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{5-Digit US ZIPCODE}.us

Neustar/Vendare Media -- Controller of .us TLD
URL http://[0-9]{5}.us/
Description
Sample http://10001.us/
Rating Low
Compliance none, dump of ?action=render
Contact info usdirectory@vendaremedia.com bounced

support.us@neustar.us ISP (Amazon AWS) email: abuse@amazonaws.com, Abuse Form

Actions none yet

101languages.net

101 Languages
URL http://www.101languages.net/
Description
Sample http://www.101languages.net/slovenian/history.html
Rating Medium
Compliance A separate page explains that the content in the "Language" section is taken from Wikipedia and available under GFDL, but does not link to original articles, doesn't list authors and doesn't provide local copy of the license (just a link to gnu.org is provided).
Contact info Only a contact form is provided.
Actions none yet

21st century Cambodia: View and Vision

21st century Cambodia: View and Vision
URL http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=IAbUcEsv-x0C&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_atb#v=onepage&q&f=false
Description \
Sample
Rating Low/none
Compliance A compilation of Wikipedia and other online articles published by Global Vision Publishing House without attribution.
Contact info nsingh_2004@vsnl.net, info@globalvisionpub.com
Actions

2violent.com

2violent.com
URL http://www.2violent.com/
Description
Sample http://www.2violent.com/sharon_tate.html
Rating Medium
Compliance 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)[reply]
    • 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)[reply]

99Colors

99Colors
URL http://www.99colors.net/
Description
Sample http://www.99colors.net/name/dark-candy-apple-red
Rating Low/None
Compliance List of colo[u]r details, such as names & RGB values, at least partially scraped from en.wikipedia. Contains some problematic content which was removed from enwiki for other reasons (ie. simply made up by an editor); existence of this (mirrored) content has been used to justify re-adding it.
Contact info contact@99colors.net
Actions Repeated emails; all bounced.

A–Am

abcdef.wiki

abcdef.wiki (title: QWERTY.WIKI)
URL https://abcdef.wiki
Description formerly xcv.wiki, qwerty.wiki, que.wiki, qaz.wiki and other.wiki: they all redirect to abcdef.wiki at the moment; it may change domain again in the future. It seems to use live machine translations from the English Wikipedia to generate mirrors in 16 languages, without references. Some translations are very poor (e.g. Russian) while others are very good (e.g. Italian). Too many invasive ads, some of which are mildly pornographic.
Sample https://es.abcdef.wiki/wiki/Wikipedia
Rating low
Compliance matches WP:CCBYSAC
Contact info admin@qwerty.wiki
Actions (qwe.wiki) reported to Google AdSense; it definitely violates the rules on invasive ads.

About.com

  • Site: http://www.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)[reply]
  • They have started mirroring the whole thing - see http://experts.about.com/e/a/index.htm. They seem to be compliant, albeit in a very discreet way.
  • 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)[reply]
  • 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)[reply]
  • 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)[reply]
  • 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)[reply]
  • I know an editor there, she definitely writes her own stuff. No adware/spyware at about.com either.
  • experts.about.com now redirects to en.allexperts.com Allexperts is a wikipedia mirror apparently owned by about.com


About.com (not url)
URL www.about.com
Description
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.
Compliance 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

About Everything, everyone Wiki

About Everything, everyone Wiki
URL http://everythingeveryone.wikia.com/wiki/About_Everything,_everyone_Wiki
Description
Sample http://everythingeveryone.wikia.com/wiki/John_Augustine_Smith
Rating None
Compliance No attribution to Wikipedia, no links to original article nor page history. Wikia CC-BY-SA 3.0 license automatically applies to content.
Contact info copyright AT wikia.com. Further contact details: http://www.wikia.com/Terms_of_Use#Claims of Copyright Infringement
Actions I've copied the latest version on Wikipedia of the John Augustine Smith article and added the Wikipedia template. What other articles were plagiarized/plagiarised from Wikipedia? Stranger195 (talkcontribsguestbook) 09:13, 5 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Absolute Astronomy

Absolute Astronomy
URL http://www.absoluteastronomy.com
Description
Sample http://www.absoluteastronomy.com/topics/Choctawhatchee_Mid-Bay_Bridge
Rating Medium
Compliance Off-site GFDL. Javascript required to view mention.

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. The GFDL violation was related to displaying source information inside javascripts. This created problems for visitors who had javascript disabled. The problem was corrected when it was brought to our attention.

