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Contents

Mirrors and Forks : (Numbers) ABC - DEF - GHI - JKL - MNO - PQR - STU - VWXYZ - All - Archive

Numbers

0po0

  • 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

1-1-2008.com

See My Wiki

1bx.com and related

1bx.com
URL
  • http://1bx.com/
  • msn988.info
  • iask8.info
  • beidu.info
  • donkeylink.com
  • askmore.net
  • toshare.info
  • fellowshare.com
  • wozhidao.info
  • vb.game-host.org
  • nba.servegame.org
  • toshare.dynup.net
  • stevehome.dynup.net
  • term-life.no-ip.info
  • vioxx.no-ip.info
  • webnote.info
  • juugle.info
  • porkdb.info
  • worlditems.info
  • iask123.info
  • qq818.info
  • qq888.info
  • onebrainman.info
  • syzygytech.info
  • tocatch.info
  • encyclopedia.figureout.info
Sample
  • http://www.1bx.com/en/Tonga.htm
Rating Medium
Details 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 says he has set up 1 year caching), and hotlink images. 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
  • Emailed host to complain about lack of contact information in whois. Superm401 -

Talk 03:10, 23 January 2006 (UTC)

  • Received replies indicating DNS provider will not consider the use of anonymous whois data a violation of their TOS. Superm401 - Talk 00:25, 26 January 2006 (UTC)
  • Sent email to 1BX.COM AT domainsbyproxy.com asking for an HTML link. Superm401 - Talk 00:25, 26 January 2006 (UTC)
  • Sent certified letter to:
DOMAINS BY PROXY®
Attn: Legal Complaints
15111 N. Hayden Road, Suite 160
PMB 353
Scottsdale, AZ 85260
Resent certified letter to correct address (previous had wrong address). Confirmation is 70052570000177871962. Superm401 - Talk 08:48, 27 January 2007 (UTC)
Has been delivered. :) Superm401 - Talk 02:16, 31 January 2007
Received email from generalmanager AT domainsbyproxy.com saying "In this particular instance, we have contacted our customer and requested that they contact you by February 7, 2007 to resolve this situation. Please confirm at that time that our customer has made this step. Failure to contact you as we have requested would be a violation of our terms of service. If our customer fails to contact you, we will proceed with the cancellation of the privacy service on this domain." The subject of the email is "RE :: 1BX.COM :: 100170"; this is probably necessary for followups. Superm401 - Talk 21:49, 2 February 2007 (UTC)
I received an email noting that 1bx.net has been fixed. Superm401 - Talk 23:29, 2 February 2007 (UTC)
Replied noting that they were dynamically loading, and that some sites still aren't in compliance. Superm401 - Talk 23:39, 2 February 2007 (UTC)
He replied saying he had fixed another site (and said there is a 1 year cache). I replied back asking him to stop hotlinking. Superm401 - Talk 01:51, 3 February 2007 (UTC)
He said he would fix the hotlinking, and that all sites should be fixed. Superm401 - Talk 02:15, 3 February 2007 (UTC)

2place.org

2place.org
URL http//2place.org/
Sample http://2place.org/wiki/Cliff_Richard
Rating "High"
Details Gives both local copy of GFDL and Wikipedia backlink (backlink is broken)
Contact info
Actions Not necessary, unless for broken link

2violent.com

2violent.com
URL http://www.2violent.com/
Sample http://www.2violent.com/sharon_tate.html
Rating Medium
Details There is a notice that mentions Wikipedia and the GFDL. The whole thing links to wikipedia.org, but there is no history section, link to the original article, or link to the GFDL. Other pages besides "Sharon Tate" appear to be a partial derivation of older wikipedia articles, or, just possibly, some text from them has been uploaded to wikipedia, as I have found exact word for word passages in Jay Sebring and Charles Manson from around 2004 November 8 or later. -Wikibob - Talk 19:32, 2005 May 22 (UTC)
  • Note: I've changed this to medium, as both Wikipedia and GFDL are mentioned, and the images are not being ripped off WP's servers.
Contact info webmaster AT 2violent.com, clasione AT verizon.net (domain admin), abuse AT godaddy.com (host)
Actions
  • Emailed webmaster AT 2violent.com, clasione AT verizon.net (domain admin) politely referring to Sharon Tate copy.

-Wikibob - Talk 20:52, 2005 May 22 (UTC)

  • Sent standard followup letter, mentioning Charles Manson. Superm401 - Talk 09:14, 3 January 2007 (UTC)
    • Got 553 sorry, relaying denied from your location from webmaster AT 2violent.com and 4.2.1 mailbox temporarily disabled from clasione AT verizon.net Superm401 - Talk 09:26, 3 January 2007 (UTC)

7val

7val
URL http://en.wikipedia.7val.com
Sample http://en.wikipedia.7val.com/w/index.php?title=Knowledge
Rating High
Details Dynamic mirror. Links to local mirror of GFDL and history section. No explicit notice that material is under the GFDL, though.
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)

999 Network

999 Network
URL http://999network.com/
Sample http://999architects.com/
Rating Medium
Details A network of sites, each covering one topic using one Wikipedia article. Articles carry a link to Wikipedia home, direct link to source article on Wikipedia, and a link to GFDL directly under article text. Articles are edited versions, based on a one-time export, and are not updated. Images are not used. Author names and dates are not listed.
Contact info pat.fox[at]canall.com
Actions

A

Aaronlanguage.com

Aaronlanguage (probable; I can't read Japanese)
URL http://aaronlanguage.com/
Sample http://aaronlanguage.com/reading_high_school_5.htm
Rating "None"
Details The term "Wikipedia" does not appear on the page. I doubt the source is explained in the Japanese on the page.
Contact info isshirley AT highstream.net, 415-468-5568 (admin)
Actions Are we sure this isn't the other way around, WP copying from this site? The Evil Spartan (talk) 16:20, 25 December 2007 (UTC)

Abaara

info.abaara.com
URL http://info.abaara.com
Sample http://info.abaara.com/pac/Partial_differential_equation
Rating "Medium"-"Low" compliance with GFDL (matches Wikipedia:GFDL Compliance).
Details "This article is from Wikipedia. All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License" with link to local page; that has two paragraph description of GFDL and nonlinked URL for GFDL at gnu.org. No obvious link to Wikipedia or original article or history
Contact info info AT abaara.com (local), telania AT gmail.com 5022914650 (whois)
Actions

Abbaci books

Abbaci Books
URL http://www.abacci.com/books
Sample http://www.abacci.com/books/authorDetails.asp?authorID=263
Rating Medium High
Details Links to the original article, with link text "Wikipedia", and has long GFDL notice with offsite link.
Contact info http://www.abacci.com/books/page/contact.asp
Actions Moved to high. The Evil Spartan (talk) 16:28, 25 December 2007 (UTC)

ABC World

ABC World
URL http://abcworld.net/
Sample http://abcworld.net/culture.html
Rating Low
Details 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)

About.com

  • Site: About.com
  • acknowledgement without a link
  • no mention of GFDL. Standard letter sent by: MB 08:01 13 Jul 2003 (UTC)
  • Point of contact, Mary Bellis inventors.guide AT about.com.
  • Response received Sun, 13 Jul 2003 04:26:14 -0700.
  • Portions of affected articles at inventors.about.com (as of July 14 2003) link back to wikipedia and are released under the GFDL.
  • Any examples of the affected articles? Can't find any trivially.
  • Don't email the person above; she is only responsible for "inventors" section, and seems rather grumpy.Proyster 15:22, 23 June 2006 (UTC)
  • They are putting a "copyright 2006 About.com" on the content--which (in my view) violates the terms. I find this extremely objectionable.Proyster 20:13, 21 June 2006 (UTC) As of the current time, they do not display an About.com copyright, instead: "This is the "GNU Free Documentation License" reference article from the English Wikipedia". AnonEMouse (squeak) 19:53, 23 August 2006 (UTC)
  • I emailed a complaint today regarding their page at http://experts.about.com/e/j/jo/Joshua_Scottow.htm and (a few hours later) the page now re-directs to the Wikipedia original page.Proyster 20:27, 21 June 2006 (UTC)
  • Looking at this mirror, I don't see any acknowledgement that the articles originally come from Wikipedia, or any history of contributions. FreplySpang 01:53, 9 November 2006 (UTC)
  • No mention of Wikipedia or GFDL I saw before their obnoxious spyware?/adware? finally crashed my browser. John Reid ° 14:53, 18 November 2006 (UTC)
  • I know an editor there, she definitely writes her own stuff. No adware/spyware at about.com either.


About.com (not url)
URL www.about.com
Sample http://classiclit.about.com/cs/profileswriters/p/aa_mshelley.htm?terms=Mary+Shelley is a former version of Mary Shelley.
Rating Varies from article to article. As mentioned above, some copyright it under themselves, others link right to

Wikipedia.

Details This one has a copyright on the bottom saying that it is copyright of About.com , a member of the New York Times Company.
Contact info classiclit.guide AT about.com is the email address to the specific guide of this page. The problem was mentioned above. To other people, I don't know.
Actions None.

Check this out though, it almost sounds like the "guide" claims she wrote the article: http://classiclit.about.com/mbiopage.htm

Absolute Astronomy

Absolute Astronomy
URL http://www.absoluteastronomy.com
Sample
Rating Undetermined
Details This website formerly violated the GFDL. I am uncertain whether they currently use Wikipedia articles. http://www.absoluteastronomy.com/planets/Uranus.htm , for instance, is similar to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uranus but I haven't determine whether there's still copying. If you remove this entry, be sure to archive it.

I am one of the creators of this site. Our wikipedia mirror was removed in 2006. Also, the GFDL violation was related to displaying sourcing information inside javascripts. This created problems for visitors who had javascript disabled. The problem was corrected when it was brought to our attention.

Contact info {{{contact}}}
Actions {{{action}}}

aboutsociology.com

aboutsociology.com (not url)
URL http://aboutsociology.com
Sample http://www.aboutsociology.com/sociology/Madrid_Metro
Rating "Medium"/High
Details 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

AbsoluteArts.com

World Wide Arts Resources / AbsoluteArts.com
URL http://www.absolutearts.com/
Sample http://www.absolutearts.com/artsnews/2006/01/06/33592.html
Rating "Low/None"
Details I have no idea whether they often crib from us, but the last paragraph of the cited sample page on "Archival Investigations: Early Electro-mechanical Sound Works and Artifacts from Trimpin’s First Five Years in Seattle" is a straight-out copy of the first two paragraphs of our article on Trimpin - Jmabel
Contact info Telephone: 740-587-3326, Fax: 740-587-4103

Email: help AT wwar.com or help AT absolutearts.com
Snail mail: World Wide Arts Resources; absolutearts.com; 3678 Loudon Street; Granville, Ohio 43023; USA

Actions

Academic Kids

Academic Kids
URL http://academickids.com/encyclopedia/index.php/Main_Page
Sample http://academickids.com/encyclopedia/index.php/User:Jimbo_Wales
Rating "Low/Medium"
Details Only contains top edit in article history, looks to be a mirror of the WP database as of June 23, 2005. No links back to Wikipedia, no mention of Wikipedia as a source, GFDL is mentioned via its link to Wikipedia.
Contact info http://academickids.com/contact/index.htm lists jd4ga7 AT yaoo.com[sic] as the contact, WHOIS lists jd4ga AT classroomclipart.com, (310)832-5686.
Actions

Academie.de Net-Lexikon

  • Site: Academie.de Net-Lexikon
  • copies German-language Wikipedia
  • indicates Wikipedia as source
  • links to original article
  • links to copy of the WikipediaDE GNU/FDL page, which links to GNU/FDL at gnu.org (minus point for indirect link; however the GNU/FDL is mentioned directly, so not a grave one)
  • Does not contain "aus Wikipedia, der freien Enzyklopädie"

adago.com

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)

Adorons.com

adorons.com
URL http://adorons.com/wiki
Sample http://www.adorons.com/wiki/Your_Choice_Live_Series_Vol.10
Rating None
Details 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 {{{contact}}}
Actions None Fram 13:29, 11 October 2007 (UTC)
  • Ack. It is dynamically updating from Wikipedia. The Evil Spartan (talk) 22:40, 25 December 2007 (UTC)

Advantacell.com

advantacell.com
URL http://advantacell.com
Sample http://advantacell.com/wiki/University_of_California%2C_Santa_Barbara, http://it.advantacell.com/wiki/Verde
Rating Medium
Details 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).

Agenda.z1.ro

Agenda.z1.ro / Agenda ta
URL http://agenda.z1.ro
Sample http://agenda.z1.ro/baba.php
Rating "Low/None"
Details 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.

aircraft-list.com

aircraft-list.com
URL http://aircraft-list.com/
Sample http://www.aircraft-list.com/db/Antonov_An-225/59/
Rating
Details Copy of Wikipedia articles about aircrafts 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.

Algebra.com

Algebra.com
URL http://www.algebra.com/algebra/about/history/Main_Page.wikipedia
Sample http://www.algebra.com/algebra/about/history/Algebra.wikipedia
Rating Low
Details A seeming verbatim copy of all Wikipedia. It does not seem to use remote loading except when it has no copy of the article. In other cases, it appears to refresh a cache occasionally. However, it does appear to load images remotely, which is unacceptable. This should be verified. They are still probably compliant, though attribution info is off-site. Wikipedia used to have its own attribution info off-site until commons descriptions were automatically imported. However, because of the remote image loading alone, I am marking this medium. Also, they are scraping userpages.
Contact info ichudov AT algebra.com
Actions sent letter to contact attress

All2know.com

All2know.com
URL http://www.all2know.com
Sample http://www.all2know.com/de/wikipedia/t/to/tonga.html
Rating Medium
Details There is a link to www.wikipedia.org, but no link to the article copied. There is a GFDL notice with a link to Wikipedia's copy of the GFDL.
Contact info
Actions

Allabout.cc

  • Site: Allabout.cc
  • Link to GNU FDL
  • Link to www.wikipedia.org
  • Says that "it [the article] uses material from Wikipedia"
  • Nolink to original article

All About-kittens.com

All About-kittens.com
URL http://www.about-kittens.com
Sample http://www.about-kittens.com/563/Korat
Rating "Low/None" "Medium"
Details 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)

The site still doesn't seem to credit Wikipedia, and claims the copyright for itself (© 2005-2006 about-kittens.com). It does say in the copyright notice that "Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license is included in the section entitled "GNU Free Documentation License". " Is further action on this necessary? Cows fly kites (Aecis) Rule/Contributions 12:57, 17 April 2007 (UTC)
Site now credits WP. No link to direct page, and link to WP version of GFDL. Moving to medium. The Evil Spartan (talk) 10:18, 26 December 2007 (UTC)

All About-puppies.com

All About-puppies.com
URL http://www.about-puppies.com/
Sample http://www.about-puppies.com/721/Yorkshire_Terrier
Rating "Low/None" Medium
Details 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)
Upgraded to medium. Now mentions Wikipedia, no link to direct article. Gives link to Wikipedia version of GFDL. The Evil Spartan (talk) 22:45, 25 December 2007 (UTC)

allmichaeljordan.com

Michael Jordan
URL http://www.allmichaeljordan.com/
Sample http://www.allmichaeljordan.com/career.php
Rating "Medium"
Details Material is spread across three pages at the site: http://www.allmichaeljordan.com/index.php, http://www.allmichaeljordan.com/biography.php, and http://www.allmichaeljordan.com/career.php. They appear to be taken from a version of the article Michael Jordan dated sometime in October, 2006. this version from October 1, 2006 is particularly similar, but phrases from versions as early as 2004 and 2005 are present, indicating that this wasn't a violation on Wikipedia's part. The WHOIS data from GoDaddy.com (through which the site is registered), lists a registration date of October 28, 2006. The site claims "Copyright © 2006 All Rights Reserved All Michael Jordan.Com".
Contact info Site administrator: Mike Azif aziml AT aol.com.
Actions Standard GFDL compliance request sent. Sancho 15:32, 15 August 2007 (UTC)

GFDL licensing information is now included on the web site, giving credit to Wikipedia and linking to the article. However, the GFDL is not hosted locally, but is a link to Wikipedia's GFDL page. I changed this site's compliance rating to Medium. Sancho 23:21, 21 August 2007 (UTC)

Allrss.com

Allrss.com "RSS Compendium"
URL http://allrss.com/
Sample http://allrss.com/wikipedia.php?title=Harmonic_coordinate_condition
Rating Low
Details 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)
  • Appears to be scraping (it has my user talk page). The Evil Spartan (talk) 22:50, 25 December 2007 (UTC)

All Science Fair Projects Encyclopedia

* "Copyright (C) 2003 All Science Fair Projects.com All Rights Reserved" listed on every page * Copyright notice and 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)

  • 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 [2]
    • Acknowledges wikipedia source
    • No Link back to wikipedia original article

moved from main page Davelane 22:47, 14 Sep 2004 (UTC)

Alternative To Reality

Alternative To Reality
URL http://www.alternative2reality.com
Sample http://www.alternative2reality.com/history/CBS
Rating None
Details *No mention of GNU FDL and of Wikipedia
  • All pages have the footnote "(c) 2006 alternative2reality.com".
Contact info
Actions email

Amazines.com

Amazines
URL http://www.amazines.com
Sample http://amazines.com/Superoxide_related.html, http://www.amazines.com/Jesse_Jackson_related.html
Rating "Medium"
Details I have added notices but am unsure if this is sufficient. - Ryan (website owner).
  • Links back to Wikipedia.org, but not specific page, and links to Wikipedia's version of GFDL. Changing to medium. The Evil Spartan (talk) 10:21, 26 December 2007 (UTC)
Contact info Ryan Jones - 805-579-0545
Actions email

andamannicobarin.com

  • 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

animalwebguide.com

The Animal Web Guide
URL http://animalwebguide.com
Sample http://www.animalwebguide.com/Alligator.htm (compare to Alligator)
Rating "None"
Details The articles are direct copies from from en.wikipedia, but neither Wikipedia nor the GFDL are mentioned anywhere
Contact info author is listed as Chuck Ayoub (chuck_ayoub AT hotmail.com )
Actions

animefanwiki.de

Animefanwiki
URL http://www.animefanwiki.de
Sample http://www.animefanwiki.de/index.php?title=Elfen_Lied&limit=500&action=history (see first entry)
Rating "None"
Details The articles are translations from en:wikipedia, this is nowhere mentioned, GFDL and original authors are not mentioned.
Contact info main page says write to webmaster AT animefanboard.de
Actions de:Benutzer:Don-kun pointed to the copyright violation at main page discussion before it was deleted and the discussion page was blocked. Then he tried to discuss it in the forum but was dismissed.

since 11.11.2007, the GNU-Licence is mentioned at [3]--141.30.140.100 09:25, 13 November 2007 (UTC)(don-kun)

got a mail from one sysop of animefanwiki. The problem may be solved soon. --141.30.140.100 15:45, 13 November 2007 (UTC) (don-kun)

once more, GDFL oder wikipedia is not mentioned [4]. No solution found in Diskussion in the forum [5]. They have no will to mention GNU or wikipedia. What to do? --141.30.140.100 (talk) 09:37, 20 November 2007 (UTC) (don-kun)

Annlongfineart.com

Ann Long Fine Art
URL http://www.annlongfineart.com
Sample http://www.annlongfineart.com/artists/magritte
Rating "Low/None" compliance with GFDL
Details 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)

Anoca.org

Anoca.org
URL http://www.anoca.org
Sample http://www.anoca.org/information/computing/computer_science.html
Rating High
Details They acknowledge Wikipedia and note that the content is under the GFDL. There are links to the original articles, as well as to a local copy of the GFDL. Each article has an automatic list of misspellings of the title. Update: the site seems no longer to mirror Wikipedia at all. 08:33, 28 May 2008 (UTC)
Contact info domains AT quigibo.com (whois), legal-response AT theplanet.com
Actions

Answers.com

Answers.com
URL http://www.answers.com/
Sample http://www.answers.com/main/ntquery?s=New+York&answers.x=0&answers.y=0&gwp=8, http://www.answers.com/topic/absolute-power-series
Rating Medium – only thing missing is the link to page history.
Details
  • Wikipedia pages are clearly attributed to Wikipedia. At the bottom of every page that includes a Wikipedia article, a note such as the following is presented: "This article is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License. It uses material from the Wikipedia article "New York"." See http://www.answers.com/topic/new-york#copyright for that example.
  • Footnote on front page but not articles: Copyright ©2005 GuruNet Corporation. About GuruNet: online reference library - encyclopedias, dictionaries, thesaurus and much more...
  • Copy of Wikipedia article seen was a much earlier version which suggests that Answers.com may not be able to cope with Wikipedia's "ongoing editing" format. The unsuspecting visitor to Answers.com has no means of knowing this. Nor does this help Wikipedia's image. A mere external link on Answers.com rather than the article in full would be more satisfactory. Portress 19:45, 21 May 2005 (UTC)
  • Well, they might do some kind of fact checking on the article version they mirror. But they should mention the date of the last edit on the article they mirrored and mention that the article could have undergone further changes since then. --L33tminion (talk) 17:56, Jun 5, 2005 (UTC)
  • They have started making "Answer Notes". These are shortened versions of Wikipedia articles (and possibly other content). At least one of them is a derivative work of the below Wikipedia article. This is certain because the first sentence is an exact copy. However, it is not licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License. Others are probably also illegal deriviative works. Hence, they are now at medium compliance. I have sent a violation letter. Superm401 20:05, 3 December 2005 (UTC)
  • Rather than license the note under the GFDL, they rewrote it to attempt to stop it from being a derivative work. I suspect that other notes are derivative works, so I'm keeping it at medium. Superm401 18:37, 15 January 2006 (UTC)
  • Image pages now appear to display copyright correctly. See, e.g., [6]. Are there any concrete objections at this point? Slow mirroring isn't a valid compliance issue, and I don't see any concrete examples of pirated AnswerNotes. —Simetrical (talk • contribs) 04:45, 15 June 2006 (UTC)
  • In the Absolute Power page above, the content appears to have been kept up-to-date with our version, including the image, which is also identical. There is a large bar at the top of the page including the Wikipedia logo and name, and their framing of the image looks distinctly familiar. —Vanderdeckenξφ 20:00, 15 July 2006 (UTC)
  • See also Wikipedia:Tools/1-Click Answers and Answers.com press release announcing 1-Click Answers, Wikipedia Edition (released in 2006, in partnership with the Foundation).
  • Also includes content from commercial encyclopædias.
Contact info
Actions None.

Archaeologics

Archaeologics
URL Archaeologics.com
Sample http://www.archaeologics.com/Health-RtoZ/Syphilis.php
Rating Low/None
Details 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 (usertalkcontribs) 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 (usertalkcontribs) 13:55, 14 May 2007 (UTC)

area51.ipupdater.com

area51.ipupdater.com (no other name given
URL http://area51.ipupdater.com
Sample http://cedilla.area51.ipupdater.com
Rating Medium-High
Details 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)

aRiKaH

aRiKaH
URL http://www.arikah.net and http://www.arikah.com
Sample http://www.arikah.net/encyclopedia/History_of_Peru, http://www.arikah.com/encyclopedia/Marquis_de_Condorcet
Rating Medium
Details Link text "Wikipedia" (redirected) to corresponding Wikipedia page, and a link to a local copy of the GFDL. However, both links are impossible to distinguish from regular text except on hover (because of CSS). Also, they have pidepikiw instead of Wikipedia in the source, then reverse it with a CSS hack; I consider this a dirty trick and it shows up as pidepikiW with CSS disabled (though the links become more obvious). They also have nofollow on both links.
Contact info a_rikah AT fastmail.fm (webmaster) ipnet AT layeredtech.com (isp admin) domain.tech AT yahoo-inc.com (dns admin)
Actions None Roarjo 06:21, 13 May 2006 (UTC)

Arizona Gardens

ArizonaGardens.org
URL http://www.arizonagardens.org
Sample http://www.arizonagardens.org/Grapefruit
Rating "High", compliance with GFDL (matches Wikipedia:GFDL Compliance).
Details 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.

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)

Armageddon Online

Armageddon Online
URL http://www.armageddononline.org/
Sample http://www.armageddononline.org/comet_shoemaker-levy_9.php, http://www.armageddononline.org/worldwar3.php, http://www.armageddononline.org/biowarfare.php
Rating Low
Details
Partial mirror, possibly with some additions.
  • No mention of GNU FDL either on individual pages or on http://www.armageddononline.org/disclaimer.php (site disclaimer and legal information).
  • Some pages contain links to original article and/or Wikipedia:Copyrights (eg, http://www.armageddononline.org/comet_shoemaker-levy_9.php, but not all of them (eg http://www.armageddononline.org/worldwar3.php, http://www.armageddononline.org/biowarfare.php). Appears to be haphazard.
  • All pages have the footnote "All Pages Copyright © Armageddon Online".
  • http://www.armageddononline.org/contact.php says "All articles on Armageddon Online were written exclusively for Armageddon Online and may not be used under any circumstances with out explicit permission from the administration."
Contact info amazingbible AT verizon.net, http://www.armageddononline.org/contactadmin.php, http://www.armageddononline.org/contactwebmaster.php
Actions Sent tweaked standard violation letter to amazingbible AT verizon.net. Superm401 - Talk 23:37, 5 January 2007 (UTC)

Armeniapedia

Armeniapedia
URL http://www.armeniapedia.org/index.php?title=Main_Page
Sample http://www.armeniapedia.org/index.php?title=Raffi_Cavoukian
Rating High
Details Attributes (including linking to) Wikipedia and has a GFDL notice.
Contact info http://www.armeniapedia.org/index.php?title=User_talk:Raffi
Actions Violation letter sent. Superm401

Note Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2007-07-23/News and notes and Australian Refugee Review Tribunal

ArsenalHQ

Arsenal HQ
URL http://www.arsenalhq.com/
Sample http://www.arsenalhq.com/history.php
Rating None
Details 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

Art History Club

  • Site: Art History Club
  • Example: Albania
  • States "The content of this article is licensed from Wikipedia.org under the GNU Free Documentation License" at end of each page
  • No hyperlink to Wikipedia or to orginial article
  • "Copyright" at bottom of each page links to disclaimers and local copy of GFDL.
    --Henrygb 22:12, 17 July 2005 (UTC)
    • Like CARluvers, each article ends with: "The contents of this article are licensed from Wikipedia.org under the GNU Free Documentation License. How to see transparent copy" with link to www.wikipedia.org (using backwards Javascript) and to local copy of GFDL plus link to local description of how to find original article. --Henrygb 02:05, 7 December 2005 (UTC)
    • States that it is an "art history encyclopedia," but contains articles on subjects unrelated to art.[7] Seahen 02:26, 9 April 2006 (UTC)
  • contains pop-up ads.

articles.co.nr

2006 Wikipedia CD Selection
URL http://articles.co.nr (clicking that link displays http://124.125.21.126/wcd/)
Sample http://124.125.21.126/wcd/wp/e/Enceladus_%2528moon%2529.htm compared to Enceladus_(moon)
Rating Medium
Details Each page has a link that acknowledges wikipedia with links to a local copy of the GFDL and their notice of copyright and disclaimer. Images are kept locally but no image information is available. Individual pages have no wikipedia history, in fact the reader is told The original authors or creators of content and images from Wikipedia may be found by going to the article in the English Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page) with the same article name and tracing content via the page history.
Contact info User:Achalmeena has been inserting spam links to this site in wikipedia and claims that industrial.org is his website. The top level of the domain http://124.125.21.126/ identifies itself as software.org, with the contact details of root AT industrialsoft.org. Whois doesn't return the users name (Achal Meena), but ??
Actions None — Graibeard (talk) 12:10, 16 July 2006 (UTC)


Artilifes.com

Artilifes.com
URL http://www.artilifes.com/aboutartilifes.html
Sample http://www.artilifes.com/mathematics.html
Rating Low/None
Details All articles are copies that do not mention Wikipedia or the GFDL.
Contact info http://www.artilifes.com/contactartilifes.html (contact form), copyrightclaims AT godaddy.com, (host's DMCA agent), post address at http://www.domainsbyproxy.com/legalAgreement.aspx (requires certified mail).
Actions
  • Sent standard violation letter. Superm401 - Talk 08:41, 22 January 2006 (UTC)
  • Sent violation letter to abuse AT domainsbyproxy.com. Superm401 - Talk 23:55, 5 January 2007 (UTC)
    • Received reply that they abuse AT domainsbyproxy.com is only for spam. Superm401 - Talk 03:41, 6 January 2007 (UTC)

Artistopia

Artistopia
URL http://www.artistopia.com
Sample http://www.artistopia.com/the-pussycat-dolls
Rating Medium
Details Every page has a Copyright citations section at the bottom. "It says This article is licensed under the GNU License", with GNU license linking to an off-site copy of the GFDL. The next line is " Click here for original article: ABBA". The article name links back to Wikipedia. At the very bottom it says "Copyright 2007, iCubator Labs, LLC, All Rights Reserved."
Contact info corporate AT artistopia.com (WHOIS), http://www.artistopia.com/About-Us/Contact.asp
Actions

ArtLine.ro

ArtLine.ro
URL http://www.artline.ro/
Sample http://www.artline.ro/2_588_Baba__Corneliu_4945.html
Rating "Low/None"
Details Non-compliant. Page appears to be an image of some sort, not HTML text, but it is our content (I know, because I wrote this one). I haven't examined beyond the one page. - Jmabel
Contact info unknown
Actions Nothing so far

ArtPolitic

Atlas Words

  • Site: http://www.atlaswords.com

Arts and Design Info

Arts and Design Info
URL http://www.arts-design-info.com/
Sample http://www.arts-design-info.com/data/Digital_art.html (from Digital Art)
Rating
Details Mentions GNU FDL license and links to a local copy of it. Acknowledges Wikipedia authorship. No link to original article
Contact info
Actions

No response 23:14, 20 September 2007 (UTC)

Asia Information 01

  • 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 [10]

Asinah.net

  • Site: Asinah.net
  • Acknowledges wikipedia authorship, links to wikipedia
    • Not for their Dutch version.
  • States that the article is licensed under the GNU FDL.
    • Though it links to what looks to be a partial copy or commentary about the license rather than the actual text of the license.
  • Does not link to the relevant wikipedia page, but does link to the edit function of the individual page (under the heading "edit this page")
    • It no longer does this, at least not for an not logged in user.
    • It now only links to their copy of our article on Wikipedia. [11] Guanaco 16:46, 21 Aug 2004 (UTC)
  • Example: [12] from Kyoto Protocol.
    • Now seems to be a Thailand tourist page, but previous version can be seen on Google search and cache [13] Henrygb 17:20, 1 August 2005 (UTC)
  • forum page include some comments on articles and replies from site admins. Reading a few replies, it seems that the admins encourage people to edit articles on Wikipedia.
  • The placement of their own copyright notice makes it unclear exactly what they are claiming copyright for.
  • I could not find any link to the history of the article nor any attribution of authorship aside from the link to the Wikipedia main page.
  • No mention of Wikipedia on the Hindi version.

ask.dyndyns.dk

  • Sample article: http://article.ask.dyndns.dk/
  • Acknowledges Wikipedia as source, says content is GFDL.
  • Links back to corresponding WP page and to FDL on GNU site.
  • Main page seems to be http://ask.dyndns.dk/ which offers search of local content.
  • Contains a list at the bottom of every article of (computer-generated) misspellings of the title, each one of which links to a subpage identical to the parent (which contains the copy of the article, of course), probably in order to rank high on Google searches.
  • Does not handle the interwiki or category links properly, which causes a load of rubbish to appear at the end of every article (apart from the aforementioned list of misspellings) - see, for example, http://richard-stallman.ask.dyndns.dk/. --Fibonacci 05:07, 2 December 2005 (UTC)
    • Now redirects to empty web directory --Rumping 09:22, 21 September 2007 (UTC)

AskFactMaster

AskFactMaster
URL http://askfactmaster.com/enc-en/
Sample http://askfactmaster.com/?title=United%20States
Rating Medium
Details 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.
    • Now links to GFDL at gnu.org 22:40, 27 September 2007 (UTC)
Contact info support AT lukol.com, abuse AT sagonet.com (host)
Actions
  • Emailed support AT top-greetings.com asking for a plain-text notice with links to the GFDL and original article. I also asked for replacements (Wikipedia->AskFactMaster.com) to be reversed (or a history section entry added). Superm401 - Talk 22:30, 19 February 2006 (UTC)
  • Received reply stating "I'll address the issues you mentioned in details within several days and will get back to you." Superm401 - Talk 06:38, 23 February 2006 (UTC)
  • Sent followup asking that GFDL be hosted locally and that he link to actual article not main page. Superm401 - Talk 00:17, 6 January 2007 (UTC)

assault-weapons.com

AssistiveTechnology.cc

AssistiveTechnology.cc
URL http://www.assistivetechnology.cc/
Sample http://www.assistivetechnology.cc/wiki/1992
Rating
Details Live mirror of Wikipedia, includes copyright notice
Contact info
Actions None

Avapedia

Avapedia
URL http://atla.wikispaces.com/
Sample http://atla.wikispaces.com/Aang, http://atla.wikispaces.com/Zuko, http://atla.wikispaces.com/Azula
Rating Undetermined
Details 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.

avoo.com

  • Site: www.avoo.com
  • Example: www.avoo.com/wiki/Mormaerdom_of_Moray
  • States: This article is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License. It uses material from Wikipedia with link to GFDL at gnu.org and link to en.Wikipedia main page
  • Page ends © 2007 www.avoo.com. All rights reserved.
  • No obvious link to article or history

azplayers.com

AZ Players Directory
URL http://www.azplayers.com
Sample http://www.waynerooney.azplayers.com/wayne-rooney-biography.html is the intro of our bio of Wayne Rooney
Rating Medium
Details Links back to Wikipedia source articles, no mention of GFDL, claims "Copyright © 2006. All rights reserved. by AzPlayers.com", using bios of various footballers. Seems cooperative, hopefully should get to full compliance soon.
Contact info email address office AT azplayers.com is shown. whois says domain is registered to Nicolae Adrian Chirica, email nachirica AT gmail.com, phone +40.744992325, post Sos. Barajului nr.22 bl.1 sc.D et.3 ap.13, Tulcea, 820222, RO. Hosted on IP address 66.118.138.197, whois says this is Sago Networks, reverse DNS says delta.fastbighost.com
Actions
  • Standard letter emailed to office AT azplayers.com -- AJR - Talk 23:04, 12 April 2006 (UTC)
    • Reply received, they have added links back to Wikipedia source articles. I've thanked them for doing that promptly, and have explained that they should also mention the GFDL, and have provided sample text. From the email they sent me, I don't think there should be a problem sorting it out. -- AJR - Talk 12:06, 13 April 2006 (UTC)
      • Currently links to GFDL at gnu.org and to original article --Rumping 09:25, 21 September 2007 (UTC)

B

Backgammon.co.uk

BackGammon Federation
URL http://www.backgammon.co.uk/
Sample http://www.backgammon.co.uk/strategies.htm (only article I can find)
Rating Medium
Details Does not link to enwiki article, but has GFDL notice.
Contact info info AT backgammon.co.uk
Actions The site uses an image I created, licensed under the GPL. I sent an email stating that the page should note the GPL license of the image, and the GFDL license of the article. I included links to the licenses at gnu.org and a link to Backgammon.

4 October 2006: Webmaster replied to my email noting the updated copyright notice.

ptkfgs 04:54, 4 October 2006 (UTC)

Backgammoned.net

Backgammoned.net
URL http://www.backgammoned.net
Sample http://www.backgammoned.net/all-about-backgammon.html (only article)
Rating Medium
Details States that content is under GFDL and is reprinted from Wikipedia.
Contact info info AT backgammoned.net
Actions Maintainer appears to have joined a discussion at Talk:Backgammon. I referred him to Wikipedia:Copyrights.

ptkfgs 20:23, 7 August 2006 (UTC)

Baghdad Museum

  • Site: [14]
  • contains this explanation:
  • You may freely contribute to this article using the authoring tools provided at the article's source, Wikipedia.org, sponsored by the Wikimedia Foundation. In addition, this article is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License, which means that you may copy and modify it as long as the entire work, including your additions, remains under this license. Iraq Museum International always displays the most recent published revision of the article; all previous versions may be viewed here.
  • High Compliance


In addition, the paragraph above includes the article title and a link to the Wikipedia article itself, the GNU Free Documentation License, and to the history of the article on Wikipedia.
A site-wide copyright notice -- which may have been misinterpreted by Wikipedians as a claim on the Wikipedia article appearing on a particular page -- has now been dropped altogether on all the Wikipedia pages. (Wikipedia articles can link to pages protected under US Copyright law, but do comments and sidebars added outside a Wikipedia article on the same webpage count as additions under the GNU License? In other words, if a Wikipedia article appears on a web page and Gore Vidal writes an essay about the Wikipedia article just below it, can the essay be copyrighted?) On the BaghdadMuseum/Iraq Museum International site, where the copyright notice used to be is now the statement: "The Iraq Museum International Open Encyclopedia is offered to the public under the GNU Free Documentation License" with yet another link to the GNU Free Documentation License.
Yes, they're better than most. However, I'd still like to see a direct link to the original Wikipedia article. I think that's reasonable, given how generous we are in interpreting some GFDL provisions(like what's a "modified work", including our copyright notice, 5 original authors, history...). I sent an email asking for a direct link today. Superm401 | Talk 01:15, 6 November 2005 (UTC)
There are now direct links for the original article, editing the original article, and the article's history. The GFDL link is to the FSF copy, but I don't think that's really an issue. Superm401 | Talk 20:14, 8 November 2005 (UTC)

BambooWeb Dictionary

  • 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.

Banglavasha

Banglavasha (not url)
URL http://www.banglavasha.com
Sample http://www.banglavasha.com/image_gallery.php?action=browse&spot_id=148
Rating None
Details Copies certain articles about locations in Bangladesh without any attribution whatsoever.
Contact info ?
Actions None yet.

Barry's Tickets

Barry's Tickets
URL http://www.barrystickets.com/
Sample http://www.barrystickets.com/hockey-tickets/index.php
Rating None
Details No mention of Wikipedia or the GFDL. Excerpts of various ticket-related articles are used.
Contact info info AT barrystickets.com, (800) 928-7199 (818) 990-8499 FAX (818) 990-5433, Technical Contact: Katz, Randy randyk AT CCSALES.COM, (213)307-9581 fax: 123 123 1234; Administrative Contact: Rudin, Barry info AT BARRYSTICKETS.COM, 818 990-8499; IP=66.114.252.14 = Broadwing Communications
Actions
  • Sent standard violation notice to info AT barrystickets.com. Superm401 - Talk 08:00, 3 January 2007 (UTC)
    • Received autoreply with only text "test info AT barrystickets.com"
      • Resent violation notice to randyk AT CCSALES.COM


Basic Famous People

Basic Famous People and Basic Celebrations
URL http://www.basicfamouspeople.com/ and http://www.basiccelebrations.com/
Sample http://www.basicfamouspeople.com/index.php?aid=899 and http://www.basiccelebrations.com/
Rating Low/None
Details 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)

BBC Music

Link: http://www.bbc.co.uk/music/artist/nh3n/

BBC Music online hosts a version of the Rolling Stones article on Wikipedia, with proper attribution.

Disclaimers at the end of the article state that:

"You can edit this biography at Wikipedia. Let us know if you find the biography content defamatory or highly offensive. This entry is from Wikipedia, the user-contributed encyclopedia. It may not have been reviewed by professional editors and is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License. Any changes made to the Wikipedia article will not be immediately reflected here."

Best Pest Control

  • Site: http://www.bestpest.com.au/pest-control-in-hobart.html
  • The bottom section is completely copied from Local Government Areas of Tasmania (much of the rest is copied from Lonely Planet).
  • No links at all, no mention of Wikipedia or GFDL
  • Two copyrights printed on it:
    • Copyright © 2006 Best Pest Control
    • (c) copyright Best Pest Control (NSW) Pty Ltd 2004/05. All Rights Reserved.
  • As of 13:03, 22 May 2007 (UTC)
Site no longer hosts above page. However, it has http://www.bestpest.com.au/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=11&Itemid=44, the text of which is mirrored elsewhere often on the internet (though frustratingly, none mention Wikipedia). Does not mirror WP: page may have changed. The Evil Spartan (talk) 10:59, 26 December 2007 (UTC)

Bibleocean

  • Site: http://bibleocean.com/
  • Example: [15] of Albania
  • Article ends with "Original Article from WikiPedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albania"
  • No mention of GFDL
  • Note: looks like it may be mirroring the site by crawling, since it handles section edit links poorly and has specific error pages indexed all over the place where the crawler has tried to follow them wrong (this is a mirror, so of course no actual vehicle for editing).

BigMac.biz

The Big Mac Index
URL http://bigmac.biz/
Sample same as above
Rating Medium
Details Wholesale copy of Big Mac index from [16] or earlier. No mention of Wikipedia or GFDL on site.
Contact info webmaster AT bigmac.biz (given on site); +819.2934278, matt AT utsn.net (whois admin)
Actions Standard violation letter sent. -- Scott e 08:47, 18 April 2006 (UTC)
No response or change. Second letter sent. -- Scott e 02:11, 26 April 2006 (UTC)
Fixed. -- Scott e 09:31, 28 April 2006 (UTC)

BIGpedia

BIGpedia
URL http://www.bigpedia.com/
Sample http://www.bigpedia.com/encyclopedia/Gray%27s_Anatomy
Rating "Medium"
Details
  • Mentions and links to GFDL.
  • Mentions Wikipedia.
  • The link does not reach the original page nor Wikipedia itself (at least without JavaScript).
  • has adult ads.
  • may have pop-up ads.
Contact info
  • tuqybpe4kz1km37 AT protectfly.com (proxy domain registeration mail)
  • abuse AT cari.net (ISP)
Actions None -- WB 09:13, 12 February 2006 (UTC)

Biocrawler

Biocrawler
URL http://www.biocrawler.com/encyclopedia/Main_Page
Sample http://www.biocrawler.com/encyclopedia/Illiad
Rating Medium
Details This is a mirror as of June 23, 2005 that has apparently had minor forking since then. However, almost all instances of Wikipedia have been changed, even in people's talk comments. This makes it a modified version, and these modifications have not been specifically mentioned on page history. Also, the GFDL specifically states that "The author(s) and publisher(s) of the Document do not by this License give permission to use their names for publicity for or to assert or imply endorsement of any Modified Version." However, the bottom of every page states, "Content is available under GNU Free Documentation License 1.2.", with a local link to the GFDL. With images, it also says "This document originates in his first or later version from the English Wikipedia. You can find it there under the keyword (ARTICLE). The list of previous authors is available here: (link to Wikipedia's history of ARTICLE). ... This text falls under the same license (GFDL). Additions to biocrawler (starting from 23.6.05 will be doubly licensed under the GFDL and CC-by-sa)." Without images, it also has simple links to Wikipedia, the original history, and Wikipedia's copy of the GFDL.

update: as of 04/24/2008, this site was flagged by Google with the verbiage, "visiting this web site may harm your computer!" For more information on Google's claims about this website, see http://www.google.com/safebrowsing/diagnostic?site=http://www.biocrawler.com/encyclopedia/Library_(computer_science)

Contact info boeckl AT biofacts.com, domain AT biofacts.com
Actions
  • Sent letter requesting correction of these issues. Superm401 - Talk 23:34, 22 January 2006 (UTC)
  • Received apparently form reply that didn't address complaints. It ranted about things like "Biocrawler being a fork, you can edit pages yourself." and "Please edit each page being aware that this is a biological Wiki." The closest it came to addressing the fraud and improper page history was "There is a full detailed disclaimer on every page stating the source of each article, and the history of each page." I replied asking for a direct response to the real issues. Superm401 - Talk 06:03, 25 January 2006 (UTC)
  • Received response noting that another Wikipedian told him to replace all mentions of Wikipedia with Biocrawler. Said he would fix it if I demonstrated consensus here that my advice was correct. I referred him to Wikipedia talk:Mirrors and forks#Weird. Superm401 - Talk 01:13, 26 January 2006 (UTC)

Biodatabase.de

biodatabase.de
URL http://www.biodatabase.de
Sample http://www.biodatabase.de/Dodona, http://www.biodatabase.de/Herodotus
Rating High
Details Links to original en.wiki articles and histories, GNU FDL note is reported correctly in bottom of page.
Contact info
Actions

Biographicon.com

Biographicon (not url)
URL http://www.biographicon.com
Sample http://www.biographicon.com/view/4yf4i/Ethan_Allen
Rating "None" compliance with GFDL.
Details Site does copy wholesale biography articles from English wikipedia. It does not provide information of the source of the articles, it does not give attribution to authors or link to wikipedia history page, the site does not acknowledge that content sourced from wikipedia is licensed under GFDL.
Contact info feedback AT biographicon.com
Actions none yet

Biography Base

Biography Base
URL http://www.biographybase.com/
Sample http://www.biographybase.com/biography/Yarwood_Mike.html
Rating Medium
Details Links to GFDL and mentions individual Wikipedia article, but does not directly link to them or include history section.
Contact info leonardo.mikelic AT ri.htnet.hr (whois), abuse AT theplanet.com (host), legal-response AT theplanet.com (host)
Actions Sent violation letter to Biography Base, noting that they should link to Wikipedia article and provide on-site GFDL. Superm401 - Talk 02:08, 23 January 2006 (UTC)

Biography Finder

  • Site: Biography Finder
  • Contains older versions of Wikipedia articles on various people.
  • Has no mention of Wikipedia.
  • No link to GFDL.
  • Claims copyright.
  • Is apparently linked with Phobia Finder.
  • Sent standard GFDL e-mail. - Evil saltine 22:43, 11 Sep 2004 (UTC)
  • Removed from main page (duplicate)
  • Now, at the bottom of each page, it reads: This article is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License. It uses material from the Wikipedia article <article name>. Where <article name> is appropriately filled in. It links to http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/fdl.html and to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page, but no link to the actual Wikipedia article. I'm moving this to Medium compliance. -Rholton 03:36, 2 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Biolicense.net

Biolicense.net
URL http://biolicense.org
Sample http://biolicense.org/index.php/Shareware
Rating None.
Details No information about articles being copied from Wikipedia, imposes its own weird license called Biolicense. The site states: "Biolicense is a license scheme to enable human beings and machines to openfreely share information and knowledge for limitless number of purposes. It is a license that tries to protect information and knowledge from being exclusively owned by limited number of classes, races, and economic groups in the world. It also aims to maximize human creativity and entrepreneurship." Also see http://biolicense.org/index.php/Biolicense.net:About The site seems to be a part of some spammer's link farm. See its links to other sites.
Contact info admin phone and email from whois: +82.01077996754 (Korean number); j@bio.cc
Actions None yet.

Biology Daily

Biology Daily
URL http://www.biologydaily.com/
Sample http://www.biologydaily.com/biology/Aerobiologyand http://www.biologydaily.com/biology/Gmail
Rating Medium
Details There is a notice that says the content is from Wikipedia and links to a local copy of the GFDL (part of a copyright page). Wikipedia is linked to the main Wikipedia URL backwards (gro.aidepikiw.www//:ptth). A javascript function reverses the link (if you have JS enabled). There is also a link to another section on the copyright page that is meant to tell users how to view the "transparent copy"; it just tells them to go to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/<PAGENAME> by typing it in. Arguably, XHTML itself is transparent so this isn't necessary. However, it does vaguely help users vaguely find the history section.
Contact info
Actions

bird-center.net

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)
  • Server not found --Rumping 16:38, 23 September 2007 (UTC)

BirminghamUK.com

bizgos.com

GameLow.com
URL http://www.bizgos.com/
Sample http://www.bizgos.com/AnheuserBusch/ARINC.php
Rating None
Details No mention of GFDL. Claims copyright. No links to original article or mention of Wikipedia. No history section. Contains copies of the old wiki entries.
Apparently related to gamelow.com, which infringes similarly and has the same graphics.
Contact info BIZGOS.COM AT domainsbyproxy.com
Actions Sent standard violation letter. Superm401 - Talk 20:20, 19 January 2007 (UTC)

Blinkybits

Blinkybits
URL http://www.blinkbits.com/en_wikifeeds/
Sample http://www.blinkbits.com/en_wikifeeds/HQ9_Plus_Plus
Rating Medium
Details Has notice, "User Bits and Wikipedia articles licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License. The wikipedia articles uses material from the Wikipedia article name.". However, this links to "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/article_name" (i.e. that actual URL, unsubstituted), and an offsite GFDL.
Contact info
Actions

Blogspot

Hot Topics in the News
URL http://information-headquarter.blogspot.com/search/label/Grand%20Opera%20House
Sample http://information-headquarter.blogspot.com/search/label/Grand%20Opera%20House
Rating Absolutely no compliance.
Details Straight out theft of Grand Opera House (Seattle), which I recently wrote
Contact info At http://www.google.com/blogger_dmca.html, they make it clear that they will consider only complaints sent to them on paper or by fax. Kind of amazing: this is Google, and they provide no online means to complain when they plagiarize. And the wording on that page is very belligerent: "Indeed, in a recent case (please see http://www.onlinepolicy.org/action/legpolicy/opg_v_diebold/ for more information), a company that sent an infringement notification seeking removal of online materials that were protected by the fair use doctrine was ordered to pay such costs and attorneys fees."

