registrant Phone:+1.8005551212. The registrant email is valid and is believed to be actually in use by Jeffrey_Vernon_Merkey, blocked user User:Gadugi, blocked user User:Waya_sahoni, sockpuppet User:67.186.225.152, and sockpuppet User:67.137.28.188 -- Registrant Email:tjarcher AT comcast.net. This email address has been used by User:Waya_sahoni. The web site itself is refered to at Merkey/Gadugi/Waya sahoni's new wiki, wikigadugi.org. Also see: [libelpedia.org] |
| Actions | I feel that dealing with this potentially libelous web site is probably best left to Wikimedia foundation legal counsel. -- talks_to_birds 09:47, 21 March 2006 (UTC) |
usedaudiparts.com
[edit]| URL | http://usedaudiparts.com/ |
|---|---|
| Description | |
| Sample | http://usedaudiparts.com/search.php?title=Scotland |
| Rating | None |
| Compliance |
|
| Contact info |
|
| Actions | Domain expired around January 25, 2005. -- WB 08:53, 23 February 2006 (UTC) |
Useful Reference
[edit]| URL | http://www.usefulreference.com |
|---|---|
| Description | |
| Sample | http://www.usefulreference.com/a/al/albania_1.html |
| Rating | Low |
| Compliance | Now inaccessible. Mentions GNU/FDL, and links to GNU/FDL at gnu.org. Mentions Wikipedia, and links to main page. Does not link to article page. Gives GNU/FDL only for Wikipedia, not for their version of the article |
| Contact info | dan7 AT blueyonder.co.uk (whois) |
| Actions |
Vagabond Poet
[edit]- Site: www.VagabondPoet.com
- No mention of Wikipedia except in HTML page title.
- Links back to Wikipedia article.
- No mention of GFDL.
- Sample article: Albania - http://www.vagabondpoet.com/infopedia/al/Albania.html
- Says "Copyright 2003 Brenda Buckley All Rights Reserved."
- Links to ruv.net, see infopedia.ruv.net above.
- Contact listed on page, Brenda Buckley:
- bb(at)ruv.net
- vagabondpoet AT hotmail.com
- Albania example above appears to no longer have Wikipedia content 15:16, 19 December 2007 (UTC)
vacilando.org
[edit]| URL | http://www.vacilando.org/index.php?title=Main_Page |
|---|---|
| Description | |
| Sample | http://www.vacilando.org/index.php?title=Current_events |
| Rating | ? |
| Compliance | is a live mirror of wikipedia |
| Contact info | Tomas J. Fulopp, tomi (atsign) vacilando.org |
| Actions | *Exchanged email with Mr Fulopp and referred him to Wikipedia:Mirrors_and_forks#Remote_loading on 21 Jan 2006. He has read it and is aware that remote loading is unacceptable.
|
- Link produces fatal error 15:12, 19 December 2007 (UTC)
- The sample url no longer works, while the Main Page is still up as a live mirror. Although all of the links "extracted" go to a website(informat.io) does not appear to be up. 01:11, 2 November 2008 (UTC)
Vegetarian Worldwide
[edit]- Site: [20]
- Article: Vegetarianism
- No mention of Wikipedia
- No link to Wikipedia
- No mention of GFDL
- Says "Copyright © - Vegetarian-Worldwide.com, All rights reserved. Vegetarian-Worldwide is part of Worldwide-Infomedia Services"
--Mig77(t) 10:52, 29 August 2006 (UTC)
Verkata
[edit]| URL | http://wiki.verkata.com/ |
|---|---|
| Description | |
| Sample | http://wiki.verkata.com/en/wiki/Time%20in%20Indiana |
| Rating | Low |
| Compliance | confirmed live mirror with test edit, change appeared immediately. they mention GFDL @ http://wiki.verkata.com/license/ but text is out of date and they don't link back to source (they link only to "http://www.wikipedia.org") and they don't offer anyway to see a list of authors |
| Contact info | |
| Actions | Mentioned in mobile channel in case they want to try to figure out if something's missing from mobilefrontend that would inspire this mirror
Offline as of 2019-07-01. Sunmist (talk) 09:40, 29 September 2019 (UTC) |
VetMer.se
[edit]| URL | http://www.vetmer.se/ |
|---|---|
| Description | |
| Sample | http://www.vetmer.se/täckdike/ |
| Rating | Low/None compliance with GFDL |
| Compliance | Wikipedia is named as source and GDFL-licence is linked. There is no chance of editing the material directly at the site. |
| Contact info | Johan Norén |
| Actions | No actions taken, yet. Wikipedia text is taken down for the moment while studying license. (this text was edited by owner of site) |
vermontreview.com
[edit]- Site: vermontreview.com
- Mentions Wikipedia and GFDL in the following way: reproduced with implicit permission from Wikipedia via the GNU Free Documentation License. at the bottom of each page
- Does not link to articles, history, or GFDL
- Example: [24] from Beatles, Guitar and Tab
- No contact info anywhere on the site
- Seems to generate phrases starting with "B" and pull pages to explain each term
- 404 page at [25] links to this copyright notice, in blatant violation of the GFDL
veropedia.com
[edit]| URL | http://www.veropedia.com/ |
|---|---|
| Description | |
| Sample | http://www.veropedia.com/docs/faq.php |
| Rating | Medium |
| Compliance | Has mirrored specific versions of articles from wikipedia, Includes GFDL verbiage Links back to wikipedia |
| Contact info | info at veropedia dot com |
| Actions | Contains links back to wikipedia, is hotlinking images.