No obvious sign of GFDL, copyrighted by website and no mention of wikipedia - http://www.absoluteastronomy.com/topics/Alice%27s_Restaurant_(film) L∴V 15:12, 10 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

May 2010:

http://www.absoluteastronomy.com/terms.aspx

"COPYRIGHT - AbsoluteAstronomy asserts its legal copyright for all original works of authorship or intellectual property published on AbsoluteAstronomy.com. You may not publish, modify, or transmit this content without express written permission from AbsoluteAstronomy"

This implies that AbsoluteAstronomy has copyright to the content on it's site, but mostly it doesn't. The vast majority of content on the site is copyrighted by wikipedia authors, and licensed to AbsoluteAstronomy under certain terms (GFDL I guess?), which include the right for others to 'publish, modify, and transmit' the content of the site. IMHO it's a bit misleading. Decora 23:12, 23 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

August 2014:

Articles from Wikipedia are now linked at their bottom to the corresponding wp article, and the GFDL is asserted. LeadSongDog come howl! 07:15, 27 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Contact info
Actions

AbsoluteArts.com

World Wide Arts Resources / AbsoluteArts.com
URL http://www.absolutearts.com/
Description
Sample http://www.absolutearts.com/artsnews/2006/01/06/33592.html
Rating "Low/None"
Compliance 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 Accelerator

Academic Accelerator: The Most Up-to-Date Encyclopedia, News, Review, & Research
URL https://academic-accelerator.com/encyclopedia/

(That page is identical to the one at https://academic-accelerator.com/, with no mention of any encyclopedia, mostly just a search field of unclear purpose saying "Enter Journal Full Title" and an ad for their scientific publication blockchain (?) thing. You have to go to a specific article to access the encyclopedia.)

Description Apparently a complete mirror, though badly done and apparently disguised.

Articles (at least the Alouette 1 article that I found) are badly formatted with no internal links present in the text (but see below), all text styling removed, lists presented as flat text (including the "See also" and "External links" sections), and subheadings presented as full headings wrapped in equals signs, indicating poor parsing.

Ironically, while they claim to be academic, the References section is completely omitted. So are all categories and infobox content. They add a dynamically-populated "Scholarly Articles" section right below the introduction, though it's empty for the Alouette 1 article, as well as sections of videos (that look like they're from YouTube, and some of which are irrelevant (anime, etc.) that happened to include the word "Alouette") and images (all images in the article, even those used only as icons in navboxes). Images are also shown all combined into one thumbnail at the top. Clicking an image in either place opens a lightbox where you can cycle through them. In all three of those places, the captions are all missing.

In the "Related topics" section at the very bottom of the page, below the videos and images, there is a list of what I guess are the target articles of all of the links from the article, including those in navboxes, in alphabetical order, meaning they've lost their context and link titling. And, because they apparently tried to reinvent hyperlink functionality using scripting and failed, the links don't work, even with scripts enabled in the browser.

They seem to have modified the text in various ways, presumably to avoid detection. For example, the wording "deactivated Canadian" in the first sentence of the Alouette 1 article is changed to "Canadian deactivated", and "Parts used for the construction of Alouette 1 can still be found in the Musée des ondes Emile Berliner in Montreal…" became "The parts used in the construction of Alouette 1 can still be seen at the Emile Berlina Museum in Montreal…", both wordings that, as far as I could tell with a bit of WikiBlame and manual searching, have never appeared in Wikipedia. If you do a simple diff (with an external tool), you'll find many more examples. To do this in so many places in presumably every article, it must have been automated.

Sample https://academic-accelerator.com/encyclopedia/alouette-1
Rating Low/None
Compliance No mention of or links to Wikipedia, copyright, or licensing anywhere, even with scripts enabled. Text is modified in ways that look like the goal is to avoid plagiarism detection.

If you point at an image, before opening the lightbox, and look at the target URL your browser displays, you'll see the URL of the bare image (not the file description page), e.g., https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e5/Alouette_1.jpg; it can also be copied from the contextual menu there. That's the only hint of any connection to anything Wikimedia-related.

Contact info Academic Accelerator: contact (at) academic-accelerator.com (from https://academic-accelerator.com footer)

Cloudflare (CDN): https://abuse.cloudflare.com/ (email not accepted)

Namecheap (domain registrar): abuse (at) namecheap.com, +1.6613102107 (abuse contact info from whois)

Host unknown

Actions None

Academic Dictionaries and Encyclopedias

Academic Dictionaries and Encyclopedias
URL enacademic.com / en.academic.ru
Description
Sample http://en.academic.ru/dic.nsf/enwiki/15588, http://deacademic.com/dic.nsf/dewiki/631248
Rating Low/None
Compliance Mentions Wikipedia but not copyright, authors or license; doesn't link back to articles or images. Confusing footer "Wikimedia Foundation".
Contact info support@academic.ru
Actions

Academic Kids

Academic Kids
URL http://academickids.com/encyclopedia/index.php/Main_Page
Description
Sample http://academickids.com/encyclopedia/index.php/User:Jimbo_Wales
Rating "Low/Medium"
Compliance 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: http://www.net-lexikon.de/
  • 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"

African Movie Academy Awards

African Movie Academy Awards
URL http://ama-awards.com
Description
Sample [1] from 5th African Movie Academy Awards; [2] from 4th African Movie Academy Awards
Rating Low/None
Compliance Contents are copied entirely from Wikipedia, including our own internal links, with no mention made that the content comes from Wikipedia. The bottom of each page bears the notice "copyright © 2010 AMAA"
Contact info ?
Actions The contributor whose content was copied wrote to the webmaster and the content has been removed. There may be no future issues, but the listing here can be helpful in case the problem recurs. It is particularly important to document these issues in the event that they should continue and should become less obvious, to avoid our contributors being unfairly accused of copyright infringement. --Moonriddengirl (talk) 12:21, 8 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Alchetron

Alchetron.com ~ Free Social Encyclopedia for the World
URL https://alchetron.com/
Description Wikipedia articles mixed with some info and YouTube videos.
Sample https://alchetron.com/Natasha-Bedingfield
Rating Medium
Compliance Links back to Wikipedia with an unclear "(Text) CC BY-SA" link at the very bottom of the page while erroneously claiming in the footer " Alchetron © 2019", No mention of licence for images
Contact info support@alchetron.com
Actions None so far.