Fax number is 650-618-2680, Attn: Blogger Legal Support, DMCA Complaints. I think someone should follow this up, and also Wikimedia Foundation, who I understand have some working relationships with Google, should ask about setting up a procedure to streamline it when their bloggers plagiarize us so blatantly.

Further examples from Blogspot are listed on the talk page, to document other Blogspot users' WP usage without messing up the format above.

Actions

bobby-fischer.net

Bobby Fischer
URL http://www.bobby-fischer.net/
Sample http://www.bobby-fischer.net/paul_morphy.htm
Rating Low/None
Details The site includes a page on the chessplayer Paul Morphy that mirrors full paragraphs of the Wikipedia article Paul Morphy. This is also the case for numerous other chessplayers.
Contact info chuck_ayoub@hotmail.com, ISP=TUCOWS INC. (according to whois)
Actions

bookonlinesale.com

Bookonlinesale and Booksonlinesale
URL http://bookonlinesale.com/ and http://booksonlinesale.com
Sample http://bookonlinesale.com/258082_edgar-prestage_1131743628lettersofaportuguesenundiscountbookstores.html and http://www.booksonlinesale.com/623250_margaret-mitchell_113517007xautantenemporteleventbookreportforfree.html
Rating High
Details Includes text "This artikel <ARTICLENAME> is licensed under the GNU free Documentation License. There is a list of authors available. You can edit this article if you like. " The article name links to the original wikipedia article, "GNU" links to the GNU's copy of the GFDL, Authors links to the history tab, and edit links to the edit page. However, on some pages none of these links are colored or formatted distinctly from normal text (until you hover over them); thus, it is hard to tell they can be clicked.
Contact info INFO AT 100000BOOKS.COM (whois), http://www.cd-music.org/mailform.php (contact form), info AT server4you.de (host)
Actions

bookrags.com

BooksRags
URL http://www.bookrags.com
Sample http://www.bookrags.com/wiki/High_Commissioner
Rating Medium?High?
Details Includes text "This artikel <ARTICLENAME> is licensed under the GNU free Documentation License". There isn't a list of authors available or a link to the original Wikipedia article. Link to GNU Free Documentation License is absent.Includes text "<ARTICLENAME> from Wíkipedia. ©2006 by Wíkipedia. Licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License. View a list of authors or edit this article." Links to GFDL at gnu.org, and to article history and edit pages at wikipedia.org
Contact info whois
Actions

Bookyards

Bookyards
URL http://www.bookyards.com
Sample http://www.bookyards.com/biography.html?author_id=2011&author_name=Janvier%2C%20Thomas%20A.
Rating None
Details No mention of GFDL; only mentions of Wikipedia are from copied cleanup notices; links back to original article are edit links only and not labelled
Contact info ?
Actions None yet

bopedia.com

*Link to local copy of the GFDL: yes (As of 2 Nov 2006 DES (talk)). No longer true. Superm401 | Talk 06:14, 6 November 2005 (UTC)

  • Link to original Wikipedia article: yes (As of 2 Nov 2006 DES (talk))
  • State that content is under the GFDL: Yes (As of 2 Nov 2006 DES (talk))
  • State that content is from Wikipedia: Yes. (As of 2 Nov 2006 DES (talk))

Seems to be HIGH compliance, as far as I can see. DES (talk) 21:33, 2 November 2005 (UTC)

Example fails to produce meaningful content --Rumping 16:43, 23 September 2007 (UTC)

borgfind

Borgfind
URL http://borgfind.com/ , http://albania.geeks.dnip.net/
Sample http://albania.borgfind.com/
Rating High
Details Articles end with "borgfind.com, 2005. This article is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License. It uses material from the Wikipedia article "Albania"" with links to local GFDL and to original article. Redirects from geeks.dnip.net, e.g. http://albania.geeks.dnip.net/
Contact info
Actions

Examples not loading Wikipedia content --Rumping 16:44, 23 September 2007 (UTC)

www.bostoncoop.net

  • Site: http://www.bostoncoop.net/~tpryor/wiki/index.php?title=Main_Page
  • Mentions Wikipedia, which leads to this explanation: "This is a static mirror of the wikipedia site. It exists for the purpose of testing experimental interfaces, made for wikipedia. It is my own project. I am using wikipedia content to gather anonymous user navigation behavior as a statistical sample for a centroid cluster based recommendation system" No links to the original article.
  • As of 09:04, 15 January 2006 (UTC)
    • ~tpryor appears to no longer exist --Rumping 16:45, 23 September 2007 (UTC)

bowise.com

  • Site: www.bowise.com
  • Seems to combine links to ads and other non-wikipedia content with links to related articles on bopedia, which in turn has proper compliance info. This is the result of a brief look, however. DES (talk) 21:39, 2 November 2005 (UTC)

Research requested. JesseW 22:23, 18 July 2005 (UTC)

No longer has any content - just domain parking --Rumping 16:46, 23 September 2007 (UTC)
Server doesn't seem to exist anymore. This, that and the other [talk] 09:37, 28 February 2008 (UTC)

BT Research

BT Research
URL http://www.breathittteens.com/research.php
Sample http://www.breathittteens.com/research.php?title=Common_Raccoon
Rating Low
Details Another dynamic loader. Uses a dynamic loading script (http://www.vacilando.org/index.php?x=7065) Links to Wikipedia Main Page, but claims that Wikipedia content is under a Creative Commons license. Not just any Creative Commons license, but a NonCommmercial license. Never mind that this is a commercial site with ads (see http://breathittteens.com/vb/index.php).
Contact info BREATHITTTEENS.COM AT domainsbyproxy.com (private whois), DMCA AT liquidweb.com
Actions
  • Appears to be bulletin board. Example fails --Rumping 16:48, 23 September 2007 (UTC)

brian-oshaughnessy.com

  • Site: www.brian-oshaughnessy.com
  • There are ostensible ripoffs directly from Wikipedia in the Resident Evil articles, mostly from past, unmodernized versions of them, while making no mention at all to Wikipedia.
  • As of 20:18, 24 August 2006 (UTC)
    • Now redirects to www.customflamepainting.com --Rumping 16:49, 23 September 2007 (UTC)

Braindex

Braindex
URL http://www.braindex.com/encyclopedia/mainpage.php
Sample http://braindex.com/encyclopedia/index.php/Ring_of_the_Fisherman
Rating Medium
Details Pages link to Wikipedia main page and offsite copy of the GFDL. There is no link to the original Wikipedia article or included history section. Pages display "© 2005 BrainDex LLC".
Contact info kevin AT braindex.com (whois), http://www.braindex.com/products/contact_us.php (site contact form), support AT iicinternet.com (host)
Actions
  • Standard complaint letter sent to domain registrant (as found via whois) on 26 October 2005 by User:DESiegel
  • Sent letter to kevin AT braindex.com asking for removal of copyright statement and direct link to original article. Superm401 - Talk 21:08, 25 February 2006 (UTC)

BrainyEncyclopedia

BrainyEncyclopedia
URL http://www.brainyencyclopedia.com/
Sample http://www.brainyencyclopedia.com/encyclopedia/t/te/telectronics.html
Rating Low
Details Without JavaScript, no mention of Wikipedia or the GFDL. With Javascript, has notice that "The Wikipedia article included on this page is licensed under the GFDL" with link to Wikipedia main page and local copy of the GFDL. Is not clear what "the Wikipedia article" is. There is no link to the original Wikipedia article or included history section."
Contact info domain.names AT xplore.com (whois), service84 AT brainyquote.com (customer service email)
Actions
  • Standard complaint letter, modified to include request to remove copyright claim and request for link back to individual articles, sent to domain registrant (as found via whois) and customer service (as found using Inquire link in the drop down menu on their pages) on 12 November 2006 by User:WAvegetarian
  • Example now states "This article uses material from the Wikipedia article "Telectronics"" with link to original article --Rumping 16:52, 23 September 2007 (UTC)

Brandt.kurowski.net

  • Site: Brandt.kurowski.net
  • A number of articles, such as: http://brandt.kurowski.net/projects/lsa/wiki/view.cgi?doc=338
    • I'm not sure who put this here or why, nor do I understand why they didn't email me with their complaint. To the best of my knowledge, I am in full compliance with all requirements for re-use of Wikipedia content. If there is a specific dispute with my compliance, please let me know so that I may either fix the problem or remove the content from my site. --BrandtKurowski
  • Each page has a link back to the appropriate page on Wikipedia. He also has a link to our GFDL page. His compliance may not be perfect, but he's certainly making a good effort. I've passed on a few suggestions for improvement. Meanwhile, I'm moving the status of this page to Medium Compliance. -Rholton 03:50, 28 Nov 2004 (UTC)
    • Example now links to broken code with no indication of wikipedia content --Rumping 16:53, 23 September 2007 (UTC)


Brassbandinformation.co.uk

Brass Band Information
URL http://www.brassbandinformation.co.uk
Sample http://www.brassbandinformation.co.uk/brass-instruments.html
  • This was linked from the Trombone article.
Rating Low/None
Details No mention of WP at all. Some junk edits seem to have been copied in, I think.
Contact info Address info AT brassbandinformation.co.uk is mentioned. WHOIS says very little:
Registrant: Carl Wilkinson
Registrant type: UK Individual
Registrant's address: The registrant is a non-trading individual who has opted to have their address omitted from the WHOIS service.

Registrar: GX Networks Ltd t/a 123-Reg.co.uk [Tag = 123-REG]  URL: http://www.123-reg.co.uk
Actions none

Looks like a parked domain advertising page at first sight. Filled with ads. No good purpose for existence. This, that and the other [talk] 06:41, 5 April 2008 (UTC)

Brendaadderly.com

BrisWiki

BrisWiki
URL http://www.briswiki.com and
Sample http://briswiki.com/wiki/The_Myer_Centre from Myer Centre, Brisbane.
Rating Unrated
Details I believe that site is compliant. However I have only imported one article as above and request that someone more up to speed with this advise whether current efforts are acceptable. Thanks in advance Nicholas Perkins (TC) 14:38, 13 May 2008 (UTC)
Contact info supernicko AT gmail.com
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Britain tv

Britain tv
URL http://www.britain.tv/articles/publish/ and http://www.britain.tv/wikipedia.php
Sample http://www.britain.tv/articles/publish/parliament_house_of_commons.shtml from British House of Commons and http://www.britain.tv/articles/publish/belly_dance_belly_dancing_music.shtml from Belly Dance and http://www.britain.tv/wikipedia.php?title=Philippines.
Rating Low/None
Details There are two separate groups of copied articles. Some of them are linked from http://www.britain.tv/articles/publish/. Examples of this include http://www.britain.tv/articles/publish/parliament_house_of_commons.shtml, http://www.britain.tv/articles/publish/belly_dance_belly_dancing_music.shtml, http://www.britain.tv/articles/publish/george_galloway_respect_member_parliament.shtml, http://www.britain.tv/articles/publish/regional_assembly_assemblies_england.shtml, http://www.britain.tv/articles/publish/york_city_minster_yorkshire_england.shtml. Not all of the articles in the "articles/publish" section are from Wikipedia, but violations are widespread, especially in certain categories (such as Cities and Towns). These now say "© Copyright Wikipedia - Under GNU Free License " right beneath the article, in addition to "All rights reserved. Material may not be copied or reprinted without written permission." which is at the very bottom of every page. They also still credit the submitter, such as "By Brian Fox" at the top, where Brian Fox is some disingenuous Britain.tv contributor.

A separate mirror has also been created. This is located at http://www.britain.tv/wikipedia.php. An example is http://www.britain.tv/wikipedia.php?title=Philippines. Articles in this section clearly note that Wikipedia is the source. They say "extracted from Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia" with a link to the Wikipedia main page; Wikipedia also appears prominently elsewhere on the page. However, there is no link to Wikipedia or the GFDL, and "Copyright (c) 2006 Britain.tv All rights reserved" appears at the bottom in a graphic.

Contact info webmaster AT elite-media.co.uk
Actions
  • I sent an email asking that the ad hoc copies in the article section be removed outright, and explained how to make the articles in the Wikipedia section GFDL-compliant. Superm401 - Talk 23:09, 25 February 2006 (UTC)
  • Sent followup to webmaster AT elite-media.co.uk . Superm401 - Talk 09:25, 6 January 2007 (UTC)
  • Sent a final notice to webmaster AT elite-media.co.uk - Localzuk(talk) 12:35, 28 July 2007 (UTC)

Brough's Books

  • Site: Brough's Books
  • link to current version of article
  • link to the GFDL on www.gnu.org
  • Example: [18]
    • Example seems to have Wikipedia metatags but fails to load bodytext --Rumping 16:57, 23 September 2007 (UTC)

Bvio

Bvio
URL http://bvio.com/index.php/Main_Page
Sample http://bvio.com/index.php/Credit_card
Rating Low
Details
  • No mention of the GFDL or Wikipedia on individual pages. On the About page, it says "Copyright: much of Bvio contents are directly from Wikipedia that follows GNU license." but there is still no link to the GFDL, even there. Website is badly mirrored, with misparsed formatting and broken images.
  • Still non-compliant as of April 2006. Any WP content there is badly outdated ([19] is marked "last updated 2004", for instance) and provides no attribution as to the origin of the text. --carlb 15:43, 10 April 2006 (UTC)
  • Still non-compliant as of July 2006. - Jmabel
Contact info biopark AT kaist.ac.kr
Actions
  • He said he'll comply with our interpretation of the GFDL for derivative works. Let's give him some time to do so. Superm401 - Talk 20:24, 8 November 2005 (UTC)
  • I've sent another email asking for a notice and link on every page. Superm401 - Talk 20:37, 25 February 2006 (UTC)

C

CalSky.de

  • Site: www.calsky.de
  • Example: www.calsky.de/lexikon/en/txt/p/pa/partial_differential_equation.php
  • States: "This article is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License. It uses material from the Wikipedia article "Partial differential equation". In the Wikipedia, a list of the autors/history is available."
  • Link to local GFDL
  • Links to original article and history

Campus Empire

Campus Empire
URL http://www.campusempire.net
Sample http://www.campusempire.net/school_index.php?school_id=342
Rating "Low/None"
Details Copies a portion of the University of Oklahoma article with no mention of Wikipedia anywhere on the page. Has CampusEmpire.net copyright at the bottom.
Contact info admin AT campusempire.net
Actions Sent first GFDL notice (1/15/07).↔NMajdantalk
Sent followup notice (4/5/07).↔NMajdantalk 20:57, 5 April 2007 (UTC)

Campusprogram.com

Example: http://www.campusprogram.com/reference/en/wikipedia/n/ne/new_forest.html
  • A link to GFDL from every page.
  • A link back to individual wikipedia articles from the top of the page. The text of the link is quite prominent.
  • Confirmed. High Compliance. -Rholton 15:15, 3 Dec 2004 (UTC)
update - Doesn't seem to be using wikipedia content any longer. \Rexruff
update - I am the owner of campusprogram.com and only removed the wikipedia mirror because I believed I was not in compliance and that it was generally frowned upon. There are 1000's of backlinks that now go to a 404 page which is a shame. Any advice would be appreciated.
    • I've told him by email that he was complying perfectly, and he has expressed interest in setting up the mirror again. I referred him to some information on how to do so. Superm401 | Talk 20:33, 8 November 2005 (UTC)
  • No authors or dates are listed. Medium compliance. Uncle G 11:08, 5 June 2007 (UTC)

Canbet.com

Canbet.com
URL http://www.canbet.com
Sample http://www.canbet.com/whatsnew/atlanta-falcons-history.aspx
Rating Medium
Details Uses sections of sports-related articles. GFDL notice with link to original article and offsite GFDL.
Contact info mail AT canbet.com, marketing AT canbet.com
Actions Sent GFDL violation letter to contact on April 4, 2006. --JerryOrr 19:14, 4 April 2006 (UTC)

No response to email or change to the page in violation; sent follow-up GFDL violation letter on May 16, 2006. --JerryOrr 16:17, 16 May 2006 (UTC)

Received response to follow-up email on May 16, 2006 stating that they would resolve the problem --JerryOrr 11:52, 17 May 2006 (UTC)

  • Example failed to load --Rumping 17:01, 23 September 2007 (UTC)

Canineconcepts.co.uk

CanineConcepts: What is dog agility
URL http://www.canineconcepts.co.uk/ccp51/cc/dog-training/dog-agility-training.shtml
Sample {{{sample}}}
Rating Low compliance with GFDL (matches Wikipedia:GFDL Compliance). Full compliance.
Details Has a note at the bottom of article, which includes several photos from wikipedia, that says "courtesy of Wikipedia" with a link to our main page. No GFDL, no link to the article (dog agility), no clarification that both text & photos come from there--and they have their own copyright notice at the bottom of the page. Have link back to article, GFDL text, and link to gnu.org copyleft page.
Contact info Patricia Hunter is owner, cannot find email or phone number of admin and ISP. Patricia's company's phone number (UK: 01608 73 83 77) is on their web site, along with snail-mail address. April 4, got response from info (at) canineconcepts (dot) co.uk, signed Peter Hunter.
Actions 01:46, 3 April 2006 (UTC), emailing standard letter from Wikipedia:Standard GFDL violation letter using GFDL letter for site that doesn't acknowldge WP (since compliance is so minimal). Used their form-based emailer since that seemed to be the only way to get them email. User:Elf . April 4, 2006: They revised this page and are in full compliance. Note: I have not checked their site for other wikipedia-source articles. User:Elf
CanineConcepts: dog breed articles
URL http://www.canineconcepts.co.uk/dog-breed-directory
Sample http://www.canineconcepts.co.uk/dog-breeds--Affenpinscher--Affenpinscher
Rating Low compliance but working on it (see above).
Details Has a note at the bottom of article (which includes photos from wikipedia), that says "courtesy of thefreedictionary" with a link to their main page. No GFDL, no link to the article (dog agility), no clarification that both text & photos come from there--and they have their own copyright notice at the bottom of the page. (freedictionary is a wikipedia mirror)
Contact info info (at) canineconcepts (dot) co.uk, signed Peter Hunter.
Actions 4 April 2006 (UTC), sent nice email about breed articles in reponse to his fix of the agility article (above). User:Elf

Caninecrib

Caninecrib
URL http://www.caninecrib.com/dog/pictures/
Sample http://www.caninecrib.com/dog/pictures/bostonterrier/boston4.asp -- compare to Image:BostonTerrierBrindleStand_w.jpg)
Rating None
Details Doesn't give credit or link back to WP; claims copyright by prominently adding THEIR copyright directly onto each photo
Contact info caninecrib AT caninecrib.com, legal AT crystaltech.com (host DMCA)
Actions
  • Sent email Dec 2, 2005, have received no response & n othing seems to have changed. Elf - Talk 23:20, 7 December 2005 (UTC)
  • Have just sent another email using the standard wikipedia gfdl & linking text as recommended on this page's main page. Elf - Talk 23:28, 7 December 2005 (UTC)
  • Just sent 3rd warning using standard 2nd warning modified with note about takedown notice if they don't comply, with list of some specific photos (there are too many on their site to list individually if I don't really have to go through the whole thing! but one can start comparing their photos to what we have posted at Wikipedia:List of images/Nature/Animals/Dogs). Sent again to caninecrib AT caninecrib.com. Elf - Talk 01:55, 3 April 2006 (UTC)
  • Found a different whois tool that provided me with this data: http://who.godaddy.com/whois.aspx?domain=caninecrib.com&prog_id=godaddy . Email of admin and technical is listed as Hoang, Chung; email chung(dot)h at ewebcircle(dot)com(dot)au . Sending email to that address. Elf - Talk 17:30, 11 April 2006 (UTC)

Update: Just got this email (email address syntax edited by me):

Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2006 09:19:47 -0700
Subject: re: invalid use of Wikipedia material on your site
From: "CanineCrib" <caninecrib(at)caninecrib(dot)com>
Apologise for the late reply. Photos were sent to me via the public. 
I will go through them and take them ones that are from wikipedia
regards
Chung

Elf - Talk 16:31, 17 July 2006 (UTC)

captaincopyright.ca

  • Site: Captain Copyright
  • Page: Colouring Book
    • That page is dynamic and displays different versions at random on each load. Three of the versions contain quotes or very close paraphrases from Wikipedia articles Paper, Book, and ISBN. The only credit is "[Source: Wikipedia.com]". No GFDL information, no link, and entire site purports to be covered by a license that seems very much incompatible with GFDL: [20].
      • Example failed to load --Rumping 17:02, 23 September 2007 (UTC)

caribbean-forum.com

LarsSanders 17:33, 3 August 2005 (UTC)

  • Examples failed to load. Main page www.caribbean-forum.com said "Lo sentimos, este sitio web está temporalmente cerrado" i.e. "Sorry, this website is temporarily closed" --Rumping 17:05, 23 September 2007 (UTC)

CaribbeanMD

CaribbeanMD
URL http://www.caribbeanmd.com/
Sample http://www.caribbeanmd.com/?page_id=6
Rating None
Details No attribution. Indicates "Copyright © 2008 CaribbeanMD". Only four pages found.
Contact info
Actions

Carlos Zambrano

Carlos Zambrano
URL http://www.carloszambrano.com/
Sample http://www.carloszambrano.com/
Rating None.
Details Verbatim copy of Carlos Zambrano article introduction, without mention of GFDL or Wikipedia.
Contact info frontoffice AT gmail.com
Actions Sent standard violation letter to frontoffice AT gmail.com. Superm401 - Talk 00:12, 7 January 2007 (UTC)
  • Now no obvious Wikipedia content in example --Rumping 17:06, 23 September 2007 (UTC)

CARluvers

  • Site: http://www.carluvers.com
  • Example: [22] for Albania
  • Each article ends with: " The contents of this article are licensed from Wikipedia.org under the GNU Free Documentation License. How to see transparent copy" with link to www.wikipedia.org (using backwards Javascript) and to local copy of GFDL plus link to local description of how to find original article.
  • As of 01:55, 7 December 2005 (UTC) --Henrygb

Casinozone.info

  • Site: Casinozone.info
  • Site seems to have updated with the wiki copyright
  • Mentions Wikipedia and GFDL, however links back to the main page, and not the individual article.
    • Site appears to be down --Rumping 17:08, 23 September 2007 (UTC)

cassiopedia.org

Cassiopedia: The True Encyclopedia
URL www.cassiopedia.org
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: [23]
Rating "Low/None"
Details 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 [24]. 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.

Catholic University of Brussels

  • Site: Catholic University of Brussels
  • Most of main site is in Dutch
  • Copies the Semantic Web article completely
  • Mentions Wikipedia and has a link on the bottom (not clickable)
  • No GFDL Link
  • Sent standard GFDL email. David Newton 16:36, 14 Mar 2004 (UTC)
  • If problem persists, and Dutch translation seems needed, add a message to my talk page. Don't expect a quick response from me, though. --Kasperl 19:27, 20 Sep 2004 (UTC)
  • Page is now 404 missing. Diderot 10:52, 5 Nov 2004 (UTC)
    • and still missing so probably dead --Rumping 17:09, 23 September 2007 (UTC)

Celebrity Fuzz

CelebrityFuzz
URL http://www.celebrityfuzz.com/
Sample http://www.celebrityfuzz.com/Madonna/?title=Nuclear_physics
Rating Low
Details Strangely, if a search term is appended to the URL of a celebrity, and the search term happens to be the name of a Wikipedia article, then you get the celebrities page in the browser but with the biography replaced with a mirror of the named Wikipedia article. States it is extracted from Wikipedia but no GFDL, link to original or original authors.
Contact info If you have any questions, please contact us at celebrityfuzz [at] gmail [dot] com
Actions None

Celebrityspy.org

Celebrity Spy
URL http://celebrityspy.org/indepth/PageName
Sample http://celebrityspy.org/indepth/California
Rating Low/None
Details No mention of Wikipedia or GFDL. Pages copied verbatim from Wikipedia.
Contact info No contact details listed on site. Whois lists contact as Ian Hawkins of AcornSearch, ian AT acornsearch.com, with a UK postal address & mobile phone number. Webhost appears to be Easynet, who publish an abuse contact email on their website & in whois.
Actions Standard letter emailed to whois contact at 23:23, 2 September 2007 (UTC) by User:AJR. Awaiting response.

404 Page not found --Rumping 17:09, 23 September 2007 (UTC)

CelebRoad

CelebRoad
URL http://www.celebroad.com/
Sample http://www.celebroad.com/people/christi-shake
Rating None
Details There is no mention of the information coming from Wikipedia at all
Contact info Can't find a contact address. Maybe webmaster AT celebroad.com would work?
Actions none taken, I don't understand all the red tape that encompasses Fair Use images so I'm not even going to try contacting anyone off site.

Champions (UK) Plc After Dinner Speakers

Champions (UK) Plc After Dinner Speakers
URL http://www.championsukplc.com/after-dinner-speaking/
Sample http://www.championsukplc.com/after-dinner-speaking/speaker_details.cfm?speakerID=530
Rating
Details No mention of Wikipedia/GFDL. Seems to copy text directly from biographical articles.
Contact info
Actions

Choam info

  • Site: http://www.choam.info/
  • No mention of wikipedia
  • No mention of GFDL
    • Front page is a list of topics. Subpages produce errors --Rumping 17:11, 23 September 2007 (UTC)

Chemistry Daily

  • Site: Chemistry Daily - the chemistry encyclopedia
  • Seems to have a pretty much complete copy of the WP database - including non-chemistry articles. [25]
  • No reference to GFDL on individual pages. Instead, line at the bottom:
    The contents of this article is licensed from Wikipedia.org
  • Potentially confusing copyright line beneath that. No link to wikipedia on individual article's pages.
  • Terms of use [26] are pretty good though, including copy of GFDL license, plus reference to wikipedia.
  • Annoying popups and JavaScript.

Chesnutz.info

Example url: http://mp3player.chesnutz.info/dir11/mp3-player-compact-flash.html

I don't know what the term for this is, but it's basically link spam, they try to attract every search engine match possible to their link pages. That particular page rips off content from Limb darkening. There are lots more on that group of sites. No wikipedia credit or gfdl mention whatsoever. Actually the several that I looked at all use Sun-related snippets. Weird.

    • Wikipedia content not obvious in example --Rumping 17:13, 23 September 2007 (UTC)

Chessbase.com

(article about Howard Staunton)

  • link to current version of article, mentions Wikipedia as source
  • no link to GFDL (perhaps not needed - very short text)
    • I agree, but we could tell him to put source: wikipedia (under GFDL). wikipedia would link to article, gfdl to license?
    • It's long enough to be copyrighted, so they should probably license the entire thing under the GFDL. Which will be nice, because they have some nice photos we could use. Martin 10:41, 31 Jul 2003 (UTC)
    • Any more feedback for this? Should we tell them to license the entire article, or just add "(under GFDL)" with a link to the GFDL. The rest of the article is unrelated to the first part about Howard Staunton IMHO, so I don't see how it is even an extension of the Howard Staunton article. dave 18:28, 8 Sep 2003 (UTC)
    • I suggest completely ignoring it. We're prominent enough that a link to our article with our name is ample notice that people can reuse that text. Chances are that we're better recognised as meaning open content than the initials GFDL are at this point... The picture of Howard Staunton appears to be a simple reproduction of a work made during his life and given his date of death and US law that means it is now in the public domain and can be taken from their site and used in the Wikipedia. Jamesday 21:05, 16 Jan 2004 (UTC)
  • I don't believe this site should be listed as Low compliance (as it currently is). It may not be a shining example to hold up, but they sure made it clear where the article came from. Anyone following the link would then become aware of its GFDL status. There are better things than this to worry about. -Rholton 04:25, 2 Dec 2004 (UTC)

chess.go.ro

  • Site: chess.go.ro
  • All (?) chess related articles
  • Link to GFDL (but not local copy)
  • Links to www.wikipedia.org but not to corresponding article

Chinese Psychology Online

Chinese Psychology Online
URL http://www.zgxl.net/eng/eng.htm
Sample http://www.zgxl.net/eng/health/humanbody/dna.htm, http://www.zgxl.net/eng/health/humanbody/rna.htm (RNA version copied), http://www.zgxl.net/eng/health/disease/infectiousdiseases/meningitis.htm
Rating Low
Details There is mention of wikipedia (because they just cut and paste the whole article) but no link to the original article or included history. There is no mention of the GFDL (they say on the home page "In turns, all the content in this site is free for everybody and every organization. Owing to being lack of fund and manpower, we only mention author's name and where we find it." but also "It's the reserved copyright of us." and there are copyright notices on every page if javascript is enabled).
Contact info fundset AT hotmail.com (whois), abuse AT jsinfo.net (host), shanghai AT hichina.com (ISP/nameserver)
Actions
  • Sent the standard letter. --snoyes 18:16, 22 Nov 2003 (UTC)
  • Got the following autoreply - most probably chinese (don't know what character encoding they're using), can anyone translate it?:
ÄúµÄÓÊ?�<thorn>ÒÑ?�-ÊÕµ1⁄2¡£
ÓÉÓÚ1?�ÖÏÈÉ?�ú£¬¡¶Ö<ETH>1?�<ETH>ÄÀíÈÈÏß¡·ÒÔ1⁄4°¡¶1⁄2ñÈ?�<ETH>ÄÀí¡·´?�?�?�<eth>ÔY´»ºÓÊ1⁄4<thorn>*Éѯ»Ø¸´¡?�
ºÎʱ»Ö¸´Áí<ETH><ETH>֪ͨ¡£
This seemed to be in Simplified Chinese. The first line is "Your mail has been received". The second is scrambled by the markup text beyond recognition ("due to...."). The third one seems to be "we would notify you separately on when to resume...". --Hlaw 15:10, 18 Dec 2003 (UTC)
  • Sent followup to cpo AT 163.net. Superm401 - Talk 00:28, 7 January 2007 (UTC)
    • Got mailer-daemon error. Superm401 - Talk 00:28, 7 January 2007 (UTC)
  • Resent followup to fundset AT hotmail.com . Superm401 - Talk 00:31, 7 January 2007 (UTC)

Christianclassifieds.com

  • Main page seems to have copied dating, including a vandilism
  • No mention of GFDL, lot of other site too, just look for "Dyersburg, Tennessee, illegal for a woman to contact a man by telephone"--Rayc 23:31, 7 November 2005 (UTC)

citiesamerica.com

  • As of 16:46, 06 Feb 2007 (UTC)

Citizendium

Citizendium
URL http://www.citizendium.org
Sample List_of_inorganic_compounds
Rating N/A
Details Partial. Some articles credit wikipedia some do not
Contact info admin AT citizendium.org
Actions none yet
  • has a policy that articles that take content from wikipedia should credit but not all do. Situation with images worse. However the site is new so it is to be expected they will take some time to find their feet. No action taken at this time.

Geni 01:19, 26 March 2007 (UTC)

  • Actually, they are now widely violating the GFDL and they explicitly intend to do so according to their founder on their forums. Last I looked, their plans were not yet finalized but they were bouncing between either taking Wikipedia content and calling it cc-by-nc or calling Wikipedia content GFDL and keeping CZ originated articles as CC-by-nc with the explicit intention of using a non-free-content license to avoid any cooperation with Wikipedia (from whom they take a significant amount of content). Their frequent copying of images from commons, even in approved articles, with zero attribution or license data is especially troubling. --Gmaxwell 01:20, 26 March 2007 (UTC)
  • Where on their forums do they explicitly say that they intend on violating the GFDL? I checked out this topic on the GFDL but I couldn't find what you are talking about. I saw something on CC-by-NC-SA: is that the same as CC-by-nc? Even if it is the same, how does CC-by-nc violate the GFDL? I'm only asking because I don't know. Thanks. ~a (usertalkcontribs) 01:27, 26 March 2007 (UTC)
I am of course not a lawyer, but it does seem re-releasing GFDL under CC-by-nc might require a day in court at some point. But that may be okay. We don't really know what the GFDL means until such a time, nor the interoperability between the GFDL and any CC licenses. A "day in court" could be a considerable societal good.
That's reply #3 in above mentioned thread. The idea is then re-inforced several times in that thread, also by Larry Sanger. But it's only one of many alternatives discussed there.
Pjacobi 13:10, 26 March 2007 (UTC)
I edit Citizendium and I will not link back to Wikipedia or give any credit to Wikipedia when I am the only author of the Wikipedia entry. Andries 21:41, 9 April 2007 (UTC)
not a problem.Geni 20:26, 14 April 2007 (UTC)

citymayors.com

CityMayors
URL http://www.citymayors.com/
Sample http://www.citymayors.com/mayors/denver_mayor.html (city description is the lead to the article Denver, Colorado)
Rating Low
Details No mention of GFDL. Site claims copyright to material from Wikipedia.
Contact info info AT citymayors.com, telephone: +44.20.8209.1722.
Actions

Civil-War.ws

See Wikipedia:Mirrors_and_forks/Mno#Otherground

Classic TV & Movie Hits

Classic TV & Movie Hits
URL http://www.classictvhits.com
Sample http://www.classictvhits.com/network.php?id=15
Rating Medium to Low
Details In very small print: "(Source: wikipedia.org)" The text "wikipedia.org" links to www.wikipedia.org. Does same thing for some pages taken from IMDb. No mention of GFDL. Claims copyright at bottom of page. On its "disclaimer" page, it quotes U.S. copyright law on fair use.
Contact info Admin: webmaster AT classictvhits.com 978-886-2357 ISP: domains AT ev1servers.net 713-333-7873
Actions none so far

Cleartest.com

This Pot Smoker of the Month is in significant parts a copyvio of Wikipedia's article on Melissa Etheridge

clearups.com

clearups.com
URL http://www.clearups.com/
Sample http://www.clearups.com/af.html
Rating "Low/None"
Details [28] "Content is for general informational purposes only and any copyrighted materials with be removed immediately if requested by the rightful copyright owners."
Contact info admin AT clearups.com
Actions

clubblogs.com

clubblogs
URL http://clubblogs.com/
Sample http://clubblogs.com/train
Rating "Low/None" compliance with GFDL (matches Wikipedia:GFDL Compliance).
Details mirror of wikipedia without any comment
Contact info
Actions none
  • No obvious Wikipedia content in example --Rumping 17:19, 23 September 2007 (UTC)

Clusty

Clusty
URL http://wiki.clusty.com
Sample http://clusty.com/search?v%3Aproject=clusty-encyclopedia&query=dog
Rating High
Details All uses are accompanied by a GFDL notice, link to the original article, and mention of Wikipedia as the source. This is a search engine with a mirror of Wikipedia's Main Page. Searches show abstracts from Wikipedia. The front page (http://wiki.clusty.com/) is a direct copy of Main Page. License notices state, "Results from Wikipedia are licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License." The GFDL is linked to Wikipedia:Text of the GNU Free Documentation License. However, there is a copyright notice stating "© 2004-2006 Vivísimo, Inc. Clusty is created entirely with Vivísimo Velocity." The use of the Wikipedia logo is specifically authorized by the Wikimedia Foundation (by way of Jimbo Wales).
Contact info arment AT vivisimo.com
Actions
  • I have emailed to ask for slightly better compliance. Superm401 -
  • I am emailing to ask for a rephrasing of the copyright notice. Superm401 - Talk 00:58, 4 February 2006 (UTC)

Talk 01:34, 20 January 2006 (UTC)

CNET

codeboy.net

Research requested. JesseW 22:16, 18 July 2005 (UTC)

  • Currently in non-workable state, full with "\n" and "font=", etc. I would assume noone with any sense would use it --Msoos 13:40, 21 October 2005 (UTC)

collectionagencysupport.com

Collection Agency Services
URL http://www.collectionagencysupport.com/index.php?option=com_frontpage&Itemid=1
Sample http://www.collectionagencysupport.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=22&Itemid=32
Rating Low/None
Details Copy of Collection agency on various pages including the sample above. The author even kept in the Wiki markup.
Contact info Owner/Admin: bobur2002 AT hotmail.com, 302-345-1634

ISP: abuse AT site5.com, 888-748-3526

Owner/Admin Address: Bob Kurbanov, 309 Waters Edge Drive, Newark 19702

Actions none


colombialink.com

colombialink.com
URL http://www.colombialink.com/01_INDEX/index_finanzas_eng.html
Sample http://www.colombialink.com/01_INDEX/index_finanzas_eng/arrow_impossibility.html
Rating Medium
Details GFDL notice with mention of Wikipedia and local link to the GFDL on all economics page copied. However, every page links to our list of economics topics rather than the particular page copied.
Contact info duran AT colombialink.com, sales AT ifxcorp.com (host)
Actions
  • Received message that they have fixed problems and appreciate my notice. However, I replied noting that they link to the wrong page for most articles. Superm401 - Talk 23:13, 12 March 2006 (UTC)
    • No obvious mention of Wikipedia or GFDL in example page --Rumping 17:23, 23 September 2007 (UTC)

Comedy Zone

Comedy Zone
URL http://www.comedy-zone.net
Sample http://www.comedy-zone.net/standup/comedian/s/stephenson-pamela.htm
Rating Low/none
Details Site features numerous comedian profiles; all four I checked were cut-and-pasted from Wikipedia articles with minor editing. Pamela Stephenson article includes material written by me. Comedy Zone notices claim copyright to site content, no mention of Wikipedia, GFDL, or link to source. I checked threefour more comedian profiles at random, and all were simply cut-and-pastes of corresponding Wikipedia articles with some abridgement.
Contact info ray.chapman AT comedy-zone.net (registrant whois), hostmaster AT POSITIVE-INTERNET.COM (technical whois), good AT positive-internet.com (host email listed on their site)
Actions
  • Sent copy of PD letter (modified to note the other pages besides the one I contributed to) to technical contact with request that they pass on on to Mr/Ms Chapman. --Calair 00:24, 23 January 2006 (UTC)
  • Sent followup letter to ray.chapman AT comedy-zone.net. Superm401 - Talk 00:37, 7 January 2007 (UTC)

Still non-compliant more than a year later, http://www.comedy-zone.net/standup/comedian/s/smirnoff-yakov.htm does make it appear that in Soviet Russia, copyright violates YOU!! --carlb (talk) 17:41, 10 April 2008 (UTC)

Compwisdom.com

CompWisdom
URL http://www.compwisdom.com
Sample http://www.compwisdom.com/topics/BSD
Rating Low/None
Details Some entries credit Wikipedia. Most don't. Some attribute material to unrelated other Wikipedia mirrors. (e.g., WordIQ.)
Contact info contact page
Actions None.

concordchrysler300.com

  • Site: http://concordchrysler300.com/wiki2.php
  • Just raw copy of Simple English Wikipedia.
  • The only mention of GFDL and Wikipedia is from the links in the actual Main Page of the Simple English Wikipedia.
  • nonworking as of 13 April 2006. Chris Chan.talk.contribs 00:03, 14 April 2006 (UTC)
    • dead - no domain registration --Rumping 17:26, 23 September 2007 (UTC)

Conk

  • Site: http://conk.com/encyclopedia/
  • |rating=|compliance=s Wikipedia
  • Contains notice: "Data for the CONK! Encyclopedia provided by Wikipedia" with a non-working link to Wikipedia:About and no mention of GFDL.
  • Example: http://www.conk.com/search/encyclopedia.cgi?q=Zone_plate Zone plate
  • Have sent email. --Laura Scudder | Talk 23:49, 16 May 2005 (UTC)
  • Dead and gone. --WCQuidditch 18:06, 26 December 2005 (UTC)
  • Still dead (and gone) astiqueparervoir 02:49, 12 April 2006 (UTC)
  • Site doesn't work anymore. This, that and the other 10:27, 22 May 2007 (UTC)

Connect Online

Connect Online
URL http://encyc.connectonline.com/
Sample http://encyc.connectonline.com/index.php/Tonga
Rating Medium
Details Notes that material ("information" as the site says) is from Wikipedia, with link to original article and main page (at top and bottom of article respectively) and links to local copy of the GFDL. Specifically disclaims copyright of Wikipedia material in copyright section (with another local link to the GFDL). Authors and dates are not listed.
Contact info jrutherfordmd AT hotmail.com (whois), support AT oar.net (host)
Actions
  • Sent letter asking for a direct link to article, on-site GFDL, and no claim of copyright. Superm401 - Talk 02:24, 23 January 2006 (UTC)
  • Received reply stating "I am forwarding this to my webmaster, who only works on this in his frre [sic] time, to make corrections. We will stay in touch and follow-up." Superm401 - Talk 03:18, 23 January 2006 (UTC)

Conservapedia

Conservapedia
URL http://www.conservapedia.com
Sample http://www.conservapedia.com/Al_Sarant
Rating None
Details
Contact info Andrew Schlafly, (212) 292-4510, asclafly AT aul.com / Ev1servers, abuse AT ev1servers.net
Actions none yet

Consumer's Research Council of America

Consumer's Research Council of America
URL http://www.consumersresearchcncl.org
Sample http://www.consumersresearchcncl.org/Healthcare/Dermatologists/derma_chapter1.html (compare [29], which shows page was put together on wiki slowly)
Rating "Low/None"
Details Poor compliance: "Copyright © Consumers' Research Council of America. All rights reserved. "
Contact info See [30], [31]
Actions none yet

Cookery-Online

  • Site: cookery-online.co.uk
  • The site uses Wikipedia (and Wikibooks) content about cooking, kitchen appliances, diets, ect (all of their recipes come from Wikibooks). They provide a link to the text of the GFDL at the GNU's site, and to the Wikipedia Main Page, but not to specific articles (and make no reference to Wikibooks at all).
    • I received a reply from Chris Anstey, letting me know that the links have been changed to the relevant articles, and wikibooks content is now properly attributed. Gentgeen 02:32, 16 Jan 2005 (UTC)
  • I think I would call them medium compliance overall, slightly higher compliance with respect to Wikipedia, and slightly lower in respect to Wikibooks.
    • Changing to high compliance, after checking the site. Gentgeen 02:32, 16 Jan 2005 (UTC)
  • Standard letter (modified to include Wikibooks issues) sent on January 5 by Gentgeen
    • Received reply January 15, 2005. Gentgeen 02:32, 16 Jan 2005 (UTC)
  • No authors or dates listed. Medium compliance. Uncle G 11:13, 5 June 2007 (UTC)

Cooking Vinyl UK

Cooking Vinyl UK
URL http://www.cookingvinyl.com/
Sample http://www.cookingvinyl.com/artist_info.php?id=26#albdesc
Rating None
Details Uses text directly from Billy Bragg with no acknowledgement of source
Contact info Tel: +44 (0)20 8600 9200

Fax: +44 (0)20 8743 7448
Email: info AT cookingvinyl.com

Actions None yet

Cooldictionary.com

Cooldictionary.com
URL http://www.cooldictionary.com/
Sample http://www.cooldictionary.com/words/Main_Page.wikipedia
Rating Medium
Details Like #Algebra.com, it looks like a nearly complete copy of Wikipedia from May 18. Links to the corresponding Wikipedia articles and notes that each article is licensed under the GFDL at the bottom of each page. However, it appears to be dynamically fetched, which is a major drain on Wikipedia resources. See for instance http://www.cooldictionary.com/words/Portal:Current%20events.wikipedia.
Contact info
Actions Notified wikitech-l about dynamic loading. Superm401 - Talk 01:53, 3 January 2007 (UTC)

copernicus.subdomain.de

  • Site: copernicus.subdomain.de
  • The main page is the Wikipedia article on Nicolaus Copernicus, but they seem to have copied all of the article namespace but none of the other namespaces.
  • They link to the GFDL at GNU.org, and to the respective Wikipedia article, and mention Wikipedia, at the bottom of every page.
However, as of 03:33, 14 Mar 2005 (UTC), google seems to still pick them up even with "-wikipedia" added. Strange. JesseW 03:33, 14 Mar 2005 (UTC)
  • All namespaces.
  • Sample: http://copernicus.subdomain.de/Jimmy_Wales
  • No mention of Wikipedia.
  • No mention of GFDL.
  • As of 13:54, 15 January 2006 (UTC)
    • not functioning --Rumping 17:29, 23 September 2007 (UTC)

CottageBuddy

  • Site: www.cottagebuddy.com
  • Example www.cottagebuddy.com/cottage_resources/en/Mormaerdom_of_Moray
  • States: This article is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License, which means that you can copy and modify it as long as the entire work (including additions) remains under this license. The source of this article is Wikipedia and a list of the authors can be found here. with broken links failing to reach GFDL at gnu.org, original article and history
  • Ends with ©2006 CottageBuddy

Creekin.net

Creekin.net
URL http://creekin.net/
Sample http://creekin.net/c5157-n125-western-sahara-morocco.html
Rating Low
Details
  • Mentions Wikipedia, as the source of "Some information" (really all)
  • Mentions GFDL, but with incorrect link.
  • Links to irrelevant page in Wikipedia.
  • No link to the original article.
Contact info
  • CREEKIN.NET AT domainsbyproxy.com (proxy domain registeration)
  • abuse AT rackspace.com (ISP)
Actions Asked for DMCA takedown notices at Portal talk:Geography. Superm401 - Talk 00:50, 7 January 2007 (UTC)

Crystalinks.com

Crystalinks Metaphysical and Science Website
URL http://www.crystalinks.com/
Sample http://www.crystalinks.com/chupacabras.html
Rating Medium
Details Uses content from Chupacabra. No mention of Wikipedia or GFDL, claims copyright on front page. Links to Answers.com copy of article.
Contact info http://www.crystalinks.com/email.html
WHOIS: ecrystal AT nyc.rr.com, 10031 4th Avenue Apt 6A, Brooklyn, NY 11209, US, Phone: (718) 833-4264
Actions
  • Standard GFDL violation letter sent. —Ilmari Karonen (talk) 21:00, 15 May 2006 (UTC)
  • Response received, page now links back to Chupacabra as "References and Links". Still no mention of the GFDL. —Ilmari Karonen (talk) 11:16, 16 May 2006 (UTC)
  • Sent standard followup letter to ecrystal AT nyc.rr.com. Superm401 - Talk 07:33, 7 January 2007 (UTC)
    • She replied stating, "The file has been change. I apologize for any inconvenience."
      • I replied noting that the site was still in violation, and apparently had just changed to mentioning Answers.com. Superm401 - Talk 23:40, 7 January 2007 (UTC)

CultureCentric

CultureCentric
URL http://www.culturecentric.com/
Sample http://www.culturecentric.com/Language-A/affricate_consonant.php
Rating None
Details No mention of Wikipedia or the GFDL. Page says "© CultureCentric.com. All Rights Reserved"
Contact info I can't find any contact information.
Actions None yet. —Angr 19:30, 16 October 2006 (UTC)

Cunnan

Cunnan (SCA wiki)
URL http://cunnan.sca.org.au/wiki/Main_Page
Sample http://cunnan.sca.org.au/wiki/SCA
Rating Low
Details Links to local copy of GFDL (under the text "legal small-print"). Articles do not mention Wikipedia.
Contact info Webmaster: Delbert von Straßburg (del AT sca.org.au); ISP: Babel Com Australia (http://www.babel.com.au)
Actions None

CuteWalls.com

CuteWalls.com
URL http://cutewalls.com/
Sample http://cutewalls.com/a-to-f/anne-hathaway.html
Rating "None"
Details no mention of wikipedia or gfdl. Patstuarttalk·edits 08:01, 25 March 2007 (UTC)
Contact info 9a30232f81f94adab722fcb45955739e.protect AT whoisguard.com (yes, this is correct), Phone:6613102107.
Actions

cyberpedia.net

cyberpedia.net
URL http://cyberpedia.net/
Sample http://www.cyberpedia.net/info.php?title=Immune_system
Rating Medium
Details Mentions wikipedia, links to original article. Mentions gfdl, links to the GNU project site
Contact info ryehalbesma AT yahoo.com.au +61422376907 (this is from whois. the website says nothing)
Actions none

Cyese.info

  • Google suggests copy of some articles (e.g. [[32]] should have a copy of Polyol) but protected behind registration requirement --Henrygb 18:21, 11 November 2005 (UTC)
  • Site ont found, as of 00:06, 14 April 2006 (UTC). Chris Chan.talk.contribs

cytaty.servis.pl

  • Site: http://www.cytaty.servis.pl/haslo/Main_Page
  • Sample: http://www.wiedza.servis.pl/haslo/Albinizm
  • Uses Wikipedia, Polish Wikipedia, and Wikiquote contents.
  • Mention of GFDL 1.2, no links to it though. No mention of Wikipedia. -- WB 08:11, 15 January 2006 (UTC)
    • E-mail sent. -- WB 08:18, 15 January 2006 (UTC)
  • Sample now seems to be: http://www.encyklopedia.servis.pl/wiki/Albinizm 17:37, 23 September 2007 (UTC)

Mirrors and Forks : (Numbers) ABC - DEF - GHI - JKL - MNO - PQR - STU - VWXYZ - All - Archive

D

DanceAge

dark-legion.org

dark-legion.org
URL http://links.pih.dark-legion.org/
Sample http://wikipedia.en.dark-legion.org/
Rating None
Details Pages are verbatim copies of Wikipedia articles. No mention that the content is under the GFDL, no mention of or links to Wikipedia. Some parts are even renderen in 1 pixel fonts. Advertisement links all around, some in 1 pixel font.
Contact info AdPilot Net
  • Person: Pawel Chodaczek
  • Address: AdPilot
  • address: Kordeckiego 31/17
  • address: 05-230 Kobylka
  • e-mail: pch007 AT gmail.com
  • phone: +48 0507012835
Actions None

DATAFORMATO.COM

DATAFORMATO.COM
URL http://www.dataformato.com/
Sample http://www.dataformato.com/basal_cell_carcinoma.php
Rating None
Details Pages are verbatim copies of Wikipedia articles. No mention that the content is under the GFDL, no mention of or links to Wikipedia.