Does not appear to list article contributors on their site. xaosflux Talk 16:07, 24 November 2007 (UTC) |
- Not compliant as far as I am concerned. No list of contributors, no link back to the forked article or it's history. Says "From Veropedia, based on Wikipedia". I'd be pretty pissed off if an article I'd made major contributions to ended up on the site with this level of attribution. Wikipedia doesn't own the content I write, I do, and I expect to either be credited right there or at the very least a link back to the history at Wikipedia. --kingboyk (talk) 23:42, 6 January 2008 (UTC)
- There is a link back to the history, but it's in a somewhat non-obvious place; you have to click on the "Article" button at the top of the page, then select "History", then select "Wikipedia History". Could certainly be more prominently positioned. Bryan Derksen (talk) 18:20, 26 October 2008 (UTC)
Vietnam Wiki
[edit]| URL | http://vietnam.yourwiki.net |
|---|---|
| Description | |
| Sample | http://vietnam.yourwiki.net/wiki/Main_Page |
| Rating | High (GFDL 1.3) |
| Compliance | Wikipedia is named a source and references the licence. |
| Contact info | francisdinh@gmail.com |
| Actions | None. |
Videoonwikipedia.com
[edit]| URL | http://www.videoonwikipedia.com/howto.html |
|---|---|
| Description | |
| Sample | http://www.videoonwikipedia.com/images/howto-screenshot.png |
| Rating | Screenshot of the article Coccolithophore, containing also the Wikipedia logo and File:Gephyrocapsa oceanica color.jpg. |
| Compliance | No source or licencing info given at all. |
| Contact info | No contact information found. |
| Actions | ? |
vi.ki
[edit]| URL | en.vi.ki |
|---|---|
| Description | |
| Sample | http://en.vi.ki/Oblivion_%28roller_coaster%29 |
| Rating | "none" |
| Compliance | Pages lifted directly from Wikipedia, with no attempt of attribution. Even has info-en listed as a contact email! |
| Contact info | [http://www.dnsstuff.com/tools#whois |
| Actions | Warning email #1 sent |
Violaheaven.com
[edit]| URL | http://www.violaheaven.com |
|---|---|
| Description | |
| Sample | http://www.violaheaven.com/violin.html |
| Rating | Low/None |
| Compliance | No credit given at all, web site has put copyright tag on the articles. |
| Contact info | tmf AT stringworks.com (administrative contact) |
| Actions | First notice sent, warning administrator (no name given on WHOIS) that he/she must add GFDL notice. |
- Appears to be empty site 15:21, 19 December 2007 (UTC)
Wackipedia.com
[edit]- site
- Looks like a live copy of Wikipedia EN.
- Contains this copyright notice in footer: "© 2005, All Rights Reserved -- Wackipedia.com".
- Offers 'Ebonics', 'Redneck' and 'Valley Girl' stylised rewrites of every article.