Algebra.com

Algebra.com
URL http://www.algebra.com/algebra/about/history/Main_Page.wikipedia
Description
Sample http://www.algebra.com/algebra/about/history/KForge.wikipedia
Rating High
Compliance 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. Now has text "Source: this wikipedia article, under CC-BY-SA", with appropriate links, on every page.
Contact info ichudov@algebra.com , ichudov@gmail.com (from WHOIS)
Actions
  • sent letter to contact attress
  • Sent a letter to gmail address, mentioning CC-BY-SA. Superm401 - Talk 23:59, 28 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]
He replied stating, "But I do say all of those things on the bottom". I replied noting that the requirements had changed due to the licensing transition, and KForge (which I cited) is CC-BY-SA only. Superm401 - Talk 00:35, 29 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]
He replied, "so if I say CC-BY-Sa I will be fine?". I responded, "Generally yes, since all Wikipedia text is now available under CC-BY-SA.", with some further details. Superm401 - Talk 01:48, 29 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]
He replied that it had been changed, and now seems compliant. Superm401 - Talk 02:47, 29 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

allmichaeljordan.com

Michael Jordan
URL http://www.allmichaeljordan.com/
Description
Sample http://www.allmichaeljordan.com/career.php
Rating High
Compliance As of 17 April 2020 the website is compliant.
Outdated compliance notes
The following discussion has been closed. Please do not modify it.

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)[reply]

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)[reply]


alquds

Alquds (not url)
URL https://wiki.alquds.edu
Description Appears to be a complete mirror
Sample https://wiki.alquds.edu/?query=Wikipedia
Rating "High", "Medium", or "Low/None" compliance with CC-BY-SA (matches Wikipedia:CC-BY-SA Compliance) (compare against GFDL if they choose that license).
Compliance Describe details of compliance or lack thereof. List violations here.
Contact info ISP: Al-Quds University, email (pr/general contact): pr@alquds.edu
Actions Actions taken (if any) to attempt to make the website comply.

Amazines.com

Amazines
URL http://www.amazines.com
Description
Sample http://amazines.com/Superoxide_related.html, http://www.amazines.com/Jesse_Jackson_related.html
Rating "Medium"
Compliance 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)[reply]
Contact info Ryan Jones - 805-579-0545
Actions email

Amazon Alexa and Echo

Amazon Alexa
URL http://www.amazon.com/echo
Description
Sample http://wikipediocracy.com/2017/07/24/alexa/
Rating Low/None
Compliance Wikipedia content is used without attribution or re-licensing.
Contact info
Actions Adele Vrana, Wikimedia Foundation director of strategic partnerships, reached out to Amazon in 2017.


Amazon.com books by mass production publishers

Amazon books published by Betascript, authors Lambert M. Surhone, Miriam T. Timpledon, and Susan F. Marseken
URL http://www.amazon.de/Sachiko-M-Lambert-M-Surhone/dp/613110610X/ as just one of over 80.000 articles by this author
Description
Sample
Rating
Compliance The abstract is taken from the Wikipedia article Sachiko Matsubara with no attribution. This is not just a single incident, but a massive misuse of Wikipedia material. The publisher advertises "High Quality content by WIKIPEDIA articles [sic]!" on the book covers. It is a books-on-demand publisher.
Contact info
Actions
This New Ocean: A History of Project Mercury (Annotated and Illustrated) [Kindle Edition]
URL http://www.amazon.com/This-New-Ocean-Illustrated-ebook/dp/B008WAWFRQ/ref=sr_1_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1370172801&sr=1-2&keywords=this+new+ocean
Description
Sample
Rating
Compliance The Wikipedia article Project Mercury is copy pasted into the beginning of this Kindle book
Contact info
Actions

An–Az

animefanwiki.de

Animefanwiki
URL http://www.animefanwiki.de
Description
Sample http://www.animefanwiki.de/index.php?title=Elfen_Lied&limit=500&action=history (see first entry)
Rating "None"
Compliance 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)[reply]

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)[reply]

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)[reply]

Anna Wilding

Anna Wilding
URL http://annawildingwikipedia.com/
Description Subject of the Article on Wikipedia is upset that the page removed her unsourced information and put in referenced information she didn't like, so has now gone and created her own verion of the page but linked to a time when it was full of false information
Sample https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Anna_Wilding&oldid=971096457#cite_note-3
Rating "High", "Medium", or "Low/None" compliance with CC-BY-SA (matches Wikipedia:CC-BY-SA Compliance) (compare against GFDL if they choose that license).
Compliance Does not list or attribute extensive content taken from Wikipedia, and also trys to claim their own copyright on the page
Contact info GoDaddy can be emailed at copyrightcomplaints at godaddy.com or fill out form here.