Says: Retrieved from "http://localhost.localdomain/wiki/index.php/Basal_cell_carcinoma"

Contact info Private domain registeration through Domains by Proxy, Inc.
  • Phone: 1-480-624-2599
  • Email: DATAFORMATO.COM AT domainsbyproxy.com
  • http://who.godaddy.com/whois.aspx?domain=dataformato.com&prog_id=godaddy
  • http://domainsbyproxy.com/LegalAgreement.aspx (postal address for legal issues)
Actions None

datapan.com

datapan.com
URL www.datapan.com
Sample http://www.datapan.com/2005-In-Review-Mist-to-Moro/momo.php
Rating Low/None
Details Adds own copyright notice, no mention of wikipedia or GFDL. Purpose of site unclear, probably search engine spam.
Contact info DATAPAN.COM AT domainsbyproxy.com (private whois), http://domainsbyproxy.com/LegalAgreement.aspx?prog_id= (post only)
Actions none so far

dCult.com

dCult.com
URL www.dcult.com
Sample http://www.dcult.com/Architectural-Styles/Brutalist_architecture.php
Rating Low/None
Details Adds own copyright notice, no mention of wikipedia, source
Contact info DCULT.COM AT domainsbyproxy.com (private whois), abuse AT domainsbyproxy.com, abuse AT godaddy.com (registrar/host), http://domainsbyproxy.com/LegalAgreement.aspx?prog_id= (post only)
Actions Sent standard violation letter to DCULT.COM AT domainsbyproxy.com. Superm401 - Talk 01:34, 27 February 2006 (UTC)


DefinitionCenter.com

Definition Center
URL http://www.definitioncenter.com/
Sample http://www.definitioncenter.com/def/parthenon
Rating Low/None
Details Uses first paragraph only. Falsely claims copyright. GFDL is not mentioned at all. No mention of Wikipedia or link to original article. Because it is a modified version, it must follow more rigorous requirements. No "History" section. Does not perserve network location of original. Superm401 - Talk 15:56, 19 January 2006 (UTC)
Contact info jessica AT interactivegroupinc.net (whois admin), lgoffi AT hotmail.com (whois tech), abuse AT sagonet.com (host)
Actions
  • Sent standard violation letter to lgoffi AT hotmail.com . Superm401 - Talk 02:02, 27 February 2006 (UTC)
  • Sent standard followup to jessica AT interactivegroupinc.net. Superm401 - Talk 09:55, 9 January 2007 (UTC)
  • now appears to be a domain parking site without wikipedia content --Rumping 13:26, 25 September 2007 (UTC)

dellpda.info

dellpda.info / get ENCYKLOPEDIA FREE
URL http://*.dellpda.info/
Sample http://copyleft.en.dellpda.info
Rating Low
Details Now mentions GFDL and Wikipedia, but does not link to article. Links to GFDL on gnu.org. Pure search-engine spam.
Contact info
Actions
  • Give "page unavailable" --Rumping 13:27, 25 September 2007 (UTC)

deviantART

deviantART
URL http://www.deviantart.com
Sample http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/31660813/
Rating "Low/None"
Details ~Tim0z claims our Lenin piece as his

Quite possibly, this is just a user on a bulletin board; no idea if there is any other plagiarism on the site.

Contact info http://about.deviantart.com/contact/
Actions Taken down

devon.tv

Devon.TV
URL http://www.devon.tv/
Sample http://www.devon.tv/index.htm
Rating "Low/None"
Details claims to be "© 2005 - 07, Discovery Travel Network Ltd. All rights reserved", but looks like a verbatim copy of Wikipedia content, possibly from mid 2006 or 2007 (complete with "[citation needed]" tags) see, e.g., this revision. The paragraph starting with the words "By the ninth century, ..." is a clear example.
Contact info admin = Richard Vaughton (richard AT torquay.com, +44.1803211116); hosted at 213.171.219.1 = Fasthosts Internet Limited (abuse AT fasthosts.co.uk, +44 1452 541251)
Actions Owner contacted. Has promised to address the situation in the next couple of days (as of 2007/11/30)
  • Site is still unchanged (2007/12/07)

Dictionary of Meaning

Dictionary of Meaning
URL http://www.mauspfeil.net
Sample http://www.mauspfeil.net/suche.html?key=dog, http://www.mauspfeil.net/Requested%20moves.html
Rating Medium
Details Links to original article and GFDL. Copies the whole namespace. MediaWiki doesn't seem to be working properly. Wikitext is displayed unparsed. Mentions Wikipedia (links to Hauptseite, which redirects to our Main Page [probably an inappropriate redirct, and what does Hauptseite mean? (Means main page?)).

While the article portion of their Wikipedia is GFDL compliant, pages like <http://www.mauspfeil.net/Requested%20moves.html> links to the wrong page. Perhaps whoever is contacting this person next can tell them not to mirror anything besides the article namespace.

Update: Incorrectly refers to Wikipedia as a dictionary, doesn't link to original article, GFDL link is offsite. — Feezo (Talk) 19:01, 17 May 2007 (UTC)

Contact info service AT mauspfeil.de
Actions Sent violation letter asking for direct links to GFDL and original article. Superm401 - Talk 02:19, 27 February 2006 (UTC)

DictionPedia

DictionPedia
URL http://www.dictionpedia.com
Sample http://www.dictionpedia.com/en/Civilization?utm_source=google&utm_medium=ppc&utm_term=Civilization&utm_campaign=3
Rating low
Details
  • Each page gives correct (sortof) license at the bottom, but the link to further information on the license (the link "copyright") does not lead to a functioning page. No proper explaining of the GFDL, and no backlinks to Wikipedia.
  • References to Wikipedia are not explicit, even though Wikimedia is mentioned.
  • A bottom link pointing to About:DictionPedia leads to a page about Wikipedia.
  • The site is heavily filled with Google AdSense Ad's etc.
  • What's worse, the site's main page which is simply a search field, claims that content is (C) DictionPedia.
  • The page title still has "Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia"!
Contact info Unknown - tried to find one, but miserably failed. Hopefully someone will be able to do dig deeper
Actions none

didgeridooman.com

didgeridooman.com
URL http://www.didgeridooman.com
Sample http://www.didgeridooman.com/267297_elaine-cunningham_111796163xdarkjourneynewjediorder10booksonsale.html
Rating Medium
Details 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

Din Cyclopedia

  • Site: Din Cyclopedia
  • Contains a number of pages of Wikipedia, with all links. The links point to the local copy if it is there, otherwise to the current Wikipedia article
  • Links to both edit page and current page on Wikipedia.
  • GFDL link Links to Wikipedia's article on GNU Free Documentation License
  • "Find out how you can help support Wikipedia's phenomenal growth." present
  • Update - Not much there at all anymore. \Rexruff
  • No authors or dates listed. Medium compliance. Uncle G 11:15, 5 June 2007 (UTC)

Dirpedia

Dirpedia
URL http://www.dirpedia.com
Sample http://www.dirpedia.com/hobbies.html Compare with Hobby
Rating "Medium"
Details Fairly poor site that credits Wikipedia and the GFDL without linking to the articles in question, except in their silly "edit this page" links at top. Discovered it because the site spammed a good deal of Europe recently (Email dated May 5, 2006)
Contact info Bogdan Messer(?) dirpedia (at) dirpedia.com
Actions

Disease Reference

Disease Reference
URL http://www.disease-reference.com
Sample http://www.disease-reference.com/Autoimmune.htm
Rating Medium
Details States that content is from Wikipedia (with link to www.wikipedia.org) and licensed under the GFDL, which it links to a local copy of. Also includes medical disclaimer. Does not include history section or link to original article. Superm401 - Talk 16:13, 19 January 2006 (UTC)
Contact info
Actions

disneyland-hong-kong.com

Disneyland Hong Kong
URL http://disneyland-hong-kong.com/, http://www.great-wall-of-china.com/
Sample http://disneyland-hong-kong.com/ from Hong Kong Disneyland and http://www.great-wall-of-china.com/ from Great Wall of China]
Rating Medium
Details Links to original article and offsite GFDL.
Contact info stephenjedge AT hotmail.com, User talk:219.79.37.167 (unverified)
Actions

dogluvers.com

The Ultimate Dog Breeds Information Guide and Reference
URL http://www.dogluvers.com/
Sample http://www.dogluvers.com/dog_breeds/Bayesian_probability
Rating
Details Uses popular mirror template. Includes "The contents of this article are licensed from Wikipedia.org under the GNU Free Documentation License. How to see transparent copy" with local link to GFDL and instructions to get to original article.
Contact info
Actions Requested that they mention Wikipedia on every page, as well as briefly describig the GFDL and changing the "Terms of Use" text to "GFDL License". Awaiting response. Superm401 - Talk 06:32, 6 November 2005 (UTC)

DomainsAreFree.com

DomainsAreFree
URL http://www.domainsarefree.com/glossary/
Sample http://www.domainsarefree.com/glossary/World_Wide_Web.html
Rating Medium
Details Commercial domain registration site using a subset of technical Wikipedia articles. Links to original article and offsite GFDL.
Contact info http://www.domainsarefree.com/contact.html
Actions

double-bass.koopal.com

Double bass entry portal to ibay.com.li
URL http://double-bass.koopal.com/
Sample http://double-bass.koopal.com/
Rating "Low/None" compliance with GFDL.
Details Copied and edited text from Double bass, and photo Image:AGK_bass1_full.jpg. No WP attribution or GFDL notice. Copyright attributed to "Ibay international Ltd", and links through to http://www.ibay-hk.com/.
Contact info On http://www.ibay-hk.com/ there is a link to info AT ibay-hk.com, based in Zurich, including phone and postal address.
Actions Sent e-mail 20 Nov 2006. See discussion at Talk:Double_bass#Plagiarism/Copyright Issues? and copy of e-mail at Talk:Double_bass/Copyright_notice. Update: left a note of related GFDL violation at Musical instrument

DownloadpediA

DownloadpediA
URL http://downloadpedia.org/
Sample http://downloadpedia.org/skins/common/images/wiki.png
Rating "Medium"
Details Uses Wikipedia's Logo and default MediaWiki color scheme, might confuse people into thinking they're reading or editing wikipedia. Not a fork per se, but I didn't know where else to put this.
Contact info none listed
Actions Left note on the wiki's main talk page, and also suggested content might make a good wikibook. [33]

Dr. Damerow

  • Links to the articles
  • Links to GFDL on gnu.org
Not a verbatim copy: embedding failure - text inserted between title ("Cold War") and start of Wikipedia text ("The Cold War (September 2, 1945 - December 25, 1991) was"). Either needs the inserted text placed above the header (to make it a verbatim copy) or it needs to comply with the stricter rules on derivative works.
The French Wars of Religion article is a combination of two Wikipedia articles. There are rules on how you can do this, but I can't remember them off the top of my head.

dropbears.com

See Wikipedia:Mirrors_and_forks/Abc#Brough.27s_Books.

DuranDuranFans.com

  • 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

DuranDuranTimeline.com

  • Site: History of Duran Duran: The Duran Duran Timeline
  • Non-commercial fansite (displaying Google ads), verbatim copy of Duran Duran article, inc. fair use pictures.
  • Links removed, years link to Timeline site pages
  • "From Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia" retained
  • Header and footer provide link to current article and to Wikipedia copy of GFDL (and an invitation to translate the article for Wikipedia!)

E

e-tv.co.za

e-tv.co.za
URL http://www.e-tv.co.za/
Sample http://www.e-tv.co.za/s/o/u/Southern_Africa_7a65.html
Rating Low
Details
  • Mentions Wikipedia.
  • Tries to link to the original article, but with bad URL.
  • Mentions og links to GFDL at GNU page.
  • See Wikipedia:Mirrors and forks/Vwxyz#zdnet.co.za.
  • Two 'random article' links at bottom link to two other .za websites.
  • Home page does not work anymore.
Contact info
  • rmckay AT hotmail.com (admin; Mr. Russell McKay)
  • abuse AT theplanet.com (ISP)
  • copyright AT theplanet.com (ISP)
Actions None. -- WB 09:04, 23 February 2006 (UTC)

earth-history.com

earth-history.com
URL http://www.earth-history.com/
Sample http://earth-history.com/Egypt/toplevel/Publ-domain.htm
Rating Low
Details Mention that the article is from Wikipedia but without link to Wikipedia, GFDL, or the individual aritcle. Claims that the page presents copyrighted material under fair use doctorine of the U.S. copyright law. The publisher seems to be a Dutch. Fair use for an entire article is quite dubious. The extent of their use is not investigated. It may be just one article.
Contact info Leendert Geerts: webmaster AT GEERTS.COM (admin whois), abuse AT 4rweb.com (host)
Actions
  • Sent standard violation notice to webmaster AT earth-history.com. Superm401 - Talk 01:22, 3 January 2007 (UTC)
    • Got email delivery error. Superm401 - Talk 02:02, 3 January 2007 (UTC)
  • Resent to webmaster AT GEERTS.COM. Superm401 - Talk 02:34, 10 January 2007 (UTC)

ebabylone.com

eBabylone
URL http://www.ebabylone.com/encyclopreg.php?title=Main_Page
Sample http://www.ebabylone.com/encyclopedie_IKEA.html
Rating Low
Details Mirror of French Wikipedia. Mentions Wikipedia and GFDL, but links to neither.
Contact info gs_fr AT yahoo.fr (whois) http://www.ebabylone.com/contact.php
Actions

ebaumsworld.com

eBaum's World
URL http://www.ebaumsworld.com/pictures/view/63233/
Sample http://www.ebaumsworld.com/pictures/view/63233/
Rating Low
Details Uses at least one image, without mentioning wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Ulica_Kenobiego.jpg)
Contact info legal AT ebaumsworld.com

eBaum's World

P.O. Box 18091

Rochester, NY 14618

Actions

eBaita.com

eBaita
URL http://www.ebaita.com/
Sample http://www.ebaita.com/enciclopedia.asp?title=Wikip%C3%A9dia
Rating High
Details Mirror of Portuguese Wikipedia. Mentions Wikipedia and GFDL with links
Contact info webmaster at ebaita.com
Actions none

eBay Listing Index

eBay Listing Index
URL http://listing-index.ebay.com/index.html
Sample http://listing-index.ebay.com/actors/Pat_Renella.html
Rating Medium
Details GFDL notice with link to original article and local copy of the GFDL. No authors or dates listed.
Contact info No general contact address. Web form about "Reporting Intellectual Property Infringements (VeRO)" (http://cgi1.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?MfcISAPICommand=InlineSelfHelpWebform&wftype=2024&rcode=VE%25V00024&subject=Reporting%20Intellectual%20Property%20Infringements%20(VeRO)&bcrumb=+Home+%3E+Help+%3E%A0Transaction+Problems+and+Protections%A0%3E%A0What+eBay+Can+Do%A0%3E%A0Reporting+Intellectual+Property+Infringements+%28VeRO%29&instruction=&expirationDate=). registeredagent AT ebay.com (DMCA).
Actions Contacted using web form. Superm401 - Talk 06:53, 3 July 2006 (UTC)

eBook 2u (ebook2u dot com)

eBook2u.com
URL http://eBook2u.com
Sample http://www.ebook2u.com/articles/color-code.shtml
Rating Medium
Details Links to Wikipedia main page and offsite GFDL.
Contact info admin AT ebook2u.com (whois)
Actions

ebroadcast.com.au

eBroadcast
URL http://www.ebroadcast.com.au/lookup/encyclopedia/
Sample http://www.ebroadcast.com.au/lookup/encyclopedia/wa/Washington,_D._C..html
Rating Low
Details No mention of GFDL, and claims copyright. Image link to www.wikipedia.org. Unlabeled links to original article.
Contact info enquiries AT ebroadcast.com.au, milburn_peter AT hotmail.com
Actions
  • Sent standard letter via e-mail. -Rholton 17:22, 3 Dec 2004 (UTC)
  • Sent followup letter to enquiries AT ebroadcast.com.au . Superm401 - Talk 06:00, 10 January 2007 (UTC)

www.economicexpert.com

EconomicExpert
URL http://www.ecomincexpert.com/
Sample http://www.economicexpert.com/a/Prime:time.html
Rating None
Details Without JS, no mention of Wikipedia or GFDL. With Javascript, GFDL notice with links to original article, offsite GFDL, history section, and editing.
Contact info pavflo AT yahoo.com (whois), copyright AT theplanet.com (host DMCA)
Actions Sent email to pavflo AT yahoo.com asking that notice be plain HTML. Superm401 - Talk 06:21, 10 January 2007 (UTC)

Economy-point

English-language translation of (parts of) the German wikipedia

Economy-point.org
URL http://www.economy-point.org/
Sample http://www.economy-point.org/t/train-accident-refines-montparnasse.html
Rating "none"
Details claiming copyright, having it copy-protected by copyscape. No mention of GFDL. Appearently machine-translated from German wikipedia to English.
Contact info E-mail, phone number of admin and ISP.
Actions sent standard letter: en:Wikipedia:Standard GFDL violation letter#Letter_for_website_that_does_not_acknowledge_Wikipedia_as_a_source via form - which sends mail using office AT economy-point.org
Hi. This is the qmail-send program at yahoo.com.
I'm afraid I wasn't able to deliver your message to the following 
addresses.
This is a permanent error; I've given up. Sorry it didn't work out.

<office AT economy-point.org>:
213.17.224.150 does not like recipient.
Remote host said: 553 sorry, that domain isn't in my list of allowed 
rcpthosts (#5.7.1)
Giving up on 213.17.224.150.

sent same message to google AT tiger-ltd.cn - also got an 553 error. No further action taken by me - IIVQ 15:27, 22 April 2007 (UTC)

editthis.info

www.editthis.info
URL http://www.editthis.info
Sample http://www.editthis.info/wiki/Disney_channel
Rating "Low/None"
Details No mention that the content is under the GFDL, no mention of or links to Wikipedia.
Contact info RobKohr AT RobKohr.com, editthis.info AT proxy.dreamhost.com, jeff AT dreamhost.com (host/private whois DMCA)
Actions
  • Sent standard letter to RobKohr AT RobKohr.com . Superm401 - Talk 06:36, 10 January 2007 (UTC)
    • Got "Disc quota exceeded by recipient" mailer-daemon error. Superm401 - Talk 06:42, 10 January 2007 (UTC)

editthis.info/whitmoorwiki

whitmoorwiki (not url)
URL www.editthis.info/whitmoorwiki
Sample http://www.editthis.info/whitmoorwiki/Adolf_Hitler
Rating "Low/None"
Details Willy on Wheels (confirmed via dialogue on another editthis) plagiarized Wikipedia's Adolf Hitler page word for word. Also, vandal and admin templates were plagiarized. Finally (obviously), the logo was used
Contact info No contact information given.
Actions None

www.edvardmunch.info

www.edvardmunch.info
URL http://www.edvardmunch.info/
Sample http://www.edvardmunch.info/edvard-munch/the-scream.asp
Rating "Low/None"
Details Largely a straight copy of The Scream and claims own copyright for 2006
Contact info Webmaster AT EdvardMunch.Info, EDVARDMUNCH.COM AT domainsbyproxy.com, http://domainsbyproxy.com/LegalAgreement.aspx?prog_id= (post only)
Actions

Electric Fence Australia

Electric Fence Australia
URL http://www.electricfenceaustralia.com.au/electric_fencing_tips.html/
Sample http://www.electricfenceaustralia.com.au/electric_fencing_tips.html
Rating None
Details 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)

emycontent.com and allaboutall.info

emyContent.com
URL http://www.emycontent.com/ and http://allaboutall.info
Sample http://www.emycontent.com/article/Category:Composers from commons:Category:Composers and http://www.allaboutall.info/article/Orchestra from Orchestra
Rating Medium
Details Links to original article at top. Links to offsite GFDL with notice "This article is from Wikimedia Commons. All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License." with boilerplate copyright notice at bottom.
Contact info ssamoylov AT gmail.com, team AT allaboutall.info, domains AT superkate.net (whois), abuse AT blacklotus.net (emycontent host)
Actions
  • Sent letter to team AT allaboutall.info asking for link to original article and onsite GFDL. Superm401 - Talk 07:14, 11 January 2007 (UTC)
    • Received reply from ssamoylov AT gmail.com, noting that there is a link to the original article. Replied back asking for local link to the GFDL. Superm401 - Talk 23:51, 11 January 2007 (UTC)

en.wikilib.com

en.wikilib.com
URL http://en.wikilib.com
Sample http://en.wikilib.com/wiki/Main_Page
Rating Low/None
Details 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 {{{contact}}}
Actions {{{action}}}

Encyclopedia 4U

Encyclopedia 4U
URL http://www.encyclopedia4u.com
Sample http://www.encyclopedia4u.com/g/george-w-bush.html
Rating Medium
Details Links (with redirect) to original article and offsite GFDL
Contact info pws AT parwebsolutions.com (whois)
Actions
  • Sent letter to pws AT parwebsolutions.com asking for local GFDL link. Superm401 - Talk 07:12, 12 January 2007 (UTC)
    • Said he would add link soon. Superm401 - Talk 01:11, 14 March 2007 (UTC)

Material says "Copyright � 2005 Par Web Solutions All Rights reserved.". Is that a valid copyright claim, alongside the GFDL link and the link to Wikipedia? Corvus cornixtalk 22:29, 30 April 2008 (UTC)

Encyclopedian

Encyclopedian
URL http://www.encyclopedian.com/
Sample http://www.encyclopedian.com/al/Albania.html
Rating Medium
Details Article ends with "This article is provided by contributions of Wikimedia Foundation. All text is available under the GNU free documentation license. View live article. Copyright & Disclaimer ". Links to local GFDL and original article. No authors or dates listed.
Contact info Ali Ocalir: Gmail address his first, then last name lowercase with no punctuation. See whois.
Actions
  • Sent letter to address above asking that notice links be underlined. Superm401 -

Talk 07:06, 12 January 2007 (UTC)

    • Received reply from address above saying it would be done. It looks line some CSS was changed, but it still doesn't quite work in Firefox so I suggested a fix. Superm401 - Talk 23:16, 13 January 2007 (UTC)
      • Received reply noting that my fix was incorporated, making the links distinguishable in FF. Superm401 - Talk 18:16, 14 January 2007 (UTC)

Encylowine

Encylowine
URL http://www.encyclowine.org/?title=Main_Page
Sample http://www.encyclowine.org/?title=Fermentation
Rating "Low/None"
Details Nearly every article is a complete copy of a Wikipedia article on wine with many images uses. There is a vague and generic disclaimer on their license page saying that some material is from Wikipedia but there is no link from individual articles or images to their original Wikipedia source.
Contact info webmaster AT encyclowine.org, Dixie Maquet
Actions 12/26/2007 sent email with links to Wikipedia's GFDL compliance page and requesting attribution on all articles and links using Wikipedia content. AgneCheese/Wine 17:11, 27 December 2007 (UTC)

EncycloZine

EncycloZine
URL http://encyclozine.com/, http://Artzia.com, http://eluzions.com/, http://diXionary.com, http://Kosmoi.com/
Sample http://encyclozine.com/Society/Social_Science/Anthropology/
Rating Medium
Details EncycloZine is organized into subsites which include: Artzia.com, Eluzions.com DiXionary.com Kosmoi.com and possibly others, all very liberally plastered with links to books available on Amazon.
  • Not always link to current version of article
  • Not always link to GFDL
Contact info kosmoi AT btinternet.com (whois)
Actions
  • Sent standard letter. There is no webmaster email address posted, so I posted it on the forum. Vacuum c 21:14, August 18, 2005 (UTC)
  • Sent another standard letter to kosmoi AT btinternet.com . Superm401 - Talk 07:47, 12 January 2007 (UTC)
    • Received response noting that Social_Science/Anthropology was fixed and promising to fix others ASAP. Superm401 - Talk 19:25, 1 June 2007 (UTC)

English-football

English-football
URL http://www.english-football.org.uk
Sample http://www.english-football.org.uk/owners-chairmen/bill-kenwright
Rating Medium
Details 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.

Englishpremier

Englishpremier
URL www.englishpremier.net
Sample http://www.englishpremier.net/sheffieldunited/sheffieldunited_stadium
Rating None
Details No mention of Wikipeida or GFDL, claims own copyright.
Contact info blockedmind AT blockedmind.com (whois), abuse AT fdcservers.net (host)
Actions Standard violation letter sent to blockedmind AT blockedmind.com on 30 November 2006


Enpsychlopedia

Enpsychlopedia
URL http://www.enpsychlopedia.org/, http://psychcentral.com/psypsych/
Sample http://enpsychlopedia.org/psypsych/Topology
Rating Medium
Details Mirror running MediaWiki crippled MediaWiki. See for instance http://enpsychlopedia.org/psypsych/Topology?action=edit or http://enpsychlopedia.org/psypsych/Topology?action=history . None of the functions really work right, and editing forwards to a Main Page source for some reason. All pages link to the original article and an offsite GFDL.
Contact info ENPSYCHLOPEDIA.ORG AT domainsbyproxy.com, registrar AT liviant.com (psychcentral.com whois), abuse AT theplanet.com (host)
Actions

Enquirerworld

Enquirerworld.com
URL http://www.enquirerworld.com/
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
Details 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)

Entqna

entqna.com
URL http://www.entqna.com/
Sample http://www.entqna.com/celebrities/6345-celebrities.html
Rating Low/None
Details Claims copyright, no mention that text was taken from Tourette syndrome
Contact info entqna AT gmail.com
Actions None. SandyGeorgia (Talk) 17:04, 16 October 2007 (UTC)


e-paranoids.com

E-paranoids
URL http://www.e-paranoids.com/
Sample http://www.e-paranoids.com/a/al/albania.html from Albania
Rating Medium
Details Articles are end with "This article is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License. It uses material from the Wikipedia" with links to www.wikipedia.org and a local copy of the GFDL. However, a CSS overlay makes it impossible to read part of the notice in some browsers. There is no link to the original article.
Contact info jitendrajain AT gmail.com (whois), abuse AT fortressitx.com (host whois)
Actions
  • Sent email to jitendrajain AT gmail.com asking for CSS fix, local GFDL link, and link to original article. Superm401 - Talk 05:41, 13 January 2007 (UTC)
    • Received reply from jitendrajain AT gmail.com noting that he had changed the GFDL link. Unfortunately, it is now broken, but this will hopefully change. He falsely claimed the notice looked fine in Firefox (my browser) and I replied, correcting him and noting that the notice must be legible to everyone. Finally, he expressed doubt about his scripting ability and noting that the dump type the site used is no longer available. I said neither the GFDL nor the CSS required scripting, and that adding a link to the original article should be relatively easy. Superm401 - Talk 09:15, 13 January 2007 (UTC)
      • Received reply noting that GFDL link has been fixed, but doubting that CSS overlay every displayed wrong. He also said the pages were static, and thus it would be difficult to add a link to the original article. I replied thanking him for fixing the GFDL (but noting a couple of insignificant issues with that). I attached a screenshot of the notice on my browser to show the problem. Finally, I asked him how he had modified the GFDL link if the pages were static, and what OS he had. Superm401 - Talk 22:12, 13 January 2007 (UTC)

Equityedu.com

Equityedu.com
URL http://www.equityedu.com
Sample http://www.equityedu.com/testing/plagiarism.html, http://www.equityedu.com/to-Cele/careerbuilder.php
Rating "Low/None" compliance with GFDL.
Details Content copied from wikipedia articles, even including clean up tags in some cases ([34]), but otherwise no mention of wikipedia or gfdl anywhere to be seen.
Contact info EQUITYEDU.COM AT domainsbyproxy.com (proxy whois), abuse AT godaddy.com (host whois)
Actions Sent standard violation letter to EQUITYEDU.COM AT domainsbyproxy.com . Superm401 - Talk 06:08, 13 January 2007 (UTC)

eslbase

eslbase
URL http://www.eslbase.com/
Sample http://www.eslbase.com/language-exchange/czech from Czech language
Rating Medium
Details The language descriptions are taken from the lead paragraphs of the corresponding Wikipedia articles. Wikipedia is mentioned as a source, and the URL of the article used is given. There is a GFDL notice with an offsite link.
  • The terms of use state:
    • All copyright ... in eslbase.com and its content ... are owned by or licensed to eslbase.com or otherwise used by eslbase.com as permitted by law.
    • In accessing eslbase.com you agree that you will access the content solely for your personal, non-commercial use. None of the content may be downloaded, copied, reproduced, transmitted, stored, sold or distributed without the prior written consent of the copyright holder.

No mention is made of the GFDL here.

Contact info language AT eslbase.com
Actions None.



eurovisionarchive

eurovisionarchive
URL http://eurovisionarchive.members.beeb.net/
Sample http://eurovisionarchive.members.beeb.net/1969.htm from Eurovision_Song_Contest_1969
Rating None
Details Year Pages for Eurovision taken from Wikipedia. No mention of Wikipedia or the GFDL.
Contact info abuse AT beeb.net (host)
Actions
  • Standard letter sent by Angela, 11 November 2003 via the feedback form on their site.
    • Sent standard provider letter to abuse AT beeb.net . Superm401 - Talk 07:05, 13 January 2007 (UTC)

EverythingOU

everythingOU.com
URL http://www.everythingou.com/
Sample http://www.everythingou.com/
Rating Low/None
Details Copies the Oklahoma Sooners article on the page with no mention of copyrights.
Contact info everything AT cox.net
Actions Sent initial notice (4/5/07).↔NMajdantalk 21:02, 5 April 2007 (UTC)

Everything Preschool

Everything Preschool
URL http://everythingpreschool.com/
Sample http://www.everythingpreschool.com/themes/whales/encyclopedia.php
Rating Medium
Details Has thorough GFDL notice with links to www.wikipedia.org, original article, and local copy of the GFDL. States, "Just like any written work the authors or contributors of the article own the copyright but by contributing their work to Wikipedia they are licensing it under the terms of the GNU FDL This license means that you are free to print and share the articles with anyone you wish, provided that you comply with the GNU FDL. If you share them please let recipients know they are free to continue sharing the article under the same terms." No authors or dates listed.
Contact info support AT everythingpreschool.com, m.gutting AT comcast.net (whois), abuse AT pair.com (host)
Actions
  • Standard email sent. -Rholton 02:21, 25 Nov 2004 (UTC)
    • Sent email to m.gutting AT comcast.net asking for GFDL to be re-uploaded, and for better notice text and formatting. Superm401 - Talk 07:34, 13 January 2007 (UTC)
      • Received reply from support AT everythingpreschool.com (correct address) noting that the GFDL was reuploaded and the disclaimer improved. I replied thanking them but noting that part was cut off. I also brought up some wording problems. Superm401 - Talk 22:57, 13 January 2007 (UTC)
        • Received another reply from support AT everythingpreschool.com . Notice was improved to note copyright and GFDL requirements, and is less cut off now. I replied suggesting using SSI instead of an iframe. Superm401 - Talk 03:00, 14 January 2007 (UTC)
          • He said he would look into it. Superm401 - Talk 03:00, 14 January 2007 (UTC)
            • Received email noting that he had replaced the iframe with an include! Superm401 - Talk 04:08, 14 January 2007 (UTC)

experiencefestival

  • Site: www.experiencefestival.com
  • Example: www.experiencefestival.com/a/Partial_differential_equation_-_Notation_and_examples/id/1833762
  • States: "Adapted from the Wikipedia article "Notation and examples", under the G.N U Free Docmentation License. Please also see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki"
  • No obvious link to original article or GFDL


explanation-guide

Explanation Guide
URL http://explanation-guide.info
Sample http://explanation-guide.info/meaning/Red.html
Rating Medium
Details This site once had terrible compliance, but has improved through the efforts documented below. It now has the notice, "Licensing information:

This article uses material from Wikipedia (credits) and is made available under the terms of the GNU FDL (copy). Image licensing information is accessible by clicking the image." Credits links directly to the history section (good) and there is a link to a local copy of the GFDL (and the gnu.org version). Unfortunately, the image links don't work. For instance, http://explanation-guide.info/meaning/Plato.html links to http://explanation-guide.info//Plato.png.html but the correct link is http://explanation-guide.info/image/Plato.png.html.

Contact info ls_services_eire AT yahoo.ie,info AT explanation-guide.info, feedback-1607 AT explanation-guide.info
Actions Follow up. Since explanation-guide (EG) did not give attribution for the image at Gbe languages which I created and released under CC-by-2.0, I thought I'd send an email. Below I paste the contents of my first mail, the answer of mr. Lawrence Smith of EG, and my response. I sent my mail to feedback-1607 AT explanation-guide.info and to info AT explanation-guide.info and I got an answer from info AT explanation-guide.info. I will be posting further results soon. - Mark Dingemanse (talk) 21:49, 18 Oct 2004 (UTC)
Dear Sir/Madam,
As creator of the images used on http://explanation-guide.info/meaning/Gbe-languages.html, http://explanation-guide.info/meaning/African-languages.html, and http://explanation-guide.info/meaning/Nilo-Saharan-languages.html (all copies of the Wikipedia articles of the same title) I object to your use of them.
The images are released under the Creative Commons Attribution License 2.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0). Explanation-Guide, unlike Wikipedia, does not give the required attribution, thereby violating the license.
I trust that you resolve this issue soon, either by not using the images or by giving proper attribution to the creator.
Thank you,
Mark Dingemanse
Dear Mr. Dingemanse,
Please accept my apologies: I was not aware that the images are licensed separately to the texts. Thankyou for pointing this out.
As a short-term solution we have linked each image to an information page which links to the relevant page at Wikipedia. I hope this established attribution. We will try and add a more user-friendly and informative solution in the near future.
Yours sincerely
Lawrence Smith
Dear Mr. Smith,
thank you for your quick response. However, the short-term solution you propose does not work at present for the images I mentioned. The problem is that the respective Wikipedia articles contain scaled down versions of the original images. In the Wikipedia articles, this scaled down version is linked to the original image and to the attribution information, thereby fulfilling the license requirements. On explanation-guide, this link is lost, the scaled down version is copied, and the information page instead refers to a non-existent page on Wikipedia. Which leaves the issue unresolved.
I do trust that you will find a solution soon.
Thank you,
Mark Dingemanse
Dear Mr. Dingemanse,
Once again my apologies. The links now take into account scaling issues and link to the correct Wikipedia page.
Yours sincerely
Lawrence Smith
  • Sent letter to info AT explanation-guide.info asking that image links be fixed. Superm401 - Talk 07:56, 13 January 2007 (UTC)
    • Got mailer-daemon error. Resent to ls_services_eire AT yahoo.ie . Superm401 - Talk 09:00, 13 January 2007 (UTC)

ezResult.com

ezResult
URL http://www.essentialresults.com, http://ezresult.com
Sample http://www.essentialresults.com/article/Lake_Tanganyika
Rating Medium
Details Without images, links to original article and local GFDL with text "This page and the Original Article used for this page are available for download under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License."; no mention of Wikipedia. There is an image that says "From Wikipedai, the free encyclopedia" beneath the title.
Contact info EZRESULT.COM AT domainsbyproxy.com, abuse AT ev1servers.net (host whois)
Actions
  • First email sent with a proposal for improvement. Andre Engels 00:03, 10 Feb 2004 (UTC)
    • Reaction: "We will take up your suggestion during our next database/site update." Andre Engels 10:37, 10 Feb 2004 (UTC)
    • This has been updated. (ezresult webmaster) 10:37, 10 Feb 2004 (UTC)

F

F1complete.com

F1complete
URL http://www.f1complete.com
Sample http://www.f1complete.com/index.php?option=content&task=view&id=3123 from Alta Car and Engineering Company.
Rating Low
Details Much of their historical and encyclopedic sections are a straight copy of Wikipedia pages, with no attribution given. Indeed, such material is actually claimed to be copyright of f1complete.com!
Contact info privacy AT f1complete.com
Actions Sent "Letter for website that does not acknowledge Wikipedia as a source", via form at this page. Chase me ladies, I'm the Cavalry 02:12, 22 October 2007 (UTC)
Received reply: "I will sort out the articles where there is use of wiki articles and put the info beneath it! Thanks for understanding. If I can be of any further assistance, do not hesitate to contact me! Alvin van Wunnik". I assume compliance is only a matter of time now! Chase me ladies, I'm the Cavalry 23:12, 22 October 2007 (UTC)

fact-archive.com

Fact Archive
URL http://www.fact-archive.com/
Sample http://www.fact-archive.com/encyclopedia/Parthenon
Rating Medium
Details Links to main page, and local copy of the GFDL (section of another document). Provides instructions for viewing transparent copy (which consists of telling them to go to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARTICLE). See Wikipedia:Mirrors_and_forks/Abc#Biology_Daily.
Contact info p9asnrpypxq433 AT protectfly.com, abuse AT cari.net (host whois)
Actions

Factbug

Factbug
URL http://www.factbug.org/
Sample http://www.factbug.org/cgi-bin/a.cgi?a=738 from Albania
Rating Medium
Details Calls itself "The fast Wikipedia mirror site with quick search." with link. Ends article with "This article was derived fully or in part from the article Albania on Wikipedia. All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License." and link to original article and local GFDL. No authors and dates listed.
Contact info
Actions

factsabout.com

Facts About
URL http://www.factsabout.com
Sample http://www.factsabout.com/w/wo/world_war_ii.html
Rating Medium
Details Links to www.wikipedia.org and local copy of the GFDL.
states: "This article is from Wikipedia. All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License." but ends with "copyright ? 2004 FactsAbout.com"
Contact info
Actions

FactBook.org

FactBook
URL http://www.factbook.org/
Sample http://www.factbook.org/wikipedia/en/a/al/albania_1.html
Rating Medium
Details Keeps "From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia." Links to original Wikipedia article. Uses Wikipedia's GFDL notice ("All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.") but links to GFDL article, not actual license. That version of the article does link to the license very early. Pages say "modified by Geona".
Contact info support AT goldvision.com
Actions Asked them to link to actual GFDL. Superm401 - Talk 05:38, 19 January 2007 (UTC)

Fact-Index

Fact-Index
URL http://www.fact-index.com/
Sample http://www.fact-index.com/a/al/albania_1.html
Rating Medium
Details Links to www.wikipedia.org and local copy of the GFDL. Has donated $2500 to Wikimedia. Notes this as "Fact-index.com financially supports the Wikimedia Foundation."
Contact info
Actions

Fallen Earth Forums

Fallen Earth Forums
URL http://forums.fallenearth.com/
Sample http://forums.fallenearth.com/fallenearth/showpost.php?p=34311&postcount=10
Rating Medium
Details Forum rules prohibit posting of copyrighted materials. Unattributed text from Wikipedia article (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gamma_ray) has been copied verbatim and posted on the forums. Forum moderator both fails to acknowledge a copyright breach has occured and asserts no obligation to remove copyrighted material from the site. Attempts to communicate with Icarus directly have resulted in no response.
Contact info community AT fallenearth.com
Actions What action has been taken so far then? Chase me ladies, I'm the Cavalry 02:14, 22 October 2007 (UTC)

Famous-astrophysicists.com

Famous Astrophysicists
URL http://www.famous-astrophysicists.com/index.html
Sample http://www.famous-astrophysicists.com/astrophysicists/drake.htm from Frank Drake
Rating None
Details No mention of Wikipedia or the GFDL.
Contact info shawnjoy AT rogers.com (whois), legal AT ipowerweb.com, webmaster AT famous-astrophysicists.com
Actions
  • Standard letter sent. --snoyes 18:34, 9 Dec 2003 (UTC)
  • Standard follow-up sent by mav 10:53, 4 Jan 2004 (UTC)
  • Still not compliant. Lotsofissues 06:48, 11 May 2005 (UTC)
  • Still not compliant. Jespley 21:08, 20 September 2006 (UTC)

Famouspeople.co.uk

Famouspeople.co.uk
URL http://www.famouspeople.co.uk/index.html
Sample http://www.famouspeople.co.uk/m/margaretthatcher.html
Rating Medium
Details At the bottom of each article, "Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free ocumentation License, Version 1.2 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts and no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license is included in the section entitled "GNU Free Documentation License"." is included.
"©2007 Copyright Statement. FamousPeople.co.uk is Published under a GNU Free Documentation Licence by Splashweb" is stated at the bottom of each page. Clicking on 'Copyright Statement' takes user through to a page stating " Famous People uses biographical information from Wikipedia the free encyclopedia under a GNU Free Documentation Licence issued by the Free Software Foundation Inc.". Site does not link back to Wikipedia articles, only to www.wikipedia.org, assuming 'medium' compliance.
Contact info http://www.famouspeople.co.uk/contact/index.html,
Actions Sent a letter using contact form asking for link to original article, proper GFDL notice (without bogus copyright claim), and local copy of the GFDL. Superm401 - Talk 04:30, 18 January 2007 (UTC)
Sent out a second email, specifying contents of first email and the requirement to comply. Chase me ladies, I'm the Cavalry 02:36, 22 October 2007 (UTC)
Received an email in reply from Mark Ayres. Email states: "Thanks for your email and your comments regarding GFDL compliance at www.famouspeople.co.uk. I have no record and don't recall receiving the earlier email that you refer too. However, we've reviewed the licence [again] to try and clarify your comments, and we stand corrected on a few points. Personally I don't find this licence a very straightforward one to interpret, but I agree that some changes are needed. As such we've added a locally hosted copy of the licence rather than the remote one at FSI, and this page is linked to by the text "GNU Free Documentation License" on every page on the site. The "Copyright 2007Splashweb, all rights reserved" statement was actually changed some weeks ago to "Copyright Statement. FamousPeople.co.uk is published by Splashweb".The "Copyright Statement" link leads to an updated Copyright Statement page with a link, in context, through to the copy of the licence. Many thanks for highlighting these points, not only to help ensure that compliance, but also these changes will make the copyright issue clearer to our visitors.". Site seems to be in 'medium' compliance from now. Chase me ladies, I'm the Cavalry 22:53, 22 October 2007 (UTC)

Famous Like Me

Famous Like Me
URL http://www.famouslikeme.com
Sample http://www.famouslikeme.com/76675/article.html from Samantha Mumba
Rating Medium
Details Has notice, "This content from Wikipedia is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License. It uses material from the Wikipedia article Samantha Mumba" with link to www.wikipedia.org, original article, and offsite GFDL. Also lists Wikipedia as a "friend". :)
Contact info
Actions

Fastload.org

Fastload.org
URL http://www.fastload.org/
Sample http://www.fastload.org/co/Computer_science.html
Rating Medium
Details Includes text "This article is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License.

You may copy and modify it as long as the entire work (including additions) remains under this license. To view or edit this article at Wikipedia, follow this link." "Follow this link" leads directly to the Wikipedia article copied. However, the GFDL link is to their copy of GFDL, not the actual license. That page links to Wikipedia:Text of the GFDL, which they include in the mirror.

Contact info webmaster AT fastload.org (site)
Actions Sent standard violation letter to host. Superm401 - Talk 05:55, 21 January 2006 (UTC).
Received response stating they would ignore copyright complaints that were not in the form of a DMCA takedown notice. Superm401 - Talk 16:46, 21 January 2006 (UTC). The GFDL link issue has been corrected.

Feedbus.com

Feedbus.com
URL http://feedbus.com/
Sample http://feedbus.com/wikis/wikipedia.php?title=Alicia_Keys
Rating Medium
Details Directly links to Wikipedia. No local copy of GFDL. All images are local. Appears to be using an automatic script: [35] No history sections.
Contact info Peter Scott: pscontent AT gmail.com, 3062448761 (Canada)
Actions

Fixed reference

Fixed Reference=
URL http://fixedreference.org/
Sample http://fixedreference.org/en/20040424/wikipedia/Taking_Children_Seriously
Rating Medium
Details Complete copies of WikiPedia and simple at fixed moments in time. Link to wikipedia.org and local copy of GFDL, as well as disclaimer. No link to original article. Done by BozMo and others: so people can see the project development and cite a fixed text with certainty.
Contact info BozMo
Actions

Filmbug

Filmbug
URL http://www.filmbug.com/
Sample http://www.filmbug.com/db/4028 from Elia Kazan
Rating Medium
Details Links to original article (redirected) and local GFDL. No history section.
Contact info
Actions

Filmsdown.net

<name of the webpage> (not url)
URL http://flmsdown.net/
Sample http://flmsdown.net/Anne-Hathaway---Photos-6624.html (beware of popups!)
Rating None
Details A few sentences of article; no mention of WP Patstuarttalk·edits 08:14, 25 March 2007 (UTC)
Contact info nuysaler AT gmail.com, +1.0075055017979
Actions

Firebird.cn

Firebird.cn
URL http://www.firebird.cn/wiki/Main_Page
Sample http://www.firebird.cn/wiki/Albania
Rating None
Details
  • No mention of Wikipedia. (without JS)
  • No mention of GFDL. (without JS)
Contact info
  • cnreg AT hichina.com
  • bjnic AT bjtelecom.net (host?)
Actions Sent letter asking for no javascript requirement, local GFDL, and link to article. Superm401 - Talk 06:15, 18 January 2007 (UTC)

FirstCarHire.com

FirstCarHire
URL http://www.firstcarhire.com/country-guide/
Sample http://www.firstcarhire.com/country-guide/united-states/
Rating None
Details Uses text from country / city articles to pad out car-hire listings for respective locations. No mention of Wikipedia or the GFDL. Apparently used to have links to Wikipedia:About and Wikipedia:Copyrights, and possibly GFDL.
Contact info reservations AT firstcarhire.com
Actions Sent standard violation letter. Superm401 - Talk 06:07, 18 January 2007 (UTC)


Fitness pills

Fitness pills
URL http://www.fitpills.com/
Sample http://www.fitpills.com/no-hangover/
Rating None
Details Copied Hangover article (after adding his own ad to the bottom!), but possibly others. Claims copyright, no link to GFDL or mention of Wikipedia
Contact info info AT soforreal.net (whois), (703) 783.1331 (Myriad Network [host] DMCA fax; see http://www.myriadnetwork.com/legal/tos.php)
Actions * Copies most of article (with minor rewording). Could not find the terms "wiki", "FDL", or "doc" on the page. Standard letter sent. --Astronouth7303 00:01, 30 Oct 2004 (UTC)


Fleetwoodmac.org

Fleetwoodmac.org
URL http://www.fleetwoodmac.org/
Sample http://www.fleetwoodmac.org/index.php?q=Uncle_Sam_(diamond)
Rating Low
Details Fleetwoodmac.org appears to function as a live web scraper (as an anecdotal test, compare any page from Special:Recentchanges with the corresponding page at the Fleetwoodmac.org domain). At the bottom, the source (Wikipedia) is credited, but nowhere is the copyright status indicated.
Contact info A WHOIS search indicates that the domain is owned by "Mesa Verde Enterprises"; contact information is admin AT mesaverdeenterprises.com
Actions None taken

foosquare.com

Foosquare
URL http://foosquare.com
Sample http://motorola.foosquare.com/
Rating Medium
Details Links to original article and local copy of GFDL. Claims "by foosquare 2005" on each page. No history section.
Contact info
Actions
  • Standard letter sent 3 December 2005 AJR - Talk 00:36, 3 December 2005 (UTC)
    • Response received by email 13 December, now uses attribution text from Wikipedia:Copyrights#Example notice (links to GFDL at gnu.org and to source article at Wikipedia.) Apparently the non-compliance was accidental, in an email to me they say: "We are ready to fully comply with the requirements. It just dropped through bug detection. :(" -- AJR - Talk 17:04, 13 December 2005 (UTC)

Footballshirtculture.com

footballshirtculture.com
URL http://www.footballshirtculture.com/
Sample http://www.footballshirtculture.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=308&Itemid=26
Rating None
Details
Contact info info AT footballshirtculture.com
Actions

Footballyears.net

Football Years
URL http://www.footballyears.net, http://www.arsenalfcyears.com/, http://thierryhenryyears.com
Sample http://www.arsenalfcyears.com/years/1946-1950overview.htm
Rating None
Details Direct cut and paste of sections from nearly every football club article and also notable players. Falsely claims copyright. GFDL is not mentioned at all. No mention of Wikipedia or link to original article.
Contact info Jonathan Kahn (via http://footballyears.net/contactus.htm) and janetzar AT aol.com (via domain whois)
Actions

France.com

France.com
URL http://www.france.com
Sample http://www.france.com/culture/display_item.cfm?id=154
Rating Medium
Details Links to original article and Wikipedia's copy of the GFDL at bottom of page.
Contact info
Actions

fraudwatchernetwork.com

Fraudwatchernetwork
URL http://fraudwatchernetwork.com
Sample http://fraudwatchernetwork.com/website/mail-fraud.html
Rating None
Details All the links at the top of the page are copies of Wikipedia articles. None mention Wikipedia or the GFDL.
Contact info webmaster AT fraudwatchernetwork.com, bbdnx2000 AT fraudwatchernetwork.com (whois)
Actions
  • Standard violation letter sent. Superm401 - Talk 09:10, 22 January 2006 (UTC)
  • Sent standard followup to bbdnx2000 AT fraudwatchernetwork.com. Superm401 - Talk 05:54, 19 January 2007 (UTC)

feedbus.com

Feedbus
URL http://www.feedbus.com/
Sample http://feedbus.com/wikis/wikipedia.php
Rating Low
Details No GFDL copyright status, ads on webpage.
Contact info Whois Profile
Actions None

Freebase

Freebase
URL http://freebase.com
Sample http://www.freebase.com/view/sozh (and you can click at the image).
Rating
Details Articles mention both Wikipedia and GFDL. Images are copied without mentioning Wikipedia (or Commons) or their respective licenses.
Contact info
Actions None

TheFreeDictionary.com

See Wikipedia:Mirrors and forks/Stu#TheFreeDictionary.com.

freedownloadsoft.com

  • Site: freedownloadsoft.com.
  • Sample article: Catenary.
  • Link to GFDL (This article is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License.).
  • Link to Wikipedia article (It uses material from the Wikipedia article (name of article).).
  • Claims copyright of content (© 2005, freedownloadsoft.com).
  • Poor copy, does not show templates or images (see for example, the copy of our Main Page).
  • Outdated copy of articles.
  • Does not list contact information anywhere.