- No edit links. Benet Allen 13:23, 5 January 2006 (UTC)
- As of June 2006, all of these problems remain. --carlb 15:36, 10 April 2006 (UTC)
- States all material is copyright to Wackipedia, and doesn't even rewrite links on the homepage to point to it's own site. It mirrors everything, images, featured articles, but not discussions or users. It even has the audacity to say 'Wackipedia in other languages' at the bottom an link to wikipedia.org domains! It makes almost no effort to remove many references to Wikipedia on various pages (e.g. This is the English language Wackipedia. Wikipedias are also being written in many other languages). It also carries the 'free encyclopedia that anyone can edit' banner, but it maintains that all the pages are copyrighted to Wackipedia and there are no edit buttons. They even have identical formatting of the main page, but with no column at the left side for links etc. —Vanderdecken∴ ∫ξφ 10:42, 16 July 2006 (UTC)
- I wish these guys would get legal. I'd like to like them.
- Their home page is apparently so full of script errors that it won't display. - Jmabel | Talk 19:43, 29 September 2006 (UTC)
- Apparently now it's gone.
- 504 15:25, 19 December 2007 (UTC)
WakkaWiki.com
[edit]Looks like an live copy of WikipediaEN. No licence info or history information. Edit links do not work. Walter 23:13, 18 August 2005 (UTC)
- Confirmed. At most a few minutes behind, no license info, home page says "Welcome to Wikipedia", no link back. Rl 19:53, 2 September 2005 (UTC)
- No longer uses Wikipedia content, seems to be a cybersquatter site now. Wcquidditch | Talk 01:42, 8 November 2005 (UTC)
Warsaw Hotel Info
[edit]- Site: http://www.warsaw-hotel.info
- Example: [26] for Albania
- Near end of each article has:
- "Mirror of Wikipedia, a worldwide community of volunteers building an open-content" with link to Wikipedia article about Wikipedia
- "All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License" with link to GFDL at GNU
- "Copyright 2002-2004 (c) Net Travel & Warsaw Hotels Reservation All Rights Reserved Recreation "
- As of 13:55, 28 November 2005 (UTC) --Henrygb
- Encyclopedia element seems to have been removed 15:27, 19 December 2007 (UTC)
Web-Dictionary.org
[edit]- Site: Web-Dictionary.org
- Sample article: Albania - http://www.web-dictionary.org/encyclopedia/al/Albania.html
- Links to local copy of GNU FDL. Says "All text is available is licensed under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License."
- Keeps "From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia."
- Contains link to original Wikipedia article and main page.
- Says, "All content is copyright of the respective authors and copyright holders."
- No link to original article.
- No history section listing authors and dates.
- Low compliance.
- 502 error 15:29, 19 December 2007 (UTC)
websign.sk
[edit]Seems to have mirrored from eurofreehost.com before they were compliant. Includes (unlinked) notice that content is GDFL. No mention of wikipedia. Example: [27]
- 502 error 15:31, 19 December 2007 (UTC)
Whatis.Tv
[edit]- Site: http://www.whatis.tv/
The main page consists of a table of contents of sorts, which eventually leads to a copy of all wikipedia articles. No author or source attribution is given at all anywhere on the site that I could find. 80.58.43.44 10:17, 1 Mar 2005 (UTC)
- Confirmed. This will be added to the GFDL Compliance list. It's clearly a case of low compliance, since
- it doesn't state that the info is released under the GFDL and
- there are no links back to Wikipedia --Bash 07:17, 1 May 2005 (UTC)
- Note: site is now 404. Patstuarttalk·edits 05:18, 25 March 2007 (UTC)
what-means.com/encyclopedia/
[edit]| URL | http://www.what-means.com/encyclopedia/ |
|---|---|
| Description | |
| Sample | http://www.what-means.com/encyclopedia/United_States_Constitution |
| Rating | Low |
| Compliance | States "All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License" but links to off-site version. Also, does not include history section or link to Wikipedia article. Also no history given for changes made by them (like removing instances of Wikipedia and replacing with What-means.com). Also has user pages and images.
|
| Contact info | info AT brickshooter.com (whois) |
| Actions | Sent violation letter. Superm401 - Talk 03:01, 22 January 2006 (UTC)
Encyclopedia content not visible --Rumping (talk) 11:27, 13 April 2008 (UTC) |
widescale.com
[edit]- Site: widescale.com
No mention/link to GFDLNo mention of wikipedia- May be fair use, due to it's use of excerpts.