Can contact Anna Wilding directly through form on webpage as well http://annawildingwikipedia.com/contact-us

Actions Actions taken (if any) to attempt to make the website comply.

Answers.com

Answers.com
URL http://www.answers.com/
Description
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.
Compliance
  • 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)[reply]
  • 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)[reply]
  • 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)[reply]
  • 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)[reply]
  • 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. —Vanderdecken ξφ 20:00, 15 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]
  • 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.

AppPedia

AppPedia
URL http://programs.wikia.com/
Description
Sample wikia:programs:Metapad
Rating High
Compliance So far, all Wikipedia articles have the wikia:programs:Template:En-WP attribution notice (a copy of Template:En-WP attribution notice) transcluded.
Contact info copyright AT wikia.com
Actions None.

Archeometriai Műhely

Archeometriai Műhely
URL http://www.ace.hu
Description Hungarian journal
Sample http://www.ace.hu/am/2020_2/AM-2020-2-PA.pdf from Nevado Sajama, see discussion here.
Rating Low/None compliance with CC-BY-SA (matches Wikipedia:CC-BY-SA Compliance) (compare against GFDL if they choose that license).
Compliance No compliance
Contact info attila.pentek@yahoo.com abuse@iif.hu
Actions Filing this for User:Jo-Jo Eumerus, SandyGeorgia (Talk) 16:58, 29 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]


Armageddon Online

Armageddon Online
URL http://www.armageddononline.org/
Description
Sample http://www.armageddononline.org/comet_shoemaker-levy_9.php, http://www.armageddononline.org/worldwar3.php, http://www.armageddononline.org/biowarfare.php
Rating Low
Compliance
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)[reply]

Armeniapedia

Armeniapedia
URL http://www.armeniapedia.org/index.php?title=Main_Page
Description
Sample http://www.armeniapedia.org/index.php?title=Raffi_Cavoukian
Rating Medium
Compliance Attributes (including linking to) Wikipedia and has a GFDL notice. But no link to history and no comment in general terms.
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

Ars Technica

Ars Technica
URL http://arstechnica.com/
Description
Sample http://arstechnica.com/security/2013/11/to-restore-credibility-nist-will-audit-its-standards-development-process/?comments=1
Rating Medium
Compliance They have a feature called "embeds". If someone links to Wikipedia in a comment, it will have an option, "show embeds". If you click this, it includes a significant chunk of the Wikipedia article. They could argue fair use, but I think it may not be when done on a consistent basis. It has the Wikipedia logo, the text "Wikipedia", and the full URL (which is also a link). However, there is no mention of the CC-BY-SA.
Contact info http://arstechnica.com/contact-us/
Actions Contacted using the "Contact the Editorial Team" option. Superm401 - Talk 03:21, 2 November 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Art Experts, Inc.

Giorgio Giulio Clovio
URL http://www.artexpertswebsite.com
Description
Sample http://www.artexpertswebsite.com/pages/artists/clovio.php "He is pointing to this work in the El Greco portrait (above). " which picture is in our page but not theirs.
Rating "Low/None"
Compliance "All contents © copyright 2011 Art Experts, Inc."
Contact info 1-866-484-8017 info@artexpertswebsite.com
Actions


ArticleHubs.com

ArticleHubs.com
URL http://articlehubs.com/
Description
Sample http://articlehubs.com/GNU_General_Public_License.html
Rating None
Compliance There is no statement about the source or license of the text at all.
Contact info the site's contact form
Actions none so far.

--Wondigoma (talk) 13:17, 4 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

articles.co.nr

2006 Wikipedia CD Selection
URL http://articles.co.nr (clicking that link displays http://124.125.21.126/wcd/)
Description
Sample http://124.125.21.126/wcd/wp/e/Enceladus_%2528moon%2529.htm compared to Enceladus_(moon)
Rating Medium
Compliance 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)[reply]


Artistopia

Artistopia
URL http://www.artistopia.com
Description
Sample http://www.artistopia.com/the-pussycat-dolls
Rating Medium
Compliance 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/
Description
Sample http://www.artline.ro/2_588_Baba__Corneliu_4945.html
Rating "Low/None"
Compliance 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

Asclepius Open, LLC

Asclepius Open, LLC
URL https://www.asclepiusopen.com/
Description a group of open access journals, another infringement by Alain L. Fymat, International Institute of Medicine and Science, journal editor
Sample https://www.asclepiusopen.com/clinical-research-in-neurology/volume-2-issue-1/1
Rating Low/None compliance with CC-BY-SA
Compliance Does not list or attribute extensive content taken from Wikipedia
Contact info see full information at User:SandyGeorgia/AlainFymat
Actions Letters sent