-Fibonacci 03:21, 11 May 2005 (UTC)

freeglossary.com

Free Glossary
URL http://www.freeglossary.com
Sample http://www.freeglossary.com/Painter-Stainers%27_Company
Rating Low
Details This is a multi-lingual mirror. No mention of Wikipedia or the GFDL on article pages. There's an "About this article" link in bold at the bottom of the page, which acknowledges GFDL, links to the current version of the article, to the discussion page and to the version history. There is little to indicate the importance of this link. It's also always in English, even for mirrored versions of other language Wikipedias. Mentions Wikipedia on http://www.freeglossary.com/h.php?c=about . Appears to be a mirror of all articles.

Site now appears to be non-existent or broken, unable to http, tracrt or ping to it. I will try again in a few days and if not available I think we can presume it is now defunct. Sjc 09:06, 21 June 2007 (UTC)

Contact info webmaster AT freeglossary.com, bauer AT valuenetmedia.com (whois)
Actions
  • Violation letter sent October 21 2004 Sjc 09:01, 21 Oct 2004 (UTC)
  • Sent standard violation letter. Superm401 - Talk 04:39, 19 January 2007 (UTC)
    • I missed the section below. I should have customized the letter. Superm401 - Talk 05:04, 19 January 2007 (UTC)

freepedia.org

Freepedia
URL http://www.freepedia.org/ , http://de.freepedia.org/ , http://fr.freepedia.org/ , http://es.freepedia.org/
Sample http://en.freepedia.org/Organization.html
Rating High
Details Seems to use dynamic loading. All pages link to original article, local copy of the GFDL, and Wikipedia's copy of the page history. Has its own disclaimer (http://en.freepedia.org/Disclaimer.html), which seems to present the work as its own authorship.
Contact info
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tobacco-cigars.com

tobacco-cigars.com
URL http://www.tobacco-cigars.com/
Sample http://www.tobacco-cigars.com/index9.shtml
Rating None
Details All pages appear to be verbatim copies from Wikipedia articles having to do with tobacco, in particular Tobacco and Smoking pipe (tobacco). Large chunks of text that I wrote myself were appropriated. The only links are to other appropriated articles or an online tobacconist. No statement is made anywhere as to from whence they got the material.
Contact info No contact details given on site. WHOIS gives this:
 Andry B Kulikov (kulikov AT pravda.ru)
 +7 921 9442222
 PO Box 33
 St Petersburg
 193318
 Russia
Actions Violation letter sent May 17, 2008 Frotz (talk) 07:46, 17 May 2008 (UTC)

Mirrors and Forks :

(Numbers) ABC - DEF - GHI - JKL - MNO - PQR - STU - VWXYZ - All - Archive

G

Gainsville.com

Gainsville.com
URL http://www.gainesville.com/apps/pbcs.dll/section?template=wiki
Sample http://www.gainesville.com/apps/pbcs.dll/section?template=wiki&text=Blood
Rating Medium
Details Dynamic mirror. Has notice at bottom, "This article is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License." with offsite GFDL link but below "© Copyright 2007, The Gainesville Sun, Reproduction without consent is prohibited.". Has link to original article at top, with "Wikipedia" as anchor text.
Contact info davist AT gvillesun.com
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gamblingsitesforsale.com

Gambling Domains & Sites For Sale (not url)
URL http://www.gamblingsitesforsale.com
Sample http://www.gamblingsitesforsale.com/craps/dice.html copy of Dice
Rating Low/None
Details "From Wikipedia the free encyclopedia, by MultiMedia" (Multimedia links to http://www.multimedia.com.ro/). No GFDL visible.
Contact info
Actions No actions taken yet.

gamelow.com

GameLow.com
URL http://www.gamelow.com/
Sample http://www.gamelow.com/puzzles/logic.html
Rating None
Details No mention of GFDL. Claims copyright. No links to original article or mention of Wikipedia. No history section. Contains copies of the old wiki entries.
Contact info GAMELOW.COM AT domainsbyproxy.com
Actions Sent standard violation letter to GAMELOW.COM AT domainsbyproxy.com. Superm401 - Talk 20:26, 19 January 2007 (UTC)

gameosis.com

Gameosis.com
URL http://www.gameosis.com/
Sample http://www.gameosis.com/drink/flip.html (compare this version of flip cup)
Rating Low/None
Details No mention of GFDL. Claims copyright with all rights reserved. No links to original article or mention of Wikipedia. No history section. Copies of Wikipedia articles date to approximately the first quarter of 2006.
Contact info
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gamerwiki.com

GamerWiki
URL http://www.gamerwiki.com/
Sample http://www.gamerwiki.com/index.php/Nintendo_GameCube
Rating Medium
Details Fork of Wikipedia designed for gaming. Everything (including original content) is licensed under GFDL. This is noted at the bottom of every page, with link to offsite GFDL. Articles using Wikipedia include text "This article uses source material obtained from Wikipedia, as well as links to main page and original article.

The original article can be found at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARTICLE" Both Wikipedia and the article name are linked.

Contact info Any licensing, copyright, or etiquette that has been overlooked, please leave messages at my talk page or at my GamerWiki talk page -- Tyagi 20:59, 1 Jun 2005 (UTC)
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game-web

Game-web
URL http://game.moonlightchest.com/
Sample http://game.moonlightchest.com/rubik_cube.asp
Rating None
Details No mention of GFDL. Claims copyright with all rights reserved. No links to original article or mention of Wikipedia. No history section. Moonlightchest have other Wikipedia stuff that appears to be equally non-compliant but I have not looked at it in detail.
Contact info
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Gateserver.net

Gateserver.net
URL http://www.gateserver.net
Sample http://www.gateserver.net/Topicdetails.aspx?Topicid=52082&name=&catid=329&topicname=Lost_Ten_Tribes
Rating Medium
Details They link to www.gnu.org for the GFDL license, and to the specific Wikipedia article. But no history on their site.
Contact info
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geekopedia

Geekopedia
URL http://geekopedia.ipupdater.com
Sample http://albania.geekopedia.ipupdater.com/
Rating Medium
Details States (in very fine print) "This article is from Wikipedia. All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License." Link to Wikipedia is broken (en.wikipedia.org/title/Albania rather than correct en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albania). Links to gnu.org copy of GFDL
Contact info *webmaster AT geekopedia.ipupdater.com
  • admin AT ev1.net (ISP)
Actions
  • Asked webmaster AT geekopedia.ipupdater.com for fixed article and link and local GFDL. Superm401 - Talk 20:57, 19 January 2007 (UTC)
    • Got mailer-daemon error. Superm401 - Talk 21:37, 19 January 2007 (UTC)

geeks.dnip.net

See Wikipedia:Mirrors_and_forks/Abc#borgfind

geodatabase.de

Geodatabase.de
URL http://www.geodatabase.de/
Sample http://www.geodatabase.de/Joe%20Williams%20(jazz%20singer)
Rating Medium
Details Sometimes confuses talk pages with real pages (see www.geodatabase.de/mozilla). In other cases, correctly links to original article, page history, and edit page (albeit all through tracking redirects) and a local copy of the GFDL.
Contact info
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Geo Rulers Atlas Words Primo Sole

atlaswords.com
URL <geo rulers atlas words>http://www.atlaswords.com</geo rulers atlas words>
Sample <geo rulers atlas words>http://www.atlaswords.com/index.htm </geo rulers atlas words>
Rating high
Details Mentions Wikipedia and the GFDL; links to original article and also GFDL.
Contact info
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geoseven.com

geoseven.com
URL http://www.geoseven.com
Sample http://www.geoseven.com/en/DE/
Rating high
Details Mentions Wikipedia and the GFDL; links to original article and also GFDL.
Contact info
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George-Orwell.org

George-Orwell.org
URL http://www.george-orwell.org
Sample http://www.george-orwell.org/l_biography.html from George Orwell
Rating Medium
Details Mirror of only George Orwell article. Links to Wikipedia main page and our GFDL. No link to original article.
Contact info robp AT ureach.com
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getgourmetrecipes.com

  • Site: http://www.getgourmetrecipes.com/wiki_recipes/index.php?title=Main_Page
  • No link to the original article.
  • As of 13:50, 15 January 2006 (UTC)

Glasglidius

Glasglidius
URL http://glasglow.com
Sample http://www.glasglow.com/e/index.php?title=Robert_Frost
Rating None
Details Articles are from Wikipedia but no mention of Wikipedia or the GFDL
Contact info ?
Actions None yet

globalcpr.com

globalcpr.com
URL http://www.globalcpr.com/
Sample http://www.globalcpr.com/org/super.html, http://www.globalcpr.com/Constellations.html
Rating Low
Details Some pages, such as http://www.globalcpr.com/Constellations.html , have the notice "This content related to ARTICLE was brought to you by Wikipedia and it must be used in accordance with the GNU." Wikipedia is linked to the main page. Another "featured" set, including http://www.globalcpr.com/green/anti.html has no mention of Wikipedia or the GFDL. All pages say "© GlobalCPR.com. All rights reserved" at the bottom.
Contact info GLOBALCPR.COM AT domainsbyproxy.com
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GlobalGuide.Org

GlobalGuide.Org
URL http://www.globalguide.org//
Sample http://www.globalguide.org/index.html?title=CBC_Radio_Two mirrors CBC Radio Two
Rating
Details Gives GFDL and mentions Wikipedia. Does not link to Wikipedia or author history.
Contact info
Actions none yet

glosk.com

glosk.com
URL http://www.glosk.com
Sample http://www.glosk.com/AS/Leichhardt/-2243917/pages/Poison_Rocks/106601_en.htm
Rating High
Details Mentions Wikipedia and the GFDL; links to original article and also GFDL.
Contact info contact AT glosk.com
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goddessflight

  • Page: www.goddessflight.com/biorhythm/biorhythms_explained.php shortened copy of Biorhythm
  • States: "Excerpt above is from The Global Oneness Commitment at www.experiencefestival.com/a/Biorhythm/" though www.experiencefestival.com/a/Biorhythm_-_The_basic_theory/id/617210 would be a better link (see Wikipedia:Mirrors and forks/Def#experiencefestival)
  • No mention of GFDL

Gogeeky.net

No compliance. Same site format (and violations) and apparently same webmaster as Wikix.ipupdater.com

Example violation: http://www.gogeeky.net/title/A-Dream-Play from A Dream Play

GoUpstate.com

Spartanburg SC
URL http://www.goupstate.com/
Sample http://www.goupstate.com/apps/pbcs.dll/section?category=NEWS&template=wiki&text=Alicia_Keys
Rating "Medium"
Details Directly mentions Wikipedia with a link to the article; however, no mention of GFDL
Contact info (IT director): cathy.miller AT shj.com, 864-562-7621
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gov-certificates.co.uk

Gov-Certificates.co.uk
URL http://gov-certificates.co.uk/
Sample http://gov-certificates.co.uk/birth/certificate/Crematoria
Rating None
Details No credit to or mention of Wikipedia. Claims own copyright on material. Worse, it's a remote loader (images and text); I'll report it at meta.
Contact info Domain registered and hosted by fasthosts, they might be worth contacting. Site has a .co .uk/contact-us.html postal address. Site triggers Wikipedia's spam blacklist.
Actions None yet.

governpub.com

governpub.com
URL http://www.governpub.com/
Sample http://www.governpub.com/gt/Beowulf.html
Rating Low
Details No mention of Wikipedia, GFDL, or any other copyright info on any page. Contains old copies of articles
Contact info abuse AT domainsbyproxy.com, abuse AT godaddy.com (registrar/host), GOVERNPUB.COM AT domainsbyproxy.com (privacy whois)
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Greatestinfo.org

Greatestinfo.org
URL http://www.greatestinfo.org/Main_Page
Sample http://www.greatestinfo.org/Christ
Rating
Details Was once a disturbingly exact copy of Wikipedia but all articles now redirect to http://www.greatestjournal.com/. Should be monitored occasionally.
Contact info http://www.greatestjournal.com/support/submit.bml (Greatestjournal complaint form)
Actions I've placed requests for the site owner to come here and explain further in a couple of visible places on the site. —Charles P. (Mirv) 19:57, 26 Feb 2005 (UTC)

GreatPersonalities

GreatPersonalities
URL http://www.greatpersonalities.com
Sample http://www.greatpersonalities.com/viewtopic-32.html
Rating
Details Once copied several chess/tennis/etc. articles. Has now become a blog (what hasn't). Should be monitored
Contact info
Actions Sent first email Sept. 12, 2004 --Etaonish 19:02, Sep 12, 2004 (UTC)

greatsite.com

  • Site: greatsite.com
  • No mention of wikipedia
  • No mention of GFDL
  • Claims to own copyright
  • Doesn't seem clear to me. If there's copying from the Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia, they probably both borrowed from the CCEL.org version; I caught this (and credited the source) in the Philipp Melanchthon article. Joelwest 01:54, 1 Dec 2003 (UTC)
    • It seems clear to everyone else but you. The only theory that you have offered is that both numerous (probably in the double digits) _different_ wikipedia editors and the creators of greatsite.com misappropriated material from a mysterious third source. I'd like to know what this third source is. Take the example that I named above. The edit adds a paraph starting "Besides translating the Bible, Tyndale also held and published views which were considered heretical, ...". Now do you honestly claim that a wikipedia user and the creators of greatsite.com both found the same paragraph somewhere and copied it? Do a google search for this first sentence: [36] - you'll see that the only websites that contain this material have taken it from wikipedia. (Funny enough the wikipedia page is not listed there.) I don't see how it could be more clear that they took the material for the Tyndale article as well as others from us. Please give some valid arguments besides saying that it is not clear to you. --snoyes 19:10, 1 Dec 2003 (UTC)

Greatsite discussion

Similarities with Wikipedia's Martin Luther passage:
  • [37] appearts to be based on Martin Luther. If you look at the history of our article (for example, the creation of the second paragraph of the "Exile at the Wartburg Castle" section in [38]), it seems to have been built up piece-by-piece, so I think it's pretty clear that they've copied us rather than the other way round. Camembert
  • Sent the standard letter. --snoyes 02:49, 30 Nov 2003 (UTC)
  • As the one who started this whole thread, I believe the evidence is more consistent with either Wikipedia copying this site or both copying a third source (hopefully public domain). The problem was introduced in the 18:18, 01 July 2003 revision; see the new sections "struggle to find peace with God", "Warburg Castle" and "Luther's writings" which are almost verbatim quotes. It is quite possible both were taken from a 3rd source (since it reads like the work of a scholar or theologian) but google did not find it. GreatSite.com lists a specific author with its copyright, and is willing to let the work be reproduced with credit (scroll to bottom). Joelwest 01:54, 1 Dec 2003 (UTC)
    • But much of the content we had before that July 1 edit is included in the greatsite version as well. For example, compare the beginning of greatsite's "Martin Luther and Judaism" section with the penultimate paragraph of this Wikipedia version of January 7, 2002. They are nearly the same. So if the Wikipedia version has been copied from another source (either greatsite itself or a shared third-party publication), then it's been copied in bits and pieces by many different people in many edits over the course of two years. That seems unlikely, to put it mildly. More likely, greatsite has copied a Wikipedia version and edited it a bit. Don't underestimate the ability of Wikipedia contributors to write like scholars or theologians - some of them are. --Camembert
  • I have ruled out the Schaff-Herzog Encyclopediaand the Catholic Encyclopedia as the source of both articles; see the Luther stories at CCEL.org. Joelwest 01:58, 1 Dec 2003 (UTC)
  • Possible GFDL violation by greatsites. The 05:51, 9 Aug 2003 Melanchthon correction is present there. The 00:45, 30 Sep 2003 Pope Leo III to X correction isn't, so the copying seems to have happened between those two dates. The remaining edits between those dates don't help to narrow it down further. Lots of other corrections and edits prior to 9 Aug are at greatsites, so I conclude that it almost had to have been after that 9 Aug edit. In more detail: greatsites.com appears not to have had much coverage of Martin Luther on 2003-02-06 [39]. Regrettably there is no more recent archived copy of that site to compare with. The Luther's German Bible section is present and that was added at 20:26, 25 Jun 2003 so the copying seems to have happened after then. There's an extra sentence in the copy which doesn't seem to have ever been present in a copy of ours and the 1922 date differs from ours as well. Luther's early life was expanded at 17:47, 5 Jul 2003, including a mention of a copper mine starting from this 17:47, 5 Jul 2003 edit so the copying happened after this edit. this 14:17, 6 Jul 2003 edit changes text from "a few days later" to "the next day" and greatsites has that change. The changes in the 21:02, 8 Jul 2003 edit at the start of this examination are present. Until this 15:04, 11 Jul 2003 edit our text contained "From the viewpoint of the Roman Catholic Church". The greatsites version doesn't contain that, suggesting that the copying happened after this edit. Until this 18:34, 11 Jul 2003 edit our text contained "called to testify". The edit changed it to "summoned to either renounce or reaffirm them" and greatsites contains this change. The edits of 19:43, 11 Jul 2003 are present at greatsites. The Eck change of 21:47, 11 Jul 2003 is present at greatsites. The 18:28, 30 Jul 2003 near to nearby change suggests copying after this edit. The first of the 18:39, 30 Jul 2003 edits is present. The 07:31, 31 Jul 2003 changes are present, so it was after this. The 05:51, 9 Aug 2003 Melanchthon correction is present. Jamesday 10:39, 1 Dec 2003 (UTC)
Here is a second example of similar text between Greatsite.com and Wikipedia:
  • Their Tyndale article has wording in it that was made to the old encyclopedia article on wikipedia by an anon user: [40]. Again it should be clear that they copied from us and not the other way arround. --snoyes 06:33, 30 Nov 2003 (UTC)

great-wall-of-china.com

See Wikipedia:Mirrors_and_forks/Def#disneyland-hong-kong.com

Guajara.com

  • It mentions our name in the <title> :) -- Fennec 06:52, 26 Mar 2004 (UTC)
  • Footers on every page indicate: El contenido de Wikipedia se publica bajo la Licencia de Documentación Libre GNU.
  • Does not seem to have page history.
  • Does not seem to link back to articles.
  • Does not link back to Wikipedia, even from the page about Wikipedia.
    • It DOES link to the Wikimedia foundation from one page.
I wrote to them in may, but no response so far. --AstroNomer 15:42, May 14, 2004 (UTC)

guideofcasinos.com

-Dose not mention wikipedia at all -Duplicates Spring (device) page and possibly others- have not checked -Has a note at the bottom of the page “2000-2005 guideofcasinos.com”

H

Halfvalue.com

  • Site: www.halfvalue.com
  • Example: www.halfvalue.com/wiki.jsp?topic=Mathematics
  • Mixes different sources, similar to Answers.com
  • States "This entry is from Wikipedia, the leading user-contributed encyclopedia. It may not have been reviewed by professional editors (see full disclaimer)"
  • States "Donate to Wikipedia" with link to wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Fundraising
  • States "Wikipedia information about Mathematics. This article is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License. It uses material from the Wikipedia article "Mathematics". More from Wikipedia" with links to GFDL at gnu.org and to original article

hallencyclopedia.com

Hall Encyclopedia.com
URL http://hallencyclopedia.com
Sample http://hallencyclopedia.com/Tehuantepec
Rating Medium
Details It is a copy of all languages. Includes text "This article is from Wikipedia. All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License." Links to original article and offsite GFDL. Copyright statement at very bottom. No history section.
Contact info info AT hallmall.com (whois)
Actions Sent violation letter. Superm401 - Talk 01:28, 22 January 2006 (UTC)

Health-cares.net

<Health-cares.net> (not url)
URL http://heart-disease.health-cares.net/
Sample http://heart-disease.health-cares.net/survive-heart-attack.php
Rating "Low"
Details Seems to have copied text from Myocardial infarction, labeling it with "Copyright 2005, health-cares.net"
Contact info unknown
Actions none.--Steven Fruitsmaak (Reply) 20:55, 3 December 2006 (UTC)

Health on Health

Tourette syndrome, Health Reference
URL http://www.healthonhealth.com
Sample http://www.healthonhealth.com/Health-Reference/T/Tourette-syndrome
Rating "Low/None"
Details Complete text copied from Tourette syndrome, claims Copyright 2007 Health on Health
Contact info http://www.healthonhealth.com/Contact-Us
Actions none. SandyGeorgia (Talk) 23:28, 27 June 2007 (UTC)

Help.com

Help.com
URL http://help.com/wiki/
Sample http://help.com/wiki/Main_page
Rating Medium
Details Contains a copyright statement and links to offsite GFDL, but also claims "Copyright © 1995-2006 CNET Networks, Inc. All rights reserved" at the bottom of the page. Definitely up-to-date (front page shows April 28 content), but not live-mirroring.

Update: Very clear reference to Wikipedia. However, is uploading images from Wikipedia, appears to not make no mention of GFDL: [41]. Patstuarttalk·edits 03:47, 25 March 2007 (UTC)

Contact info hostmaster AT cnet.com (whois)
Actions Haven't done anything yet. I'm lazy. Zetawoof(ζ) 23:01, 28 April 2006 (UTC)

helpfox.com

  • Site http://www.helpfox.com/
  • The site claims to be in Beta and adds "Copyright 2005 HelpFox.com" at the bottom of each page. There is no mention of Wikipedia, Wiktionary or GFDL.
  • I ran into this when I googled for "Suoczil" a language that apparently a pure product of our contributor's mind. The only other site to use this language name is Helpfox where they had copied entire lists of translations from Wiktionary.
  • Looking for other things there, their Hurricane Katrina was clearly copied from Wikipedia. Eclecticology 22:10, 22 November 2005 (UTC)

hfindia.org

Hemophilia Federation (India)
URL http://www.hfindia.org/node/52
Sample http://www.hfindia.org/node/52 from coagulation
Rating Low
Details No mention at all that the page is verbatim from Wikipedia
Contact info mahiti AT mahiti.org
Actions email to webmaster sent 25 Nov 2007, no response JFW 

Hi.is/~joner

Hi.is
URL http://www.hi.is/~joner/eaps
Sample http://www.hi.is/~joner/eaps/y3_80493.htm from Axiomatization
Rating Medium
Details Links to original Wikipedia article and offsite GFDL; clear GFDL notice. This is definitely a modified version, because articles are truncated. However, it probably is not fair use because articles are copied throughout the site. Note this Google search. No history section.
Contact info joner AT hi.is
Actions Standard letter sent by: dave 07:43, 5 Sep 2003 (UTC)

Hierar.ch

See Informat.io

Hindustan Times

The new Seven Wonders of the World - Hindustan Times
URL Hindustan Times: The new Seven Wonders of the World
Sample Hindustan Times: The new Seven Wonders of the World
Rating "Low/None" compliance with GFDL (matches Wikipedia:GFDL Compliance).
Details All descriptions of the seven new wonders (90% of the article content) are lifted from Wikipedia articles
Contact info Deputy editor (through the website's contact us link)
Actions Initial contact by Sancho 22:53, 11 July 2007 (UTC)

Follow-up by Sancho 3 Sep 2007 (UTC)

Attempt to contact through an alternate channel by Sancho 20 Sep 2007 (UTC)

History of Scotland

  • Site: History of Scotland
  • Link to Wikipedia, not article though
  • No link to GFDL, funny because it's on the Scottish Law Online web site.
  • Standard letter sent by: dave 07:29, 5 Sep 2003 (UTC)
    • They've fixed it now dave 16:57, 5 Sep 2003 (UTC)
  • Link to GFDL on gnu.org
  • Link to original Wikipedia article
Not a verbatim copy: embedding failure - they've inserted additional content (eg, Wikipedia logo, Wikipedia search box, link to Wikipedia front page) between the title and the start of the article. It is absolutely crazy that this should require them to follow the more complex regulations for derivative works, but this seems to be the case.
We could aid Scotiishlaw.org, and others in similar situations, by providing vastly more customisable skins. In this case, Wikipedia would be the publisher, and Scottishlaw could take a verbatim copy from Wikipedia. Hmm.

HistoryMania

  • Site: historymania.com
  • Example: historymania.com/american_history/Thomas_Johnson_(designer)
  • States "The contents of this article are licensed from Wikipedia.org under the GNU Free Documentation License. How to see transparent copy" with links to local copy of GFDL
  • Broken javascript link to gro.aidepikiw.www//:ptth
  • No obvious link to original article
  • Has pop-up ads.

Home Fresh

  • Example: [42] from Polyol
  • Links to Wikipedia, GNU copy of GFDL, and original article. --Henrygb 18:03, 11 November 2005 (UTC)

Home Grown Poultry Magazine

Home Grown Poultry Knowledge Base
URL http://www.homegrownpoultry.com/lore/upload/
Sample http://www.homegrownpoultry.com/lore/upload/article.php?id=067
Rating "Low/None"
Details Complete text copied from Barnevelder, claims Copyright © 2007 Home Grown Poultry Magazine.
Contact info http://www.homegrownpoultry.com/lore/upload/contact.php e-mail address admin AT homegromepoultry.com bounces
Actions Standard GFDL violation letter sent to site owner. Outback hens 17:01, 24 July 2007 (UTC)

Homestay Finder

see Wikipedia:Mirrors_and_forks/Jkl#Knows-It-All

Horizonmonthly.com

  • Site: [43]
  • Example: [44] for article Eyewitness News
  • No mention of Wikipedia, let alone link to article or the Main Page. No mention of GFDL, let alone link to the GNU copy or anything else. --WCQuidditch 02:05, 28 December 2005 (UTC)
  • Only links to external links. No links to other articles. Only takes article namespace. --WCQuidditch
  • Seems to break sections into seperate pages for some reason. --WCQuidditch 02:05, 28 December 2005 (UTC)
  • Copyright notice: "horizonmonthly.com ™ ©All rights reserved" --WCQuidditch 02:05, 28 December 2005 (UTC)
  • To break it down: Practically no compliance. --WCQuidditch 02:08, 28 December 2005 (UTC)

Hot-Google

Hot-Google
URL http://hot-google.com/
Sample http://en.hot-google.com/?w=Main_Page
Rating Low/None
Details Mentions GFDL. Does not have or link to local copy of licence. Does not mention or link to Wikipedia.
Contact info Retrievable. Also, a person claiming to have created the site wrote on ro.wp from IP 83.166.220.176.
Actions The IP mentioned above was informed, through a ro.wp talk page, about how mirroring should be done.

Note: the site works most probably by remote loading. — AdiJapan  03:13, 13 October 2007 (UTC)

I

i2osig.org

Intelligence Information and Resources
URL http://www.i2osig.org
Sample http://www.i2osig.org/cia.html
Rating
Details Broken redirect to both GNU FDL and Wikipedia article.
Contact info ramzi AT rcomp.com (WHOIS)
Actions

icorrection.com

  • Site: icorrection.com
  • DirkvdM let me know that this page is an exact, and not too clever, copy of helix. The page has no link to the article, and no mention of Wikipedia.
  • There is no contact information on the site at all, so haven't sent a letter. --Gareth Hughes 20:05, 12 December 2005 (UTC)

idrewthis.org

  • Site: www.idrewthis.org/d/20050314.html
  • The first panel of this comic is an obvious direct derivative of Image:Villianc.svg. The comic is from 2005, the Wikipedia image first appeared here in 2003 as an original work by User:J.J. (see Image:Villianc.jpg). The webcomic page gives no indication of the source of this image and has "All content © 2004-2006 D.C. Simpson." at the bottom of the page. I haven't sent any emails to anyone about this. Bryan 04:51, 29 June 2006 (UTC)

i-Gratis

i-Gratis
URL http://www.i-gratis.com/
Sample http://www.i-gratis.com/casinos_online_gratis.php
Rating Medium
Details Previously non-compliant. Now a notice in footer reads "The information on this page was used from wikipedia.org in accordance with the GNU Free Documentation Licence" with links to Wikipedia and the GFDL. No history section.
Contact info WHOIS information
Private registration through Domains by Proxy, Inc.
Email: I-GRATIS.COM AT domainsbyproxy.com
Phone: (480) 624-2599
Fax: (480) 624-2599
Actions Sent first GFDL notice via email on June 11, 2006. Sent follow-up GFDL notice via email on June 19, 2006. Sent final GFDL notice on July 3, 2006. Response received July 4, 2006, and website updated accordingly.

Illinois State University College of Arts and Sciences

  • Site: www.cas.ilstu.edu
  • Example: wikipedia.cas.ilstu.edu/index.php/Partial_differential_equation
  • States: "From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia."
  • No obvious link to Wikipedia or original article
  • States: "All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License (see Copyrights for details)." with link to local copy of GFDL

imimage.it

I Casino' Online
URL http://www.imimage.it
Sample http://www.imimage.it/Casino/?title=Klondike_Gold_Rush
Rating
Details Babelfish translation into Italian. No GFDL notice present on site. No authorship listed. No mention of Wikipedia.
Contact info
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in2reach.com

More research requested

indopedia.org

indopedia.org
URL http://www.indopedia.org/
Sample http://www.indopedia.org/Mind.html
Rating
Details It seems to copy the User's namespace(that's how I found it), and be a topic-specific fork of Wikipedia. JesseW 23:13, 5 Apr 2005 (UTC)

It seems to provide some links back to WP, but these links are broken for anything outside of the main article namespace. --carlb 15:44, 10 April 2006 (UTC)

Contact info WHOIS information

Plamen Gradinarov
Eurasia Academic Publishers
Lyulin 332 B-25
Sofia, BG, 1336
Phone:+359.2272388
FAX:+359.2272388
Email:eurasia AT iztok.net, imago AT abv.bg

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infofx.info

infofx
URL http://infofx.info/ and http://en.infofx.info/, http://de.infofx.info/, http://fr.infofx.info/,...
Sample http://dolmen.fr.infofx.info/
Rating None
Details No GFDL notice present on site. No authorship listed. No mention of Wikipedia. Copy of all wikipedias (es:, en:, fr:, de:, etc)
Contact info
Actions none

InfoHeadquarters.com

  • Site: InfoHeadquarters.com
  • Acknowledges wikipedia authorship, links to wikipedia
  • States that the article is licensed under the GNU FDL.
  • Does not link to the relevant wikipedia page
  • Example: [45] from February 22

infomutt.com

Research requeted. JesseW 22:28, 18 July 2005 (UTC)

informat.io

www.informat.io
URL http://www.informat.io/?title=mathematics
Sample http://www.quaest.io/?article=wpcw
Rating low
Details Attribution has gone from bad to worse. Currently no mention of Wikipedia or GFDL on article pages. Claims to be "Hierarchical network of human knowledge, standing on the shoulders of user-edited information from the Open Directory Project under the Open Directory License," misattributes Wikipedia content to ODP; www.hierar.ch and www.quaest.io are similar and link to each other. Ends "© 2007-2007 informat.io, hosted by Vacilando"
Contact info
Actions

InformationClub.com

Information Club
URL http://www.informationclub.com/
Sample http://www.informationclub.com/encyclopedia/e/ec/ecology.html
Rating
Details No mention of Wikipedia or GFDL on article pages. Link to offsite GDFL on main page only. Main page carries confusing/contradictory statement "Copyright ©2003 CompanyName.com"
Contact info sale AT hostchart.com (WHOIS), abuse AT Advantage1Web.com(host)
Actions

informationdepot.us

Research requested. JesseW 22:30, 18 July 2005 (UTC)

informationheadquaters.com

  • Site: informationheadquaters.com
  • Link to GNU FDL.
  • Link to Wikipedia homepage via "Help build the worlds largest free encyclopedia"
  • No link to original article.
  • November 19: Now says the content is from Wikipedia.
Jan 8 2004: This is still the case. A lot of the wikipedia pages have dead links (eg the September 11 pages), but what is there is acknowledged as wikipedia material. Perhaps this site should now come out of this list and be placed in one of the other ones? Arno 22:07, 7 Jan 2004 (UTC)

Informationgenius

InfoSearchPoint

  • Site: InfoSearchPoint
  • Gives credit and links to the wikipedia homepage and the corresponding article page
  • Mentions the license as GFDL, and links to a local copy

Infoslurp

Infostar.cz / Eurotran

  • Site: Infostar.cz / Eurotran
  • Machine translation of complete Wikipedia to Czech language
  • Sample article: Serbs - http://wikipedia.infostar.cz/s/se/serbs.html
  • Links to original Wikipedia article
  • Says on the bottom of each article (in Czech) "This is a machine translation of an article from the Wikipedia encyclopedia. The entire text is available under the conditions of the GNU FDL licence."
  • Links to Wikipedia Main Page
  • Links to local copy of GFDL (machine translated to Czech, but with a link to the official text of the licence at gnu.org prominently at the beginning)
  • Removes "From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia"
That's quite a neat site, actually! While on the whole it's pretty good, it does show up some of the limitations of machine translation. Looking up "Bitva Jutland" which is the translation of "Battle of Jutland" which I had quite a bit of input to, I notice that many of the names of British ships have been tranlated to their Czech equivalents (Lion --> Lev, for instance), but no German ship names have been translated. Also some of the British commander's names also get translated - Rear Admiral A.L. Duff of HMS Superb becomes zadního admirála. L. Bezcenn˘ of HMS Nádhern˘, while if my reading of Czech grammar is correct Vice Admiral Sir Cecil Burney gets a sex change as zlozvyku-sir admirála Cecil Burneyová! :) -- Arwel 00:04, 15 Jun 2004 (UTC)
  • No history section. Medium compliance. Uncle G 11:37, 5 June 2007 (UTC)

infothis

infothis
URL http://www.infothis.com
Sample http://www.infothis.com/find/Wikipedia
Rating
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Note that they use javascript to recognize Wikipedia as source:

  <script type="text/javascript">
  document.write("<hr> Under the terms of the <a href=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Text_of_the_GNU_Free_Documentation_License>GNU Free Documentation License</a>   Thank you wikipedia.org <hr>")
  </script> 

Browsers that block javascript or can't handle it would not show this line at all.

Infovoyager-related sites

atc.ruv.net/infopedia/

Looks like another partial from copy from the ruv.net guy. Sigh. No references to Wikipedia at all as I can see. JesseW 06:56, 5 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Infopedia.ruv.net

  • Site: Infopedia.ruv.net=
  • Mentions GFDL but clicking on it gives "!! ERROR !! PAGE NOT FOUND"
  • No name or link to original wikipedia article
  • Mention of the word "Wikipedia", but no link available
  • I'm going after this one. Quite a few articles that I have written mostly or exclusively are on that site, and that rather annoys me to say the least. David Newton 17:32, 14 Mar 2004 (UTC)
  • Standard letter sent. David Newton 17:41, 14 Mar 2004 (UTC)
    • Received a reply "Thanks for the email, I'll make sure to make the appropriate changes to my site." That was pretty quick, so I am optimistic over this one. David Newton 18:21, 14 Mar 2004 (UTC)
      • Second standard letter sent. David Newton 00:26, 18 Apr 2004 (UTC)
  • This one is still not resolved; the situation is like described above. No direct link back to the original Wikipedia article, clicking on GFDL gives 404 error. The little line "Copyright Wikipedia Contributors", without link, is in fact the only thing about Wikipedia that can be found on the page.
  • Furthermore, something very nasty is going on: for links that do not exist on infopedia, a utility called webgrap is used to try to rip the info directly from Wikipedia, thus loading the Wikipedia servers. See for ex. Oncology and try the link to Adjunctive therapies in the article (it has a question mark behind it to indicate that the article doesn't exist on Infopedia). The operation does not succeed, but the Wikipedia servers are queried nevertheless; so this is a case of straight bandwidth theft. - Mark Dingemanse (talk) 07:10, 19 Oct 2004 (UTC)
  • Situation unchanged. -Rholton 21:32, 24 Nov 2004 (UTC)

InfoVoyager

  • Site: InfoVoyager=
  • Uses geography-related pages from wikipedia.
  • Mentions GFDL but clicking on it gives "!! ERROR !! PAGE NOT FOUND"
  • No name or link to original wikipedia article
  • Mention of the word "Wikipedia", but no link available
  • Same person as infopedia.ruv.net

JapanVoyager

  • Site: JapanVoyager=
  • Uses geography-related pages from wikipedia.
  • Mentions GFDL but clicking on it gives "!! ERROR !! PAGE NOT FOUND". (The main page of the website which is a copy of List of countries does not mention GFDL)
  • No name or link to original wikipedia article
  • Mention of the word "Wikipedia", but no link available
  • Same person as infopedia.ruv.net

Venice Voyager


InfoWrangler

  • Site: InfoWrangler
  • Appears to be complete mirror of English Wikipedia (except images), including same layout
  • "We have integrated InfoWrangler? with Wikipedia"
  • Link to GNU FDL does not work -404 error.
  • Retains "From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia".
  • Claims Copyright © Object Positive Pty Ltd "All site content"
  • No link to Wikipedia or to article.
  • Sample article (Albania): Albania
Wow. This one is really obnoxious. They copy the site layout, even the edit buttons, so it looks like you're really on Wikipedia. Looks like it's a fairly old snapshot. Isomorphic 02:44, 16 Jun 2004 (UTC)
  • Comment only: It demonstrates the run of a tool called infowrangler, as run against the Wikipedia database. Okay well, that seems like an interesting and innovative use of a wikipedia database. If they can tidy up their act a bit, this could become a good demonstration of what FSF licensing is all about. Now if only those folks could release infowrangler under the GPL ;-). Kim Bruning 12:18, 18 Jun 2004 (UTC)
    • This site does not clarify that its material is a copy of the original source. Perhaps the owners thought that by including all Wikipedia namespace articles etc. with information about the project, that would suffice to clear them of legal issues. They were mistaken: the GDFL specifically states in part 4 to: "Preserve... the network locations given in the Document for previous versions it was based on." This seems to be one of a multitude of policy breaches. Perhaps more importantly, usage of the Wikipedia name and logo (even a retired version) in this way is to be seriously discouraged as it leads to problems with retaining trademark rights. Has anyone sent a letter yet? -- Kwekubo 01:05, 28 Jul 2004 (UTC)

InvestingCompany.com

  • Site: InvestingCompany.com
  • Does not acknowledge wikipedia authorship, links to wikipedia
  • States that the article is licensed under the GNU FDL.
  • Does not link to the relevant wikipedia page (or wikipedia at all)
  • Example: [46] from SARS.

ipedia

  • Site: ipedia
  • Javascript loaded text at bottom of articles
    • Link to GNU FDL.
    • Link to www.wikipedia.org
  • No link to original article.
  • No GNU FDL or wikipedia link with Javascript off
  • No GNU FDL or wikipedia link in source code

iplay3.com

iptables.com

More research requested. JesseW 21:35, 22 July 2005 (UTC)

Iskenderiye IYE

Iskenderiye IYE
URL http://www.iskenderiye.com/
Sample http://www.iskenderiye.com/story/kylie-brant/
Rating None
Details No mention of Wikipedia or GFDL.
Contact info WHOIS information

Site administrator: David Golding

  • Phone: 1-843-757-5109
  • Email: dargy AT mail.ru

Registration Service Provider: Denizonline Software and Network Solutions

Actions None.

ipedia.com

iqexpand.com

  • Site: iqexpand.com
  • Note: how you access articles is by replacing www.iqexpand.com with the name of the article you are looking for i.e. for Linux, you would put in http://linux.iqexpand.com, and for Wikipedia, you would type in http://wikipedia.iqexpand.com/ (but in this case they're REAL sneaky, replacing Wikipedia with I.Q. Expand in the entry but forgetting to change the bottom links)
  • No GFDL notice. Claims copyright over the site.
  • Broken images everywhere on every article.
  • Absolutely no reference to Wikipedia, instead refering to the "English Information Megasite" for about information for iqexpand.com, thereby dodging reference to Wikipedia. The English Information Megasite is but of course nothing more than a cheaply done mirror of Wikipedia (check out the front page here: the front page says Wikipedia, and has tons of broken links to news, featured article of the day, etc.)
  • Deserves an e-mail from us; anyone who wants to do it please sign their name below (I can't do it since I have no time). --Bash 04:02, 8 October 2005 (UTC)

iqnaut.net

  • Site: http://iqnaut.net
  • Note: the links at the top refer to news stories. Go to the bottom and go to the links; you'll see that they are mirrors.
  • Mentions that the info is released under the GFDL, link to local copy of the license.
  • Links back to the original Wikipedia article.
  • Contact admin AT iqnaut.net

Ireland information guide

Ireland information guide
URL http://www.irelandinformationguide.com
Sample
Rating None
Details Contains some wikipedia articles from 2004, some of them expanded with new information - i.e. a genuine fork using MediaWiki with its own edit buttons etc. GFDL link to http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/fdl.html. Link to wikipedia article with same name. No history section. Medium compliance. Uncle G 11:39, 5 June 2007 (UTC)
Contact info
Actions None

iRepresentin

iRepresentin
URL http://www.irepresentin.com/
Sample http://www.irepresentin.com/Tyoo-to/muse.php (from Muse)
Rating None
Details Verbatim copies of Wikipedia articles. No mention of Wikipedia or GFDL.
Contact info WHOIS information

Private registration through Domains by Proxy, Inc.

  • Email: IREPRESENTIN.COM AT domainsbyproxy.com
  • Phone: (480) 624-2599
  • Fax: (480) 624-2599
Actions None

Isulong SEOph

Isolong SEOph
URL http://isulongseoph-bicol.com/
Sample http://isulongseoph-bicol.com/about/what-is-seo/
Rating None
Details Verbatim copy of SEO article introduction, with no mention of GFDL or Wikipedia.
Contact info WHOIS information

Administrative contact: Bicol Business Directory
Email: bicolbusinessdirectory AT gmail.com
Phone: +917.9605747

Actions None

Interactive Force

Interactive Force
URL http://www.interactiveforce.com/
Sample http://www.interactiveforce.com/psp/look_at_psp.asp
Rating
Details Copy of PlayStation_Portable#Design_and_specifications, with no mention of GFDL or Wikipedia. The content in this section was started on 7 December 2004 by Sockatume (talk · contribs), who continued to improve it. More edits in the usual wiki way[47][48][49].
Contact info
Actions None, except to verify that Wikipedia contributors own the copyright

ipupdater.com

See area51.ipupdater.com

Ivysport.com

Ivy League Clothing Co.
URL http://www.ivysport.com/splash.php?school=
Sample http://www.ivysport.com/category-category_id/329
Rating Medium
Details Mirrors articles on the Ivy League and the individual schools. Mentions WP and GFDL but claims copyright. Does not link back to us.
Contact info Registrant:

Council of Ivy Group Presidents

  228 Alexander Street
  Princeton, NJ 08544
  US
  Domain Name: IVYSPORT.COM
  Administrative Contact, Technical Contact:
     Council of Ivy Group Presidents            jorleans AT PRINCETON.EDU
     228 Alexander Street
     Princeton, NJ 08544
     US
     +1.6092586426 fax: +1.6092581690
Actions None

Iwannarock.net

Iwannarock.net - music ringtones and mobile content
URL http://www.fonebiz.co.uk
Sample http://www.fonebiz.co.uk/free-mobile-phone-ringtones/wiki.php?title=Alicia_Keys
Rating "Low/None"
Details No mention of Wikipedia; instead, asserts own copyright. Worse, the site is stealing our bandwidth by directly linking to our images.
Contact info wirken, Danny wirken AT gmail.com

584122316670 (Venezuela) See: [50] Spanish speaker may be helpful.

Actions

Mirrors and Forks : (Numbers) ABC - DEF - GHI - JKL - MNO - PQR - STU - VWXYZ - All - Archive

J

JamBase

JamBase
URL http://www.jambase.com
Sample http://www.jambase.com/search.asp?bandID=36108
Rating "Low/None"
Details No compliance at all
Contact info
Actions
  • I haven't looked at their site to see if there are multiple plagiarisms, but I encountered this one page that clearly was.