- Site is a GoDaddy cybersquatter. The Evil Spartan (talk) 22:28, 12 March 2008 (UTC)
Wiki.defau.lt
[edit]- Site: Wiki.defau.lt
- Sample article: Biology - http://wiki.defau.lt/wiki/wiki.phtml?title=Biology
- Seems to be an outright dump, perhaps it's someone's test wiki
- I'm getting 'Forbidden You don't have permission to access / on this server.' message now Silverfish 20:22, 16 Mar 2004 (UTC)
- Still gives "forbidden" message. Seems no longer to be an issue. -Rholton 22:23, 6 Dec 2004 (UTC)
- Still dead. Superm401 | Talk 01:22, 6 November 2005 (UTC)
- Still dead as of 00:37, 14 April 2006 (UTC), it now is a 404 not found instead of 403 forbidden. Chris Chan.talk.contribs 00:37, 14 April 2006 (UTC)
- Now it's page cannot be displayed. I think the website is gone for good now. Andrewrhchen 21:44, 21 February 2007 (UTC)
WikiDaily
[edit]| URL | https://wikidaily.org/wiki/Main_Page |
|---|---|
| Description | Near-exact duplicate, missing some Wikipedia namespace pages. It has replaced all mentions of Wikipedia (as a word) with WikiDaily. |
| Sample | |
| Rating | Difficult to determine. Matches license but claims content as own, |
| Compliance | Removes all mentions of Wikipedia in all forms, even on what should be the Wikipedia article. Claims to be a Wikimedia project. |
| Contact info | No public method of contact. |
| Actions | None. |
Wikidpedia
[edit]- Site: http://www.pagerank10.co.uk/wiki/ (diverts from http://www.wikidpedia.org
- Sample article: http://www.pagerank10.co.uk/wiki/?title=Mandurah, http://www.pagerank10.co.uk/wiki/?title=Perth%2C_Western_Australia
- Difficult to tell what this is. Search facility doesn't work, no mention anywhere of GFDL and no way to access article history to determine contributors. Orderinchaos78 10:39, 20 December 2006 (UTC)
- Seems to not be working at all any more the url http://www.pagerank10.co.uk/wiki/ comes up blank 404 as does http://www.page-rank-10.info/wiki/
Wikilib
[edit]| URL | http://en.wikilib.com |
|---|---|
| Description | |
| Sample | http://en.wikilib.com/wiki/Main_Page |
| Rating | Low/None |
| Compliance | Mirrors the entire original Wikipedia page (including the "Privacy policy", "About Wikipedia", and "Disclaimers" links on the bottom), but the content is severely outdated. There is no mention of it being a mirror other than a short notice in Chinese (Translated by Google: "The Mirror service from Victoria website to offer data sources for the English Wikipedia September 26, 2006 data."). There is neither any mention of the GDFL nor any links back to the original. |
| Contact info | |
| Actions |
Wikipedia On DVD
[edit]| URL | http://www.wikipediaondvd.com/nav/art/d/w.html |
|---|---|
| Description | |
| Sample | http://www.wikipediaondvd.com/nav/art/9/r.html, http://www.wikipediaondvd.com/nav/art/4/a.html |
| Rating | Medium |
| Compliance | A link to an off-site copy of the GFDL is included in the footer of every page. Wikipedia is mentioned as the source and is linked to, but there's one weird and IMO major problem; every single article I've checked so far links to India as the source article on Wikipedia. This is clearly a result of a bug of some sort, but the fact remains that this means there are no links you can follow to reach the proper author history of the articles (except, of course, for India). Images don't have direct links either, the reader is directed to go to Wikipedia and hunt for the image's attribution there. |
| Contact info | http://www.wikiwix.com/?lang=en&action=contact is the listed contact URL but following it leads to a page that displays the results of a search of Wikipedia for the word "contact". Also presumably a bug of some sort. |
| Actions | None |
worldsearch.com
[edit]- Site: http://encyclopedia.worldsearch.com/
- Example page: Elections
- No mention of GFDL or Wikipedia. Copyright at bottom of pages says:
- ©2004-2005.§/Newave. All rights reserved
- Terms of Use page says, among other things:
- How You Can Use the Services
- You may use the Services on E.WS and the Newave Sites for your personal, non-commercial use. You may make a single copy of the individual screens you see when you use the Services, but only for your personal use. You cannot distribute or transfer the copies to others in exchange for money or other consideration. You may not-and agree not to-modify, reformat, copy, display, distribute, transmit, publish, license, create derivative works from, transfer or sell any information, products or services obtained from the Services, except as set forth below. This means that you may not mirror the home page or results pages of E.WS or any Newave Site on your own Web site or Web page.