Artvee.com

artvee.com
URL http://www.artvee.com/
Description Multiple of their 'artist' pages are either close or identical copies of the relevant article from here. The site appears to have been created in 2020, and the content seems to have been forked around about that time.
Sample https://artvee.com/artist/claude-monet/
Rating "Low/None"
Compliance Non-compliant. They do reference Wikimedia in one of the terms & conditions in relation to 'some of their images', but no reference to Wikipedia anywhere as far as I can see.
Contact info info@artvee.com
Actions Standard notice sent today: JeffUK 21:51, 7 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Asian American Data

Asian American Data
URL http://www.asianheritagesociety.org/asian-american-data/
Description Copy of the first three sections of the wikipedia article Asian Americans
Sample http://www.asianheritagesociety.org/asian-american-data/
Rating None
Compliance No attribution, no copyright notice
Contact info email: event@asianheritageawards.com (see http://www.asianheritagesociety.org/contact-us/)
Actions None

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. [9] Guanaco 16:46, 21 Aug 2004 (UTC)
  • Example: [10] from Kyoto Protocol.
    • Now seems to be a Thailand tourist page, but previous version can be seen on Google search and cache [11] Henrygb 17:20, 1 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]
  • 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.

Askville.amazon.com

Askville by Amazon
URL http://askville.amazon.com/Index.do/
Description
Sample http://askville.amazon.com/SimilarQuestions.do?req=favorite+newspaper+comic+strip
Rating
Compliance Has a link to the Wikipedia source page
Contact info
Actions

assault-weapons.com

Astra 2D

Astra 2D
URL http://www.astra2d.com/
Description
Sample http://www.astra2d.com/dab.htm
Rating Low/None
Compliance Site takes some text and tables from Wikipedia articles on television and radio technology in the UK, no GFDL mention or links. GFDL violation became apparent after a suspected copyright violation discussion, with evidence on the Birdsong (digital radio channel) talk page.
Contact info expat AT astra2d.com
Actions None --tgheretford (talk) 23:24, 16 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Auctores Publishing, LLC

Auctores Publishing, LLC
URL https://www.auctoresonline.org/
Description a group of open access journals, another infringement by Alain L. Fymat, International Institute of Medicine and Science, journal editor
Sample https://www.auctoresonline.org/journals/psychiatry-and-psychotherapy/archive/614
Rating Low/None compliance with CC-BY-SA
Compliance Does not list or attribute extensive content taken from Wikipedia, and claims copyright
Contact info see full information at User:SandyGeorgia/AlainFymat
Actions Sent letters, AUCTORES removed the article completely SandyGeorgia (Talk) 22:56, 11 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Australia Legal Encyclopedia

Australian Legal Encyclopedia
URL http://australialaw.org
Description
Sample http://australialaw.org/worker/
Rating "None"
Compliance
Contact info
Actions

Australian Plumbers and Electricians

Australian Plumbers and Electricians
URL https://spicelandtown.com/
Description Uses the beginning of the Wikipedia Troubleshooting article on a page showing a troubleshooting video
Sample https://spicelandtown.com/electrical-contractors/basic-electrical-repair-troubleshooting-electric-circuits-1968-us-air-force-training-film/
Rating None
Compliance No copyright notice
Contact info
Actions None yet

Babylon-software.com

Babylon-software.com
URL http://www.babylon-software.com/
Description
Sample inside the application
Rating Undetermined
Compliance Displays Wikipedia trademark on the page http://affiliate.babylon-software.com/.
Contact info http://www.babylon-software.com/contact.html
Actions

Backgammon.co.uk

BackGammon Federation
URL http://www.backgammon.co.uk/
Description
Sample http://www.backgammon.co.uk/strategies.htm (only article I can find)
Rating Medium
Compliance 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)[reply]

Backgammoned.net

Backgammoned.net
URL http://www.backgammoned.net
Description
Sample http://www.backgammoned.net/all-about-backgammon.html (only article)
Rating Medium
Compliance 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)[reply]

Baghdad Museum

  • Site: [12]
  • 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)[reply]
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)[reply]

Barry's Tickets

Barry's Tickets
URL http://www.barrystickets.com/
Description
Sample http://www.barrystickets.com/hockey-tickets/index.php
Rating None
Compliance 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)[reply]
    • Received autoreply with only text "test info AT barrystickets.com"


BBC Music

  • Artist biographies
  • Example Link: http://www.bbc.co.uk/music/artist/nh3n/ a version of the Rolling Stones article; and many more
  • Disclaimers at the end of the articles state that "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. If you find the biography content factually incorrect, defamatory or highly offensive you can edit this article at Wikipedia" with links to Wikipedia home, the GFDL at gnu.org, and the Wikipedia article.
  • Comment at http://www.bbc.co.uk/music/faqs#why_is_the_bbc_using_wikipedia
    We know that many people using our website would like to find out more about artists, and basic biographical information is one of the key things that people expect to find on our pages. We feel that we provide best value to the licence fee payer by concentrating our resources on providing great original content (mainly through broadcast) and making it easy to find that content on the web. Biographies are a standardised type of content that are expected across thousands of artists. Wikipedia offers good quality biographies with very good coverage across artists. There are two good reasons to use this content rather than recreating similar content in-house or sourcing it from a commercial supplier:
    1. It's available under the GNU Free Documentation Licence, which means not only is there no licensing cost to the licence-fee payer for this text, but it is freely available to all our users to use and share in turn.'
    2. It's editable by anyone. This may seem like a mixed blessing, but the entire Wikipedia model is a living demonstration that openness to user contribution and amendment tends to improve content over the long term and not vice versa.

