Mirrors and Forks : (Numbers) ABC - DEF - GHI - JKL - MNO - PQR - STU - VWXYZ - All - Archive
This page contains defunct mirrors and forks.
Defunct as of 22:32, 9 February 2015 (UTC)
URL | http://www.1-bike.com |
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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) |
URL | http://www.1-player.net |
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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) |
URL | http://en.10baset.info/ |
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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 |
URL | http://10beststocks.com/index.php |
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Description | |
Sample | http://10beststocks.com/index.php?title=Sony_HiFD |
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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) |
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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
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URL | http://schools-wikipedia.org/index.htm |
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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.
URL | http://www.21ma.com/mod3.php?title=Main_Page |
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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) |
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URL | http://2place.org/ |
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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)'
URL | http://www.4reference.net/ |
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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) |
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URL | http://en.wikipedia.7val.com |
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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)
URL | http://999network.com/ |
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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 |
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Defunct as of 22:34, 9 February 2015 (UTC)
URL | http://www.aaez.biz/ |
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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) |
URL | http://www.aardogs.com/ |
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Description | |
Sample | http://www.aardogs.com/pages10/95/wall-lamps.html |
Rating | Low |
Compliance |
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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) |
URL | http://info.abaara.com |
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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) |
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Defunct as of 22:37, 9 February 2015 (UTC)
URL | http://www.abacci.com/books |
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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)
URL | http://abcworld.net/ |
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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)
URL | http://aboutsociology.com |
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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.
More research requested
Defunct as of 22:41, 9 February 2015 (UTC)
URL | http://adorons.com/wiki |
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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)
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Defunct as of 22:42, 9 February 2015 (UTC)
URL | http://advantacell.com |
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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://en.wikipedia.org/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)
URL | http://www.africhoice.com |
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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
URL | http://www.afropedea.org, https://sites.google.com/site/afropedia/ |
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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. |
URL | http://agenda.z1.ro |
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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)
URL | http://aheadofnews.com/enc-en/ (Wikipedia) and http://aheadofnews.com/dict-en/ (Wiktionary) |
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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. |
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URL | http://aircraft-list.com/ |
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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.
URL | http://www.albumartexchange.us |
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Description | |
Sample | http://www.albumartexchange.us/2011/05/variations-on-a-theme-the-nude-series-bare-bottoms.html |
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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.
URL | http://www.about-kittens.com |
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Description | |
Sample | http://www.about-kittens.com/563/Korat |
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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)
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Defunct as of 22:51, 9 February 2015 (UTC)
* "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
** 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)
moved from main page Davelane 22:47, 14 Sep 2004 (UTC)
URL | http://www.about-puppies.com/ |
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Description | |
Sample | http://www.about-puppies.com/721/Yorkshire_Terrier |
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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)
URL | http://www.all2know.com |
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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. |
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Defunct as of 19:29, 11 February 2015 (UTC)
Defunct as of 19:29, 11 February 2015 (UTC)
URL | http://www.w2.bezkarni.pl/ |
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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. |
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Defunct as of 16 April 2020.
URL | http://en.allexperts.com/ |
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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." |
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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."
URL | http://allrss.com/ |
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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)
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As of 17 April 2020, the mirror part of the website is not online.
URL | http://www.allsportblog.net/ |
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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 |
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Defunct as of 23:00, 9 February 2015 (UTC)
URL | http://www.alma-latina.net |
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Description | |
Sample | http://www.alma-latina.net/MarialadelBarrio/MarialadelBarrio.shtml |
Rating | Low/None |
Compliance | *No mention of GFDL and of Wikipedia
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Contact info | info@alma-latina.net |
Actions | None as of Dec 6 2008 |
Defunct as of 17 April 2020.
URL | http://www.alternative2reality.com |
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Description | |
Sample | http://www.alternative2reality.com/history/CBS |
Rating | None |
Compliance | *No mention of GNU FDL and of Wikipedia
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Contact info | |
Actions | email
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Defunct as of 19:30, 11 February 2015 (UTC)
URL | http://www.amazon.com/wiki/Main_Page |
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Defunct as of 17 April 2020.