Japan-101

  • No mention of GFDL Mentioned at footer of each article. Links to local copy.
  • No mention of Wikipedia Cited as source with link at footer of each article.
  • Has the tautological "copyrights are property of the owners" Has been removed.
  • One article in particular Hadaka Apron, but there probably are others. It doesn't use the latest version. Paranoid 13:09, 12 Dec 2004 (UTC)
  • No history section. Medium compliance. Uncle G 11:41, 5 June 2007 (UTC)

Jewish Virtual Library

I've only noticed one page here lifted from Wikipedia, but it has problems so I figured I'd mention it here. There may be others, I didn't look around. Bryan 00:43, 25 May 2006 (UTC)

  • site:[51]
    • Mentions Wikipedia as source with link to source article. However:
    • Claims copyright over the page
    • Doesn't mention the GFDL
Benito Amilcare Andrea Mussolini
URL http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org
Sample http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/biography/Mussolini.html
Rating "Low/None"
Details
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Actions
  • Mentions Search Beat as source.
  • Claims copyright over the page
  • Doesn't mention the GFDL
  • You can see Mav's edit [here.
  • I have seen at least one other case where we thought we were copying this site. Rich Farmbrough 11:21 29 June 2006 (GMT).

jewishrecipes.org

  • Site: [52]
    • Example: [53] in the paragraph "According to Conservative Judaism" is copied from kosher wine.
  • Does not mention Wikipedia or the GPL Where (talk) 22:35, 14 April 2006 (UTC)
  • I just got an email from them saying that they working on complying with the GFDL. Where (talk) 17:21, 17 April 2006 (UTC)

jGames.co.uk

jGames.co.uk
URL http://www.jgames.co.uk
Sample http://www.jgames.co.uk/title/Palladium_%28mythology%29
Rating "Medium"
Details Claims copyright of content
Mentions "some content from Wikipedia under GDL" [sic]
No link to original articles
No link to GFDL
Contact info Benjamin Cohen - ben at pinknews dot co dot uk
Actions
  • Standard message sent 24 April 2007. Contact replied stating "Every page has a Wikipedia GDL [sic] license paragraph on it". Second message sent 25 April 2007, further clarifying GFDL's requirements. --Kwekubo 22:32, 25 April 2007 (UTC)
  • Follow-up message sent 02 May 2007. --Kwekubo 00:06, 2 May 2007 (UTC)
  • Final warning sent 03 June 2007. --Kwekubo 14:04, 3 June 2007 (UTC)

Jiggies

  • Site: [54]
  • says "All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License." at bottom of each mirrored page as of May 16, 2006.
  • Mentions GDFL, but link leads to local 404 (page not found). (Still true. JesseW 20:43, 22 July 2005 (UTC))
  • No mention of Wikipedia. (Still true. JesseW 20:43, 22 July 2005 (UTC))
  • No list of authors(i.e. a link to the Wikipedia article) (as of JesseW 20:43, 22 July 2005 (UTC))
  • Main page [56] has misleading statement "We have built open-content encyclopedia with most categories referring to Canadian content." (Misleading, because original source not credited.)
    • No such statement now. JesseW 20:43, 22 July 2005 (UTC)
    • Still there when I checked. --Utopianfiat 19:30, 4 August 2006 (UTC)
  • Putting in LOW. JesseW 20:43, 22 July 2005 (UTC)
  • Found a disturbing disclaimer replacing all mention of Wikipedia with Jiggies Reference Guide. [57] SasquatchTC 06:29, July 26, 2005 (UTC)

Jiskha Homework Help

Jiskha Homework Help
URL http://www.jiskha.com/
Sample http://www.jiskha.com/social_studies/people/king_jr_martin_luther.html
Rating None
Details No mention of Wikipedia or the GFDL on the front page or on the articles. Pages contain the text "Copyright © 1998-2006 Jiskha Homework Help. All rights reserved."
Contact info http://www.jiskha.com/contact/
Actions Standard violation letter sent (06:57, 6 February 2006 (UTC))

Journical

Journical
URL http://www.journical.com/
Sample http://www.journical.com/article.php?q=traditors
Rating None
Details No mention of Wikipedia or the GFDL on the front page or on the articles. Pages contain the text "Copyright © 2006 Journical. All Rights Reserved."
Contact info Physical adress on http://www.journical.com/w3c/policy.php
Actions None

Juicee News Daily

  • No mention of GFDL
  • Links to original Wikipedia article as "Reference"
  • Claims copyright: "Copyright © 2005 Juicee News Daily. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed without the written consent of juiceenewsdaily. To inquire about the use of juiceenwsdaily material, please email press AT juiceenewsdaily.com."

Example article: [59]; there are others. DanKeshet 23:29, Apr 27, 2005 (UTC)

Sent first warning for including GFDL notice, as I'm not sure if notice was sent before. Cleduc 5 July 2005 01:49 (UTC)

Second example

Also Socialite is copied, but without any attribution. Sent notice -- don't know if anyone else has sent them notice before. Not sure, so we'll treat this as first notice. Cleduc 5 July 2005 01:37 (UTC)

  • Notice resulted in a "Reference" being placed on the page -- so the source is attributed. However, the GFDL notice is not placed on the page, just like the CPR article. I'm going to follow up with the editor/publisher. Cleduc 6 July 2005 18:23 (UTC)
    • So what happened? It still claims the copyright on the article is theirs. 86.136.90.90 17:29, 15 August 2006 (UTC)

Third example

[60] from Jack Abramoff. No GFDL notice, no mention of Wikipedia. -- Antaeus Feldspar 20:00, 4 January 2006 (UTC)

Fourth example

[61] from Bona fide purchaser. No GFDL notice, no mention of Wikipedia. "Copyright © 2005" is a link to the Wikipedia article. Robert A West 03:29, 11 February 2006 (UTC)

Judaic.com

Judaic.com
URL http://www.judaic.com
Sample http://www.judaic.com/jewish-jewellery/jewellery/jewelry-history.html
http://www.judaic.com/sterling-silver/sterling-silver.html
Rating "Low/None" compliance with GFDL
Details Looks like they copied two articles for their commercial site, no mention of WP or GDFL.
Contact info 560 South Holly Suite 14, Denver, Colorado 80246, 800-830-8660, 303-322-7345, aharon AT judaic.com
Actions None taken at this time, listing here.

Justrec.com

Justrec.com
URL http://www.justrec.com/
Sample http://www.justrec.com/wilderness.html
Rating "Low/None" compliance with GFDL.
Details No mention of GFDL or Wikipedia and claims copyright.
Contact info E-mail: JUSTREC.COM AT domainsbyproxy.com
Actions
  • Have e-mailed them. Bduke.
    • E-mail refused (domainsbyproxy.com refused to relay from my address). I have snail mailed a letter to them. Bduke 07:24, 22 January 2007 (UTC)
  • see also http://www.justrec.com/education/scout.html which is a copy of Scouting, emailed them the standard letter.Rlevse 16:44, 22 January 2007 (UTC)
  • sent followup email Rlevse 23:19, 26 January 2007 (UTC)
  • sent final warning prior to takendown notice being sent.Rlevse 02:08, 9 February 2007 (UTC)
  • Sent DMCA takedown notice to GO DADDY in Scottsdale, AZ, USA.Rlevse 23:58, 6 March 2007 (UTC)
    • they blew me off.Rlevse 21:27, 14 March 2007 (UTC)

K

K12 Academics

K12 Academics
URL http://www.k12academics.com/
Sample http://www.k12academics.com/tourettes_symptoms.htm from Tourette syndrome, http://www.k12academics.com/pandas.htm from PANDAS, http://www.k12academics.com/sat_history.htm from SAT, also http://www.k12academics.com/stereotypic_movement_disorder.htm from Stereotypic movement disorder
Rating None
Details Pages on this site use sections from Wikipedia articles, including Tourette syndrome and P.A.N.D.A.S. There is no mention of Wikipedia or the GFDL, and there is not a history section entry for the split into multiple pages.
Contact info info AT k12academics.com, dmca AT networksolutions.com (private registration and probably host), bf5r44df4bb AT networksolutionsprivateregistration.com (whois)
Actions Sent email today regarding the SAT history page--ragesoss 23:43, 8 June 2007 (UTC)

Kapitalism.net

KatalogQLT.fm

Katalog(at)KupKomputer.pl
URL http://katalog.kupkomputer.pl/
Sample http://katalog.kupkomputer.pl/archive/Tractor
Rating Medium
Details Links to Wikipedia article and Wikipedia GFDL. No local GFDL. No original authors. Has lots of Wikipedia articles, hard to say how many total.
Contact info jeśli masz jakieś pytania, propozycje itp. napisz:

katalog AT kupkomputer.pl
Polecamy: Katalog Stron, Sklep internetowy, Maszyny budowlane, SEO Katalog Stron

Actions None

Kids.net.au

Kiessecker

Killersudoku

Kiwipedia

  • Site: http://www.kiwipedia.com
  • Example: [62]: initial part of Albania
  • No attribution to Wikipedia
  • No link to original page
  • Apparent link to GFDL at bottom is to initial part of local article about license, which in turn has broken link to GNU version
    • As of 10:23, 22 November 2005 (UTC) Henrygb

Klasikoyun.com

This site is violating GFDL. No attribution, no link to Wikipedia. Links to Wikipedia from main page

  • Some links to Wikipedia
  • No mention of source/GFDL
  • seems to be under construction

Moved from main page Davelane 22:58, 14 Sep 2004 (UTC) This was deleted by 212.174.228.10 (Removed Klasikoyun.com site has an attribution in the main page) I've restored this as I beleve they are not in compliance -- if you disagree please move to disputed. --Davelane 16:32, 14 Oct 2004 (UTC)

Site is down now, I'll delist it soon (feel free to do it if I forget). Rhobite 20:29, Feb 16, 2005 (UTC)
It's back up now, and still infringing. Rhobite 21:32, Mar 8, 2005 (UTC)
Down again --Utopianfiat 19:31, 4 August 2006 (UTC)

knife-making-supplies.net

knife-making-supplies
URL http://www.knife-making-supplies.net/
Sample http://www.knife-making-supplies.net/japanese-kitchen-knives.html
Rating "Low/None" compliance with GFDL
Details No attribution to Wikipedia, No link to original page, No mention of GFDL
Contact info Unknown
Actions (no actions yet)

knolix.com

knover.com

Knover.com - It's all connected!
URL http://www.knover.com/
Sample http://www.knover.com/Profile/alicia_keys/Wikipedia
Rating Medium
Details Clear attribution to Wikipedia and local copy of GFDL; however, is directly uploading images from WP server.
Contact info Contact page is here: [63]. Press contact is Richard Bennett, r.bennett AT knover.com, 212-695-2375
Actions

Knowledgerush

  • Links to local copy of GNU/FDL
  • Names Wikipedia and links to source article.
  • Does not have "title page".
  • Several articles copied, hard to say how many. Tualha 19:00, 18 Dec 2003 (UTC)
    • Looks like everything with the possible exception of orphans and semi-orphans to me. Andre Engels 17:33, 5 Feb 2004 (UTC)
  • No history section. Medium compliance. Uncle G 11:42, 5 June 2007 (UTC)

KnowLex

  • In en: and de:; I only really looked at the former.
  • Bottom of each page links to:
    • Source article on Wikipedia;
    • Wikipedia main page;
    • GNU FDL on FSF site;
    • Author list (history) on Wikipedia; and
    • Edit link on Wikipedia.

OK, so they should have a local copy of the licence. But they also say "The article can be editted here." and I think that's fantastic!!! -- Toby Bartels 04:38, 18 Aug 2004 (UTC)

This site no longer seems to exist. 62.190.112.2 (talk) 09:06, 11 April 2008 (UTC)

KnowledgeGeek

Knowledgegeek now looks close to compliance, acknowledging Wikipedia as the original source and linking to the GFDL. Do people agree that they are now largely compliant? --Robert Merkel 04:30, 11 Mar 2004 (UTC)
The site has definitely improved. However, witness all the 'summary' pages one level in from the root page (such as Coffee) still being composed largely of Wikipedia content without any acknowledgement. A sentence or two, lifted directly from Wikipedia is shown in many entries on those 'summary' pages (such as Drip brew, French press, Caffeine, etc. on the Coffee page above) yet you must click through to the full text before a Wikipedia or GFDL reference is made. A reference to Wikipedia and GFDL on all pages with even 'truncated' Wikipedia content (ie, the first few sentences of a bunch of articles) would still seem to be required. Potentially also worth mentioning is that the engine or template system used by KnowledgeGeek is used by StudioReview.com (documented on this page and supported/linked by Mark Coffman of KnowledgeGeek) and as of this writing, StudioReview has a low degree of compliance. I'm not suggesting that the owner/operator of KnowledgeGeek is able to accomplish this, but one wonders if it's possible to add compliance at an engine- or template-level for sites like this which are clearly copying Wikipedia content in huge quantities. Ds13 20:46, 2004 Mar 11 (UTC)
The remaining problems identified above seem to be addressed now. I would agree that they are largely compliant now. --Ds13 06:50, 2004 Mar 21 (UTC)
  • [Homepage of the site has no content of Wikipedia. No disclaimer/copyright information]

Knowledge Giant

Knowledge Giant
URL http://sex.knowledgegiant.com, http://knowledgegiant.com/
Sample http://sex.knowledgegiant.com/search/Physics, http://knowledgegiant.com/search/Earth_science
Rating Low
Details Apparently a full mirror of Wikipedia, though without image pages. Pages attribute Wikipedia without link and link to offsite GFDL. Also links to Wikipedia's copy of disclaimer. Explicitly claims copyright. Uses dynamic loading (see http://knowledgegiant.com/search/current%20events).
Contact info KNOWLEDGEGIANT.COM AT domainsbyproxy.com (private whois), legal AT nac.net (host whois)
Actions

Knowledge Is Fun

  • site: [http://www.knowledgeisfun.com knowledgeisfun.com]
  • A TOTAL ripoff of wikipedia. Claims copyright as own!--Deglr6328 23:11, 23 Dec 2004 (UTC)
  • No mention of Wikipedia
  • No link to GFDL
  • Contains text "Copyright © 2004 KnowledgeIsFun.com, all rights reserved."
  • Sent first letter to domainsatvizaginfo.com and AT kif (best contacts aval.) --Davelane 00:03, 24 Dec 2004 (UTC)
  • Response: "Thanks for informing about the missing copyright message. The website is maintained by one of our client who has informed us back that the necessary copyright message has been put."
  • Now contains text "Copyright © 2004 KnowledgeIsFun.com, all rights reserved. This article was derived fully or in part from an article on Wikipedia.org] - the free encyclopedia created and edited by online user community. The text was not checked or edited by anyone on our staff. Although the vast majority of the wikipedia encyclopedia articles provide accurate and timely information please do not assume the accuracy of any particular article. This article is distributed under the terms of GNU Free Documentation License. " --Davelane 16:45, 24 Dec 2004 (UTC)
  • Please note this site is now our the Wikipedia spam blacklist. 64.178.107.132 (talk) 15:52, 25 December 2007 (UTC)

Knowledge King

Knowledge King
URL http://www.knowledgeking.net
Sample http://www.knowledgeking.net/encyclopedia/a/al/albania_1.html
Rating
Details Ends with "This content from wikipedia is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License. Brought to you by System0." Links only to Wikipedia main page; no direct link to article or inclusion of history.
Contact info
Actions

Knows-It-All

Knows-It-All
URL http://www.homestayfinder.com/
Sample http://www.homestayfinder.com/Dictionary.aspx?q=Dan_Marsh
Rating None
Details Nothing
Contact info abuse AT discountasp.net, abuse AT domainsbyproxy.com, HOMESTAYFINDER.COM AT domainsbyproxy.com (private)
Actions

Knowmore

Knowmore
URL http://www.knowmore.org
Sample http://www.knowmore.org/index.php/GNU_General_Public_License
Rating Low
Details no attribution of Wikipedia; claims copyright at bottom of each page; only one or two mentions of GFDL in a well-hidden page, though with a local copy of the GFDL; not using "any later version" language.
Contact info bernard AT knowmore.org
Actions
  • just emailed contact about issues, waiting to hear back, put here in case I don't hear anything back from contact --Phish0202 03:52, 9 June 2007 (UTC)

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LaborLawTalk

LaborLawTalk
URL http://encyclopedia.laborlawtalk.com/index.php
Sample http://encyclopedia.laborlawtalk.com/Wikipedia
Rating Medium
Details Complete mirror of all Wikipedia articles. Links to gnu.org GFDL and original article.
Contact info LABORLAWTALK.COM AT domainsbyproxy.com (private whois), http://laborlawtalk.com/sendmessage.php (contact form), abuse AT rackspace.com (host)
Actions
  • Sent standard letter. Vacuum c 01:59, Mar 21, 2005 (UTC)

lakerplayers.org

Lakers Players
URL www.lakersplayers.org
Sample http://www.lakersplayers.org/elgin-baylor.php
Rating None
Details Mirror/plagiarism of *many* Laker Player biographies without attribution.
Contact info info AT lakersplayers.org
Actions Sent two emails in late 2006 informing them of GFDL infringement, neither of which prompted a response. More recently (ending October 2007) sent standard sequence of GFDL violation letters, again receiving no response.

lala

  • Site: www.lala.com
  • Example: www.lala.com/frontend/action/artist/cliff_richard
  • States at start of frame: "From Wikipedia [edit] This text is available under the terms of the GNU FDL" with links to original article (plain and to edit) and to local copy of GFDL
  • Outside frame ends with "© 2005-2007 la la media, inc. All rights reserved. iPod and iTunes are registered trademarks of Apple Computer, Inc. Some content copyright 1948-2007 Muze Inc. For personal non-commercial use only. All rights reserved."

Lardydar Wiki

Lardydar Wiki
URL http://www.lardydar.com/search/wiki/index.php?title=Main_Page
Sample http://www.lardydar.com/search/wiki/index.php?title=wikipedia:About

taken exactly from : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:About

Rating Unsure. The site seems to be such a good copy, it has the disclaimer footer on every page, just like Wikipedia. However, tiny details, such as using a link as a reference, and calling it "What is it with Lardydar Wiki?", when clearly that article has nothing to do with "Lardydar" Wiki. Also, they claim: "Lardydar Wiki® is a registered trademark of the Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.", but that is because they have included the footer seen on every Wikipedia page, and simply changed "Wikipedia" into "Lardylar Wiki". Even their Contact us page is identical, leading the user to contact Wikimedia, instead. May be a valid mirror, but I could not find links to Wikipedia. Searching for the article 'Wikipedia' Comes up with the article 'Lardylar Wiki' instead, but they pronounce "Lardylar Wiki" /ˌwikiˈpeːdi.ə/, so... What bothers me most is that they have the "Donate to" Link, on the left, exactly as Wikipedia, and it leads to their Paypal account. Perhaps this is completely legal and valid, but it appears that this site takes advantage of the "feel" of Wikipedia to solicit donations that do not go to the Wikimedia Foundation.
Details Copy of Wikipedia's footer, but name is changed to state owner is Lardylar Wiki, states: "All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License."
Contact info mirror of WP Contact Us page
Actions

Last.fm

Last.fm
URL http://www.last.fm
Sample http://www.last.fm/music/7+Year+Bitch
Rating Low
Details Straight copy from recent version of 7 Year Bitch embedded in the one page I looked at. There is a GFDL notice, but the source is only visible on the edit tab.
Contact info office AT last.fm
Actions
  • Sent standard letter to office AT last.fm Superm401 - Talk 05:38, 17 January 2007 (UTC)
    • Received reply correcting me and noting that there was a GFDL notice, and Wikipedia was attributed on the edit page. Replied that the GFDL must be local, and noting that the notice must visible to readers, not just editors. Superm401 - Talk 15:16, 17 January 2007 (UTC)
      • Agreed having sources visible only to editors was weird. Said he would host a local GFDL. Replied thanking him, discussing Wikipedia's use of external GFDL content, and agreeing that the GFDL was harsh (but noting that this is still easier than real compliance). Superm401 - Talk 19:46, 17 January 2007 (UTC)

language is a virus

language is a virus
URL http://languageisavirus.com
Sample http://languageisavirus.com/factsheet.php?title=Navagraha_Kritis
Rating "Low/None" compliance with GFDL (matches Wikipedia:GFDL Compliance).
Details No mention of Wikipedia on mirror of article Navagraha Kritis.
Contact info E-mail, phone number of admin and ISP.
Actions Listing only, leave review and contact to more experienced editor.

latitudezero.org

Latkey

Legal Information Source

Lexikonia.org

A local copy of italian wikipedia.

  • Site: [69]
  • Example [70]
  • No link to the current version of article
  • Yes link to en.wikipedia.org, no link to it.wikipedia.org
  • Attribution with an image not much readable and in English, instead the visitors are probably Italians.

libelpedia.org

libelpedia.org
URL http://libelpedia.org/ http://libelpedia.org/
Sample http://libelpedia.org/ http://libelpedia.org/
Rating "Low/None"
Details 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: [stalkerpedia.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)

LincolnMortgage.info

Only a selection of pages, from all namespace of en.wp. Very random. Very odd interface.

Linix Encyclopedia

literaturemania.com

  • Site: literaturemania.com
  • Example: [71]
  • No attribution
  • No GFDL notice
  • No copyright information of any sort, just "ads" about "Discount Pet Supplies" and an offsite link
  • Refers to Wikipedia text section as "The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia"
  • Appears to be some sort of Project Gutenberg and (non-compliant) Wikipedia mirror

liverpoolcityportal.co.uk

Now seems to comply, having used the suggested text I sent them through the form letter. Am going to ask them to see if the copyright notice can be clarified, though. Johnleemk | Talk 12:57, 7 February 2006 (UTC)
All is in order now. Johnleemk | Talk 17:07, 7 February 2006 (UTC)
  • No history section. Medium compliance. Uncle G 12:09, 5 June 2007 (UTC)

LiveSeattle.com

LiveSeattle.com
URL http://www.liveseattle.com
Sample http://www.liveseattle.com/Default.aspx?tabid=5097
Rating Low/None
Details The sample page is a blatant grab of Wedgwood, Seattle, Washington (maybe not the current version, and they stripped the footnotes, but I immediately recognized User:GoDot's plodding prose.) - Jmabel
Contact info They link to a page at http://www.livecityguides.com/Home/ContactForm/tabid/454/Default.aspx. They are pushing it "Advertise with us", but I can't see why a different sort of message couldn't be left. - Jmabel
Actions Nothing so far

My guess given that they direct comments to a site with a more generic name is that they've done the same not just for other places in Seattle but for other cities. - Jmabel | Talk 00:18, 1 March 2007 (UTC)

localcolorart.com

Localcolorartandothers
URL http://www.localcolorart.com
Sample http://www.localcolorart.com/encyclopedia/Recreation/
Rating High
Details
  • Link to local GFDL.
  • Mentions and links back to the original article. (extra non-compliance info removed) WB 01:42, 24 January 2006 (UTC)
Contact info
Actions Contacted everyone. No replies from the admin. ISP contacted. -- WB 01:33, 20 January 2006 (UTC) (Admin says they did not receive email).

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logicjungle.com

  • Site: logicjungle.com
  • Mirror of the english wikipedia
  • Link to GNU FDL.
  • Link to www.wikipedia.org (from the icon)
  • Crediting links to original articles
We can class this is as 'well behaved' mirror. Phil from logicjungle proactively read the listing here and emailed me. I suggested some improvements to the wording of the article links, to give proper credit to wikipedia, which were quickly implemented.
If any further contact is necessary, it might as well go through me, or a I can provide a copy of the email conversation we had -- Nojer2 10:09, 28 Jan 2005 (UTC)

The Logo (A Book)

  • Site: The Logo (A Book)
  • Uses the article about the book: "No Logo: Taking Aim at the Brand Bullies"
  • Mentions Wikipedia, and provides a link to the front page
  • No GFDL Link
  • Looks like fair use.

Lycos Retriever

  • Site: www.lycos.com/retriever.html
  • Example: www.lycos.com/info/tony-blair--oxford-university.html taken from Tony Blair, though not about Oxford University
  • Synthesis site from large number of sources
  • States: "Source: en.wikipedia.org" with link to original article
  • Page ends: "Copyright © 2007 Lycos Inc. All Rights Reserved."

Mirrors and Forks : (Numbers) ABC - DEF - GHI - JKL - MNO - PQR - STU - VWXYZ - All - Archive

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Magnet University

Magnet University
URL http://www.rare-earth-magnets.com/magnet_university/magnet_university.htm
Sample http://www.rare-earth-magnets.com/magnet_university/magnetism.htm
Rating
Details All content on this site from Wikipedia now contains a link to the GNU Free Documentation License (http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/fdl.html) and Wikipedia. The site appears to be in compliance. 16:16, 31 May 2006 (UTC)
Contact info info AT nationalimports.com,
Actions Standard letter sent by dave 19:28 17 Jul 2003 (UTC). Reply received from info AT nationalimports.com, who says are willing to fix it. dave sent reply to National Imports today outlining what he should do to fix it, and telling him all the articles that were lifted from Wikipedia (he had emailed asking which articles were from wikipedia). Sent them a letter and noted that I am the primary author of the bismuth article they copied. --mav 12:51, 4 Jan 2004 (UTC). Received reply: Were sorry for the oversight. We'll correct the link as soon as possible. --mav 18:33, 5 Jan 2004 (UTC)

Port Jackson, Attractions of Sydney, Australia published by MagicalJourneys.com

Port Jackson, Attractions of Sydney, Australia
URL http://www.magicaljourneys.com/Australia/index.html
Sample http://www.magicaljourneys.com/Australia/australia-interest-nsw-sydney-portjackson.html lifted from Port Jackson article
Rating "Medium" compliance with GFDL (matches Wikipedia:GFDL Compliance)
Details Although page notes info taken from wikipedia, it makes no mention of GFDL
Contact info jane AT magicaljourneys.com
Actions No actions taken yet to attempt to make the website comply.

Malaspina Great Books

Malaspina Great Books
URL http://www.malaspina.com/
Sample http://www.malaspina.org/home.asp?topic=./search/details&lastpage=./search/results&ID=123
Rating
Details Unknown. Claims copyright. No Wikipedia material found in latest check. Includes text "This article is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License and uses material adapted in whole or in part from the Wikipedia article on <ARTICLE>." Documents may be using Wikipedia as a source without including copyrighted material wholesale. This should be verified.
Contact info mcneil AT mala.bc.ca, black AT mala.bc.ca, Host's contact page
Actions

Maori Encyclopedia.st

  • Site: "Maori Encyclopedia.st"
  • Copies the whole mi: article namespace, apparently, though not very frequently (currently listing only 137 of the 280 articles), and converts our ordinary internal links to its internal links (but seems not to work out how to deal with piped links, using just the text - eg, the homepage links to http://maori.encyclopedia.st/Tikanga where WP has a piped link saying "tikanga" but linking to the "mi" style guide). Doesn't seem to change the text of the link in any circumstances.
  • Leaves most external links alone, even where they are to the English version, eg in the stub message "You can help Wikipedia by expanding it." readers get directed to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Find_or_fix_a_stub. However, the bottom-of-page links to other language WPs are converted to related sites such as http://enzyklopadie.cc.
  • Not as careful as it should be with some links, giving us the kindly optimistic statement "There are at least 300000 articles already written (partly or wholly in te reo Māori) that need improvement." - similar "300000" on the other-language sites.
  • Readers will be puzzled at the homepage invitation to participate. There's not even a contact address apart from the "Advertise Here!" link, which goes to http://www.fastclick.com/.
  • Mentions Wikipedia and the GFDL quite prominently at the bottom (much better than when I looked a few months ago when the "Wikipedia" reference was in small black letters on a very dark blue frame background, impossible to notice unless one knew to search for it); BUT NO links to the original article, History page, and Edit page.
  • Largely appropriate "Ads by Goooooogle", similar to Wikicities, and sometimes a panel of articles, sometimes appropriate, or other ads.
  • As of 01:57, 3 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Maratechnology.com

  • Site: http://www.maratechnology.com/
  • Copies various Wikipedia articles about celebrities, such as Mariah Carey [73] and Ashlee Simpson [74], but the Simpson page appears out of date.
  • The sides of the pages are decorated with Google ads.
  • No mention of Wikipedia or the GFDL. The bottom of every page reads "© COPYRIGHT 2004 2005 ALL RIGHTS RESERVED www.maratechnology.com". No discernable compliance.
Have sent Wikipedia:Standard_GFDL_violation_letter#Single_copy_of_GFDL_notice_version to one of two email addresses listed on the site's "Contact" page. Extraordinary Machine 17:39, 13 December 2005 (UTC)

MarsPC Computing System

MarsPC: Knowledge Base
URL http://marspc.co.il/articles/
Sample http://marspc.co.il/articles/article/84/ajax-programming
Rating Low/None
Details Verbatim text copy of many articles, complete with "[edit]" text! Claims legal copyright
Contact info contact page: http://marspc.co.il/contact; email: support AT marspc.co.uk; UK Office: +44 (0) 207 193 1990
Actions

Marijuana.com

  • Site: Marijuana.com/wiki/
  • Copied Wikipedia from May 23 2005. Appears to have kept all namespaces.
  • No Wikipedia or GFDL notice, in fact, claims all material is copyrighted ("Please ask before you take").
  • Is a bit wierd about nonexistent articles: [75]
  • Site-wide ads at the top and bottom.
  • As of 12:11, Jun 5, 2005 (UTC)
  • Now just redirects to Wikipedia itself. --WCQuidditch 18:18, 28 December 2005 (UTC)

masterliness.com

Masterliness
URL http://www.masterliness.com
Sample http://www.masterliness.com/a/Sony.HiFD.htm
Rating
Details Note: Do not click the Non-user link. It seems to cause the site to redirect all future requests from your IP to Google. I'm not sure what the motivation for this is. Copies the whole article namespace. When viewed without script enabled, no mention of Wikipedia and the GFDL. With Javascript, there are links to the original article, GFDL text, History page, and Edit page. This is an unacceptable implementation because the articles are distributed to those without Javascript, but the GFDL is not.
Contact info http://www.masterliness.com/contact.php (contact page), postmaster AT registerfly.com (registrar; hidden whois info), abuse AT theplanet.com (host)
Actions

MathDaily.com

MathDaily
URL http://www.mathdaily.com/
Sample http://www.mathdaily.com/lessons/Pope
Rating Medium
Details Identical to Wikipedia:Mirrors and forks/Pqr#PhysicsDaily.
Contact info fhq7j5466hwn3jw AT protectfly.com (from privacy-locked WHOIS entry), http://www.registerfly.com/info/contact.php (Registrar contact page), postmaster AT registerfly.com (registrar email address), ibizdns.com (nameserver)
Actions

Maxpedia.org

  • Site: http://www.maxpedia.org
  • Copies the whole article namespace, including images.
  • Mentions Wikipedia and the GFDL; a wap service (edition for a cell phone)
  • As of 15:38, 16 Apr 2005 (UTC)

MB CEO 2.0

MB CEO 2.0 Your informational resource
URL http://www.mbceo.com/
Sample http://www.mbceo.com/sports/more_information.php?c=Montenegro_national_football_team
Rating Low
Details No indication that this site is a huge mirror of Wikipedia at all (that I could find at least).
Contact info
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The Mcfly Network

  • http://www.mcfly.org/en/
  • Run by User:Anthony DiPierro
  • Complete fork of wikipedia.
  • A derivative version under section 4.
  • An aggregation under 5, 6 and 7 of the GFDL.
  • Main page (title page) mentions wikipedia and GFDL

* Individual article pages link back to wikipedia and mention the GFDL

It appears that this is not a fork but a copy. Can someone check this and post here? JesseW 00:48, 13 Oct 2004 (UTC)

  • It was meant to be a fork but not much was ever changed. Ashibaka 18:50, 13 Oct 2004 (UTC)
    • Most of the pages are based on the same wikisource. Deleted pages are generally kept, my parse code is not identical to Wikipedia's (thus resulting in different html output), and a few pages have been altered. Whether this makes it a fork or a mirror according to the GFDL is a legal question which I don't feel I can answer at this time. However, I've tried to be as closely compliant as possible with the GFDL requirements for a fork. In order to do this, I have released the entire site as a single GFDL document, parts of which are aggregated under non-GFDL licenses. anthony 警告 17:39, 23 Nov 2004 (UTC)

If anyone has any suggestions as to how I can be in better compliance with the GFDL, feel free to leave a message on my user talk page. anthony 警告 17:32, 23 Nov 2004 (UTC)

I've only found mention of Wikipedia on the front page. Lotsofissues 12:14, 16 May 2005 (UTC)

(i added the above strikethrough) the site only mentions wikipedia on the main page, it no longer mentions much of anything on the article pages. user:anthony DiPierro has stated on wikipedia talk pages in the past that he links the edit pages back to wikipedia; that policy has obviously changed as i was easily able to find content on mcfly which was added since its forking. it is not clear to me what policy is for this change, but i do think it should be attended to. i also would like to know whether there is a procedure for bringing in some of the changes made on mcfly; i found at least one bit (didnt look around too much) that i would like to have added to an article. i regret that the weakness of my license-fu is keeping me from answering this question myself. Burgher 14:22, 22 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Measuroo


Media UK - "The Knowledge"

Website

MediaWiki powered sub-section of a specialist media website - appears to be mostly original content with some content copied from Wikipedia (i.e. a derivative work), which is acknowledged. All content is apparently licenced under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.0 licence. No mention of the GFDL.

Relevant pages:

Marknew 16:24, 15 July 2005 (UTC)

Medbib.com - "the modern encyclopedia"

Medbib
URL http://www.medbib.com
Sample http://www.medbib.com/Froogle
Rating None
Details Complete, dynamic, remote loading mirror. Does not mention Wikipedia or the GFDL. Appears to have downloaded entire Wikipedia article set using a scraper bot instead of using the database download archive.
Contact info reinhard.f.busch AT web.de (whois), http://schlundtech.de/kontakt/ (host)
Actions Reported by zetawoof to wikitech-l.

www.medicaliterature.com

  • Site: http://www.medicaliterature.com
  • A copy of all Wikipedia pages from October 2004
  • No link to Wikipedia
  • Uses the name Wikipedia
  • Links to a local copy of the GFDL
  • Only the most recent edit is shown in the page history

medlibrary.org

medlibrary.org
URL http://medlibrary.org/medwiki/
Sample http://medlibrary.org/medwiki/List_of_Adelaide_parks_and_gardens
Rating Full compliance
Details Has local GFDL and link to original enwiki URL. There is a page at the same domain with a different path from the medwiki directory (http://medlibrary.org/site-info/index.html) which doesn't mention mediawiki and has a © All Rights Reserved notice in the footer but that does not apply to the WP mirror pages I examined.
Contact info
Actions None

--Jeremyb 05:08, 26 August 2007 (UTC)

meds4dumbbells.com

  • Site: http://meds4dumbbells.com
  • Copies many drug articles verbatim copy&paste style including index , e.g. Codeine, Tramadol, etc.
  • No mention of Wikipedia whatsoever
  • No mention of copyright, except in source code where it claims it for itself
  • No contact info on site. Complaint should be sent to Yahoo by someone who has edited one or more of these articles, which appears to be hosting it judging from the source code (look at bottom)
  • 1st complaint letter about meds4dumbbells.com rejected by Yahoo as I, the sender, have no personal claim to copyright

Memory Alpha

Has some adapted articles about Star Trek and those such as "Welcome, Newcomers". Not a verbatim copy, but is in fact most harmless. We will probably one day be copying articles back from this site, knowing they are in capable hands.
  • links to current version of article, with date & time of copy of article
  • links to GFDL.
Update: Memory Alpha is now under the Creative Commons License; not sure whether there is still Wikipedia content in it. Andre Engels 01:13, 17 Jan 2004 (UTC)
Wikipedia content is still used for user guide and documentation-type pages (example: [77]). We don't use the GFDL anymore (changing early when all pages were by but a few authors who all could agree on the change); based on my reading of the GFDL, I believed that the similar spirit of the GFDL and the Creative Commons License was sufficient. Links to the original Wikipedia pages have been preserved in all cases, anyway. Feedback would be appreciated if there is some potential conflict concerning the licenses. (I am one of the webmasters of Memory Alpha.) -- Dan Carlson 02:40, Feb 8, 2004 (UTC)
Update: Memory Alpha no longer uses duplicates of Wikipedia pages for our policies; we've rewritten or removed copied pages. Listing here should no longer be necessary. -- Dan Carlson 03:51, Apr 11, 2004 (UTC)

metaweb

Seems to be an official wiki of (and I think maybe run by) author Neal Stephenson

midimacman.com

milliondollaridea.com

  • Site: milliondollaridea.com
  • Example: [80]
  • No attribution
  • No GFDL notice
  • Only copyright information is their site's copyright; their Legal Notice link makes no mention of Wikipedia or the GFDL
  • Appears to be geared toward search engine link spam (also has ads, which is fine)
  • down as of 8/4/06 --Utopianfiat 19:42, 4 August 2006 (UTC)

mind42

  • Site: www.mind42.com aimed at selling mind mapping software
  • Example: www.mind42.com/wiki/Mathematics
  • States at start "From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia"
  • States at end "Retrieved from "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathematics"" as link to original article
  • No obvious mention of GFDL
  • Sent an email requesting full compliance on 4/16/08 --Bfigura (talk) 18:57, 16 April 2008 (UTC)
  • Response indicates that a change to full compliance will be rolled out shortly. Will upgrade status when that happens. --Bfigura (talk) 23:30, 21 April 2008 (UTC)

Ministry of External Affairs of India

Ministry of External Affairs of India
URL http://mea.gov.in
Sample http://mea.gov.in/foreignrelation/01fr02.pdf
Rating Low/None
Details No mention of Wikipedia or GFDL. Credited to Embassy of India Belgrade.
Contact info usxps AT mea.gov.in
Actions No action taken.

mirrorpedia

  • Site: mirrorpedia.com
  • Example: mirrorpedia.com/wiki/Mathematics
  • Fork from around October/November 2006 but with broken code
  • States "Content is available under GNU Free Documentation License 1.2." with link to GFDL at gnu.org
  • No obvious link to article or Wikipedia

mistyped.info

MochaCity.com

MochaRadio.com - The Hottest Hip Hop ...
URL http://mochacity.com/
Sample http://radio.mochacity.com/artist/207/alicia-keys
Rating Low/None
Details Page has no mention of Wikipedia, and in fact asserts own copyright. Other pages link to Wikipedia, but do not mention where the text is from: [81]
Contact info James Lincoln
jhustle75 AT yahoo.com;
818-522-5440 (registered through godaddy).
Other contact information here: [82].
Actions

Patstuarttalk·edits 03:18, 25 March 2007 (UTC)

MOCpages

mocpages.com
URL http://www.molinu.com
Sample http://www.mocpages.com/moc.php/15815
Rating Low
Details This page is completely lifted from Mitsubishi_Zero. Claims authorship.
Contact info
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Molinu

Molinu
URL http://www.molinu.com
Sample http://en.molinu.com/Bill%20Clinton/3356/0
Rating High
Details Multilingual mirror that is supposedly more accessible to mobile devices. Links to original article and offsite GFDL.
Contact info support AT molinu.com
Actions
  • This site claims a copyright at the bottom of every page, e.g. [83]. Not sure what to do about this. --W.marsh 20:30, 6 June 2006 (UTC)

Mon-photo.com

  • http://www.mon-photo.com/ "Fotos del mundo - Photos from around the world"
  • English and Spanish versions: most pages are copied directly from English and Spanish Wikipedias
  • Some pages have links to main page of English and Spanish Wikipedias; others don't
  • No link to source article; no mention of GFDL -- ran (talk) 07:35, 6 December 2005 (UTC)

MoodBook.com

moono.com

moono.com
URL http://www.moono.com
Sample http://www.moono.com/html/morena-baccarin/morena-baccarin-biography.cfm (see Morena Baccarin)
Rating Low/None
Details Copy of wikipedia articles without mention of GFDL or wikipedia. Claims copyright.
Contact info
Actions

--StYxXx 16:32, 23 June 2006 (UTC)


Mondo Latino

Mondo Latino
URL http://www.mondolatino.eu
Sample http://www.mondolatino.eu/arte/pintores/joaquintorresgarcia.php
Rating Low
Details Credits Wikipedia, but does not comply with GFDL The original of the sample articles is es:Joaquín Torres García.
Contact info The page http://www.mondolatino.eu does have a way to leave them a message
Actions

Morelawinfo.com

  • http://www.morelawinfo.com/index.php
  • Copies many Wikiedia articles on law and other subjects, such as corporations (Airborne Express copied at [85]).
  • Copying isn't very up-to-date. The article on the Supreme Court of the United States (at [86]) includes a typo ("which concisely summaries the case") that was corrected by this edit to our article almost a year ago.
  • At this writing, the Morelawinfo home page features a copy of our Murphy's law article, but perhaps they rotate.
  • Absolutely no compliance. No link, no mention of Wikipedia, no mention of GFDL. Each article has a "credits" link at the bottom but it's a dead link. JamesMLane 00:44, 6 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Motorcycle Accessories

  • Site: http://www.x-moto.net/articles/.
  • Sample article: Maria Skłodowska-Curie
  • No link to Wikipedia article, though Wikipedia is mentioned (This article is from Wikipedia.).
  • Link to local copy of GFDL (All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.).
  • Claims copyright of content (Copyright © 2004 - 2005 www.x-moto.net).
  • It seems to copy from all namespaces, not just articles (this, for example, is my user page).
  • Does not show images, not even on the image's article (for example, our logo should be here).
  • It seems to do a live copy from our articles.
  • Standard letter sent by me to contact address: contact AT x-moto.net.

-Fibonacci 13:10, 25 May 2005 (UTC)

Moviezen

moviezen
URL http://www.moviezen.com/
Sample http://www.moviezen.com/celebrity/brittany-murphy
Rating "Low/None" compliance with GFDL (matches Wikipedia:GFDL Compliance).
Details All celebrity pages that I viewed used content from Wikipedia without indicating license of GFDL or source of content.
Contact info support AT moviezen.com
Actions None by me.

Site's copyright policy is noted here and terms of service here. Neither indicate that their content is available under the GFDL, nor the source of their content (including text and images). Content appears to have been copied wholesale from Wikipedia but may possibly be the result of individual contributions. I have not attempted to contact website. --Yamla (talk) 17:49, 16 April 2008 (UTC)

MrSci.com

  • Site: http://www.mrsci.com
  • Sample article: Vermiform appendix
  • No link to Wikipedia article.
  • Wikipedia is not mentioned.
  • No reference to GFDL.
  • Claims copyright of content (© MrSci.com. All Rights Reserved).
  • Does not show images for articles.
  • Does not appear to be a live mirror.
  • No e-mail address is given on their website, but their domain is through GoDaddy and was registered by Domains By Proxy.
  • Standard letter sent by me to contact address given in whois query (MRSCI.COM AT domainsbyproxy.com).
  • Domains By Proxy also takes complaints about their clients by postal mail [87].

--David Iberri (talk) 22:47, 12 January 2006 (UTC)

  • Comment:most of the stuff on this site appears to be lifted from en.wikipedia.org without mentioning wikipedia and claiming their own copyright. Alex.tan 00:40, 13 January 2006 (UTC)

mrscienceguy.com

  • site: mrscienceguy.com
  • Samples: As near as I can tell the bio's of the people (chemists, etc) are copies of the corresponding wikipedia articles from between the June 20, 2004 and July 10th 2004. Compare the following:
  • Claims copyright of content (Copyright © 2005 mrscienceguy.com All Rights Reserved)
  • Wayback machine reports no articles on this prior to 2005, so unlikely that wikipedia could have copied from them.

I have no idea what should be done here. I'd appreciate extra eyeballs to make sure I'm not making a n00b mistake. Wikibofh 23:09, 15 Jun 2005 (UTC)


mtjlcs.com

mtjlcs.com
URL www.mtjlcs.com
Sample http://al37.mtjlcs.com/scientiaestpotentia.html
Rating Low/None.
Details Site is designed to spam google with a jumble of keywords extracted from various sources, including Wikipedia - the sample page took content from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Marlowe
Contact info Everyones Internet, tel: +1-713-579-2850, e-mail: abuse AT ev1servers.net
Actions

Muppetpastor 3.0

Muppetpastor
URL http://www.muppetpastor.org/
Sample http://www.muppetpastor.org/?p=40 (uses Venetian Snares, New Radicals and Ann Danielewski)
Rating Low
Details Says blog is under GFDL and that material comes from Wikipedia. Does not say what material, however, and there are no direct links or history sections. Also, there is no link to the GFDL.
Contact info jeff AT dreamhost.com (DMCA agent for host)
Actions Left message on blog asking for him to email me (whois email address invalid). Superm401 - Talk 09:36, 22 January 2006 (UTC)

muraroa

muraroa
URL http://www.muraroa.demon.co.uk/
Sample http://www.muraroa.demon.co.uk/
Rating "Low/None"
Details all info on compression algorithms seems to be copied from WP articles
Contact info
Actions none

Music is Everywhere

Music is Everywhere
URL http://musikkita.wordpress.com/
Sample http://musikkita.wordpress.com/2007/03/02/
Rating "Low/None"
Details Seems to copy portions of articles without attribution. Compare the section of the 2007/03/02 page with our article on Sweet Sacrifice, and portions of http://musikkita.wordpress.com/2007/03/13/western-single-67-2007/ to Wait_For_You_(Elliott_Yamin_song)
Contact info
Actions None.

Musictnt.com

Danceage
URL http://music.musictnt.com/
Sample http://music.musictnt.com/biography/Alicia_Keys.html http://music.musictnt.com/biography/Alicia_Keys.html
Rating "Low"
Details Makes clear mention of Wikipedia though with broken link to original page, but no mention of GFDL, and is using WP bandwidth for images. Also states "Copyright © 2004 Danceage.com . All rights reserved. "
Contact info Contact us page.

Rahmati, Dariush webmaster AT danceage.com 16666779234 (United Arab Emirates) (source: [91])

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Music VF

  • Site: www.musicvf.com/index.php
  • Example: http://www.musicvf.com/Cliff+Richard.bio
  • Ends with: An article from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia, distributed under GFDL (authors) To view the original version of this article or to improve Wikipedia, just follow this link with links to en:Main Page, GFDL at gnu.org, history of original article and current version of original article

mvlife.com

  • Site: http://www.mvlife.com/a11/index2.php?title=Main_Page

myadvertisers.com

  • Site: http://www.myadvertisers.com/wiki/Main_Page
  • All namespaces.
  • No mention of Wikipedia.
  • No mention of GFDL.
  • Main page dates is March 21, 2005.
  • Admin contacted. Waiting for reply.
  • 23:18, 15 January 2006 (UTC)

Mybenches.com

  • Site: http://www.mybenches.com/articles/.
  • Sample article: Brachistochrone problem.
  • No link to Wikipedia article, though Wikipedia is mentioned (This article is from Wikipedia.).
  • Link to GFDL (All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.).
  • Claims copyright of content (Copyright © 2004 www.mybenches.com).
  • It seems to copy from all namespaces, not just articles (this, for example, is my user page).
  • Does not show images, not even on the image's article (for example, our logo should be here).
  • It seems to copy from our articles on a daily basis - not a live copy, but not outdated for more than a day, either.
  • Does not seem to provide contact information (I didn't find it, at least).

-Fibonacci 03:21, 11 May 2005 (UTC)

  • Still has much of the problems above, but at least they added a link back to the Wikipedia article... Wcquidditch | Talk 11:52, 8 November 2005 (UTC)

Myoutofcontrolteen

Out of control teen
URL http://www.myoutofcontrolteen.com
Sample http://www.myoutofcontrolteen.com/mr-tourette.html and other pages on site should be examined
Rating Low/None
Details No mention whatsoever that text was taken from Wikipedia article Tourette syndrome.
Contact info Mark Hutten, M.A., Online Parent Support, Madison County Juvenile Probation, Madison Superior Court, Division 2, 3420 Mounds Road, Anderson, Indiana 46017-1873 Toll Free: (856) 457-4883 Cell: (765) 635-9037 Email: mbhutten AT gmail.com
Actions none SandyGeorgia (Talk) 16:55, 16 October 2007 (UTC)

My Wiki

  • 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

MyWiseOwl.com

  • Site: www.mywiseowl.com
  • Mirror of the full English wikipedia. Including images.
  • Example article http://www.mywiseowl.com/articles/Baden%2C_Switzerland)
  • Clear link to our copy of the text of the GFDL
  • Link (called 'live article') to our copy of the article, at the bottom.
  • Seems to be high degree of compliance.
  • verified 20:15, 6 Apr 2005 (UTC) by 20:17, 6 Apr 2005 (UTC)~
Advertising is a mix of money making google text adds, and also 'public service' ads. Interestingly they're also spending money on google ad words e.g. 'Integration Testing'.

- Nojer2 11:33, 28 Feb 2005 (UTC)

www.mywikipedia.us

| action = no actions taken

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Namibia Internet Gateway

  • Site: Namibia Internet Gateway
  • A bit of lookup shows that this is hosted at 64.151.72.220 which belongs to the ISP ServePath.com in San Francisco - let your takedowns roll 28 Sep 2004
  • mirror of Wikipedia, but not with correct backlinking.---Dittaeva 08:47, 8 Aug 2004 (UTC)
  • Mentions GFDL but 'unbelivibly' links to a oscommerce site "Welcome to your Online Pharmacist" instead of the licence!!!
  • I checked this today 18/9/04 and it now links to a Nuke site -- my guess is its some kind of spam link device --82.43.209.114 18:47, 18 Sep 2004 (UTC)
  • Needs action! --Davelane 21:52, 17 Sep 2004 (UTC)

--Davelane 21:52, 17 Sep 2004 (UTC)

  • also see: http://www.namweb.com.na/wiki/wiki.phtml?title=Main+Page namibweb
  • No link to Wikipedia article
  • no link to GFDL
  • No contact information
  • Example - University of Delaware
  • Standard letter sent by: ?
  • http://www.namweb.com.na/wiki/wiki.phtml?title=Main%20Page
  • Appears to be a complete dump of Wikipedia taken at the end of March 2004. The site appears to have been operational since early April 2004. The site includes user pages and the pages fully editable with the exception of the standard protected pages. No mention of GNU Free Documentation License, instead it states "The site is Sponcored (sic) by Namibia Internet Gateway OaSyS, AfricaLinks, NamWeb, NIG". Judging by recent changes the site appears to be attracting a few vandals.
    • Wikipedia users seem to be disappearing. The pages are still there. [ alerante | “” 00:19, 18 Apr 2004 (UTC) ]
      • I can't find any Wikipedia content there anymore. Amaurea 10:16, 7 February 2006 (UTC)

Nationmaster

(basically all wikipedia articles)

  • Not a verbatim copy, because the copyright statement from the printed version has been modified, both the text, size of text, and location.

