Wikipedia:Mirrors and forks/Archive

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This page contains defunct mirrors and forks.

• 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)

See My Wiki

Defunct as of 17 April 2020. Probably defunct since late 2018.

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)

Defunct as of 22:31, 9 February 2015 (UTC)'

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Defunct as of 10:44, 6 May 2018 (UTC)

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Defunct as of 11 April 2019.

• 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)[reply]

Defunct as of 22:41, 9 February 2015 (UTC)

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Defunct as of 16 April 2020

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Defunct as of 11 April 2019.

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• 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)[reply]

• 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)

Defunct as of 22:52, 9 February 2015 (UTC)

Defunct as of 19:29, 11 February 2015 (UTC)

• 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)

Defunct as of 16 April 2020.

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."

As of 17 April 2020, the mirror part of the website is not online.

Defunct as of 23:00, 9 February 2015 (UTC)

Defunct as of 17 April 2020.

Defunct as of 19:30, 11 February 2015 (UTC)

Defunct as of 17 April 2020.

Defunct as of 17 April 2020.

• 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.

Defunct as of 19:32, 11 February 2015 (UTC)

As of 17 April 2020, the reported sample is no longer online.

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• 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)

They mention Wikipedia nowhere. High is not appropriate. Medium? JesseW 15:31, 19 Oct 2004 (UTC)

Mentioning Wikipedia is not required. However, information on authors is, and I couldn't find any. — Kate Turner | Talk 15:34, 2004 Oct 19 (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)

Defunct as of 19:36, 11 February 2015 (UTC)

• 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:

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)[reply]
  • Dead. The Evil Spartan (talk) 10:42, 26 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

No response 23:14, 20 September 2007 (UTC) Defunct as of 19:38, 11 February 2015 (UTC)

• 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)

• 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)[reply]
  • Now redirects to empty web directory --Rumping 09:22, 21 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Defunct as of 19:40, 11 February 2015 (UTC)

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Defunct as of 19:44, 11 February 2015 (UTC)

• Site: http://www.atlaswords.com

Defunct as of 19:44, 11 February 2015 (UTC)

Defunct as of 19:45, 11 February 2015 (UTC)

• 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

Defunct as of 19:47, 11 February 2015 (UTC)

• 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)

Defunct as of 19:54, 11 February 2015 (UTC)

• 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)[reply]

Defunct as of 19:55, 11 February 2015 (UTC)

• 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)

Defunct as of 17:46, 11 June 2019 (UTC)

• Not responding --Rumping 16:37, 23 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Archived. The Evil Spartan (talk) 11:05, 26 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

• 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))[reply]
• Link to original Wikipedia article (As of JesseW 20:34, 11 August 2005 (UTC))[reply]
• State that content is under the GFDL (As of JesseW 20:34, 11 August 2005 (UTC))[reply]
• State that content is from Wikipedia. (As of JesseW 20:34, 11 August 2005 (UTC))[reply]

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)[reply]

Defunct as of 22:31, 30 June 2017 (UTC)

• 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)[reply]
• still dead. ℬastique▼^parℓer♥^voir♑ 02:46, 12 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]
• still dead. 1ne 17:11, 18 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

• now appears to be a domain parking site without wikipedia content --Rumping 13:26, 25 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

• Give "page unavailable" --Rumping 13:27, 25 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

• Example leads to domain parking site without Wikipedia content--Rumping (talk) 23:42, 26 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

• 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)[reply]

• 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) ]

• 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

• Example not found --Rumping (talk) 22:30, 27 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

• 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]

Vacuum c 03:29, August 29, 2005 (UTC)

• 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)[reply]

• Site: emeagwali.com
• Example page: [12]
• No mention of Wikipedia
• No mention of the GFDL
• Site mentions its own copyright, no others

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)[reply]

• 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.

• 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)

SteveBaker 05:04, 3 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

- now removed by Blogsome admins

• Example has no substantial content --Rumping (talk) 22:34, 27 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

• 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

• No substantial content at examples; site is domain parked --Rumping (talk) 22:38, 27 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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.