BBCNewsAmerica.com

BBC News America
URL http://www.bbcnewsamerica.com
Description
Sample http://www.bbcnewsamerica.com/tag/texas-chainsaw-massacre
Rating Low/None
Compliance No mention of Wikipedia or the GFDL.
Contact info
Actions MRG verified copyvio. SandyGeorgia (Talk) 01:29, 25 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]


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)[reply]

Bharatpedia

Bharatpedia
URL https://en.bharatpedia.org/
Description A copy of the simple english wikipedia, made by converting WP Articles into simple Indian English.
Sample https://en.bharatpedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia
Rating "LMediam"
Compliance Clearly based on WP; copy and pasting as well as using the same citations word for word and the exact same UI and format. Easy to confuse with WP if not knowledgeable. No mention of Wikipedia, CC-BY-SA, or licensing except end of page disclaimer, which reads: "Content is available under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License; additional terms may apply. By using this site, you agree to the Terms of Use and Privacy Policy. This article may uses material from the Wikipedia article Earth, which is released under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License (view authors). Bharatpedia® is a registered trademark." It is the exact same wiki-format inc. lots of templates and the MOS.
Contact info All help links e.g. speaking to an administrator are red links
Actions The disclaimer at the bottom (see above)

Bibleocean

  • Site: http://bibleocean.com/
  • Example: [13] 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).

Biblio.com

Biblio.com
URL http://www.biblio.com/
Description
Sample [14] of Identifying and Managing Project Risk (see talk page for evidence)
Rating Low/None
Compliance No mention of Wikipedia or GFDL/CC-By-SA. Page says Copyright © 2000-2011 Biblio, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
Contact info Online form: [15]
Actions None

BigMac.biz

The Big Mac Index
URL http://bigmac.biz/
Description
Sample same as above
Rating Medium
Compliance 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)[reply]
No response or change. Second letter sent. -- Scott e 02:11, 26 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Fixed. -- Scott e 09:31, 28 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

BigMaybe

Bigmaybe
URL http://www.bigmaybe.com
Description
Sample http://www.bigmaybe.com/learn?s=Citrus_warburgiana
Rating None
Compliance Houses Wikipedia articles under their "academic study guide" without acknowledging Wikipedia or listing the content licensing.
Contact info
Actions

BIGpedia

BIGpedia
URL http://www.bigpedia.com/
Description
Sample http://www.bigpedia.com/encyclopedia/Gray%27s_Anatomy
Rating "Medium"
Compliance
  • 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)[reply]


Biocrawler

Biocrawler
URL http://www.biocrawler.com/encyclopedia/Main_Page
Description
Sample http://www.biocrawler.com/encyclopedia/Illiad
Rating Medium
Compliance 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)[reply]
  • 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)[reply]
  • 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)[reply]

Biodatabase.de

biodatabase.de
URL http://www.biodatabase.de
Description
Sample http://www.biodatabase.de/Dodona, http://www.biodatabase.de/Herodotus
Rating HighNone
Compliance Links to original en.wiki articles and histories, GNU FDL note is reported correctly in bottom of page.
Contact info
Actions None. Website is now a search-spammer and no longer mirrors wikipedia content; last wikipedia mirror found archived from 8 February 2008 at [17]. 84user (talk) 16:00, 4 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Biographicon.com

Biographicon (not url)
URL http://www.biographicon.com
Description
Sample http://www.biographicon.com/view/4yf4i/Ethan_Allen
Rating "None" compliance with GFDL.
Compliance 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/
Description
Sample http://www.biographybase.com/biography/Yarwood_Mike.html
Rating Medium
Compliance 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)[reply]

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
Description
Sample http://biolicense.org/index.php/Shareware
Rating None.
Compliance 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/
Description
Sample http://www.biologydaily.com/biology/Aerobiologyand http://www.biologydaily.com/biology/Gmail
Rating Medium
Compliance 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)[reply]
  • Server not found --Rumping 16:38, 23 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

BirminghamUK.com

bizgos.com

GameLow.com
URL http://www.bizgos.com/
Description
Sample http://www.bizgos.com/AnheuserBusch/ARINC.php
Rating None
Compliance 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)[reply]