Database was downloaded about February 15 2005; comments are based on article http://www.nationmaster.com/encyclopedia/Warsaw-Uprising but appear to apply to all other articles

The copyright notice at the bottom of each page states

"Copyright NationMaster.com 2003-2005. All Rights Reserved. Usage implies agreement with terms."

  • incorrectly attributes copyright
  • restrictions beyond those permitted by the GFDL ("all rights reserved")
  • restricts usage of material which is not permitted by the GFDL.
  • breaches "D. Preserve all the copyright notices of the Document." of GFDL terms for distribution of modified documents

The copyright notice links twice to a set of terms. These terms include the following

NationMaster.com holds copyright on all aspects of this site (including but not limited to content and layout), with the exception of the text from articles taken from Wikipedia and where copyrights are held by our sources.

Which means that it should partly be ignored, however the term

By using this site, you agree to the following terms and conditions

interacts with the term

You may not replicate, modify, reproduce, publish, distribute, display or transmit any portion of this web site, except as permitted in this document.

to form a breach of the GFDL.

The terms (but not the article) do link both to Wikipedia and the content disclaimer, but not to the Wikipedia copyright terms.

  • there is no copy of or link to the GFDL
  • there is no attribution to the original author of the document
  • there is no link to the original document.

Images may have a better condition, e.g. http://www.nationmaster.com/encyclopedia/Image:Uprising-kotwica.jpg shows the correct GFDL link, however, even this fails since the user page link does not work as expected.


This site seems to have nearly cleaned up its act. The disclaimer at the bottom of articles now reads:

The Wikipedia article included on this page is licensed under the GFDL.
Images may be subject to relevant owners' copyright.
All other elements are (c) copyright NationMaster.com 2003-5. All Rights Reserved.
Usage implies agreement with terms.

"Wikipedia" is linked to the equivalent Wikipedia article. "GFDL" is linked to GNU's What Is Copyleft? page, which is probably not compliant (they should have a copy of the GFDL on their site, or at least a direct link to the text) but pretty close. Gwalla | Talk 05:21, 28 May 2005 (UTC)

As of 27 July 2005, the Copyright notice still links to "Terms and Conditions" which says:

Terms and Conditions

By using this site, you agree to the following terms and conditions:

NationMaster.com holds copyright on all aspects of this site (including but not limited to content and layout), with the exception of the text from articles taken from Wikipedia and where copyrights are held by our sources.

You may not use any robot, spider or any automated or manual device to monitor or copy any aspect of this site (including content) without the NationMaster.com prior permission, unless your purpose is to index the content for a traditional search engine (eg. Google, Teoma, etc). You may not replicate, modify, reproduce, publish, distribute, display or transmit any portion of this web site, except as permitted in this document.

You are permitted to quote no more than 20 individual figures (eg. US GDP per capita, Andorran life expectancy, etc) or lines of text from this site, provided you provide a link back to a valid page at NationMaster.com. You may not copy graphs, maps, scatterplots, etc.

If you would like permission to quote the data in another way, or to make an enquiry about licensing, please contact us.

You are free to link to any page on the site, without needing to seek permission.

which rather implies restriction on the GDFL rights, but each page from wikipedia seems to have proper acknowledgement. DES 21:21, 27 July 2005 (UTC)


NBC.com

NBC's official website, specifically, their Heroes Wiki
URL http://boards.nbc.com/nbc/wiki/index.php
Sample http://boards.nbc.com/nbc/wiki/index.php/Claire_Bennet
Rating None
Details NBC runs an offical Wiki for their show, Heroes. Pages here seem to use Wikipedia articles, inculding much about the characters, with no acknowledgment of any kind.
Contact info webmaster AT nbc.com
Actions Standard letter sent, awaiting reply.--Fyre2387 (talkcontribs) 22:55, 10 March 2007 (UTC)

Nebulasearch.com

  • Site: Nebulasearch.com
  • Mentions and links to the GFDL
  • Acknowledges Wikipedia authorship
  • Links to source wikipedia article

Neighborhoodscout.com

Verbatim excerpts from Wikipedia articles (examples: [92], [93], [94]...). Don't see any credit given to Wikipedia or GFDL terms. They have the pages marked at the bottom with "Copyright© 2001-2005 Location Inc Group".

Netencyclo

  • Homepage: www.netencyclo.com
  • Example: www.netencyclo.com/en/Albania mirrored from Albania
  • Multilingual, but underlying appears French
  • Starts: Your continued donations keep Wikipedia running! with link to http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Fundraising then main heading Netencyclo, The wikipedia mirror - The biggest multilingual encyclopedia
  • Ends: © 2007 Netencyclo ... Netencyclo, the Wikipedia mirror : the biggest multilingual free-content encyclopedia on the Internet. All Wikipedia content is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License (see details)... with link to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Copyrights
  • No obvious link to original article or history
  • As of 12:48, 1 May 2007 (UTC), SE16

Netipedia

netipedia.com Copy of Wikipedia articles. They use the Wikipedia name. They removed all community related articles, talk pages, and GFDL terms.

No history, author information, or link to wikipedia.org or any related site seem present. DES 21:23, 27 July 2005 (UTC)

User pages are included. Alphax τεχ 03:49, 24 February 2006 (UTC)


New World Encyclopedia

New World Encyclopedia
URL http://www.newworldencyclopedia.org/
Sample http://www.newworldencyclopedia.org/preview/Francisco_Su%C3%A1rez from Francisco Suárez
Rating Medium
Details Has notice "All credit for producing the original text goes to the WikiMedia Foundation and its selfless team of volunteer contributors. It was copied here in compliance with the GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL). Any changes made to the original text since then create a derivative work which is also GFDL licensed. (Please note the current version here and at Wikipedia diverge over time. Check the edit history here and there for details.) " Broken link to local GFDL article, and working link to offsite GFDL in standard MediaWiki footer. All articles are vetted by paid editors, most with PhD's in their subject. Project started partially by User:Ed Poor.
Contact info User:Ed Poor
Actions Contacted Ed Poor about GFDL issue. Superm401 - Talk 07:09, 31 January 2007 (UTC)

newsfilter.co.uk

Research requested. JesseW 22:20, 18 July 2005 (UTC)

Seems to give full content of wikipedia articles. Indicates source is wikipedia and content is under the GDFL with a proper link, and each article links to the corresponding article on wikipedia. Seems to be just a dump of wikipedia as of a fixed (but unspecified) date with advertisements added at top and bottom. DES 21:43, 27 July 2005 (UTC)

New York City Model

  • Site newyorkcitymodel.com
  • Some (but not all) of their "Famous Supermodels" articles seem to be derived from Wikipedia content; this has come to lighgt as a result of Elona Bojaxhi and Bridget Hall being tagged as copyvios from there. However there are earlier versions of these articles whch differ from the newyorkcitymodel.com pages in small details.
  • Does not link back to Wikipedia or acknowledge authorship as far as I can tell.
  • Their legal notice is quite interesting - copyright reserved, and asserts Moroccan jurisdiction (the domain is indeed registered to a Moroccan company).
  • Standard letter not yet sent. --rbrwr± 20:02, 31 Dec 2004 (UTC)

New Wikipedia

  • Site: Newwikipedia.info
  • appears to be Polish, copyied everything from articles to wikipedia pages (including admin lists)
  • They use the Wikipedia trademark

--Timish ¤ Gül Bahçesi 12:34, 5 May 2008 (UTC)

Nextdaywatches.com

NextDayWatches.com
URL http://www.nextdaywatches.com/main.php?act=product&pid=2245&ngid=1
Sample Above URL from G-Shock
Rating None
Details Text used almost verbatim, no copyright notice except a generic one at the bottom of the site design.
Contact info
Actions

Nexuscience.com

UPDATE: Account suspended? Appears to be offline. - RoyBoy [] 03:48, 10 Feb 2005 (UTC)

  • Site: Nexuscience.com
  • Links to original article, by each article title
  • Links to more recent Wikipedia articles which had been found at the time of compilation are on each page, by way of link?
  • Links to local copy of GNU/FDL on every page, including main page
  • Pages which contain original Wikipedia articles state 'From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia'. A link to the main page of Wikipedia is included in addition to a link to the original article.
  • Bottom of main page states 'All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, copyright Wikipedia contributors'
  • The compilation as a whole on CD is stated to be licensed under the GNU/FDL in the installation license and in the readme.txt file

NicheCreator.com

Sample NicheCreator Site (not url)
URL http://www.nichecreator.com/sample/
Sample http://www.nichecreator.com/sample/index.php?k=rootkit
Rating Low/None
Details Contains a link to the original article, but has no mention of the GFDL.
Contact info ISP: ServerBeach at http://www.serverbeach.com/. Admin: Steve Oliphant at steveo AT crecon.com
Actions None.


Nigerian Nation

  • Site: nigeriannation.com
  • Uses Wikipedia articles
  • Uses Wikipedia style sheet, but the logo is changed
  • Does not mention GFDL
  • Does not link back to Wikipedia or acknowledge authorship
  • Standard letter not yet sent.


No-Gambling.com

  • Site: No-Gambling.com
  • Does not acknowledge wikipedia authorship
  • Does not state that the article is licensed under the GNU FDL.
  • Does not link to the relevant wikipedia page (or wikipedia at all)
  • Example: [95] from Shuffling playing cards
  • Standard letter sent. --snoyes 17:17, 13 Jan 2004 (UTC)

Now mentions Wikipedia prominently, links to Wikipedia main page, and GNU/FDL license at gnu.org. Andre Engels 01:19, 17 Jan 2004 (UTC)

www.nobslinks.com

  • Site: http://www.nobslinks.com
  • For some reason, the site has only a few unlinked copies of Wikipedia articles on Nobel Prize winners. I can only find this site through google, does not seem to be linked to by any other site.
  • Does not acknowledge wikipedia authorship
  • Does not state that the article is licensed under the GNU FDL.
  • Does not link to the relevant wikipedia page (or wikipedia at all)
  • Example: http://www.nobslinks.com/chemistry-npw/links/curie-marie.htm
  • No email address on site, will try webmaster AT nobslinks.com, etc. KWH 21:23, 2 September 2006 (UTC)

Nodeworks Encyclopedia

  • Site: Nodeworks Encyclopedia
  • Links to Wikipedia (but not individual article) on each page
  • Links to local copy of GNU/FDL on every page
  • Example article
  • Bottom of main page states 'This article is from Wikipedia. All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License. '
  • No history section.
  • Medium compliance.

Non-violence.org

  • Site: Non-violence.org
  • Uses Wikipedia articles
  • Mention of GFDL
  • Link to Wikipedia

NOPAC Talent

NOPAC Talent
URL http://www.nopactalent.com
Sample http://www.nopactalent.com/speakers/Herschel-Walker/2633 contains text from Herschel Walker, specifically revision 57423888, including the bogus single-season record of 2500 yards from the end of the USFL section.
Rating Low/None
Details No mention of or link to Wikipedia or GFDL. Claims copyright NOPAC Talent, all rights reserved.
Contact info From "Contact Us" Page: info AT nopactalent.com

WHOIS Admin Contact: Plotkin, Adam adam AT nopasports.com

Actions

www.northcyprustravel.eu

North Cyprus Travel
URL http://www.northcyprustravel.eu/
Sample http://www.northcyprustravel.eu/places_to_see.html contains text and images from many articles including Antiphonitis and Salamis, Cyprus
Rating
Details No mention of wikipedia or gfdl. In fact claims copyright "Copyright 2006. www.northcyprustravel.eu"
Contact info admin AT northcyprustravel.eu

WHOIS northcyprustravel.eu:
Michael Gamble
80 watergate lane
LE3 2XP leicester
Leicester, UK
+447788558615
tom.gamble AT ntlworld.com

Actions emailed both contact emails on 2007-05-25

North Texas e-News

  • Site: [96]
    • On this day page with every link on interior of page to a wikipedia article
  • Noncompliant - © Copyright 2002-2005 by North Texas e-News, llc

Notfah.com

  • Site: www.notfah.com
  • Seems to run a mediawiki installation with a text copy of Wikipedia. No images.
  • No copyright notice, mention of the GFDL
  • No mention of Wikipedia (except on the main page, which is our one without the templates)
    • Sent a standard letter to the owner (in Cairo, Egypt!). -- WB 08:05, 15 January 2006 (UTC)
      • According to the admin, he will change that in the next update. So wait. -- WB 23:20, 15 January 2006 (UTC)
  • Mirror was taken down by the owner. 10:40, 25 March 2006 (UTC)

Novamobile.net

  • Site: www.novamobile.net
  • The article on Base Station Subsystem here [97] is a cut and pasted copy of this version of the Wikipedia page. The version on their site has the date 2006-06-18, it even has a copy of the expand tag.
  • No mention of Wikipedia or GFDL. Article says "Author : Raveex" on one of the first lines which is clearly not the case and as such a violation of gfdl.
  • Most articles (at least the ones I checked) listed here are cut and pasted from Wikipedia and claim the same author.
  • No action taken. - 130.233.243.229 11:02, 26 October 2006 (UTC)
    • Email. --F. Cosoleto 12:25, 4 December 2006 (UTC)
      • Now "Author: Raveex" is replaced with "Author: Wikipedia". --F. Cosoleto 23:05, 6 December 2006 (UTC)

Now Try Us

  • Site: www.nowtryus.com
  • Example: www.nowtryus.com/article:Partial_differential_equation
  • States: "From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia"
  • No obvious link to Wikipedia or to original article
  • States: "All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License." with link to GFDL at gnu.org

O

www.objectssearch.com encyclopedia

Appears to be a complete clone of the en: Wikipedia.

  • mentions Wikipedia at foot of page, with link back to www.wikipedia.org
  • mentions GFDL, links to GNU online copy
  • no link back to Wikipedia source article: this needs fixing

Objectssearch Encyclopedia - 'the free encyclopedia'

  • Site: Objectssearch Encyclopedia - 'the free encyclopedia'
  • Only links back to en.wikipedia.org, does not link back to original article.
  • Mentions GFDL, linking to GNU.org.
  • This site is stealing Wikipedia bandwidth. When looking up an article, the script get.jsp queries the en.wikipedia.org server realtime , strips the result down to the text alone and places it its own page. Evidence: I tested various pages that I knew had changed very recently (not more than two hours ago), e.g. Tuareg languages. They all returned the most recent version.
  • The best example is of course looking up the main page: [98]!
  • Needs action. Probably standard letter is not enough. Someone who is more fluent and eloquent than I am in English, please help. - Mark Dingemanse (talk) 21:32, 30 Oct 2004 (UTC)

Objectsspace.com

objectsspace.com
URL http://www.objectsspace.com/encyclopedia/index.php/Main_Page
Sample http://www.objectsspace.com/encyclopedia/index.php/User:Thorpe
Rating Low
Details
  • All namespaces.
  • Almost direct copy of Wikipedia with ads.
  • Mentions Wikipedia only because that's how it's set up.
  • Non-edittable.
  • No link to the original article.
Contact info
Actions Replied by host/ISP. DMCA notice required. -- WB 01:04, 20 January 2006 (UTC)

oceanru.com

Travel Wiki
URL http://oceanru.com/travel
Sample http://oceanru.com/travel/SN_Brussels_Airlines
Rating Low/None
Details
  • Direct copy of some travel-related Wikipedia articles.
  • No easily visible mention of Wikipedia.
  • No link to the original article.
Contact info
Actions

Ogarnij.info

Ogarnij.info
URL http://organij.info
Sample http://human.en.ogarnij.info/en/They+Might+Be+Giants
Rating Medium
Details "The Wikipedia (www.wikipedia.org) articles included on this page are licensed under the GFDL. Images may be subject to relevant owners' copyright." Links to copy of GFDL rather than copy of GFDL. Example has at least 10 different articles in their entirety on it.
Contact info pch AT qwe.pl, info AT pazwa.pl, +48.124244010 no other valid phone number given (unless 123456789 is a valid phone number) domain registered in Poland
Actions None so far. I'm not entirely sure what would need to be done.

OmniKnow

  • Site: OmniKnow
  • Credits Wikipedia and links to original in each article.
  • Links to GFDL (on gnu.org) on every page.
  • Example
  • (bonus!) Links to Wikimedia fundraising page from each article.
  • No history section.
  • Medium compliance.

Omnipelagos

<Omnipelagos>
URL Omnipelagos.com
Sample http://www.omnipelagos.com/entry?n=wikipedia
Rating Medium
Details Credits Wikipedia and links to GFDL article (not text) on pages featuring full articles. Home page (which contains clippings from articles) does not mention the GFDL or Wikipedia and includes the footnote "© 2005 Omnipelagos.com".
Contact info Steven Hugg, feedback AT omnipelagos.com, +1.7036244251
Actions

Onelang - Encyclopedia & Reference

  • Site: Onelang - Encyclopedia & Reference
  • links to GFDL and credits Wikipedia
    • Seems to be GFDL/GPL confusion in the link
  • exact copy of Wikipedia as seen here
    • Some formatting issues and some articles missing (e.g. Albania)
    • No link to original article
    • Articles end with "This article uses material from Wikipedia and is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License" with link to local copy of Wikipedia article about GNU General Public License rather than GFDL (or GPL) itself --Henrygb 12:07, 2 December 2005 (UTC)

onelook.com

  • Site: onelook.com
  • The first part (ca. 230 characters, sometimes less) of basically each article
  • almost certainly fair use
  • link to current full version of the article
  • link to GFDL on acknowledgments page
  • contact form

Online-encyclopedia.info

Online-encyclopedia.info
URL http://online-encyclopedia.info
Sample http://online-encyclopedia.info/encyclopedia/a/as/astronomy.html
Rating {{{rating}}}
Details
  • All namespaces.
  • Almost direct copy of Wikipedia with ads.
  • Mentions Wikipedia only because that's how it's set up.
  • Non-edittable.
  • No link to the original article.
Contact info
  • sales AT mixedart.com (Peter Lukic; no replies)
  • online AT online-encycopedia.info (no replies)
  • contact AT 247-host.com (DNS; any relevance?)
  • abuse AT theplanet.com (ISP)
  • admins AT theplanet.com (ISP)
Actions I added this back as info was removed --Davelane 17:01, 4 Oct 2004 (UTC)
  • Main page links to Wikipedia and to GFDL (local)
  • Has Contact Info: Contact: online at online-encycopedia.info
  • No mentioning of Wikipedia --Davelane 17:01, 4 Oct 2004 (UTC)
  • Has a misleading "Copyright © 2004, Online-Encyclopedia.info" above the mentioning of GFDL
  • Each page now says "Content from wikipedia.org is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License"
  • Example - Psychology

Owner seems to be updating this page so to summerise requirements...

  • Each page needs to link to the original article
  • Each page needs to link to the GFDL and wikipedia

Thanks for taking notice of this -- I will leave this here for now, but i will move it in a couple of weeks out of low... --Davelane 11:38, 5 Oct 2004 (UTC)

Thank you. I will make the changes. I purchased this site from another individual and was unaware of the requirements. I do not wish to violate any guidelines set by the great effort by wikipedia.

Changes seem to have reverted back so leaving in low for now --Davelane 19:24, 20 Oct 2004 (UTC)

  • So, to summarize, as of Oct 20, 2004:

** Still only the sentence "Content from wikipedia.org is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License". ** No link to Wikipedia, let alone a direct link to the original Wikipedia article ** No link to the GFDL; fulltext of the license not available. - Mark Dingemanse (talk) 20:24, 20 Oct 2004 (UTC)

What are you talking about? NO changes have reverted back. Everything you mention above is and has been present for several weeks?

I had a quick look and I can't see a link back to the original article etc, the only link to wikipedia I saw was on the front page which is a lot better then some sites here -- have a look at the main mirrors and forks page, Regards --Davelane 16:23, 29 Oct 2004 (UTC)

OK, everything should be right on every page. Please advise.

Yup, Each page now contains:

Content from wikipedia.org is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License

Can safely be moved to medium

No link to original wikipedia article as of yet

Thanks for your assistance --Davelane 00:18, 18 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Moved to medium. JesseW 10:00, 20 Nov 2004 (UTC)

While the site does say "Content from wikipedia.org is..." nowhere does it say what content that is; i.e. that all of the text(AFAIK) in the encyclopedia articles is "content from wikipedia.org". This should be clarified. Also, links back to specific articles are still needed. JesseW 10:00, 20 Nov 2004 (UTC)

100% noncompliance whatever gains were made have been rescinded - no GFDL or wikipedia mention even Lotsofissues 12:22, 16 May 2005 (UTC)

As of 27 July 2005 there is a statemetn on their main page that Content from wikipedia.org is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License which links to wikipedia.org, but their links lead to pages that seem to be assempeld from multiple wikipedia pages on related topics. There is no acknowledgement on these pages that the content comes from wikipedia, no mention of the GFDL, and no link to wikipedia much less to the individual articles. Also thre is no history or acknoledgement of contributors. The copy of wikipedia used seems to be significantly out of date. DES 21:59, 27 July 2005 (UTC)

Still no links to, or mention of, wikipedia on any page except the front page. Time to get a little more insistent? --Spudtater 23:35, 30 October 2005 (UTC)

  • Admin contacted again. Waiting for reply. No replies. Time for ISP contacting.
  • As of 01:51, 18 January 2006 (UTC)

Online Prescription Medication Dictionary

Online Prescription Medication Dictionary
URL http://www.prescriptiondrug-info.com/drug_information_online.asp
Sample http://www.prescriptiondrug-info.com/drug_information_online.asp?title=Wikipedia
Rating None
Details Seems to scrape an exact copy of WP page. Links to GDFL and original Wikipedia page.
Contact info None given.
Actions


OnlineSeats.com

A ticket agency! I found [99], from our Duran Duran article, but spot-checks on other artist bios do not seem to be from WP. Perhaps they copied from another DD fansite who uses our material. On further research: it looks like they allow site users to upload bios and links. What should be done?

  • "Copyright 2004 © - Onlineseats" - no mention of Wikipedia or GFDL anywhere. Policy and Terms here -- Copyright Policy We will terminate the privileges of any user who uses this Site to unlawfully transmit copyrighted material without a license express consent, valid defense or fair use exemption to do so, but doesn't indicate whether they will remove or credit infringing materials. [[User:CatherineMunro|Catherine\talk]] 21:50, 30 Nov 2004 (UTC)

onlyidol.com and juiceenewsdaily.com

onlyidol.com and juiceenewsdaily.com
URL http://onlyidol.com/index.php/category/american-idol

http://www.juiceenewsdaily.com/

Sample http://onlyidol.com/index.php/2006/01/14/all-about-american-idol/
http://www.juiceenewsdaily.com/index.php/2006/01/04/all-about-american-idol
Rating {{{rating}}}
Details
  • This guy has taken articles on Wikipedia on the television program American Idol, as well as bios of the contestants from Wikipedia, and created a website which is chock full of advertising links. He uses his own byline, and copyrights the material to himself.
  • Copyright © 2005 Only Idol. All rights reserved.
  • Only Idol is published by Landon Howell and is owned by Bamassippi Media Group.
  • There is no mention of Wikipedia on the site. He has reorganized the American Idol entry into smaller segments: a main article, and shorter separate pages on individual seasons. He also includes biographies of contestants taken from Wikipedia. There is, as far as I can tell, not a single original word about American Idol on the site. It is all taken from Wikipedia. I e-mailed site owner Landon Howell months ago with a link to the GFDL, and he said he'd look into making his site compliant. Obviously he has not, but, rather, has expanded his site with further rip-offs from Wikipedia. He even seems to try to keep up-to-date with changes in the entries over time. The site is absolutely jam-packed with advertising links, so the guy is making a pretty penny off the work of others. I just made a comment directly on his site, but it may be screened out by him. I also linked this site in the Wikipedia talk pages of the main American Idol entry, and several of the bios of contestants which were used by onlyidol.com. I have also written to him via e-mail, using one of the suggested templates linked here. -Jmh123 15:36, 14 January 2006 (UTC)
  • Same guy, different site: juiceenewsdaily
  • The same set of articles appear to be on this site as well. Again with ample advertising on the site.
  • Published by Landon Howell and is owned by Bamassippi Media Group.
  • *Copyright © 2005 Juicee News Daily. All rights reserved.
Contact info
  • JuiceMaster AT juiceenewsdaily.com (admin)
  • juiceenews AT yahoo.com (admin)
  • network-abuse AT cc.yahoo-inc.com (requires the use of DMCA)
Actions
  • Received an e-mail response from this guy this morning, and he claims he will have this corrected within 48 hours. -Jmh123 17:52, 15 January 2006 (UTC)
  • I have e-mailed Howell that I'm now aware of the juiceenewsdaily site as well. I'll give him some time to make the appropriate changes. -Jmh123 01:30, 16 January 2006 (UTC)
  • So far, Howell has removed his by-line from some of the articles. No other changes have yet been made. I have contacted him again, again including details about how to reach compliance, and this time mentioning further steps in the process which may be taken if he does not. -Jmh123 01:57, 20 January 2006 (UTC)
  • A lengthy exchange of e-mails with Howell last night. He is very reluctant to comply, and tried various dodges, seeking what he calls "middle ground". [My favorite dodge: "But actually (I'm not picking at you but if we're getting technical), according to MLA and APA guidelines, any citation longer than 4 lines requires no quotation marks." Obviously I never mentioned quotation marks--just requested that for any article taken wholesale from Wikipedia he not use a byline or claim copyright, but, rather, include a citation and link to the original Wikipedia article, and also include a link to the GFDL.] He does not want to comply fully. He wants to put the byline back on the articles because his software will not permit him to add a byline only to "news" on his site that did not come from Wikipedia. I'll give him more time, as I think I was pretty clear about the issues and expectations.
  • Just now received the following from Howell: "I'll tell you what. The next fundraiser Wiki has (which should be in a couple of months). I'll promise to increase my gift by 25%. I'm not going to disclose what I usually give, you understand.... [my sites are] simply a way for me to take Wiki and make it more mainstream. I've been praised in the past for doing this, especially with Wikinews. You just seem to to care about the credit being more-than-obvious in the article... which is GREAT, don't get me wrong. I've just never had a problem with obeying the laws before. I'll take all the steps needed... and I'll probably pull alot of the articles in the near future."
  • We'll see what happens. If I don't see changes by next weekend, I'll request that his IP be blocked. -Jmh123 23:41, 20 January 2006 (UTC)
    • Sorry it's been so long since I reported. Articles have not been pulled, but Howell has removed his by-line from all, and added named links to Wikipedia to some. I'm assuming good faith and will probably leave this be. -Jmh123 03:36, 17 February 2006 (UTC)

Onpedia

  • Site: http://www.onpedia.com
  • Example [100] for Albania
  • Ends with "This article is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License. It uses material from the Wikipedia article "albania"." with link to GFDL at GNU and wrong (but working) link to original article. --Henrygb 23:11, 11 November 2005 (UTC)
  • The links to Wikipedia are apparently parsed, and often broken. All links are in lower case, and spaces are replaced by dashes. See their List-of-communities-in-Ontario for an example. Mindmatrix 19:33, 29 June 2006 (UTC)

open-dictionary.com

open-dictionary.com
URL http://open-dictionary.com/
Sample
Rating {{{rating}}}
Details
  • It offers links on pages directly to edit forms on Wikipedia, which could be a problem as the page may be a different version from what is on open-encyclopedia.

States: "Copyright © 2003-2004 Zeeshan Muhammad. All rights reserved."``` - This should be challaged, I assume it's an oversight. JesseW 11:45, 17 Nov 2004 (UTC)

The top page may be compliant, but the rest of the pages are questionable at best. Under each article title, the owner has replaced "From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia" with "From open-encyclopedia.com - the free encyclopedia."
  • This is partly based on Wiktionary's content. Wholly based on.
Comment from developer (myself): I feel my Web site should be moved from this Web page and listed on 'high degree of compliance' section. I personally did not move it to prevent a bias view.
I have stated in-depth information on a Wiktionary discussion page regarding how Open Dictionary uses multiple sections to correctly label GNU FDL rights. Please view: Wiktionary: License discussion Zeeshan M 04:32, 5 Jul 2004 (UTC)
I strongly disagree. It should be listed on medium compliance because it claims copyright over the text ("Copyright © 2003-2004 Zeeshan Muhammad. All rights reserved.") without (visibly) linking to the original Wikipedia article or containing a link to a copy of the GFDL. Its link entitled "GNU FDL Verbatim" actually redirects to Wikipedia article - meaning there isn't a link to GFDL and that Wikipedia loses out in Google PageRank similar to freedictionary.com's obscuring techniques. There is however a link to edit the article, which is commended. Enochlau 10:25, 26 Nov 2004 (UTC)
Contact info
  • this form (no replies)
  • webmaster AT hosteurope.com (no replies)
  • whois-admin AT nfwebsolutions.idps.co.uk (no replies)
  • abuse AT theplanet.com
Actions No replies from the admin. I have yet to contact abuse AT theplanet.com, the ISP. -- WB 04:31, 17 January 2006 (UTC)

open-encyclopedia.com

open-encyclopedia.com
URL http://open-encyclopedia.com/
Sample http://open-encyclopedia.com/WPBS
Rating {{{rating}}}
Details
  • It offers links on pages directly to edit forms on Wikipedia, which could be a problem as the page may be a different version from what is on open-encyclopedia.

States: "Copyright © 2003-2004 Zeeshan Muhammad. All rights reserved."``` - This should be challaged, I assume it's an oversight. JesseW 11:45, 17 Nov 2004 (UTC)

The top page may be compliant, but the rest of the pages are questionable at best. Under each article title, the owner has replaced "From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia" with "From open-encyclopedia.com - the free encyclopedia."
Contact info
  • this form (no replies)
  • webmaster AT hosteurope.com (no replies)
  • abuse AT gxn.net
Actions Contacted host/ISP. -- WB 04:16, 17 January 2006 (UTC)

Still largely non-compliant as of 2008, and still using outdated database text from the end of 2004. For instance, "'New York broadcaster WPBS-TV is one of two PBS flagship stations, the other being KPBS in California...' At least that's how this article would begin if PBS were exactly like other major US networks such as ABC, CBS and NBC. PBS, however, is different" is original to one initial version of the intro for our WPBS-TV article, created in 2004 and removed by subsequent editors years ago. --carlb (talk) 17:23, 10 April 2008 (UTC)

Opentopia.com

  • Site: encycl.opentopia.com
  • Credits Wikipedia and links to original in each article.
  • Includes From Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia at the bottom.
  • Links to Wikipedia GFDL page and Copyright page on every page.
  • Links to Wikimedia fundraising page from each article.

Orthodox Wiki

I'm the administrator of OrthodoxWiki. I just ran across this page, and would like to say that I've left a message for the contributor, asking him to explicitly cite Wikipedia as a source when he imports an article in the future. We'll have to make our guidelines more explicit about this. I added a link back to Wikipedia in the article in question.
We've recently moved our wiki to a dual license (GFDL and CC by-sa), with an explicit statement that Wikipedia content does not become CC - just our original content is dually licensed. Please let me know if this is an unacceptable arrangement!' I would ask Henrygb and others to contact us in the future if they suspect any non-compliance. We're earnestly trying to work through these issues and appreciate kind guidance. I wish someone had contacted me instead of or in addition to posting this message here.
It will take a little time, but we will also do an audit to ensure that our other imported articles are in compliance. Is there a clear statement of exactly what is required for compliance anywhere? Thanks, Jschroe / FrJohn
P.S. One other note is that the person who imported this article likely took both from a third source is the author or, at least, has authorization from the original source of the article. He is the webaster of http://www.zeitun-eg.org/, which contains a lot of information about the saint. (Updated)
There are similar problems with Cyril Lucaris: copied without attribution to Wikipedia source at http://www.orthodoxwiki.org/Cyril_Lucaris
Attribution was provided in the history -- admittedly this is insufficient, but it wasn't fully absent. I'm grateful that in this case User:Henrygb did login and fix the issue. Jschroe

Osmanlı Tarihi Kültürü Medeniyeti Edebiyatı Sanatı

  • Site: http://www.osmanlimedeniyeti.com
  • Example: [101] from Albania, followed by English-Turkish dictionary
  • States: "Source: en.wikipedia.org" with link to wikipedia
  • No mention of GFDL
  • No link to original article
  • As of 00:36, 14 December 2005 (UTC) --Henrygb

Otherground

Otherground network
URL american-presidents.info, ancient-civilization.info,baseball-history.ws, basketball-history.ws, beerexpert.info, bird-watching.ws, body-builder.info, boxing-history.ws, card-tricks.info, cat-toys.ws, champagne-fountain.info, civil-war.ws, criminal-history.info, digidater.com, dinosaur-info.com, evolution-theory.info, first-time-buyer.info, football-history.ws, free-coupons.ws, free-recipe.net, golf-history.ws, gulf-war.info, healthy-eating.ws, hiv-facts.com, hockey-history.ws, home-theater-systems.info, homeimprover.info, human-body.info, informationvacation.com, iraq-war.ws, korean-war.info, low-carb-diet.ws, magic-tricks.ws, martial-artist.info, mexican-american-war.info, mixed-martial-arts.info, mortgage-advice.ws, mountain-biking.info, nascar-racing.info, organic-food.ws, personal-ads.ws, poker-table.info, product-reviews.ws, revolutionary-war.info, rock-climbing.ws, rx-info.com, scratching-post.net, second-mortgage.ws, september-11.ws, soccer-history.ws, solar-system.info, spanish-american-war.info, stem-cell-research.net, study-guide.ws, tax-preparation.info, teacher-resource.info, tennis-history.ws, the-band.info, vietnam-war.info, war-of-1812.info, wildsurvival.com, wine-club.info, world-history.ws, world-religions.info, world-war-1.info, world-war-2.info
Sample http://www.ancient-civilization.info/ancient-maori/
Rating None
Details There is no mention of Wikipedia or the GFDL and the sites claim copyright. The company responsible for all, otherground.com, appears to be making a tidy living by creating topical websites which systematically present Wikipedia articles as their own without complying with the GFDL. All include generous amounts of ads. Their website has a (complete?) list of the sites in their network (http://www.otherground.com/network/). I have reproduced it above. Though some of the pages on these sites do not appear to be copied from Wikipedia, they are probably using it as a source even for these. At any rate, I've found copyright violations on each site I checked (though admittedly that isn't all).
Contact info http://www.otherground.com/contact/ (contact form), jc AT otherground.com (whois), abuse AT globalcompass.com (host)
Actions
  • Violation letter sent to jc AT otherground.com. Superm401 - Talk 04:50, 22 January 2006 (UTC)
  • Sent abuse notice to hosting provider via contact form. Superm401 - Talk 08:33, 3 January 2007 (UTC)

Mirrors and Forks :

(Numbers) ABC - DEF - GHI - JKL - MNO - PQR - STU - VWXYZ - All - Archive

P

Paleorama.com

Paleorama
URL http://www.paleorama.com/
Sample http://www.paleorama.com/Eponyms-N/Nero.php
Rating Low/None
Details No link to original wiki or mention of GFDL. No obvious place for contact information Pictures and link apparently removed.
Contact info
Actions


Pandapedia

Pantheon.org

  • Site: www.pantheon.org
  • Articles "by Micha F. Lindemans" are mirrors of out of<A title="Online Dating" style="COLOR: #65b45c; TEXT-DECORATION: underline" href="http://216.130.188.208/cgi-bin/ezlclk.fcgi?id=6718" target=_blank> date </A>versions of all mythology related articles. Actually, the articles predate the original entries in Wikipedia and have been copied by users without proper notice.
With stub notices and images etc. removed
  • Especially noticeable with articles that were confused - e.g. Banebdjed and Ba (now corrected in Wikipedia) - Ba (capital B) on Pantheon is described as if a totally different entity to Banebdjed, even though Ba is said to be in Mendes. No Egyptologist would ever make this mistake - Banebdjed means "Ba of the lord ('neb') of djed", and "djed" is the old name for Mendes, but Wikipedia used to have the "Ba of Mendes" and "Banebdjed" as different gods, which is exactly how Pantheon.org has it.
  • It even has the early version of Chem, something totally obviously wrong to anyone with any competence in the field (e.g. Chem = Ham and wears a womans dress. No. Chem is a misreading of "Min", and never wore a womans dress, although female deities were sometimes depicted as Min (including phallus), though always identifiable as to who they were). This error is very unlikely to be made without copying Wikipedia.
  • N.b. w.r.t. Egyptian mythology, the articles have been updated substantially in Wikipedia since April, so may no longer correspond.
  • Claims exclusive copyright, not GDFL, all rights reserved

peacelink.de

Peacelink
URL http://www.peacelink.de/keyword/Main_Page.php
Sample http://www.peacelink.de/keyword/Derbyshire.php
Rating Low
Details This appears to be a complete dump of Wikipedia based on the last modified date on the front page. There is a disclaimer at the top that "This is NOT the Wikipedia - The content is from the Wikipedia". However, only the last entry of the history is copied and there is no link to the original article, which means it is violating the GFDL. Also, the link to the GFDL is broken because only main namespace is copied. There are other violations. For example, the title of documents is not changed in contradiction of 4.A. of the GFDL.
Contact info cernik AT freewar.de
Actions Sent standard violation letter. Superm401 - Talk 02:07, 22 January 2006 (UTC). Received reply stating "Thank you for your advise. We will do so as soon as possible." Superm401 - Talk 05:52, 22 January 2006 (UTC)

PediaPress

PediaPress
URL http://pediapress.com/
Sample http://pediapress.com/build/#article:Bristol%20Stool%20Scale
Rating High
Details Links GFDL and original Wikipedia article on every page
Contact info
Actions

Pediax

Pediax
URL http://en.pediax.org/
Sample http://en.pediax.org/Detroit,_Michigan
Rating Medium
Details "Content released under GFD-Licence" with a link to the article about the GFDL, not directly to an actual license text and links the corresponding Wikipedia articles on each page.
Contact info
Actions

People's Daily

  • I posted a message. --mav 10:45, 4 Jan 2004 (UTC)
Wikipedians Montrealais and Menchi basically wrote that article from scratch, so it is original, to Wikipedia. I'd know, I'm Menchi and I think I know Montrealais well enough.
Well, if we ever had spare lawyers and wanted publicity, "Wikipedia sues Chinese government for copyright infringement" would be hilarious. =] --Delirium 12:29, Feb 6, 2004 (UTC)
Well, the PRC censors us, we sue them for copyvio. WooyiTalk to me? 21:15, 19 May 2007 (UTC)

peti.pl

Peti
URL http://www.peti.pl/
Sample http://www.peti.pl/wiki/Mulberry_Street_%28Manhattan%29
Rating Low/None
Details links to GFDL at en.wikipedia.org
Contact info
Actions



personel.obec.go.th/

I was using WP and suddenly found I was not using WP but this site, which asked me to log in, but appeared exactly like WP and correctly searched for WP articles for editing. This may be a phishing site that was invaded WP. Peterkingiron 17:01, 10 June 2007 (UTC)

Pharma-help.com

Pharma-help.com
URL http://pharma-help.com/ Pharma-help.com
Sample http://pharma-help.com/bulimia-nervosa
Rating Medium.
Details Offsite GFDL but otherwise fine.
Contact info Contact form at http://pharma-help.com/contact-us
Actions None.


phillywire.com

  • Site: phillywire.com
  • No mention/link to GFDL in some articles
  • No mention of wikipedia
  • Instead _they_ claim copyright of the article(s)
  • Examples: [102], [103], [104]
  • They didn't list an email address to contact them, so I sent the standard GFDL vio letter to webmaster AT phillywire.com and admin AT phillywire.com --snoyes 04:46, 1 Dec 2003 (UTC)
    • Reply received: It is being worked on. --snoyes 17:43, 9 Dec 2003 (UTC)
    • Seems to be in 'almost' compliance now: Mentions Wikipedia, mentions GNU/FDL, links to article, links to GNU/FDL. Only minus points: says the article "uses material from" the Wikipedia article, where it seems to be copying almost-verbatim, and GNU/FDL is linked at gnu.org (can we propose to GNU to allow that for the next version?) Andre Engels 01:41, 17 Jan 2004 (UTC)
      • I think they are perfectly fine. No reason to be nit-picky, IMO. --mav 11:36, 18 Jan 2004 (UTC)

Phobia Finder

PhysicsDaily

PhysicsDaily
URL http://www.physicsdaily.com
Sample http://www.physicsdaily.com/physics/Lagrangian_mechanics
Rating Medium
Details Looks like a complete mirror. Notice that article is from Wikipedia and local link to GFDL (as part of larger document) on every page. They do not include a history section or link to original Wikipedia article. However, there are instructions in the copyright page for reaching the original Wikipedia article.
Contact info twfhc4zcxxgw9q AT protectfly.com (protected whois), http://www.registerfly.com/info/contact.php (registrar contact form)
Actions Emailed the registrar. Said they'll respond in a few hours; if they really do, I'll post details then. Superm401 - Talk 00:46, 6 November 2005 (UTC)

Piano Paradise

Piano Paradise
URL http://www.pianoparadise.com/composers1.html
Sample http://www.pianoparadise.com/vivaldi.html (appears to be this version (January 2004) of our article)
Rating Low/None
Details Complete lack of compliance. No mention of Wikipedia, no mention of GFDL, no links; a few dozen of our composer bios are used.
Contact info composer_biography AT pianoparadise.com
Actions Sent standard email to above address, March 18, 2006, but the email bounced. I've done nothing further. JamesMLane t c 15:13, 18 March 2006 (UTC)

Pinkjustis.info

Plant connect

  • Site: www.plantconnect.com
  • Example: www.plantconnect.com/plantconnect/mod.php?mod=plantpedia&title=London
  • States "This is an extract from Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia" with link to www.wikipedia.org
  • No obvious mention of or link to GFDL
  • No obvious link to original article
  • Ends with "Copyright � Total CAD Management 2002-2003 /m/0.59"

Plastic-dream-girl.com/fetishportal

Playfuls.com

Playfuls
URL http://www.playfuls.com/
Sample http://www.playfuls.com/news_05964_Nintendo_Signs_Exclusive_Contract_with_AP_for_Wii_News_Channel_.html from http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wii_Channels&oldid=103227525
Rating High (?)
Details They have responded to the followup email I sent. The article in question now has a link to the Wikipedia article, has been reworded to remove most or all of the verbatim copying, and has been placed under the GFDL. If there is any Wikipedia copying in other articles, I am unaware of it.
Contact info mail AT playfuls.com
Actions Two emails sent; they responded to the second.

Plastic-Surger

  • Site: [108]
  • Plastic surgery related pages
  • No compliance.

Plastics Wiki

  • Site: Plastics
  • The wiki about plastics & polymers
  • Links to Wikipedia and local copy of GFDL at the bottom of each article used

Pontefract Young Farmers

Pontefract Young Farmers
URL http://pontefract-yfc.co.uk/wiki.php
Sample http://pontefract-yfc.co.uk/wiki.php?title=Moose
Rating None
Details No mention of Wikipedia or the GFDL, no history pages. The site has every page on Wikipedia, including non-mainspace and special pages, and synchronizes them with Wikipedia every few seconds. All content exactly duplicated from Wikipedia without any attribution, credit, or mention.
Contact info Only contact information available is info AT pontefract-yfc.co.uk
Actions No actions taken yet.
  • site not found --Rumping (talk) 07:55, 5 June 2008 (UTC)

Pop Stars Plus

  • Site: PopStarsPlus.com
  • Includes link to Wikipedia and separate link to original article prominently at top of each article. Also includes "Date copied article: Month Day, Year"
  • WP articles do not appear on all pages - the site includes original articles as well.
  • Links to Wikipedia and local copy of GFDL at the bottom of each article used

PortalJuice

  • Site: Nextopia: PortalJuice
  • Uses full site, for "vertically focused Web search technology"; calls this Encyclopedia (BETA) project
  • Removes "from Wikipedia"
  • Links to Wikipedia and local copy of GFDL on each page


  • Links to GFDL
  • Acknowledges wikipedia

--Fritzlein 06:31, 5 Jul 2004 (UTC)

Moved from main page --Davelane 12:28, 14 Sep 2004 (UTC)

PostgreSQL General Bits

  • Site: PostgreSQL General Bits
  • Link to main page of Wikipedia
  • Very small section of article about Edgar F. Codd (1 paragraph)
  • No link to GFDL or the article

Powerset

Powerset
URL http://www.powerset.com
Sample http://www.powerset.com/explore/semhtml/Wives_of_Henry_VIII
Rating Medium
Details Prominently mentions Wikipedia and links to original article (link says "edit Wikipedia article"). Does not mirror image description pages. Says, "All Wikipedia content is licensed under the GNU Free Document License or the Creative Commons CC-BY-SA license or is otherwise used here in compliance with the Copyright Act" which is too vague. All Wikipedia text is GFDL (except quotes), but not all images are under one of these licenses (and it doesn´t even say which version of CC-BY-SA). Links to offsite copy of GFDL (and CC-BY-SA 2.0).
Contact info See http://www.powerset.com/contact/

info@powerset.com (general email)
415-848-7000 (phone)

Actions

prescriptiondrug-info.com

  • Site [109]
  • Mentions GFDL and links to source. appears to be a full mirror of everything includeing userpages.
    • Example www.prescriptiondrug-info.com/drug_information_online.asp?title=Cliff_Richard
    • Ends with "This article is from Wikipedia. All text is available under the terms of the GFDL (GNU Free Documentation License) | Source" with links to GFDL at gnu.org and to original article

protoillyrian

Protoillyrian
URL http://www.geocities.com/protoillyrian/
Sample http://www.geocities.com/protoillyrian/serb.html
Rating None
Details Uses at least Serbs without mention of Wikipedia or the GFDL. Extent of infringement undetermined.
Contact info copyright AT yahoo-inc.com
Actions

pro-researcher.co.uk

  • Site: pro-researcher.co.uk
  • Mentions and links to the GFDL
  • States "Showing data from: Wikipedia - the free online encyclopaedia." on the front page
  • Links to source wikipedia articles
  • Posted by website owner to assess for compliance
  • acknowledges Wikipedia at the top and bottom of each article Manning
  • No history section.
  • Medium compliance.

Playstation 3 Market

Playstation 3 Market
URL http://www.ps3-market.co.uk/
Sample http://www.ps3-market.co.uk/sony-playstation-3-game-backward-compatibility/
Rating None
Details Unattributed copy/paste from earlier version of Playstation 3, including footnote references (but not the footnotes themselves)
Contact info
Actions

Psihologie

Psihologie Solutii Psiholgice
URL http://grajdaru.3x.ro/news.php
Sample http://grajdaru.3x.ro/enciclopedia_en.php?title=Tourette_syndrome
Rating High
Details Attributes Wikipedia and links to local GFDL.
Contact info
Actions

Psych Central

Public Domain art

  • Site: Public Domain art
  • Uses a part of the article about Public Domain (1 paragraph)
  • Mentions Wikipedia with no link
  • Contains a section of the Fair Use Doctrine of the U.S. Copyright Act, stating something about "fair use", but no GFDL Link.
  • More than one paragraph, AFAICT. Martin 10:22, 29 Aug 2003 (UTC)

Public Domain Content Encyclopedia

  • Site Public Domain Content Encyclopedia
  • Uses articles without attribution to WP, link to the WP article or link to the GFDL
  • Mentions WP and GFDL only on bottom of front page
  • See also this note: [110]
  • Administrator associated with scraper sites/link farms

Public School Review

Public School Review
URL [Publicschoolreview.com]
Sample Their use of the Oakton High School article
Rating "Medium" to "High" compliance with GFDL (matches Wikipedia:GFDL Compliance).
Details Takes Wikipedia school articles verbatim and copy/pastes them into their own site. Contacted them to cite the Westfield High School (Fairfax County, Virginia) article, which they did. Have asked them to comply for all of their site.
Contact info jcolayco AT publicschoolreview.com, information AT publicschoolreview.com
Actions Two emails sent to comply for the Westfield High School article. A third email sent asking for the entire site to comply. Awaiting response

Pythonland

  • Site [111].
  • Biographies mirrored from WP -- credits WP but no mention of GFDL.