URL | http://america.pink |
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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.
Defunct as of 17 April 2020.
URL | http://animalwebguide.com |
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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 ) |
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Defunct as of 19:32, 11 February 2015 (UTC)
URL | http://www.annlongfineart.com |
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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.
URL | http://www.anoca.org |
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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 |
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Defunct as of 17 April 2020.
URL | Archaeologics.com |
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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.
URL | http://area51.ipupdater.com |
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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)
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Defunct as of 19:33, 11 February 2015 (UTC)
URL | http://www.arizonagardens.org |
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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)
Defunct as of 19:34, 11 February 2015 (UTC)
URL | http://www.arsenalhq.com/ |
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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
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Defunct as of 19:36, 11 February 2015 (UTC)
URL | http://www.arts-design-info.com/ |
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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 |
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No response 23:14, 20 September 2007 (UTC) Defunct as of 19:38, 11 February 2015 (UTC)
Defunct as of 19:39, 11 February 2015 (UTC)
Defunct as of 19:40, 11 February 2015 (UTC)
URL | http://askfactmaster.com/enc-en/ |
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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.
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Contact info | support AT lukol.com, abuse AT sagonet.com (host) |
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Defunct as of 19:42, 11 February 2015 (UTC)
URL | http://www.askmytutor.co.uk/ |
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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) |
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URL | http://www.assistivetechnology.cc/ |
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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)
Defunct as of 19:44, 11 February 2015 (UTC)
URL | http://atla.wikispaces.com/ |
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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)
URL | http://www.azplayers.com |
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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 |
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Defunct as of 19:47, 11 February 2015 (UTC)
Defunct as of 19:51, 11 February 2015 (UTC)
URL | http://www.banglavasha.com |
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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)
URL | http://www.basicfamouspeople.com/ and http://www.basiccelebrations.com/ |
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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)
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Defunct as of 19:55, 11 February 2015 (UTC)
URL | http://www.bing.com/reference/ |
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Description | |
Sample | http://www.bing.com/reference/semhtml/The_39_Clues |
Rating | "High" |
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Defunct as of 17:46, 11 June 2019 (UTC)
URL | http://www.biography.ms/ |
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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) |
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URL | http://dic.blogopt.com/ |
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Description | |
Sample | http://dic.blogopt.com/Winston_County%2C_Alabama |
Rating | None |
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Contact info | alfredo_fetuccini AT blogopt.com (admin), legal AT nlayer.net (ISP) |
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URL | http://www.book-spot.co.uk |
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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) |
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URL | http://www.brujula.net/english/wiki/Main_Page.html |
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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) |
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URL | www.cassiopedia.org |
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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 en.wikipedia.org/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. |
URL | http://www.catalogofcasinos.com/ |
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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) |
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URL | http://www.chessandbeyond.com |
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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. |
URL | http://clanmacnicolutah.com/aboutus.aspx |
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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)
URL | http://www.creotec.com/index.php?title=ebusiness&page=ebusiness_solution |
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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. |
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URL | http://www.CustomerServiceCareers.com |
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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) |
URL | http://www.definition-info.com |
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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) |
URL | http://www.definitioncenter.com/ |
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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) |
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URL | http://*.dellpda.info/ |
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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. |
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URL | http://www.didgeridooman.com |
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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 |
URL | http://www.digimelon.com/Main_Page/index.html |
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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) |
URL | http://www.electricfenceaustralia.com.au/electric_fencing_tips.html/ |
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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) |
Vacuum c 03:29, August 29, 2005 (UTC)
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)
URL | http://engine.blogsome.com/ |
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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
URL | http://www.english-football.org.uk |
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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. |
URL | http://www.enquirerworld.com/ |
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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) |
Says essays are no longer being hosted on that site [14]
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)
URL | http://www.explainplease.com |