- No License Granted
- Except for allowing you to use E.WS for your personal use as set forth in the paragraph above, when you use E.WS, you are not receiving a license or any other rights from us, including intellectual property or other proprietary rights of Newave or other companies with which we are affiliated.
- YOU UNDERSTAND THAT YOU HAVE NO RIGHTS TO THE SERVICES OR ANY OTHER NEWAVE PROPERTY EXCEPT AS WE INDICATE IN THESE TERMS.
--Calton 00:59, 28 Jan 2005 (UTC)
- Zone plate, which I've worked extensively on, is also copied word for word, even the non-rendered math. I've now sent them a violation letter. --Laura Scudder | Talk 23:06, 16 May 2005 (UTC)
- Site is gone. Being sold for only $300,000 - any buyers? The Evil Spartan (talk) 22:30, 12 March 2008 (UTC)
Wikiwhat
[edit]- Site: wikiwhat.com
- Mentions Wikipedia (no link)
- Mentions GFDL (no link)
- Looks empty--Rumping (talk) 15:27, 13 April 2008 (UTC)
xarts.net
[edit]- Site: dictionary.xarts.net
(E-mail sent by Dori asking not to do this -- no response yet)
- Cybersquatted The Evil Spartan (talk) 22:33, 12 March 2008 (UTC)
Yawiki.org
[edit]| URL | http://www.yawiki.org |
|---|---|
| Description | |
| Sample | http://www.yawiki.org/proc/Wiki |
| Rating | |
| Compliance | GPDL |
| Contact info | sean beecroft _a t_ hot mail dot com |
| Actions | standard email |
Robot Website:
- This site has been reviewed and tested as OK according to McAfee SiteAdvisor
- Site advisor's profile is at [28]
- GFDL compliance is good. They have a clear reference to contributors on a central source page.
- I have changed the rating to low/medium. I have searched the site and the only reference to Wikipedia being a source is buried on this page: [29] (which I had to really search for). It may be I couldn't find it, but it wasn't listed elsewhere. For example, on [30], there is no mention of Wikipedia or GFDL (though I does give a somewhat similar license). The Evil Spartan 16:11, 28 August 2007 (UTC)
zipox
[edit]| URL | http://zipox.com |
|---|---|
| Description | |
| Sample | http://zipox.com/Pearl_Harbor |
| Rating | Low/None |
| Compliance | I see no indication that they acknowledge content comes from Wikipedia. There doesn't appear to be any copyright notice or information on the site itself. Going to any non-existing page, e.g. http://zipox.com/zipox redirects to a porn solicitation page. The site also has a list of ten sites in a "Blog Roll" all of which appear to be similar non-compliant mirrors. These are http://www.redshort.com wstuff.com vsnw.com thinkdogs.com specwire.com songnhong.com vdmg.com twgold.com and somecoolsite.com . User:Milkman12345 has been adding links to this site from Wikipedia articles. |
| Contact info | None |
| Actions | Note: as of 25 March 2007, the site appears to be inoperative. Patstuarttalk·edits 05:15, 25 March 2007 (UTC)
Still inactive 10+ years later, archiving. Sunmist (talk) 04:31, 1 July 2019 (UTC) |
Zirozebar
[edit]| URL | http://www.zirozebar.com/pedia-en/wiki |
|---|---|
| Description | Looks to be a complete copy of Wikipedia, in en and fa at very least. Messes up some formatting, and hotlinks the images. The text appears to be stored on their servers. |
| Sample | http://www.zirozebar.com/pedia-en/wiki/User:AntiCompositeNumber |
| Rating | Low to Medium - |
| Compliance | Clearly states source and links to the exact scraped revision, but makes no mention of the CC BY-SA license |
| Contact info | Email address at the top of the page is info zirozebar.com
|
| Actions | None so far as of 03:04, 8 January 2017 (UTC)
Offline as of 2019-07-01. www.zirozebar.com just leads to a default IIS page. Sunmist (talk) 09:40, 29 September 2019 (UTC) |