• 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://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Copyrights#Example_notice)

Confirmed. High compliance. -Rholton 03:20, 4 Dec 2004 (UTC)

• 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

• 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?

• 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?

• Site: www.ezorange.com
• Example: http://www.ezorange.com/articles/Sony_HiFD

More research requested

• 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).

• 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

• 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).

• 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.

• 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)

• 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 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My_Wiki:Text_of_the_GNU_Free_Documentation_License
• Link to "History" fails
• No obvious link to original article
• Defunct since ~2008.

• 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)[reply]

• Site www.perfectsushi.com

Research requested. JesseW 22:36, 18 July 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Site has apparently been down since 2005. [18] — Feezo (Talk) 06:58, 13 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

• Site: http://persianfootball.com/news/sticky/EpAkAuEEZlaSiMPHPT.shtml

(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)[reply]

• 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)
  • Keeps coming up at the top of my google searches these days... we need to nail these guys. +sj+ 16:20, 2004 Mar 28 (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)[reply]

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)

• Seems to 404 Not Found --Henrygb 21:33, 24 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

• 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

• 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)[reply]
  • 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)[reply]
• As of June 27, 2006, site seems dead. DS 13:30, 27 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]
  • 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)[reply]
• library.flawlesslogic.com is still up, but that doesn't seem to contain Wikipedia material. Superm401 - Talk 04:39, 3 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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:

• http://cheese.quickseek.com
• http://kangaroo.quickseek.com

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)[reply]

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)[reply]

This site was also reported to info (ät) wikimedia.de, I just sent a standard violation letter. --InterwikiLinksRule 13:51, 29 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I received an answer from the owner of the site claiming that the issues will be adressed. --InterwikiLinksRule 15:00, 29 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

• 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:

• Are these conditions also in breach of the GFDL? TheJC ^Talk_{Contributions} 06:49, 2 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]
  • 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)[reply]
• 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)[reply]

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)[reply]

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)[reply]

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)[reply]

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)[reply]

Check Utopianfiat's userpage for the email thread. --Utopianfiat 20:13, 4 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

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)[reply]

• 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))[reply]
• Whois email: info at email dot ca
• Standard letter sent by JesseW 21:09, 11 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]
  • Using http://realestate.ca/Wikipediasister-text-only/reference/fullview/wikipedia/879704 from Template:Wikipediasister (text_only) as the example.
• Update: they now appear to be a squatter site. Chris Chan {t|c} 12:31, 29 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

• 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)[reply]

• Site: http://www.school-explorer.com
• Example: http://www.school-explorer.com/info/Albania of Albania
• Ends with 'Retrieved from "http://en.wikipedia.org/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

• 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)

• 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)

• Site: [20]
• Article: Vegetarianism
  • blatant copy of content [21] == /* Recomended reading */ [22]
  • blatant copy of content [23] == /* Country specific information */
• 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)[reply]

• 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

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)[reply]

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)[reply]

• Appears to be empty site 15:21, 19 December 2007 (UTC)

• 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)[reply]
• As of June 2006, all of these problems remain. --carlb 15:36, 10 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]
• 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)[reply]

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)[reply]

• Apparently now it's gone.
  • 504 15:25, 19 December 2007 (UTC)

• site: http://www.wakkawiki.com/

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)[reply]

• 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)[reply]
• No longer uses Wikipedia content, seems to be a cybersquatter site now. Wcquidditch | Talk 01:42, 8 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

• 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)

• 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)

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)

• 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)[reply]

• Note: site is now 404. Patstuart^talk·edits 05:18, 25 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

• Site: widescale.com
• No mention/link to GFDL
• No 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)[reply]

• 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)[reply]
• 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)[reply]
• Now it's page cannot be displayed. I think the website is gone for good now. Andrewrhchen 21:44, 21 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

• 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)[reply]
  • 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/

• 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)[reply]
• Site is gone. Being sold for only $300,000 - any buyers? The Evil Spartan (talk) 22:30, 12 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

• Site: wikiwhat.com
• Mentions Wikipedia (no link)
• Mentions GFDL (no link)

• • Looks empty--Rumping (talk) 15:27, 13 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

• 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)[reply]

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)[reply]