Bl–Bv

Blinkybits

Blinkybits
URL http://www.blinkbits.com/en_wikifeeds/
Description
Sample http://www.blinkbits.com/en_wikifeeds/HQ9_Plus_Plus
Rating Medium
Compliance 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

blog.shops-net.com

blog.shops-net.com
URL https://blog.shops-net.com/
Description Many but pages are mirrored, apparently manually.
Sample https://blog.shops-net.com/50721738/1/201617-fc-basel-season.html
Rating None
Compliance No attribution or mention that the content is copied.
Contact info
Actions

Blogspot

Hot Topics in the News
URL http://information-headquarter.blogspot.com/search/label/Grand%20Opera%20House
Description
Sample http://information-headquarter.blogspot.com/search/label/Grand%20Opera%20House
Rating Absolutely no compliance.
Compliance 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

Blogspot "truskemata"

Mata & Penglihatan / WikiapadiaMata
URL http://truskemata.blogspot.de + http://truskemata.blogspot.com
Description
Sample http://truskemata.blogspot.de/2012/09/atasi-masalah-silau-dengan-helmet.html
Rating ?
Compliance Copied part of Motorcycle helmet#Laws and standards (oldid=491661146) including blue & red wikilinks; marked as "Copyright © 2013 Mata & Penglihatan - Created by SoraTemplates and Blogger Templates" at the page bottom
Contact info "Contact" link at truskemata.blogspot.de does not work
  • http://www.soratemplates.com/p/contact-us.html
  • http://www.mybloggerthemes.com/p/contact.html: "Email : mybloggerthemes90@gmail.com - Skype : ekaariyasa - Gtalk : akuinginsukses@gmail.com"
Actions none (as I am new to these procedures)

bluerhinos.co.uk

<bluerhinos.co.uk> (not url)
URL http://bluerhinos.co.uk/
Description
Sample http://www.bluerhinos.co.uk/molview/view/propan-1-ol
Rating "High", "Medium", or "Low/None" compliance with GFDL (matches Wikipedia:GFDL Compliance).
Compliance Includes a backlink to WP, but doesn't appear to mention GFDL; in fact, it includes a lot of claims to copyright for all content.
Contact info The request posted by User:Walkerma
Actions None

BlurbWire

BlurbWire
URL http://www.blurbwire.com/
Description
Sample http://www.blurbwire.com/topics/Kohlu
Rating Low
Compliance Brief mention of Wikipedia on homepage, copied articles lack attribution. [EDIT]: On their sources page (linked at the bottom) they cite "Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Data from Wikipedia is licensed under the GFDL". There are no backlinks to the Wikipedia article, there is a notice at the bottom 'Copyright 2010, Discovery Media'.
Contact info discoverysites AT gmail.com (from contact)
Actions

bobby-fischer.net

Bobby Fischer
URL http://www.bobby-fischer.net/
Description
Sample http://www.bobby-fischer.net/paul_morphy.htm
Rating Low/None
Compliance 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

bobbysouthworth.com

Bobby Southwork
URL http://www.bobbysouthworth.com/
Description
Sample http://www.bobbysouthworth.com/bio.htm
Rating Medium
Compliance Originally no mention, but was added after I notified them.
Contact info Contact@Sanctmm.com
Actions

BollywoodMasala

  • Site: http://www.bwmasala.com/
  • Example: http://www.bwmasala.com/actordata.html?title=User:Eugene-elgato

bookonlinesale.com

Bookonlinesale and Booksonlinesale
URL http://bookonlinesale.com/ and http://booksonlinesale.com
Description
Sample http://bookonlinesale.com/258082_edgar-prestage_1131743628lettersofaportuguesenundiscountbookstores.html and http://www.booksonlinesale.com/623250_margaret-mitchell_113517007xautantenemporteleventbookreportforfree.html
Rating High
Compliance 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
Description
Sample http://www.bookrags.com/wiki/High_Commissioner
Rating Medium?High?
Compliance 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. Uses images as thumbnails but doens't link to image pages.
Contact info whois
Actions

Books, LLC

Books, LLC
URL http://booksllc.net/
Description
Sample "Wikipedia Introduction": http://booksllc.net/book.cfm?id=3744759 Sample title and summary on Amazon:[19]. Google Books search:[20]
Rating
Compliance The website states that "Paperbacks marked "OCR" may have numerous typos or missing text. Other paperbacks contain Wikipedia content." The FAQ states that: "All content cam [sic] from Wikipedia. Please check the book's Publication page, Introduction and the end of each chapter for further details. For example, you can click the hyperlink at the end of any chapter and then click the history tab to see a list of each chapter's contributors. Our license with Wikipedia is at http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0"
  • Also publishes as General Books LLC.
Contact info Contact form
Actions No action yet taken.