Q

Quaest.io

See Informat.io

Quarrel Network

Quarrel Network
URL http://www.quarrel.net/
Sample http://www.quarrel.net/music/wiki.php?title=911th_Engineer_Company
Rating Low
Details No mention of GFDL. No link to wikipedia. "Quarrel.Network © 2005 All Rights Reserved." Does have an image (not text) with the word "Wikipedia" at the top of the article
Contact info Editor - webmaster AT quarrel.net
Actions None
  • Example leads to "Wikipedia Unfortunately, no content could be extracted!"--Rumping (talk) 08:02, 5 June 2008 (UTC)

Quickly Find

Quickly Find
URL www.quicklyfind.com
Sample www.quicklyfind.com/info/Astronomy.htm
Rating Medium.
Details Credits Wikipedia, but GFDL link goes offsite & lacks links to original articles.
Contact info Admin: Stephen Butler (steb AT stebsoft.com) ISP: EV1 Servers (domains AT ev1servers.net)
Actions None.


www.quotesplace.com

I'm not sure how they use Wikipedia, but they seem to use it. More resarch is needed. JesseW 06:22, 5 Nov 2004 (UTC)

  • It's a direct rip of Wikiquote. Here, compare Wikiquote's article on Pride and Prejudice and their Pride and Prejudice quotes. They do acknowledge the GFDL but don't really acknowledge the authors, as they credit Wikiquote as "SOURCE" and links to here, which is a non-existent page (not sure if this was done out of laziness or poor coding). The only think they really need is a link to the page that it was derived from. I think this should be under medium compliance. --Bash 04:57, 1 May 2005 (UTC)
  • Moved to medium compliance. --Bash 05:01, 1 May 2005 (UTC)

Qwika.com

  • Site: Qwika
  • No reference to Wikipedia or GNU-FDL, off the homepage. Even uses Monobook background to further confuse.

R

ranau.net

More research requested

Seems to be made by the same person as bird-center. JesseW 20:39, 11 August 2005 (UTC)
    • No Wikipedia content on example --Rumping (talk) 08:08, 5 June 2008 (UTC)

Ratusan.com

  • Site: http://www.ratusan.com - selling jewelry
  • Example: [112] - most of Albania article
  • Page states "This article is from Wikipedia. All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License." with link to local copy of GFDL
  • No link to Wikipedia or original article
  • Page ends with "Copyright © 2004 - 2005 www.ratusan.com"
  • As of 00:04, 14 December 2005 (UTC) --Henrygb
    • No Wikipedia content on example --Rumping (talk) 08:08, 5 June 2008 (UTC)

read-and-go.hopto.org

Read and go
URL http://read-and-go.hopto.org/sitemap.html
Sample http://read-and-go.hopto.org/Investment-banks/Investment-bank.html<br> http://read-and-go.hopto.org/Romanian-painters/Corneliu-Baba.html
Rating Low/None
Details Without Javascript, there is no mention of Wikipedia or the GFDL. With Javascript, there is a bare link the original article. All text is copied wholesale with all the markup (and in-text mention of Wikipedia; see http://read-and-go.hopto.org/Wikipedia/Criticism-of-Wikipedia.html) stripped. There is no history section for these changes. Pages are surrounded by ads. Possibly search engine spam. Site map (http://read-and-go.hopto.org/sitemap.html) contains an index to articles, but omits all the 'W's.

Amusingly, loses many non-code-page-1252 characters. See Corneliu Baba example: "Iaşi" becomes "Iai"

Contact info jattsona [at] gmail.com
Actions Standard letter sent by Calair 01:38, 3 February 2006 (UTC)
  • Redirects to searchportal.information.com with no obvious Wikipedia content --Rumping (talk) 08:10, 5 June 2008 (UTC)


Real RnB

Curtis Mayfield
URL http://www.realrnb.com/forum/archive/index.php?t-12186.html
Sample http://www.realrnb.com/forum/archive/index.php?t-12186.html
Rating Low/None
Details Clearly this one article (Curtis Mayfield) was copied without credit. I haven't looked to see if the site copies anything else. - Jmabel
Contact info
Actions

Recipeland.com

RecipeLand/RecipeFacts
URL http://www.recipeland.com/facts/
Sample http://www.recipeland.com/facts/USA
Rating High
Details Includes the following small print message at the bottom of every Wiki-derived page: "Wikitext content courtesy Wikipedia and the GNU Free Documentation License, click here to retrieve the original article from Wikipedia". Probably the only issue is the presence of a "Copyright ©1996-2005 metro.isp Inc & Sean Wenzel All rights reserved." notice just above the Wikipedia credit which makes it unclear that Wikipedia content is still copyright the Wikimedia foundation.
Contact info http://www.recipeland.com/feedback/
Actions none taken
  • Now redirects to en.wikipedia.org articles --Rumping (talk) 08:21, 5 June 2008 (UTC)

Rediff.com

Rediff.com: This will be the world's tallest building
URL http://www.rediff.com/
Sample http://inhome.rediff.com/cms/print.jsp?docpath=//money/2007/jun/07tall.htm
Rating None
Details Article includes substantial text identical to Burj Dubai, lacking any acknowledgment or citation, and bearing their own copyright: "(c) 2003 rediff.com India Limited. All Rights Reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed."
Contact info couldn't find any
Actions none

Fredwerner 03:39, 10 June 2007 (UTC)

Redshort.com

See Wikipedia:Mirrors_and_forks/Vwxyz#zipox

Reference.com

  • Site: http://www.reference.com/
  • Example: Article on "ipso facto"
  • Acknowledges Wikipedia and links to Wikipedia:Copyrights
    • also ends each page with its own "Copyright © 2005, Lexico Publishing Group, LLC. All rights reserved."
  • Mentions and links to the GFDL at gnu.org
  • Links to source Wikipedia article
    • and to Wikipedia history page
  • Links to edit Wikipedia article
  • Links to Wikimedia Foundation donations page

Reprtz.net

Rickygervais.com

  • Site: http://www.rickygervais.com
  • The page http://www.rickygervais.com/karlpilkington.php uses content from Karl Pilkington
  • Source is mentioned: "from the online encyclopedia, Wikipedia..."
  • Claims copyright of text: "copyright © Ricky Gervais 2004 - 2005"
  • No mention of GFDL
  • No link to original article
    • Standard violation letter sent 5th January 2006. --Kwekubo 01:28, 5 January 2006 (UTC)
    • Update: article now links to original article and to GFDL, and no longer claims copyright. Seems fully compliant now. --Kwekubo 21:33, 5 January 2006 (UTC)
  • No history section. Medium compliance. Uncle G 12:19, 5 June 2007 (UTC)

referenceencyclopedia.com

  • Site: referenceencyclopedia.com
  • Example: referenceencyclopedia.com/?title=Dollar_sign
  • States: This page is based on the copyrighted Wikipedia article ( Dollar_sign ); it is used under the GNU Free Documentation License
  • Links to Wikipedia and original article, and to GFDL at gnu.org
    • No longer seems to have Wikipedia content --Rumping (talk) 08:24, 5 June 2008 (UTC)

River-Styx.net

River-Styx.net
URL http://www.river-styx.net/index2.htm
Sample http://www.river-styx.net/aztec.htm; compare Mictlantecuhtli
Rating "Low/None"
Details This site contains a number of pages on mythological underworlds and deities, most if not all the text appearing is pieced together from a variety of wikipedia articles, alongside material apparently sourced from elsewhere. There is no visible link to or acknowledgement of wikipedia, or the GFDL, on any of the pages. The pages also contain a number of wikipedia imgs and photos, likewise uncredited. The site does acknowledge some sources of (non-wiki) material and imgs, although I suspect those tagged with "image courtesy of.." does not mean they've obtained explicit permission. Most likely an unwitting GFDL violation on the part of the website.
Contact info info [at] river-styx [dot] net
Actions none yet taken.

--cjllw ʘ TALK 06:54, 29 May 2007 (UTC)


Romanian Portal

Romanian Portal
URL http://www.romanian-portal.com
Sample http://www.romanian-portal.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=4018&PN=1
Rating "Low/None"
Details I have no idea how much of the site is plagiarized from us, but the sample page I've given is clearly a series of plagiarisms from Wikipedia, perhaps all directly from the Romanian Wikipedia, perhaps some translated from others.
Contact info By snail mail: Romanian-Portal.com; P.O. Box 957633; Hoffman Estates, IL 60195
By E-mail: info AT Romanian-Portal.com
By phone/fax: 1-847-755-5584
Actions None taken.

Rootsweb

23:16, 10 December 2005 (UTC)

RSA article

  • Site: RSA article
  • No visible link to current Wikipedia article
  • no link to GFDL
  • Standard letter sent by: ?
  • It is an HTML copy of the print version so "Retrieved from "http://www.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=RSA"" is on the page. But there still isn't a link to the GFDL. We really should add that to our print page template. --mav 02:19 24 Jul 2003 (UTC)
    • Example 404 not found --Rumping (talk) 08:27, 5 June 2008 (UTC)

RC-Wiki

RC-Wiki
URL http://www.rc-wiki.com/
Sample http://www.rc-wiki.com/wiki/Radio_control
Rating "Low/None"
Details RC-related article fork, does neither mention Wikipedia nor GFDL
Contact info RC-Wiki
Actions


RxWiki

RxWiki
URL http://www.rxwiki.com/
Sample http://www.rxwiki.com/index.php?title=Ergoline
Rating None
Details Pharmacology-related article fork, does neither mention Wikipedia nor GFDL
  • now mentions GFDL (and link to GFDL article) but not original source 08:30, 5 June 2008 (UTC)
Contact info editor AT rxwiki.com, Mirixa Corporation 703-683-1955
Actions

Mirrors and Forks :

(Numbers) ABC - DEF - GHI - JKL - MNO - PQR - STU - VWXYZ - All - Archive

S

SageReport.com

SageReport.com
URL http://sagereport.com/
Sample http://sagereport.com/Cali-to-Car/cat.php
Rating Medium
Details Previously non-compliant. Now a notice in footer reads "The information on this page was used from wikipedia.org in accordance with the GNU Free Documentation Licence" with links to Wikipedia and the GFDL. No link to original article. No history section.
Contact info WHOIS information
Private registration through Domains by Proxy, Inc.
Email: SAGEREPORT.COM AT domainsbyproxy.com
Phone: (480) 624-2599
Fax: (480) 624-2599
Actions Sent first GFDL notice via email on June 11, 2006. Sent follow-up GFDL notice via email on June 19, 2006. Sent final GFDL notice on July 3, 2006. Response received July 4, 2006, and website updated accordingly.

Sailracer.co.uk

ROOSTER SAILING
URL http://www.sailracer.co.uk
Sample http://www.sailracer.co.uk/sailing/topical.asp?txt=rooster%20sailing
Rating None
Details Wikipedias Rooster article is dumped on the page (complete with wikilinks, templates and cats even though the site is not a Wiki !!!) with no attribution or links.
Contact info Simon Lovesey

01489 559111
info AT sailracer.co.uk

Actions

savage-comedy.com

savage-comedy.com
URL http://www.savage-comedy.com/
Sample http://www.savage-comedy.com/_Antarctica
Rating Medium
Details 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.
Contact info {{{contact}}}
Actions {{{action}}}

San Luis Obispo Bill of Rights Defense Committee


Sci Peeps

Sci Peeps
URL Scipeeps.com
Sample http://www.scipeeps.com/Sci-Biochemistry_Topics_E_-_F/fermentation.html
Rating Low.
Details Footnote "Provided by wikipedia.org." No mention of GPL, no link to original.

Claims own copyright. Superm401

Contact info Broken contact link. A whois yields SCIPEEPS.COM AT domainsbyproxy.com
Actions None.

Science 24

See Wikipedia:Mirrors_and_forks/Abc#Base_Science_24

School Explorer

ScienceDaily

ScienceDaily
URL http://www.sciencedaily.com/encyclopedia/
Sample http://www.sciencedaily.com/encyclopedia/archaeology
Rating Medium
Details Says "This article is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License. It uses material from the Wikipedia article "Archaeology"" with offsite link to the GFDL and link to the original article. However, it also says "Copyright © 1995-2006 ScienceDaily LLC — All rights reserved". Normally, I would ignore this as a meaningless error; however, the terms of use say "Permission is NOT granted for reproduction of any of the content under [...] Encyclopedia" and "Such third-party content [referring to the encyclopedia] is subject to their own separate copyright restrictions and may not be reproduced or transmitted in whole or in part without the express written permission of the respective copyright holder(s)." which is clearly contrary to the GFDL. No history section listing authors and dates.
Contact info editor AT sciencedaily.com, xk78h8fb5k5 AT networksolutionsprivateregistration.com (private WHOIS), support AT ultradns.com
Actions
  • Sent email asking for misleading copyright statements to be removed. Superm401 - Talk 01:47, 17 February 2006 (UTC)
  • Received reply stating "I'll take a look at both our own copyright links and our terms of use page, and make any needed adjustments." Superm401 - Talk 06:20, 19 February 2006 (UTC)
  • See their website now for a great GFDL compliance! Auroranorth 13:27, 27 October 2006 (UTC)

SciFiPedia

SciFiPedia
URL http://scifipedia.scifi.com/index.php/Main_Page
Sample http://scifipedia.scifi.com/index.php/The_Prisoner
Rating Low/None
Details This is a wiki, but the Terms of Use are very restrictive and incompatible with GFDL. They don't actively copy our content, but well-meaning users are copying stuff there without understanding that it has to remain GFDL.
Contact info John R. Douglas - editor.scifipedia AT scifi.com
Actions

Scripophily.net

  • Still not compliant. Lotsofissues 06:17, 11 May 2005 (UTC)
Any progress on this one? 84.235.135.246 10:02, 4 August 2005 (UTC)

scpover.net

www.scpover.net
URL http://acculegal.com http://aftap.com http://amysflowershop.com http://antoniabellanca.com http://askacouple.com http://barneslanding.org http://bellabuds.com http://bellancas.com http://bigspringbreak.com http://bluestarbase.com http://botwatch.org http://bradleyisenbek.com http://brolgas.com http://bushtheend.com http://collectibleboat.com http://collectibleboats.com http://collectiblehome.com http://delfiores.com http://dividedamerica.com http://dnacharts.com http://domainsdb.org http://dontpayyourtaxes.com http://enablepay.com http://equark.com http://equark.org http://evosynergy.com http://factagent.com http://feebuddy.com http://feefriend.com http://flowergods.com http://freedomsailing.com http://fuquamusic.com http://galerienyc.com http://gottagetflowers.com http://gottaorderflowers.com http://gottogetflowers.com http://gwailoproject.com http://gweiloproject.com http://igopay.com http://interchangeplus.org http://iraqthevote.com http://isenbek.com http://isnewyork.com http://justspringbreak.com http://livingflowers.com http://loadbeverlyhills.com http://loadboston.com http://loadcorp.com http://loadedeasthampton.com http://loadlondon.com http://loadmiami.com http://loadny.com http://loadnyc.com http://loadsanfrancisco.com http://lovangosystems.com http://marlinmall.com http://michaelisenbek.com http://mrdefine.com http://mrspell.com http://nationalsalestaxcalculator.com http://nextswitch.com http://patrickspurr.com http://phera.com http://polltroll.com http://redabacus.com http://searchwatch.org http://southcountryequity.com http://splammer.com http://statelawonline.com http://sultrysearch.com http://tessmahoney.com http://thecorporatepage.com http://theheartreport.com http://thelegalpage.com http://thelegalreport.com http://vdata.us http://velocitydatasys.com http://velocitydatasystems.com http://vintagebotanicals.com http://vmerch.com http://whereintheworldisbush.com http://whereintheworldiskerry.com http://witwik.com
Sample http://www.livingflowers.com/de:Diakritisches_Zeichen
Rating High
Details Had defects, now corrected
Contact info
  • Domain AdminC: Isenbek, Bradley; brad AT barneslanding.com; 6317713187
  • Network abuse contact for 207.210.104.5: abuse AT gnax.net
Actions
  • Sending mail to domain AdminC -- Martin von Gagern 01:48, 8 February 2007 (UTC)
  • Received reply, they added links to original article and local GFDL copy -- 14:56, 8 February 2007 (UTC)
  • Found them with this Google query: tinyurl.com/yrmqtv -- Martin von Gagern 01:21, 8 February 2007 (UTC)
  • www.scpover.net is the server name configured in Apache, but doesn't resolve
  • All virtual hosts on the same machine (list probably inclomplete)
  • Many (perhaps all) domains seem to have www.* as a CNAME as well
  • Many different languages
  • Not all articles; link to original version for others
  • Not a live mirror
  • Described as “parked domains” by the operator

search.com

  • Site: www.search.com
  • Part of CNET Networks
  • Example: www.search.com/reference/Thomas_Johnson_(designer)
  • States: "Wikipedia. Licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License. Are you an expert in this subject? Join the discussion and share your knowledge at Wikipedia.org" with links to GFDL at gnu.org and to original article
  • Pages (which sometimes also draw from other sources) end with "Copyright ©2007 CNET Networks, Inc. All Rights Reserved"

SearchEnterpriseLinux.com

  • Site: SearchEnterpriseLinux.com
  • Contains a small section of the article about vendor lock-in
  • Mentions Wikipedia, but has no link
  • No GFDL Link

SearchSpaniel.com

More research requested.

Seattle Luxury

Seattle Luxury Inc.
URL www.seattleluxury.com
Sample www.seattleluxury.com/encyclopedia/entry/albania
Rating Medium.
Details Offsite GFDL. (gnu.org)
Contact info info AT seattleluxury.com
Actions None.

sensagent.com

Sensagent
URL http://dictionary.sensagent.com/
Sample http://dictionary.sensagent.com/transport/en-en/#wikipedia
Rating Low
Details No visible attribution apart from the Wikipedia name
Contact info d dot dutoit at memodata com
Actions Sent compliance letter on 2008/01/25.

Serial Killer Calender

Serial Killer Calender
URL www.serialkillercalendar.com
Sample http://www.serialkillercalendar.com/Brief_Bio_of_PETER_DUPAS.html
Rating Low.
Details
Contact info madhatterdesign AT gmail.com
Actions Sent GFDL compliance email. -- Longhair\talk 11:25, 14 August 2007 (UTC)

SheppardSoftware.com

Sheppard Software
URL http://www.sheppardsoftware.com/
Sample http://www.sheppardsoftware.com/Europeweb/factfile/Unique-facts-Europe36.htm
http://www.sheppardsoftware.com/Europeweb/factfile/Unique-facts-Europe25.htm
and many more - just change the number in the URL
Rating Medium
Details Does not mention Wikipedia in any way, although almost all content (including image thumbnails) is directly copied from (old) revisions of WP articles. Does not run on Wiki software - HTML, with no inter-article links. Uses WP images without credit. Mentions GFDL (All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License) but gives no links. Now credits Wikipedia, links to the original article and to their own copy of the GFDL. No history section listing authors and dates.
Contact info Brad Sheppard

Sheppard Software, Suite 623 Pavilion, Jenkintown, PA 19046, US
(215) 885-1893 fax: (215) 885-4288. [115]

Actions I am just about to send the first standard compliance notice. —Vanderdeckenξφ 10:35, 8 March 2007 (UTC)
No reply whatsoever, am about to send second notice/reminder. —Vanderdecken? ξφ 15:15, 3 April 2007 (UTC)
Have just received this reply:

Dear Mr. -----,

Thank you for advising me on how to comply with the GNU Free Documentation Licence. Pleased be assured that my staff will systematically follow your instructions, ensuring that each page that uses Wikipedia content includes the proper links and text. We are using your "bar" example as our model.

We will be correcting roughly 20 pages a day, and all of the necessary corrections should be completed in next several weeks. Today we've corrected 38 web pages including all of the unique facts for Europe - which also contain the links you mentioned: http://www.sheppardsoftware.com/Europeweb/factfile/Unique-facts-Europe36.htm and http://www.sheppardsoftware.com/Europeweb/factfile/Unique-facts-Europe3.htm

We appreciate your patience, and the wonderful service that Wikipedia provides to our site and so many others. It's truly amazing how your project has evolved in just a few years - and we're sure that the best is yet to come.

Best,

Brad Sheppard, Jr. President - Sheppard Software www.sheppardsoftware.com

I calls that a resounding success. I will reply to Mr Sheppard with some short further advice on GFDL compliance. Case closed, I believe. —Vanderdeckenξφ 10:15, 5 April 2007 (UTC)



Sulekha.com Travel

Sulekha.com Travel
URL http://travel.sulekha.com/
Sample http://travel.sulekha.com/blog/2007/07/thiruvanaikaval-shiva-temple.htm?contributor=R+Phani+Kumar
Rating unknown.
Details The example listed is a complete copy of Thiruvanaikaval but has no reference at all to Wikipedia.
Contact info feedback AT sulekha.net , 512-231-9226.
Actions Actions taken (if any) to attempt to make the website comply.

singaporemoms.com

  • Site:www.singaporemoms.com
    • Example:[116] from Homeopathy
    • seems to be a fairly complete compy inlcludeing pics
    • mentions wikipedia and GFDL in it's copyright policy after a click through.
    • no link back to specific articles. No mention of authors but has link on "how to see transparent copy" with link to www.wikipedia.org and to local copy of GFDL plus link to local description of how to find original article. --Henrygb 01:59, 7 December 2005 (UTC)
    • no action taken as yet.Geni 23:35, 16 October 2005 (UTC)

Sinoz

  • Site: Sinoz
    • Example: [117] from Zone plate.
    • Looks like it mirrors entire Wikipedia
    • Contains link to GFDL and mention of Wikipedia, but no link to source Wikipedia article. Have sent a letter about this. --Laura Scudder | Talk 23:23, 16 May 2005 (UTC)


Sir Tom Jones Online

siumforcongress.com

  • Site: http://siumforcongress.com/
  • Wikipedia content: home page contains text snipped from Wikipedia articles about dynamic linking. Clicking through links eventually leads you to lists of DLLs; clicking on each DLL will take you to a page that invites you to download software.
  • no mention or link back to Wikipedia
  • no mention of GFDL

06:59, 28 May 2008 (UTC)


S/KeySource

S/KeySource
URL http://www.skeysource.com/
Sample http://www.skeysource.com/
Rating Low/None
Details Most of the website appears to be taken from similarly-titled Wikipedia pages. It appears to be a copy from an older edit because not everything is a perfect copy, but it all appears as though it could have been taken from Wikipedia at some point.
Contact info I don't know how to locate this info
Actions No actions taken as of 05:24, 23 January 2007 (UTC) Yvh11a (TalkContribs)

Skwik

  • Site: www.skwik.com/wiki/
    • Example: [119] taken from System of a Down
    • The site is content-wise basically a pretty poor rip-off of the band-entries from en.wikipedia.org. Most band descriptions originate from here, sometimes 1:1, sometimes just the beginning sentence. Images are not copied or linked from wikipedia.
    • There is no link either to the GFDL or the original Wikipedia article present, no mentioning of Wikipedia at all, including the disclaimers.
    • I have send an email to info AT skwik.com and informed the site's webmaster of this violation of Wikipedia's license. --Johnnyw July 9, 2005 16:03 (UTC)
    • I received a positive answer: "Thank you very much for your comments and recommendations. We really appreciate them. We'll edit the site to comply with GFDL requirements and we'll do our best to give credits to Wikipedia. We also do our best to contribute content to Wikipedia." I'll try to keep an eye on this issue.--Johnnyw 13:39, July 10, 2005 (UTC)

skinnymouse.com

Slimer.org

SmartPedia

(Upgraded from low compliance)

  • Apparently only Wikipedia content
  • No mention of any copyright other than:
Some contents copyright 2004 QuotesPlace.com. All rights reserved world wide.
at the bottom of the pages.
  • No mention of Wikipedia
  • No mention of GNU/FDL
  • No link to original article

First standard letter sent by Kwekubo 20:40, 29 May 2004 (UTC)

As of May 31, Smartpedia now says in small type at bottom:

"This document is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL), which means that you can copy and modify it as long as the entire work (including additions) remains under this license.
GFDL | SOURCE"

GFDL links to the gnu.org text, and SOURCE links to the Wikipedia article, but there is no actual text credit given to Wikipedia.

On the main page: "Smartpedia is run by the non-profit Wikimedia Foundation." Someone going to write them? This is not only a cheek, it could also get us into legal trouble. -- stw (Talk) 20:48, 15 Jul 2004 (UTC)

  • Their version of my user page modifies the template I use at the top of my page ({{userpage}}) that links to the original contained here so that it replaces "Wikipedia" to "Smartpedia" and breaks the link itself. - Lucky13pjn 20:00, Mar 29, 2005 (UTC)
    • In fact, they replace "wikipedia" by "smartpedia" almost everywhere. Their version of wiki is at http://www.smartpedia.com/wiki-sb.html, and they claim that "the English-language Smartpedia is, by far, the world's largest wiki; the German-language Smartpedia is the second-largest, while the other Smartpedias fill many of the remaining slots". -- Aleph4 17:44, 13 Jun 2005 (UTC)
  • Update as of September 30, 2005: They still link to the source article and the GFDL as described above, but they also still havent changed the whole "Wikipedia" → "Smartpedia" thing. - Lucky13pjn 15:18, 30 September 2005 (UTC)
    • Update - site is 404.

SM201

(I guess, their Main page says "The SM-201 / BDSM Academy / BackDrop Club WikiPedia")

<Golden Age of Porn> (not url)
URL http://www.backdrop.net/sm201/index.php?title=Golden_Age_of_Porn
Sample {{{sample}}}
Rating None
Details No GFDL compliance whatsoever. No link from their copied page to the Wikipedia article, they even call themselves "a WikiPedia"
Contact info Robin-wp AT backdrop.com, WikiStaff AT SM201.org
Actions None, as I am not an official representative of Wikipedia.
This needs a good hard seeing to by someone with legal knowledge - possible full copyright violations. Chase me ladies, I'm the Cavalry 23:48, 22 October 2007 (UTC)

Corvus cornix 00:00, 25 June 2007 (UTC)

SMSO.net

SMSO.net
URL http://smso.net
Sample http://www.smso.net/Maryland_Office_of_Administrative_Hearings
Rating none
Details GFDL notice not visible when viewed on Macintosh. No mention of Wikipedia visible when viewed on Macintosh, except if the article itself mentions Wikipedia (for example, in a stub template). Link to article history, if present, is not conspicuous. Copyright notice at bottom reads "SMSO.net © 2005 All Rights Reserved"
Contact info Dr. Mutib Al Tamimi, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
Actions have e-mailed some general questions (not relating to this site specifically) to the Foundation. will send a letter to website owner, unless advised otherwise.

Snazon.com

Snowpedia

Seems to be in Medium compliance, as links to GNU on GNU site.Chase me ladies, I'm the Cavalry 23:45, 22 October 2007 (UTC)

source-of-knowledge.com

LarsSanders 09:19, 4 August 2005 (UTC)

LarsSanders 09:25, 4 August 2005 (UTC)

Snyke

  • Site: http://encyclopedie-en.snyke.com/ with 7 languages (change en)
  • Example: [121] of Albania
  • Ends article with "License : GFDL - Source: Wikipedia - Article" and links to GNU copy of GFDL, Wikipedia and original article. --Henrygb 18:30, 11 November 2005 (UTC)

somecoolsite.com

See Wikipedia:Mirrors_and_forks/Vwxyz#zipox

songnhong.com

See Wikipedia:Mirrors_and_forks/Vwxyz#zipox

specwire.com

See Wikipedia:Mirrors_and_forks/Vwxyz#zipox

solarnavigator.net

Solar Navigator
URL http://www.solarnavigator.net
Sample http://www.solarnavigator.net/films_movies_actors/charlize_theron.htm
Rating None
Details Most articles sport some kind of modification (probably because they are based in older revisions), fair use images inserted randomly, and in the case of actors, a copy/paste of works from iMDB. No mention to Wikipedia or GFDL. No article history. Disclaimer reads "This website is Copyright © 1999 & 2006 NJK"
Contact info Whois information
Actions None.

Sopranopedia

  • site: www.thesopranos.com and wiki.thesopranos.com/Main_Page with pages related to The Sopranos
  • example: wiki.thesopranos.com/Sicily
  • no obvious mention on article page of Wikipedia, original article or GFDL
  • wiki Main Page says "This page uses content from Wikipedia. The original article was at Main Page. The list of authors can be seen in the page history. As with The Sopranos Encyclopedia, the text of Wikipedia is available under the Text of the GNU Free Documentation License" with largely suitable links (except that it does not mirror Wikipedia Main Page).

space.cenet.org.cn

spellcorrect.info

spellcorrect.info
URL http://www.spellcorrect.info
Sample http://www.spellcorrect.info/slaves.htm from Slavery
Rating Medium
Details Attempts to link to original article and local GFDL. However, some pages display the wrong article. For instance, http://www.spellcorrect.info/aaron%20carter.htm displays the Aaron article, but is titled "aaron carter" and links to Aaron Carter.
Contact info mistype AT gmail.com
Actions
  • Sent standard violation notice. Superm401 - Talk 06:38, 3 January 2007 (UTC)
    • Received reply that it was accidentally broken, and has now been fixed. I replied back asking for a local GFDL. Superm401 - Talk 08:55, 29 January 2007 (UTC)
      • Received reply noting that a local link had been added. Sent reply about new problem. Superm401 - Talk 23:20, 29 January 2007 (UTC)
        • Page now ends "This article is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License. It uses material from the Wikipedia article "slaves"." with links to GFDL at www.spellcorrect.info/fdl.txt and to original article 19:45, 15 September 2007 (UTC)

Spiritus-Temporis

Spiritus-Temporis.com
URL http://www.spiritus-temporis.com
Sample http://www.spiritus-temporis.com/s5w-reactor
Rating Low/None
Details attribution and licensing language is invisible: black text against a black background

Now visible. States: "Some of the information on this page come from a Wikipedia article and are licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License. Under Construction] - Spiritus-Temporis.com ©2005." with link to original article (www rather than en) and link to GFDL at en.wikipedia.com 22:10, 27 September 2007 (UTC)

Contact info Whois info:

jbl_domain AT yahoo.fr

Actions

Sprinko

  • Site: www.encyclopedia.sprinko.com
  • Example: www.encyclopedia.sprinko.com/index.php?title=Dollar_sign
  • States: This article is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License. It uses material from the Wikipedia article "Dollar sign" with links to GFDL at gnu.org and to original article
  • States: Copyright 2006 Sprinko.com Lassitter Ent, Inc. Company - All Rights Reserved
  • Note: Somewhat hilariously replaces every occurence of the string "Wikipedia" with "Sprinko Encyclopedia". Example: http://encyclopedia.sprinko.com/index.php?title=Wikipedia

Stablepedia

Stablepedia
URL http://www.stablepedia.org
Sample http://www.stablepedia.org/wiki/France
Rating High
Details The site points out to the GFDL on every page requested from wikipedia [122]
Contact info staiii AT gmail.com
Actions none

stalkerpedia.org

stalkerpedia.org
URL http://stalkerpedia.org/ http://stalkerpedia.org/
Sample http://stalkerpedia.org/ http://stalkerpedia.org/
Rating "Low/None"
Details 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)

Star Trek: USS Scorpion

  • Site: Star Trek: USS Scorpion
  • The page known allies combines material from various Wikipedia pages, possibly with other text included as well.
  • No mention of Wikipedia
  • No mention of the GNU/FDL
Sent out standard compliance request email. Chase me ladies, I'm the Cavalry 23:27, 22 October 2007 (UTC)
Received one back - he's not aware of where the text is copied from - doesn't believe it is copied. I've supplied him with examples, but I might need to delve into the historical revisions. Chase me ladies, I'm the Cavalry 02:32, 23 October 2007 (UTC)
Fixed, I think. He's emailed back promising changes. Chase me ladies, I'm the Cavalry 03:59, 23 October 2007 (UTC)

Start learning now

  • Site: http://www.startlearningnow.com/
  • Although they mention Wikipedia and the GNU/FDL on [this page] They don't make it obvious from article pages that the content is under the FDL.
  • Example, Bloomington, Indiana has no mention of Wikipedia, although its obvious that is where the content came from.
    • Bloomington example (and others) now mentions Wikipedia, with links to Wikipedia XML and original page plus to GFDL at gnu.org. Page ends with "©2003-2005 All rights reserved, Start Learning Now."--Henrygb 02:14, 7 December 2005 (UTC)

Start surfing

startsurfing.com
URL http://startsurfing.com/encyclopedia
Sample http://startsurfing.com/encyclopedia/l/i/s/List_of_backronyms.html
Rating "Low/None"
Details None. They've reproduced the full Wikipedia body text with no menus, skins, images or attribution.
Contact info
Actions

List of backronyms is an article to which I'd contributed years ago; the original has long-since been deleted. If someone wants to preserve this stuff, great, but some attribution would be in order please? --carlb (talk) 17:52, 10 April 2008 (UTC)

StudyCrime.com


Starwood Hotels

Destination Seattle: Starwood Hotels: Seattle International Film Festival (SIFF)
URL http://ct.specialoffers.starwoodhotels.com
Sample http://ct.specialoffers.starwoodhotels.com/genDestLocalContent.aspx?ID=36146&LangType=1033&destName=seattle&View=BusDesc&LID=1&LEID=195
Rating "Low/None"
Details Not sure how much of our content they've used, but this page is a blatant copy
Contact info
Actions

Subnetworking.com

  • Site: subnetworking.com
  • Contains many articles that appear to be verbatim copies of articles, minus images and some tables.
  • No mention of Wikipedia.
  • No mention of GFDL
  • The site says under every page: MyAdvertisers.Com - Copyright © 2005 - All Rights Reserved

Sunny population

  • Site: www.sunnypopulation.net
  • Example: www.sunnypopulation.net/w/index.php?title=London
  • States "This is an extract from Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia" with link to www.wikipedia.org
  • No obvious mention of or link to GFDL
  • No obvious link to original article

Supercrawler

  • Site: www.supercrawler.com
  • Example: www.supercrawler.com/Facts/thomas_johnson__designer_.html
  • Link near top to original article (under "See live article")
  • States "This article is from Wikipedia. All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License" with links to Wikipedia and to local article about GFDL which in turn has link to GFDL text at gnu.org

Suprari

Suprari
URL http://www.suprari.com
Sample http://www.suprari.com/wiki.php?page=Nancy_Ajram
Rating "None" compliance with GFDL (matches Wikipedia:GFDL Compliance).
Details Does not credit Wikipedia, no link to article history. No mention of GFDL. Every page has a © 2007 Suprari
Contact info Whois: Strahija, Nikola - nikola AT tip-internet.hr
Actions None yet

Susan's Place Transgender Wiki

T

t-st.de

  • Site: wikipedia.t-st.de
  • Copy of the German Wikipedia
  • Use the Wiki-text as their source, as can be seen when their wiki-to-HTML translation does not work (e.g. in tables)
  • Links to local copy of the GNU/FDL article, which links to GNU/FDL at gnu.org
  • Keeps "aus Wikipedia, der freien Enzyklopädie"
  • Links to article & German main page

TaxGloss

  • Site: http://www.taxgloss.com/
  • Example:[123] from Albania
  • Article ends with "Provided by Wikipedia.org", with link to Wikipedia, and "All Rights Reserved TAXGLOSS.COM"
  • No mention of GFDL
  • No link to original article
  • As of 23:22, 10 December 2005 (UTC) --Henrygb

Teach-ICT.com

Teach-ICT.com
URL http://www.teach-ict.com/wiki
Sample http://www.teach-ict.com/wiki/index.php?title=Computer
Rating High
Details Main Page states that all text entries on the wiki section are licensed under the GFDL, and provides an on-site link to the full licence text. Articles copied from Wikipedia contain a notice providing credit and a link back.
Contact info admin AT teach-ict.com, User talk:GeeJo (contributor)
Actions None

Teachersparadise.com

Teamsugar.com

Teamsugar
URL http://teamsugar.com/
Sample http://teamsugar.com/173310
Rating Medium
Details Links to original WP article and remote copy of GFDL - however, still using upload.wikimedia.org for images
Contact info Contact page: [124]. brian AT sugarpublishing.com, me AT briansugar.com, 415-4094001
Actions

techno-science

  • Site: www.techno-science.net in French
  • Example: www.techno-science.net/?onglet=glossaire&definition=4865 from fr:Factorielle, largely a translation of English Factorial
  • States: "Cette définition provient de l'encyclopédie libre Wikipédia publiée sous licence GNU FDL, elle est reprise sur techno-science.net à but informatif. Vous pouvez soumettre une modification ou un complément à cette définition sur la page correspondante de Wikipédia. La liste complète des auteurs de cet article est disponible sur cette page. Il est possible que certains problèmes de mise en forme demeurent suite à l'importation de cette page, dans de tels cas veuillez vous reporter à la version originale sur Wikipédia."
  • Links to original article and history
  • Link to GFDL at gnu.org
  • As at 00:06, 24 September 2007 (UTC)

TelecomPie.com

TelecomPie.com
URL http://www.telecompie.com
Sample http://www.telecompie.com/HBO-Network-Shows/Fraggle_Rock.php
Rating low/none
Details claims own copyright, mentions neither Wikipedia nor GFDL
Contact info Registered in proxy.
abuse AT godaddy.com (ISP)
Actions none

Terraformers Society of Canada

Terraformers Society of Canada
URL http://society.terraformers.ca/
Sample http://society.terraformers.ca/content/view/13/43/ (from Terraforming of Venus), http://society.terraformers.ca/content/view/92/182/1/13/ (from Gobi Desert)
Rating Low/None
Details Contains slightly modified versions of many Wikipedia articles without giving credit to Wikipedia or original contributors, although does direct to Wikipedia for similar content under GDFL, on the Copyright Information page.
Contact info [125]: Scott Philp, President, Matthew Reynolds, Vice-President, Alan Ziolkowski, Treasurer, Angelica Summers, Secretary
Actions none

TerritorioScuola

  • Site: www.territorioscuola.com
  • Example: www.territorioscuola.com/wiki/en.wikipedia.php?title=Mormaer_of_Moray
  • Starts: Extracted from Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia with link to Wikipedia
  • Ends with Copyleft 1999-2008 TerritorioScuola. Some rights reserved. Informazioni d'uso.
  • Creative Commons some rights reserved logo links to Italian by-nc-nd/2.5 (Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works version 2.5)
  • Link to GFDL at gnu.org
  • No obvious link to original article

TheBestLinks.com

Description of the site: uses modified MediaWiki software to serve up an unmodified current-version English Wikipedia article database. The visual appearance is slightly different and a bar near the top lists some of the first few links in the article. They have added some special pages for popular pages, new pages, and a "quick index", and have added them to the sidebar. They have also added the ability to add links and discussion to the bottom of articles (blog-style).
This mirror I would say is noncompliant. The GFDL is linked, but there is no indication whatsoever that it's Wikipedia material, much less a link to Wikipedia or the article. The authors therefore receive no credit. The creating company's contact is info AT innovateit.com, but I have not contacted them. Deco 19:27, 28 Nov 2004 (UTC)
They mirror everything! Down to the User space! Hell, they have a mirror of this discussion. [126] [127] -- AllyUnion (talk) 07:43, 8 Dec 2004 (UTC)
They are certainly spammer fighting for some pageranks more. They put advertisement in the front of the text. But they do state (in tiny letter) that it is a Gnu document and then back link to wikimedia (not wikipedia)--Alexandre Van de Sande 13:43, 24 Dec 2004 (UTC)
And the last update was september 2004 :( — Ilyanep (Talk) 18:30, 22 January 2006 (UTC)
Scratch that, but it definately hasn't been updated recently (my userpage on their site still features my long deleted picture) — Ilyanep (Talk) 18:31, 22 January 2006 (UTC)

TheCatalyst.org

TheCatalyst
URL http://www.thecatalyst.org/
Sample http://www.thecatalyst.org/resource/2006/04/21/John-Dewey/
Rating low/none
Details Mirrors a selection of articles on Chemistry and Educational topics. Site claims copyright, mentions neither Wikipedia nor GFDL except that they reproduce our main page as one of their articles
Contact info m_geyer AT thecatalyst.org
Actions none

TheComDaily.com

thecomdaily.com
URL http://www.thecomdaily.com/
Sample http://www.thecomdaily.com/itm.html (compare Information technology management), http://www.thecomdaily.com/Ann---Az/Astrology.php (compare Astrology)
Rating low/none
Details Site claims copyright, mentions neither Wikipedia nor GFDL
Contact info
Actions none

TheFreeDictionary.com

TheFreeDictionary
URL http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com/
Sample http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com/Albania
Rating Medium
Details There is a clear notice with a link to the original article and the GFDL, although the GFDL link goes to an off-site copy.
Contact info http://app.thefreedictionary.com/feedback.aspx (contact form)
Actions
  • Standard letter sent. --Kwekubo 00:07, 11 December 2005 (UTC).
  • Sent another violation letter. Superm401 - Talk 07:28, 22 January 2006 (UTC)
Received reply noting that site was updated. I replied asking that he provide an on-site GFDL link, but otherwise the site is fine. Superm401 - Talk 08:17, 25 January 2006 (UTC)
Reiterated this via the feedback form. Superm401 - Talk 06:21, 19 January 2007 (UTC)

thefreeencyclopedia.com

  • Site: www.thefreeencyclopedia.com
  • Example: http://www.thefreeencyclopedia.com/definition/word.aspx?w=Bro%27Town from Bro'Town
  • Link to original article in Wikipedia
  • attributes the article to Wikipedia
  • Mentions GFDL, provides link, but also says "Copyright © 2005 TheFreeEncyclopedia.com"
  • The link, attribution and GFDL license are not clearly visible
    • i.e. in a very light grey small font, and uses graphics (the GDFL text is rendered as an image, making it invisible to text-only browsers and search engines.) and nofollow links

the-free-web-encyclopedia

the-free-web-encyclopedia
URL http://www.the-free-web-encyclopedia.com/default.asp
Sample http://www.the-free-web-encyclopedia.com/default.asp?t=England
Rating Low
Details
  • No mention of GFDL.
  • Mentions that the page was retrieved from Wikipedia as a link, but not a source.
Contact info http://app.thefreedictionary.com/feedback.aspx (contact form)
Actions Standard letter sent. -- WB 07:24, 23 January 2006 (UTC)

Theopedia

Theopedia
URL http://www.theopedia.com/
Sample http://www.theopedia.com/Thirty-nine_Articles
Rating Medium
Details Redistributing under GFDL. Does not seem to link to transparent copy or authorship. The example is a fork of Thirty-Nine Articles
Contact info http://www.theopedia.com/Special%3AListusers&group=sysop&username=
Actions none yet

thepedia.com

The Pedia

  • Site: thepedia.com
  • Mirrors all content into it's own site, with the addition of computer-generated "summaries" at the tops of articles.
  • Seems relatively new - search box isn't even a search box, just a place-holder image.
  • NOT compliant: No mention of GFDL, no mention of Wikipedia (except on the text of the mirrored main page) and says "Copyright (c) 2005 ThePedia.com, All rights Reserved
    • Owner contacted and site is now compliant. — Asbestos | Talk 15:37, 14 July 2005 (UTC)
  • Contact details from WhoIs: Registrant/Administrator: Roger Lichfield, admin AT dmbc.com
  • Listed here July 13, 2005, — Asbestos | Talk 10:30, 13 July 2005 (UTC)
  • No history section listing authors and dates.
  • Medium compliance.

The Planets

The Planets
URL www.the-planets.com/
Sample www.the-planets.com/star-biography/Penelope-Cruz-Biography.htm
Rating None
Details No mention of Wikipedia or the GFDL. Claims copyright.
Contact info chuckayoub AT yahoo.com
Actions

the-real-story.com

The Real Story
URL http://www.the-real-story.com/
Sample 50cent
Rating None
Details No mention of Wikipedia or GFDL. Each page says "All content is Copyright © of The Real Story 2005". Listed here November 20, 2005 --Arteitle 08:52, 20 November 2005 (UTC)
Contact info THE-REAL-STORY.COM AT domainsbyproxy.com, (480) 624-2599
Actions Standard letter Patstuarttalk·edits 05:38, 25 March 2007 (UTC)

Therfcc

  • Site: Therfcc.org
  • Example: [128]
  • Large amounts of Wikipedia content
  • Acknowledges GNU/FDL
  • Mentions Wikipedia, but no link to main page or individual articles.

thesopranos.com

see Wikipedia:Mirrors_and_forks/Stu#Sopranopedia

Thinkdogs.com

See Wikipedia:Mirrors_and_forks/Vwxyz#zipox

thinkingaustralia.com

  • Seems to have copied all Wikipedia content including user pages.
  • Mentions Wikipedia but not the GFDL nor the original article.
  • Thumbnails are from Wikimedia (they have no local copy)!
  • First letter sent by Wj32
  • Got reply, they've complied except for the link back. Sent response. --wj32 talk | contribs 11:25, 3 April 2007 (UTC)
  • Got another reply, they've fully complied. --wj32 talk | contribs 10:58, 4 April 2007 (UTC)
  • hmm are they mirroring live by any chance?Geni 10:23, 15 July 2007 (UTC)

tickerdvd.com

More research requested

TicketCity.com

TicketCity.com (not url)
URL http://www.ticketcity.com/
Sample http://www.ticketcity.com/Sports-Tickets/Basketball-Tickets/NBA-Tickets/NBA-Western-Conference-Tickets/NBA-Northwest-Division-Tickets/Denver-Nuggets-Tickets.html

http://www.ticketcity.com/Sports-Tickets/Hockey-Tickets/NHL-Tickets/NHL-Western-Conference-Tickets/NHL-Northwest-Division-Tickets/Colorado-Avalanche-Tickets.html</nowiki>

Rating "Low/None" compliance with GFDL (matches Wikipedia:GFDL Compliance).
Details "Copyright © 2007 TicketCity.com", no mention of GDFL or Wikipedia, seems every sport pages has copied the corresponding Wikipedia article.
Contact info Tech AT TicketCity.com - Web Site Technical Assistance
IP: 66.193.119.156
Administrative Contact, Technical Contact:
TicketCity.com domains AT ticketcity.com
2025 Guadalupe Street, Suite 142
Austin, TX 78705
US
512-472-5797 fax: 512-469-7682
Actions E-Mail first letter MECUtalk 23:19, 10 January 2007 (UTC)
Colorado Buffaloes compliant (they rewrote their own text), need to allow time for other pages for them to rewrite. Waiting 1 month to allow them to rewrite other pages as a courtesy. --MECU˜talk 14:41, 18 January 2007 (UTC)

ticketexplore.com

ticketexplore.com
URL www.ticketexplore.com
Sample http://www.ticketexplore.com/sports_ncaa_college_football/washington_huskies_tickets.asp
Rating None.
Details No compliance. Text is lifted from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washington_Huskies#Football.
Contact info info AT ticketexplore.com, 1-800-985-4849
Actions None taken at this time.

ticketnest.com

ticketnest.com
URL www.ticketnest.com
Sample http://www.ticketnest.com/sports-tickets/Washington-Huskies/index.php
Rating None.
Details No compliance. Text is lifted from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washington_Huskies.
Contact info sara AT ticketnest.com, 1-866-430-7297
Actions None taken at this time.

Tiosam.com

TimesDaily (Alabama)

  • Site: www.timesdaily.com
  • Example: www.timesdaily.com/apps/pbcs.dll/section?category=NEWS&template=wiki&text=Cliff_Richard
  • States: "Wikipedia information about Cliff_Richard This article is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License. More from Wikipedia" with links to GFDL at gnu.org and to en:Wikipedia main page
  • No obvious link to original article
  • Page ends "© Copyright 2007 TimesDaily. All Rights Reserved."

ToCatch.info

Putting them in LOW. We need to send them a complaint letter. Bandwidth stealing is not acceptable. JesseW 21:26, 22 July 2005 (UTC)


TopArticle.com

  • Site: TopArticle.com
  • Link to GNU FDL.
  • Link to Wikipedia homepage via "Help build the worlds largest free encyclopedia"
  • No link to original article.
  • Says the content is from Wikipedia.

Top40-Charts

  • Site: top40-charts.com or www.top40-charts.info
  • Example 1: top40-charts.com/artists/biography.php?aid=1595
    • No obvious mention of Wikipedia
    • No obvious mention of GFDL
    • Page ends "© 2001-7 top40-charts.com"
  • Example 2: www.top40-charts.info/?title=Cliff_Richard
    • Page ends "This page is based on the copyrighted Wikipedia article Cliff Richard; it is used under the GNU Free Documentation License. You may redistribute it, verbatim or modified, providing that you comply with the terms of the GFDL." with links to original article and to local copy of WP:GFDL

topliterature

  • Site: encyclopedia.topliterature.com
  • Example: encyclopedia.topliterature.com/?title=Dollar_sign
  • States: This page is based on the copyrighted Wikipedia article ( Dollar_sign ); it is used under the GNU Free Documentation License
  • Links to Wikipedia and original article, and to GFDL at gnu.org

totalbike.com/wiki

Does not appear to still exist. -- Arwel (talk) 23:31, 19 August 2006 (UTC)


Totally Explained

Totally Explained
URL http://totallyexplained.com/
Sample http://special_relativity.totallyexplained.com/
Rating High
Details The footer of each article states "This article contains text from the Wikipedia article 'article_name' (History) and is released under the GFDL", with a link to 1) The article 2) The article's history and 3) a local copy of 1.2 of the GFDL.
Contact info Nixon, Robin robin AT robinnixon.com, ISP is POWERMEDIUM.COM
Actions None taken.