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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) |
URL | http://exsudo.com |
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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. |
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More research requested
URL | http://encyclopedia.fablis.com |
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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) |
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URL | http://www.flyfloss.com |
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Description | |
Sample | http://www.flyfloss.com/pages10/95/wall-lamps.html |
Rating | Low |
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Actions | Shut down mostly, the main page redirects. Watch for a while though. -- WB 07:33, 23 January 2006 (UTC) |
URL | http://www.golf-corner.net/articles/ |
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Description | |
Sample | http://www.golf-corner.net/articles/Cape_Horn |
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URL | information.static.net |
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Description | |
Sample | information.static.net/insulated-panel.html |
Rating | Low |
Compliance |
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Contact info | |
Actions | DNS admins contacted. No longer connects to that IP address. IP still remains
however. -- WB 00:24, 20 January 2006 (UTC) |
URL | information.ysdn.net |
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Description | |
Sample | information.static.net/insulated-panel.html |
Rating | Low |
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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) |
URL | http://www.intelipedia.com |
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Sample | |
Rating | Medium |
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Contact info | |
Actions | Domain expired -- WB 03:33, 19 January 2006 (UTC) |
URL | http://www.lex-24.de |
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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 |
URL | http://bpt.yi.org/ |
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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) |
— Gwalla | Talk 03:00, 14 Apr 2005 (UTC)
URL | http://wikipedia.lotsofinformation.com |
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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. |
URL | http://www.fractalmovies.com/ |
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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) |
Research requested. JesseW 22:36, 18 July 2005 (UTC)
(from the article Ali Daei, see Talk:Ali Daei)
Response:
--mav 23:21, 7 Jan 2004 (UTC)
UNCONFIRMED Contact info via online sources: 508-481-3336 listed for three names:
Notes:
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)
URL | http://www.phatnav.com/wiki/index.php?title=Main_Page |
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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 |
URL | http://beta.previewseek.com |
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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) |
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URL | http://protectedplanet.net |
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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). |
URL | http://www.geocities.com/protoillyrian/ |
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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) |
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)
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.
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)
URL | http://www.savage-comedy.com/ |
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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://en.wikipedia.org", but no link back to article. |
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URL | http://www.sicherheitsmeister.com/mv/index.php/Main_Page |
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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 |
URL | http://stalkerpedia.org/ http://stalkerpedia.org/ |
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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) |
URL | http://usedaudiparts.com/ |
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Description | |
Sample | http://usedaudiparts.com/search.php?title=Scotland |
Rating | None |
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Actions | Domain expired around January 25, 2005. -- WB 08:53, 23 February 2006 (UTC) |
URL | http://www.usefulreference.com |
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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 |
URL | http://www.vacilando.org/index.php?title=Main_Page |
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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.
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--Mig77(t) 10:52, 29 August 2006 (UTC)
URL | http://wiki.verkata.com/ |
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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) |
URL | http://www.vetmer.se/ |
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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) |
URL | http://www.veropedia.com/ |
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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) |
URL | http://vietnam.yourwiki.net |
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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. |
URL | http://www.videoonwikipedia.com/howto.html |
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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 | ? |
URL | en.vi.ki |
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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 |
URL | http://www.violaheaven.com |
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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. |
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)
Seems to have mirrored from eurofreehost.com before they were compliant. Includes (unlinked) notice that content is GDFL. No mention of wikipedia. Example: [27]
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)
URL | http://www.what-means.com/encyclopedia/ |
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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.
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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) |
URL | https://wikidaily.org/wiki/Main_Page |
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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. |
URL | http://en.wikilib.com |
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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 |
URL | http://www.wikipediaondvd.com/nav/art/d/w.html |
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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 |
--Calton 00:59, 28 Jan 2005 (UTC)
(E-mail sent by Dori asking not to do this -- no response yet)
URL | http://www.yawiki.org |
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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:
URL | http://zipox.com |
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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) |
URL | http://www.zirozebar.com/pedia-en/wiki |
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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 infozirozebar.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) |