Trango

Trango - Extraordinary Climbing Gear
URL http://www.trango.info
Sample http://www.trango.info/trango-towers
Rating Low/None
Details claims own copyright, mentions neither Wikipedia nor GFDL
Contact info http://www.trango.info/contact-us (contact form)
Actions
  • Standard letter sent --82.135.1.157 23:43, 31 October 2007 (UTC) kogo
  • Letter to site owner (hostmaster AT getnet.net) 10. November 2007
  • Letter to ISP (abuse AT getnet.net) --88.217.70.148 (talk) 21:55, 17 November 2007 (UTC)

Tranquillizer

Tranquillizer - Health, Fitness, and Relaxation
URL http://www.tranquillizer.co.uk
Sample http://www.tranquillizer.co.uk/weight-training-concerns.html
Rating Medium
Details Footer includes link to original article & an offsite (gnu.org) copy of the GFDL.
Contact info Registrant: Jon Wade; ISP: www.fasthosts.co.uk; contact form on website.
Actions None.

travel-destinations-01.com

Travel Destinations

  • Site: travel-destinations-01.com
  • Example: [130] from Beijing
  • Link to GNU FDL.
  • No link to Wikipedia homepage, but mention as a source.
  • No link to original article.
  • Says the content is from Wikipedia.

Trip Atlas

Trip Atlas
URL http://tripatlas.com/
Sample http://tripatlas.com/Latin_mnemonics
Rating Low/None
Details §4 ¶d, ¶f, ¶h, ¶i, and ¶j are not complied with. The sample page is a prior deleted version of Latin mnemonics.
Contact info Diamond Group; 477 Richmond St west; Toronto, Ontario; M5V 3E7
Actions Sent initial mail to registered email: proxy1084336 AT 1and1-private-registration.com (I fully expect no one to be at the address). The Evil Spartan (talk) 22:16, 2 January 2008 (UTC)

travel.mysic.org

More research requested

tscholars.com

  • Site: http://www.tscholars.com/encyclopedia/
  • Mentions Wikipedia and GFDL.
  • Links to the original article.
  • As of 13:45, 15 January 2006 (UTC)


TutorGig

TutorGig
URL http://www.tutorgig.com/
Sample http://www.tutorgig.com/es/Kunst+og+kultur and http://www.tutorgig.com/ed/William_Og_de_Burgh
Rating Medium
Details The actual texts of articles are not indexed by google, but search pages, which contain vast numbers of article titles, are, and do not contain any mention of Wikipedia, clogging up searches for non-Wikipedia-mirror infomation on topics in Wikipedia titles. All links are through a redirect script. They seem to show up with javascript off.
  • Link to current version of article, labelled "Edit this article".
  • Link to the GFDL on www.gnu.org
  • Indicates source is Wikipedia and links to Wikipedia home page.
  • Removed "From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia"
  • No history section listing authors and dates
Contact info info AT tutorgig.com, DGM Technologies Inc. 917-742-7626; ISP: THEPLANET.COM; abuse AT theplanet.com (800) 377-6103
Actions Nothing yet.

twgold.com

See Wikipedia:Mirrors_and_forks/Vwxyz#zipox

TvWiki

TvWiki
URL http://www.tvwiki.tv/wiki/Main_Page
Sample http://www.tvwiki.tv/wiki/Crime_Traveller and http://www.tvwiki.tv/wiki/Wikipedia
Rating Medium
Details Site has GFDL notice at the bottom of the pages - the image links to the GFDL license at http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/fdl.html - but the link in the text points to http://www.tvwiki.tv/wiki/Wikipedia:Text_of_the_GNU_Free_Documentation_License and http://www.tvwiki.tv/wiki/Wikipedia:Copyrights (both pages do not exist). The only mention to wikipedia is on the main page. The "General Disclaimer" link at the bottom of every page links to a non-existant page. Articles do have history, however doesn't attribute the edits to the contributors on Wikipedia.

Note, this appears to be an actual fork and not just a mirror. People can apparently edit the tvwiki site (I didn't try). (added 67.117.130.181 09:31, 31 December 2006 (UTC))

Contact info From the About TvWiki link at the bottom of pages:
  • Press Relations - Entertainment
  • Mobile: 703 966 8504

No information is available from a whois.

Actions

TheJC TalkContributions 13:15, 2 July 2006 (UTC)

TypeEncyclopedia.com

  • I emailed them. --mav 11:46, 4 Jan 2004 (UTC)
  • Opps! They are in full compliance after all (link to individula articles is under "This article"). --mav 14:07, 4 Jan 2004 (UTC)

TYPEsyria.com

(bizarrely, they have a copy of our Jordan disambiguation page! Amongst other content.)

  • no link to article
  • no link to GFDL. Standard letter sent by: MB 08:01 13 Jul 2003 (UTC)
    • no response received as of Jul 18. Will contact via domain name administrative contact arasa AT emirates.net.ae. Does anyone know what country .ae is? Does anyone know of a translator program, or know the language of this country? MB
      • Sounds like United Arab Emirates. Guessing from their location, I'm guessing they speak Arabic (perhaps a different dialect, but I doubt it), like all the other countries around there. There should be a lot of English too. dave
      • .ae is the United Arab Emirates, and the main languages include Arabic, English, Persian, Hindi, and Urdu.
  • Looks like typesyria is down, but typenetwork.com still has several coppies of Wikipedia, including almost the entire site typeencyclopedia.com. It uses a very old, outdated version of Wikipedia. LDan 04:09, 19 Oct 2003 (UTC)
  • Still 404. Patstuarttalk·edits 05:28, 25 March 2007 (UTC)

typeunitedkingdom.com

Type United Kingdom

Wikipedia printable version
  • Links to current Wikipedia article, but not at the stable URL (not a clickable link either)
  • No GFDL link
  • I think we should send the developers the standard letter - I already submitted a feature request and mentioned this issue on their mailing list; no response whatsoever. It is very important that the printable version is OK per our copyright since that is a nice clean HTML copy of an article. --mav 10:46, 31 Jul 2003 (UTC)
  • Works now. :) Martin 14:27, 3 Sep 2003 (UTC)
    • What does this mean? +sj+ 16:20, 2004 Mar 28 (UTC)
  • Site is 404. Patstuarttalk·edits 05:27, 25 March 2007 (UTC)

U

Uberpedia

Uberpedia
URL http://www.uberpedia.org/
Sample http://www.uberpedia.org/wiki/Personal_union
Rating Medium
Details Acknowledges Wikipedia with links to the original article, notes that the content is licensed under the GFDL (although links to GNU rather than local copy of GFDL).
Contact info
Actions

Unification Encyclopedia Project

Ufaqs

Ufaqs
URL http://www.ufaqs.com
Sample http://www.ufaqs.com/wiki/en/bi/Bill%20Clinton.htm
Rating Medium
Details Links to original version of article and offsite copy of GFDL. No history section listing authors and dates.
Contact info support(AT)ufaqs.com
Actions

Unipedia.info

  • Site: Unipedia
  • Sample article: Albania - http://www.unipedia.info/Albania.html
  • Mentions GNU/FDL, and links to GNU/FDL at gnu.org
  • Mentions Wikipedia, but no obvious link
  • Does not link to article page
  • Also a German version
  • Some strange Wikipedia administration pages when some references but not all changed to Unipedia.
  • Also user pages... Really annoying.
  • As of 09:31, 15 January 2006 (UTC)

Universipedia

Universipedia
URL http://www.pillnow.net/university/Library/Main_Page
Sample http://www.pillnow.net/university/Library/Cyberpunk
Rating Medium
Details
  • Mentions Wikipedia and GFDL.
  • No link to Wikipedia.
  • No link to the original article.
  • No link to GFDL.
  • Has "All right reserved ® Universipedia Project."
Contact info
Actions None -- WB 07:40, 8 February 2006 (UTC)

All the (former) Universipedia articles redirect to http://www.swiftpharmacy.net/ Is the page disappeared?--220.219.16.100 07:40, 21 July 2006 (UTC)

US Bazaar

  • Site: http://www.us-bazaar.com/
  • Example: [131] from Albania
  • Top right has Creative Commons "Some rights reserved" linking to GFDL at gnu.org
  • Bottom has disclaimer including "US Bazaar.com Encyclopedia content is provided by Wikipedia. US Bazaar.com is not responsible for the content and shall not be liable for any errors in the content, or for any actions taken in reliance thereon. All content is under a GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) and may be copied and distributed under that same license in any medium, either commercially or noncommercially, provided that the License, the copyright notices, and the license notice saying the License applies to the Document are reproduced in all copies, and that you add no other conditions whatsoever to those of the License."
  • No obvious links to Wikipedia or original article
  • As of 02:54, 8 February 2007 (UTC) --Henrygb

Userpedia.com

  • No longer exists.--Exarion 18:58, 24 June 2007 (UTC)

USGOVi.com

USGOVi.com
URL http://www.usgovi.com/
Sample http://www.usgovi.com/judicial/ (lifted from United States Supreme Court)
Rating None
Details Pages are verbatim copies of Wikipedia articles. No mention that the content is under the GFDL, no mention of or links to Wikipedia. No list of contributors.
Contact info Private domain registration through Domains by Proxy, Inc.
  • Phone: 1-480-624-2599
  • Email: USGOVI.COM AT domainsbyproxy.com
  • WHOIS information
  • DNS: NS1.HEALEGAL.COM, NS2.HEALEGAL.COM
Actions Good eye - clearly lifting material. Standard message sent. Patstuarttalk·edits 05:26, 25 March 2007 (UTC)

USGovernetics.com

USGovernetics.com
URL http://www.usgovernetics.com/
Sample http://www.usgovernetics.com/Hoc-to-Hot/holocaust.php
Rating Low/None
Details Only acknowledgment on this page was 'Retrieved from "http://88.208.194.172/wiki/index.php/The_Holocaust"'
Contact info
Actions

Mirrors and Forks :

(Numbers) ABC - DEF - GHI - JKL - MNO - PQR - STU - VWXYZ - All - Archive

V

vacilando.org

Wikipedia Reflection (Vacilano.Org)
URL http://www.vacilando.org/index.php?title=Main_Page
Sample http://www.vacilando.org/index.php?title=Current_events
Rating ?
Details 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 Mirrors_and_forks#Remote_loading on 21 Jan 2006. He has read it and is aware that remote loading is unacceptable.
  • Continues to run a live mirror as of 4 April 2006, claiming a moral right to do so.
  • Haha! His bot's IP has been blocked, or so it seems! Chris Chan {t|c} 13:12, 29 April 2006 (UTC)
  • Link produces fatal error 15:12, 19 December 2007 (UTC)

Vagabond Poet

  • Albania example above appears to no longer have Wikipedia content 15:16, 19 December 2007 (UTC)

vdmg.com

See Wikipedia:Mirrors_and_forks/Vwxyz#zipox

Vegetarian Worldwide

  • Site: [132]
  • Article: Vegetarianism
    • blatant copy of content [133] == /* Recomended reading */ [134]
    • blatant copy of content [135] == /* 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)

vermontreview.com

  • 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: [136] 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 [137] links to this copyright notice, in blatant violation of the GFDL

veropedia.com

Veropedia
URL http://www.veropedia.com/
Sample http://www.veropedia.com/docs/faq.php
Rating Medium
Details Has mirrored specific versions of articles from wikipedia,
Includes GFDL verbiage
Links back to wikipedia
Contact info info at veropedia dot com
Actions Contains links back to wikipedia, is hotlinking images.

Does not appear to list article contributors on their site. xaosflux Talk 16:07, 24 November 2007 (UTC)

Not compliant as far as I am concerned. No list of contributors, no link back to the forked article or it's history. Says "From Veropedia, based on Wikipedia". I'd be pretty pissed off if an article I'd made major contributions to ended up on the site with this level of attribution. Wikipedia doesn't own the content I write, I do, and I expect to either be credited right there or at the very least a link back to the history at Wikipedia. --kingboyk (talk) 23:42, 6 January 2008 (UTC)

vestigatio.com

  • Site: encyclopedia.vestigatio.com
  • Huge Link farm based on full wikipedia mirror. Each article has google ads.
  • Articles do not link back to Wikipedia
  • Says "©2006 Vestigatio" at the bottom of each page. Trious 09:39, 26 May 2006 (UTC)

VetMer.se

<VetMer.se>
URL http://www.vetmer.se/
Sample http://www.vetmer.se/täckdike/
Rating Low/None compliance with GFDL
Details 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)


Vipstars.us

vipstars.us
URL http://www.vipstars.us/
Sample http://www.vipstars.us/2007/01/23/penelope-cruz-biography/#more-659
Rating None
Details No mention of WP or GFDL.
Contact info Parwin Shukur, info AT studio.az, +994.552600006 (Azerbaijan)
Actions Site appears to be gone. The Evil Spartan (talk) 22:16, 12 March 2008 (UTC)

Virgin Radio

[[[Virgin Radio]]
URL www.virginradio.co.uk
Sample www.virginradio.co.uk/music/artists/cliff_richard/biography/
Rating Medium
Details "Biography from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. It may not have been reviewed by a professional editor, and recent changes may not show up straight away. See the latest version of this article. Used under licence. Subject to disclaimers." with links to main page, original article, Wikipedia:Copyrights and Wikipedia:General disclaimer all at en:Wikipedia. No obvious mention of GFDL or local copy of it. - "© 1993-2007 Virgin Radio Ltd"
Contact info
Actions

VoyageNow.com

  • Site: VoyageNow.com
  • Does not acknowledge wikipedia authorship, links to wikipedia
  • States that the article is licensed under the GNU FDL.
  • Does not link to the relevant wikipedia page (or wikipedia at all)
  • GNU/FDL link does not go to English the text of the GNU/FDL, but to a copy of the Japanese Wikipedia page on the GNU GPL
  • Example: [138] from List of Canadian Ministers of Finance.
  • Contact: securevoyagenow AT voyagenow.com
  • I'm also going after this one, again articles of mine have been copied, leading to particular annoyance. Standard letter sent. David Newton 17:59, 14 Mar 2004 (UTC)
    • Second standard letter sent. David Newton 00:34, 18 Apr 2004 (UTC)
  • Example produces "Page not found" 15:23, 19 December 2007 (UTC)
    • Site appears to have removed all Wikipedia material; waiting a little before archiving. The Evil Spartan (talk) 22:23, 12 March 2008 (UTC)

voyager.in

  • Site: www.voyager.in
  • Site Features wikipedia articles with db hosted on their own server

vsnw.com

See Wikipedia:Mirrors_and_forks/Vwxyz#zipox www.popstarfan.com

vvikipedia.fr

  • Site: vvikipedia.fr
  • Example: vvikipedia.fr/ancient.greek.html
  • In French but apears to be translation of old version of Ancient Greek in English rather than copy of fr:Grec ancien in French. Pages have English names.
  • Titled "Wikipedia" withe faint "fork"
  • Ends with "Cette page est basee sur l'article garanti les droits d'auteur 'Ancient Greek' de Wikipedia qu'il est employe sous le permis de documentation de GNU librement. Vous pouvez le redistribuer, in extenso ou modifie, fournissant que vous vous conformez aux limites du GFDL" with link to English GFDL at gnu.org
  • No obvious link to Wikipedia, original article or history

W

The W2N.net Wikipedia

The W2N.net Wikipedia
URL http://wiki.w2n.net/
Sample http://wiki.w2n.net/pages/Wikipedia.w2n explains how Jimmy Wales founded The W2N.net Wikipedia
Rating Low/None
Details "The W2N.net Wikipedia powered By The Rozaleenda Group, Inc." lacks GFDL information. Edit links produce script errors. This looks like an edited webscrape, as it reflects recent changes made this minute.
Contact info The Rozaleenda Group, Inc., K304, Binayak Enclave, 59 K C G Road, Kolkata, West Bengal, IN 700050. Admin: Swagato Gangopadhyay contact AT w2n.net 1-206-984-2222. ISP: Defender Technologies Group Llc of Ashburn, VA, USA
Actions None yet taken.


Wannago

Wannago
URL http://www.wannago.org
Sample http://wannago.org/site/cms/index.php?option=com_content&task=blogcategory&id=41&Itemid=75
Rating Low/none
Details Does not mention Wikipedia or the GFDL; claims copyrights.
Contact info support AT wannago.org is listed on the contact page; dsipes AT ipowerweb.com for the host found via WHOIS.
Actions Sent standard boilerplate on Wikipedia:Standard GFDL violation letter to support AT wannago.org

wapedia.mobi

wapedia.mobi
URL http://wapedia.mobi/en/
Sample http://wapedia.mobi/en/Dollar_sign
Rating Medium
Details compliance
  • Splits up the articles into many pages. Does not mention Wikipedia or the GFDL except on the last page.
  • On the last page, however, the site correctly references Wikipedia, with links to Wikipedia, local GFDL copy, original article etc.
  • As of 11:01, 24 October 2007 (UTC)
Contact info
Actions



Web Hosting Glossary

  • Site: web-hosting-reviewer.com/glossary
  • uses small extracts from a couple dozen technical/Internet related entries
  • link to current version of article
  • link to the GFDL on www.gnu.org


Webster's Online Dictionary- the Rosetta Edition

  • Site: http://www.websters-online-dictionary.org
  • contact point: Editor <webstersedits2 AT hotmail.com>
  • Indicates source is Wikipedia
  • link to local GFDL page, as specified in GFDL, in separate window.
  • "From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia" present
  • Links to Wikipedia article
  • Does not include a history section listing authors and dates.
  • uses various articles within larger collection
  • the site's general "terms of use" notes the following in several places "Exception: the only terms that apply to Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia, articles are the ones specified in the GNU FREE DOCUMENTATION LICENSE." Thus exempting Wikipedia content from the site's restrictions.
  • each article links to the following, with copies of GFDL,etc.,: ""Note: The text referenced in the "source," is exempt from any compilation copyright held by this site or the editor, so users can use the text freely under the copyleft GFDL license established by Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia, which is described in detail below. Any other material having copyright on this page resides with their respective owners."
  • http://www.websters-online-dictionary.org/definition/english/F-/F-15+EAGLE.html
  • A republisher of various internet dictionaries and encyclopedias. It does not mention Wikipedia on the front page but it does include "This article is a copy... GFDL" text at the bottom of articles. Probably fine. JesseW 05:59, 8 Oct 2004 (UTC)

NB: This is not the same as websters-online-dictionary.org

  • Links to Wikipedia & GFDL
  • Links back to original article

I think we can move to high --Davelane 09:56, 8 Oct 2004 (UTC)

GFDL and wikipedia links at bottom of pages depend on Javascript being turned on. They are not in the article source code and so will turn up on Google searches with -wikipedia. --Henrygb 01:55, 16 Nov 2004 (UTC)

  • Lack of history means medium compliance. Uncle G 12:32, 5 June 2007 (UTC)


what-means.com/encyclopedia/

What-means.com
URL http://www.what-means.com/encyclopedia/
Sample http://www.what-means.com/encyclopedia/United_States_Constitution
Rating Low
Details 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.
  • Looks like these scammers have now dropped all real content and consist entirely of Google ads and boilerplate. They are undoubtedly making some money for a while on click-through, because while they had content they got pretty high in the search engine rankings. - Jmabel
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)

why-war.com

Why-war
URL http://www.why-war.com/encyclopedia/
Sample http://www.why-war.com/encyclopedia/places/Alaska/
Rating Low Medium
Details States comes from Wikipedia, with link though not to original article

The website states it is available under terms of GFDL and attempts to link to the GFDL, but the link is off-site and (now) broken (a good reason to link on-site). Also, there is no included history section or link to the original article, but only the main page.

Contact info website AT why-war.com
Actions Sent violation letter. Superm401 - Talk 03:23, 22 January 2006 (UTC)
  • Nothing changed, though I'm changing this to medium because of the mention of GFDL and Wikipedia. (talk) 22:26, 12 March 2008 (UTC)

widescale.com

  • Site: widescale.com
  • No mention/link to GFDL
  • No mention of wikipedia
  • May be fair use, due to it's use of excerpts.

Wacklepedia.com

The text at the bottom of each article I examined is: "This article is from Wikipedia. All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License." (See, for example, James Branch Cabell, a copy of our article ([139]) as it stood at the end of 2003.)

  • Thus, it mentions the GNU FDL license and links to a local copy of it.
  • Each article that I examined does not credit authors, does not link to the Wikipedia article, does not link to the Wikipedia main page, and does not even give the Wikipedia URL in text.
  • An odd feature is that each article has this line near the bottom: "See a correction needed or have another comment? Post it in the Encyclopedia Forum". That forum invites visitors to report article corrections, add more detail, or post new articles, with the promise "We can also list you as a contributor if you wish." The forum was set up last week and has no activity thus far
  • Aside from GFDL compliance, does the Foundation want to make an issue of possible confusing similarity between "Wacklepedia" and the Foundation's trademark "Wikipedia"? There would be a case for requiring this site to use a different name.

The site owner previously created the "Bobby Fischer Chess Page" (now moved to [140]). He was editing Wikipedia articles to add external links to his site -- some appropriate, some not -- but then took to removing other Fischer links and substituting his own. I corresponded with him. He explained that he had misinterpreted the reversions of his initial edits, and promised not to cause any more trouble. Until now he has kept that promise. I'll direct his attention to the compliance requirements he's not meeting. He's edited the external links in a few of our articles to use a "Wacklepedia" URL instead of the "Bobby Fischer Chess Page" one, but I'll leave those links alone for a reasonable time to see whether he brings his site into compliance. JamesMLane 17:42, 12 Oct 2004 (UTC)

The site owner responded very promptly. He said he could easily make each page link to Wikipedia, presumably meaning the Main Page: "That should be easy as it's common code. But linking to every article is going to be quite a bit of re-work. Is there something easier?" I don't know of anything. Can someone more knowledgeable about compliance and coding advise me on what to tell him? JamesMLane 19:36, 12 Oct 2004 (UTC)

Each page now has a javascript end which says "All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License. This article is from Wikipedia" with links to local GFDL text and to original wikipedia article. Annoyingly, will still turn up on "-wikipedia" searches. --Henrygb 00:38, 10 Feb 2005 (UTC)

The javascript might be incompatible with some browsers, with the result that, if viewed in Netscape 7.2 for Mac OS X, it fails to visibly credit Wikipedia. 69.140.152.55 (talk) 01:12, 26 May 2008 (UTC)

Wikibin

Wikibin
URL http://wikibin.org
Sample http://wikibin.org/articles/paul-bristow.html
Rating
Details Says "All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License" with link to GFDL at gnu.org. Seems to contain some deleted Wikipedia articles (in this case see for example [141]), but apart from logos at top no indication of history.
Contact info
Actions


Wiki.cn

Main Page - Wiki.cn
URL http://www.wiki.cn
Sample http://www.wiki.cn/wiki/Biology
Rating "Low/None" compliance with GFDL
Details No GFDL notices or mention of Wikipedia on the pages I saw. Chinese wikipedia mirror that also hosts english language wikipedia files
Contact info Whois reveals contact information is webmaster AT wiki.cn
Actions I have not done anything else but make this report. –Bleh999 09:19, 25 September 2007 (UTC)

Wiki.phantis.com

Main Page - Phantis
URL http://wiki.phantis.com/index.php/Main_Page
Sample http://wiki.phantis.com/index.php/Euboea
Rating "Low/None" compliance with GFDL
Details A Wikipedia fork using articles related to Greece. A cursory sample of articles indicates that most were copied from Wikipedia from mid-2005 through 2006 and intended to be edited locally thereafter. No GFDL notices or mention of Wikipedia on the pages I saw.
Contact info E-mail (feedback form): http://www.phantis.com/forms/contact_form.html – Phone number of admin: 610-631-5361 (?) and ISP.(?) – Mailing address: Decision Group, Inc., c/o Phantis, P.O. Box 176, Eagleville, PA 19408, USA
Actions I have not done anything else but make this report. –Blanchette 16:53, 2 February 2007 (UTC)


WikiGadugi

WikiGadugi
URL http://en.wikigadugi.org/wiki/Main_Page
Sample http://en.wikigadugi.org/wiki/Beauty
Rating High
Details Mentions Wikipedia at [142] on every page of the site. The GFDL is mentioned on the site and links to the text of the GFDL License. Each article has a link back to the originating article on the English Wikipedia and full author and edit history. The site also has a link on each page of the wiki linking to the Wikimedia Foundations Donations page asking for contributions to the Wikimedia Foundation and Wikipedia.
Contact info jmerkey AT wolfmountaingroup.com,
Actions None
  • Currently (17:26, 20 September 2007 (UTC)) appears to have no local GFDL (or broken link), and no links to en.wikipedia including nothing to original article.

Wikinfo (wiki)

Wiki Ireland

Wiki Ireland
URL http://www.wiki.ie
Sample http://www.wiki.ie/wiki/Geography_of_Ireland
Rating Medium
Details
  • Mentions Wikipedia as source.
  • Links to the original Wikipedia articles.
  • Links to off-site GFDL; lacks link to local copy.
Contact info cloud (atsign) eircom.net.
Actions
  • First notice sent, requesting addition of links to Wikipedia articles and to a local copy of the GFDL. --Kwekubo 02:15, 10 April 2007 (UTC)
  • Links to GFDL and Wikipedia articles added by site owner. --Cloudie 14:13, 10 April 2007 (UTC)

Wikileasing.com

Wikileasing.com
URL http://www.wikileasing.com
Sample http://www.wikileasing.com/3/Imperator.html, http://www.wikileasing.com/0/Jupiter.html
Rating Low
Details Without Javascript, link to offsite GFDL, but no link to original article. With Javascript, link to original article is generated. False copyright statement "© 2006 Wikileasing.com".
Contact info andrej.remis AT gmail.com (whois)
Actions
  • I send to whois email contact a standard email. --F. Cosoleto 16:46, 6 December 2006 (UTC)
  • They say to me: "In a few days we will handle this isseu". --F. Cosoleto 23:16, 6 December 2006 (UTC)
  • No obvious Wikipedia content remaining--Rumping (talk) 11:35, 13 April 2008 (UTC)

Wikilib

  • Site: www.wikilib.com (Chinese)
  • Example: en.wikilib.com/wiki/Mathematics
  • No obvious mention of GFDL
  • Wikipedia only wisible in links such as to mirror of Wikipedia:About
  • History links only to most recent edit (typically September 2006) and subsequent local edits made to fork

Wikimirror

Wikimirror
URL http://www.wikimirror.com
Sample http://www.wikimirror.com/Quadratic
Rating Medium
Details Mentions Wikipedia and the GFDL but there is no included history or link to the original article. There is no link to the GFDL.
Contact info information AT wikimirror.com, abuse AT domainsbyproxy.com
Actions

Wikimiki

Wikimiki
URL http://www.wikimiki.org
Sample http://copyright.en.wikimiki.org
Rating None
Details No compliance. Evil porn site!
Contact info wikimiki.org AT contactprivacy.com, admin AT adpilot.info
Actions Sent standard non-compliance GDFL letter. UPDATE: sent reminder + warning

WikiMobs

  • Site: wikimobs.com
  • Example: wikimobs.com/index.php?title=Mathematics
  • Page ends "(C) 2006-2007 wikimobs.com - v0.9 beta Disclaimer : WikiMobs is not affiliated with Wikipedia Foundation. All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License. Wikipedia is a registered trademark of the Wikimedia Foundation, Inc."
  • No obvious links to Wikipedia, original article, or text of GFDL
  • Intersesting presentation of sections

wikipedia.net.pl

  • Site: www.wikipedia.net.pl
  • Example: www.wikipedia.net.pl/en/wiki/Dollar_sign.html (in English)
  • States: Autorem skryptu AdWiki v0.7 (2007) jest husky83 Licencję na skrypt dla strony WIKIPEDIA.NET.PL posiada blf jest zarejestrowanym znakiem towarowym Wikimedia Foundation Wszystkie materia�y pochodz� z Wikipedii, obi�te s� licencj� GNU Free Documentation License with link to local copy of GFDL in English and to pl.wikipedia.org
  • No obvious link to original article

WikiPilipinas

WikiPilipinas
URL http://en.wikipilipinas.org/
Sample http://en.wikipilpinas.org/index.php?title=Calamian_Group_of_Islands
Rating "Medium"
Details Most articles attribute the English Wikipedia; but many images don't or have false attributions. (Compare English Wikipedia and Wikipilipinas) Attribution is often incomplete - the articles that do attribute the English Wikipedia merely link to the main page. Almost no copied article links to the original article they were forked from.
Contact info Not given.
Actions English Wikipedia uploaders have started retagging their images. See WT:PINOY#Have you heard of Wikipiniana?.
  • Not found --Rumping (talk) 15:22, 13 April 2008 (UTC)

WikiTextbook

WikiTextbook
URL http://wikitextbook.co.uk
Sample http://wikitextbook.co.uk/index.php?title=Cell_structure%2C_tissues_and_organs_%28A_level_Bio%29 from Cell (biology)
Rating Low
Details Link to Wikipedia main page, but no link to original article or GFDL. This is a fork of Wikipedia meant to serve as a series of textbooks to UK schools; the Wikipedia articles have been taken to seed this effort. The owner is aware of Wikibooks and thus far chooses to fork anyway; he believes the interests of UK students can best be served through a separate site.
Contact info wiki AT wikitextbook.co.uk
Actions Owner initiated contact with me, and I have replied noting the problems and providing suggested solutions. Superm401 - Talk 05:59, 25 February 2006 (UTC)

Wikitruth

Wikitruth
URL
Sample
Rating Medium
Details This is a site for criticizing/parodying Wikipedia. They have a namespace "Uncensored" where they put articles that have been deleted from Wikipedia. They make it clear that the article is from Wikipedia, and now have a proper GFDL notice. They do not host the GFDL on their site. It is also apparently a modified version and they don't link back to Wikipedia or provide page history.
Contact info WIKITRUTH.INFO AT domainsbyproxy.com
Actions probably fair use.

wiki.unas.cz

wiki-trust

UCSC Wikipedia Trust Project
URL http://wiki-trust.cse.ucsc.edu
Sample http://wiki-trust.cse.ucsc.edu
Rating full compliance. (Only thing they got wrong is they renamed the entire Wikipedia: namespace "The UCSC Wikipedia Trust Project:" which was a little confusing at first).
Details Beta test; contains a static copy of Wikipedia from 2007, marked up in order to indicate the level of "trust" or credibility of the content: in a nutshell, material added by edit warriors is highlighted in yellow or orange, and material added by veteran editors who don't engage in revert-wars is displayed in ordinary black-on-white type. Hosted by the University of California. Site says that it is affiliated with http://quality.wikimedia.org. Additional documentation can be found at http://trust.cse.ucsc.edu/. Site seems to work only intermittently.
Contact info

University of California
School of Engineering
1156 High Street
Santa Clara, California 95064


Center for Information Technology Research in the Interest of Society
281 Hearst Memorial Mining Building
University of California
Berkeley, California 94720-1764

Actions none needed. (however, I think the site is notable, so I have submitted an article.)

wikitude

Wikitude
URL http://wikitude.com/
Sample
Rating low
Details No visible mention of the GFDL. No credit to contributors (no history link). Only mention of Wikipedia is the fact that the name begins with "wiki."
Contact info celebritypro.com, Woodbine, Maryland 21797-8812
Actions Site seems to work only intermittently.

wikiverse.org

  • Site: wikiverse.org
  • Mentions GNU FDL license and links to a local copy of it. Also references the Copyrights section, which is a verbatim copy of Wikipedia:Copyrights (does not mention that wikiverse.org != wikipedia).
  • Articles do not link to Wikipedia, nor acknowledge the article authors.
  • The first page clarifies the site's relationship to Wikipedia: "Wikiverse, an up-to-date high speed static mirror of Wikipedia, a worldwide community of volunteers building an open-content encyclopedia."
  • A person who claims to be responsible for the site has allegedly tried to disrupt the VfD process on a page about Wikiverse, and has responded to some, but not all, concerns about the copyright situation. See [143] and Wikipedia:Votes_for_deletion/Wikiverse.
  • Example: Apple Computer

Wikiwhat

  • Site: wikiwhat.com
  • Mentions Wikipedia (no link)
  • Mentions GFDL (no link)
    • Looks empty--Rumping (talk) 15:27, 13 April 2008 (UTC)

Wikivisual

Wikivisual
URL http://en.wikivisual.com/
Sample http://en.wikivisual.com/index.php/Wikivisual:Mirrors_and_forks
Rating Low/None
Details No compliance whatsoever, blind database copy.
Contact info Admin: Simon-pierre Lebel, Quebec, Canada, splebel AT gmail.com, +1.5143527830;
ISP: Groupe iWeb Technologies inc., Mertes, Cyrille, +1-514-286-4242, abuse at iweb.ca
Actions None so far.

wikix.ipupdater.com

Wikix
URL http://wikix.ipupdater.com/
Sample http://albert-einstein.wikix.ipupdater.com/
Rating Medium
Details Includes "Released under GNU FDL. Uses material from Wikipedia." Wikipedia is linked directly to the article copied; however GNU FDL is an offsite, broken link.
Contact info webmaster AT wikix.ipupdater.com, http://www.ipupdater.com/contactus.php?/dns&PHPSESSID=591bc9fda50dc5ca356f063330e6e0dc (domain contact), User_talk:213.216.196.114? (anon who first updated this entry to say links added)
Actions
  • Standard letter sent by me to contact address: webmaster AT wikix.ipupdater.com. The message bounced. The address is probably invalid. --Fibonacci 03:28, 27 May 2005 (UTC).
  • Reported site to http://www.ipupdater.com/, using the contact form of that page. --Fibonacci 03:17, 30 May 2005 (UTC).
  • Reported it to the webmaster again. Ipupdater apparently hasn't done anything. Superm401 - Talk 00:05, 6 November 2005 (UTC).
  • Never received an answer to my letter. Fibonacci 05:03, 2 December 2005 (UTC).
  • Sent letter asking for on-site GFDL. Superm401 - Talk 23:05, 22 January 2006 (UTC)
  • Received reply that "We will correct this issue, but it can take a couple of days, please have patience." He also noted correctly that the copyrights page still recommends an off-site GFDL, which I'm trying to change. Superm401 - Talk 01:00, 24 January 2006 (UTC)

workfriendly

  • Site: http://www.workfriendly.net
  • Example: [144] from Albania
  • In XHTML format (seems to include a form with a hidden input field containing a large block of base64-encoded text).
  • Mentions of Mediawiki, Wikimedia Foundation, Wikipedia, GFDL, URL of original article (not visible if viewed on a Macintosh)
  • Unclear whether links work
  • As of 02:38, 8 February 2007 (UTC)~ --Henrygb (updated by 69.140.152.55 (talk), 01:28, 26 May 2008 (UTC))

wordIQ

  • Sample article: http://www.wordiq.com/definition/Function_(mathematics)
  • States the GNU FDL license the articles are under.
  • Links to the GNU FDL (on FSF site, not local)
  • Acknowledges wikipedia authorship
  • Links to source wikipedia article
  • Links to the wikipedia history as author listing As of 05:23, 21 February 2006 (UTC), every article's history link is to the history of Wikipedia's Main Page.
  • Medium compliance

wordsonline.org

wordsonline.org
URL http://wordsonline.org/Main_Page
Sample http://wordsonline.org/AbbeY
Rating None
Details
  • No mention of Wikipedia.
  • No mention of GFDL.
  • No linking to the original article.
Contact info
  • info AT infooracle.com (admin; no replies)
  • abuse AT gnax.net (ISP)
Actions Contacted ISP -- WB 01:18, 22 January 2006 (UTC)

World Geography Information

Has copies of about 25,000 Wikipedia articles; the intention is that they will be edited according to their different policy. Obviously, not a verbatim copy.

  • link to current (or sometimes older) version of article
  • link to GFDL
    • Cannot access--Rumping (talk) 15:31, 13 April 2008 (UTC)

WorldHistory

  • Site: WorldHistory.com
  • Example: Aleksei Yeliseyev
  • States the GFDL license the articles are under.
  • States that the original article is at wikipedia, gives link to the article on wikipedia
  • Does not have "title page".
    • Example does not work. Wiki may have been removed --Rumping (talk) 15:34, 13 April 2008 (UTC)

world-knowledge-encyclopedia.com

  • Site: http://www.world-knowledge-encyclopedia.com/default.asp
  • No mention of GFDL.
  • No mention of Wikipedia besides linking the original article.
  • March 23, 2005 is the last main page update.
  • As of 14:00, 15 January 2006 (UTC)
    • No connection --Rumping (talk) 15:35, 13 April 2008 (UTC)

World News Network

World News Network
URL
Sample http://article.wn.com/view/2008/02/15/Valentines_Day_grosses_Rs_262_cr_for_flower_sellers/
Rating "Medium"
Details They are routinely using photos (from Commons, as far as I can tell) and crediting them as "GNU/<author>". They seem to be making an honest effort to credit the photo, but don't seem to understand that if they are not GFDL-compliant, then they can't freely reuse these.

They appear to be some sort of syndication thing (supplying a lot of news sites) so these get heavily reused.

Contact info http://forms.wn.com/form/wn-feedback/ is their feedback page.
Actions I left them a note 12 March 2008. - Jmabel

World-of-celebrities.com

World Wide Web Find

    • Example simply produces search engine --Rumping (talk) 15:37, 13 April 2008 (UTC)

worldsexexplorer.com

wstuff.com

See Wikipedia:Mirrors_and_forks/Vwxyz#zipox

Wulong for life

Wulong for life
URL http://www.wulongforlife.com
Sample http://www.wulongforlife.com/premiumwulong_002.htm
Rating "Low/None".
Details Completely plagerizes http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oolong_tea
Contact info Support AT OkumaTea.com
Actions WMF Notified via OTRS Ticket#: 2006050410003399. added


wikimotorcycles.org

WikiMotorcycles
URL http://www.wikimotorcycles.org
Sample http://www.wikimotorcycles.org/index.php/Cagiva
Rating None
Details has directly copied Wikipedia articles related to motorcycles with no reference to the source or GFDL. Vigilante attempts (not me) to remove content have resulted in the stolen content restored.
Contact info none
Actions none, no contact info available

WYSIWICKED.com

WYSIWICKED Encyclopedia
URL http://www.wysiwicked.com/encyclopedia/
Sample
Rating
Details says "extracted from Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia" at the top of each article. Specifically mentions the GFDL. No mention of the general disclaimers, however.
Contact info Walrecht

T. Walrecht (domainadminATuniserverD0Tnl)
Pastoor Verhoeffpark 70
Breezand
,1764 GS
NL

Actions none

X

Xasa

xdope.com

xdope.com
URL http://xdope.com
Sample http://xdope.com/Prodi.html
Rating None
Details
Contact info {{{contact}}}
Actions
  • Emailed request for Wikipedia mention and GFDL notice. --F. Cosoleto 15:36, 6 February 2007 (UTC)

Xtrj.org

Xtrj.org
URL http://www.xtrj.org/
Sample http://xtrj.org/ssm4/turing_machine.htm
Rating Low
Details This is a true Verbatim Copy, but Wikipedia itself did not include a GFDL notice at the time of copying (see Internet Archive). Nevertheless, it is still required.
Contact info chen_huailin AT yahoo.com, huailin AT xtrj.org (whois), abuse AT register.com (host), copyright-complaints AT register.com (host)
Actions
  • Emailed request for GFDL notice to huailin AT xtrj.org. Superm401 - Talk 06:41, 26 February 2006 (UTC)
  • Replied saying "You are right. I will do so per you suggested." Superm401 - Talk 02:57, 28 February 2006 (UTC)
  • Checked the site, there is a very prominent GFDL notice at the top. Links back to article, history, and even to edit page. I don't change the rating because I am just an anonymous coward visiting, and I don't know if there is any protocol to follow. 190.134.22.98 (talk) 16:18, 15 May 2008 (UTC)

Y

Yotor Facts

Yotor
URL http://www.yotor.com/, http://www.yotor.net, and http://www.yotor.org/
Sample http://www.yotor.com/wiki/en/ly/Lyricist.htm
Rating Medium
Details Provides a machine translation of our articles to Spanish, Italian, German, French, ... full list of languages at the bottom of http://www.yotor.com/wiki/. Sample translations of Lyricist: Italian at http://www.yotor.com/wiki/it/ly/Lyricist.htm and Spanish at http://www.yotor.com/wiki/es/au/Autor.htm . Includes the following text at the bottom of each page: "This article is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License. It uses material from the Wikipedia article (article name and link)." There is no local copy of the GFDL. However, there should be a history entry with "title, year, authors, and publisher" for each translation (per 4#I of the GFDL). Also, depending on how they're translating it, they may not really have the right to distribute the translated version under the GFDL.
Contact info abuse AT totalchoicehosting.com, abuse AT domainsbyproxy.com, YOTOR.COM AT domainsbyproxy.com
Actions

You Health Questions and Answers

YouQA
URL http://www.youqa.com/
Sample http://www.youqa.com/diseases-conditions/3154-1-youqa-4.html and http://www.youqa.com/mental-health/2441-youqa-4.html and site should be checked for others
Rating Low/None
Details Claims copyright, no mention that text was taken from Tourette syndrome
Contact info youqa.com AT gmail.com
Actions None. SandyGeorgia (Talk) 17:04, 16 October 2007 (UTC)

yourencyclopedia.net

  • I don't know if this web site has already been recorded somewhere in Wikipedia, but I came across an exact copy of a Wikipedia article (although it was an old version, from somewhere down the edit history) as a #1 Google hit. The nasty thing about this site is that our links do work. However, red links are not shown, and if you click on one you are all of a sudden right on a Wikipedia edit page. This is an invitation to vandalize Wikipedia, but I was unable to find an e-mail address. <KF> 00:14, 23 Jul 2004 (UTC)
  • This is a mirror of Wikipedia. It mentions the GFDL and Wikipedia once on its main page, but none of the articles have a list of authors or links to the Wikipedia pages. Guanaco 23:52, 2 Sep 2004 (UTC)
    • Huh? I just looked at a few articles and they all had this at the bottom of the page, with links: "This article is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License. It uses material from Wikipedia - see source." Hob 00:00, 2004 Sep 3 (UTC)
User:Zanimum moved this to medium from low. I'm not exactly sure why, but I assume because it mentions the GFDL and links to Wikipedia. JesseW 22:47, 8 Nov 2004 (UTC)
The site now has a list of nursing homes. No longer a mirror.--Exarion 17:41, 24 June 2007 (UTC)

yourart.com

Example: http://www.yourart.com/research/encyclopedia.cgi?subject=visual%20arts%20and%20design

-- clearly dynamically fetched, as it reflected edits made only a few seconds ago -- The Anome 13:15, Nov 3, 2004 (UTC)

yamourdotcom

  • Low compliance if any. (www.yamour.com/evolution/wikipedia.html) Claiming its own right without any reference to GFDL: "This document was realized for educational purposes. You do not have the right to use or copy any of the images ; but You are free to link to this document. In case you want to link to this document for Educational purposes ,please read the term of service at the end of this page." Now feeding back as viral advertisement through its own "term of service" [sic]: "Term of service : In case you want to link to this document for educational reasons : you should also link to the main page [http:// www.yamour.com/]". Reported by Kaihsu 21:32, 27 August 2006 (UTC). No action taken yet.

Still violating and tried to remove this current discussion. Presumed malicious. – Kaihsu 15:12, 30 August 2006 (UTC)

Still trying to vandalize this page and wrongly attributing my comments to 5ko. I suggest the person(s) behind yamourdotcom actually read the GNU Free Documentation License carefully before doing anything else on Wikipedia. – Kaihsu 09:48, 31 August 2006 (UTC)
Well, at the time that I write the SEO link-spam is back again in the article (removeing it now). As I am not a frequent editor on the English Wikipedia I believe you should report this behaviour to an administrator. Greetings, --5ko 17:10, 31 August 2006 (UTC)


it's not a dictatorship you can not ban someone if he does not agree with you ,

the link you are talking about does mention the GFDL , and the user 5ko that pretends it's a SEO link apparently is an expert in SEO check this link and you'll see that he is a user in every possible version of wikipedia and have hundreds of links toward his personal site , if this isn't SEO than what is see the link : 5ko many faces i assure you if you ban one more time the user because he simply does not agree with you , both of you will be reported to administration Newww 18:15, 31 August 2006 (UTC)

I suggest you start by learning more about Wikipedia. (1) User accounts in different languages are needed to post interwiki links. (2) The page that you try to link is not relevant for wikipedia readers, comparing to http://nostalgia.wikipedia.org or http://web.archive.org, probably where you took the screenshots. (3) Two days ago the note about GFDL was not there, you added it lately, however you still infringe the GFDL by not publishing the list of all co-authors, not even a link to the page itself and to its history. (4) If these screenshots are so important, we can legally add them here, on Wikipedia, which would be easier for everyone. (5) As it is "your" page, you have some difficulty estimating the relevence of your "work" for the encyclopedia readers : please, leave to the Wikipedia editors do that relevence estimation. --5ko 06:24, 1 September 2006 (UTC)
P.S. I just recieved an amusing letter, seo confession, threats that my user page will be vandalized again, and a job offer from this person, and will post it at User:5ko/Yamour (in French language). I work primarily at Bulgarian Wikipedia where I have done more than 17500 edits mostly on articles and help pages, and 6000 pictures (not counting the +64K edits with my bot). Wikipedia editor since February 2003, I am not surprised that Google knows about me... --5ko 06:24, 1 September 2006 (UTC)
I admire your integrity, 5ko. – Kaihsu 10:01, 1 September 2006 (UTC)

Case now reported to Wikipedia:Administrators'_noticeboard/Incidents#linkspammer_from_yamour.com. – Kaihsu 14:40, 1 September 2006 (UTC)

See meta:Talk:Spam blacklist#yamour.com -- yamour.com to be blacklisted. --A. B. (talk) 03:48, 5 June 2007 (UTC)

Yourlit.com

Yourlit.com
URL http://www.yourlit.com
Sample http://www.yourlit.com/Fantasy-Novels/The_Curse_of_Chalion.php, http://www.yourlit.com/X-Men-Villains/Fabian_Cortez.php
Rating None
Details At the bottom of each page: "©Yourlit.com All rights reserved"
Contact info
Actions standard email

Yawiki.org

Yawiki.org
URL http://www.yawiki.org
Sample http://www.yawiki.org/proc/Wiki
Rating High Low/Medium
Details GPDL
Contact info sean beecroft _a t_ hot mail dot com
Actions standard email

Robot Website:

  • This site has been reviewed and tested as OK according to McAfee SiteAdvisor
  • Site advisor's profile is at [147]
  • GFDL compliance is good. They have a clear reference to contributors on a centeral 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: [148] (which I had to really search for). It may be I couldn't find it, but it wasn't listed elsewhere. For example, on [149], 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)

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Zazzle.com

<name of the webpage> (not url)
URL Zazzle.com
Sample http://www.zazzle.com/product/148013931882947437
Rating Low/None
Details No mention of Wikipedia or the GFDL.
Contact info Technical contact: domains AT zazzle.com
Actions None yet.

zdnet.co.za

zdnet.co.za
URL http://www.zdnet.co.za/index.html
Sample http://www.zdnet.co.za/m/a/t/Matthew_Brettingham_02b0.html
Rating Medium
Details
  • No links to Wikipedia.
  • No links to the original article.
  • Mentions Wikipedia.
  • Links to local GFDL.
  • Uses Wikipedia as if it was their own site. (logo, About Wikipedia, etc.)
  • Uses static HTML, which should not be used for mirroring.
  • Contains the cryptic statement at the bottom, "The Encyclopedia® is a registered trademark of the Wikimedia Foundation, Inc."
Contact info
  • rmckay AT hotmail.com (admin; Mr. Russell McKay)
  • abuse AT pwebtech.com (ISP)
Actions None. -- WB 06:00, 22 February 2006 (UTC)
  • Contacted site owner with copyright notice Tawker 06:40, 22 February 2006 (UTC)

zipox

Zipox.com Blog
URL http://zipox.com
Sample http://zipox.com/Pearl_Harbor
Rating Low/None
Details 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 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)

Zoo-Hoo

Zoo-Hoo.com
URL http://zoo-hoo.com/
Sample http://www.zoo-hoo.com/index.php?q=giraffe
Rating Low
Details Noted on each page where it has been retrieved from, but no sign of GFDL licence.
Contact info None on site
Actions None

Zinc.org

Zinc.org
URL http://www.zinc.org/
Sample http://www.zinc.org/properties.html
Rating Low/None
Details Only one violation - an entire infobox (including image) copied from the article Zinc (Infobox zinc). No credit given at all, not a single mention of Wikipedia or any of our licenses.
Contact info http://www.dnsstuff.com/tools/whois.ch?ip=zinc.org
Actions None so far.


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