Bookvika Publishing

Bookvika Publishing (VSD)
URL
Description
Sample Print on demand books [21]
Rating Low
Compliance States "High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles!" and contains direct copy of the start of the article as a blurb, which is then published online (the creation of the book itself is a separate issue). No links to original article or authors. Claims to be published by VSD and/or authors Ronald Cohn and Jesse Russell, but the article content is still copyrighted. See also VDM Publishing.
Contact info None
Actions


Bookyards

Bookyards
URL http://www.bookyards.com
Description
Sample http://www.bookyards.com/biography.html?author_id=2011&author_name=Janvier%2C%20Thomas%20A.
Rating None
Compliance 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)[reply]

  • 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)[reply]

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

borgfind

Borgfind
URL http://borgfind.com/ , http://albania.geeks.dnip.net/
Description
Sample http://albania.borgfind.com/
Rating High
Compliance 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)[reply]

Boston University School of Theology – Anna Howard Shaw Center

Site: http://sthweb.bu.edu/shaw/anna-howard-shaw-center/biography?view=mediawiki&article=Main_Page

  • States "© This material from Wikipedia is licensed under the GFDL (Inserted by aWiki)." at the bottom of each page.
  • Accessed 2009-03-02. Jayen466 17:46, 2 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Boston University School of Theology Archives

Site: http://sthweb.bu.edu/archives/index.php?option=com_awiki&view=mediawiki&article=Category:Spy_novels

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)[reply]

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)[reply]

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

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

Braindex

Braindex
URL http://www.braindex.com/encyclopedia/mainpage.php
Description
Sample http://braindex.com/encyclopedia/index.php/Ring_of_the_Fisherman
Rating Medium
Compliance 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)[reply]

BrainyEncyclopedia

BrainyEncyclopedia
URL http://www.brainyencyclopedia.com/
Description
Sample http://www.brainyencyclopedia.com/encyclopedia/t/te/telectronics.html
Rating Low
Compliance 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."

Home page gives 403 Forbidden as of 00:39, 29 July 2009 (UTC).

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)[reply]

Brassbandinformation.co.uk

Brass Band Information
URL http://www.brassbandinformation.co.uk
Description
Sample http://www.brassbandinformation.co.uk/brass-instruments.html
  • This was linked from the Trombone article.
Rating Low/None
Compliance yes
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)[reply]

Brendaadderly.com

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)[reply]

BrisWiki

BrisWiki
URL http://www.briswiki.com and
Description
Sample http://briswiki.com/wiki/The_Myer_Centre from Myer Centre, Brisbane.
Rating Unrated
Compliance 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)[reply]
Contact info supernicko AT gmail.com
Actions

Britain tv

Britain tv
URL http://www.britain.tv/articles/publish/ and http://www.britain.tv/wikipedia.php
Description
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
Compliance 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.

  • As of 00:48, 29 July 2009 (UTC), this second set (/wikipedia.php) appears to be dead.
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)[reply]
  • Sent followup to webmaster AT elite-media.co.uk . Superm401 - Talk 09:25, 6 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Sent a final notice to webmaster AT elite-media.co.uk - Localzuk(talk) 12:35, 28 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Brough's Books

  • Site: Brough's Books
  • link to current version of article
  • link to the GFDL on www.gnu.org
  • Example: [22]
    • Example seems to have Wikipedia metatags but fails to load bodytext --Rumping 16:57, 23 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

BT Research

BT Research
URL http://www.breathittteens.com/research.php
Description
Sample http://www.breathittteens.com/research.php?title=Common_Raccoon
Rating Low
Compliance 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).
Domain expired 07/19/2009 .
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)[reply]

BuddyTV.com

The 'So You Think You Can Dance' Pocket Guide to Tabitha and Napoleon
URL http://www.buddytv.com
Description
Sample http://www.buddytv.com/articles/so-you-think-you-can-dance/the-so-you-think-you-can-dance-31992.aspx
Rating "Low/None"
Compliance Almost completely copy and pasted from the Tabitha and Napoleon article here on wikipedia but not written verbatim. It's written in the author's own words but clearly all the information is taken from wikipedia with no attribution at all. It's even in the same arrangement (early life, career, directing, married life) but without the section headings.
Contact info email: vlado AT thracetech.com and andrewiliu AT yahoo.com
phone number +1.2068594180
Full WhoIs summary here
ISP: easydns.com
Actions None
Tabitha and Napoleon
URL http://www.buddytv.com/
Description
Sample http://www.buddytv.com/info/tabitha-and-napoleon-info.aspx
Rating "Low/None"
Compliance Same as above. The "biography" section is taken from the Tabitha and Napoleon article here with no attribution.
Contact info email: vlado AT thracetech.com and andrewiliu AT yahoo.com
phone number +1.2068594180
Full WhoIs summary here
ISP: easydns.com
Actions None

Bulgos

Bulgos
URL http://bulgos.in/wp.php?page=en.wikipedia.org
Description
Sample http://www.bulgos.in/wp.php?page=en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abdullah_of_Saudi_Arabia
Rating
Compliance exact copy except with banner at top
Contact info
Actions

Bvio

Bvio
URL http://bvio.com/index.php/Main_Page
Description
Sample http://bvio.com/index.php/Credit_card
Rating Low
Compliance
  • 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 ([23] 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)[reply]
  • Still non-compliant as of July 2006. - Jmabel | Talk 03:08, 10 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]
    • and 16:58, 23 September 2007 (UTC) --Rumping
  • Should be non-compliant since nothing seems to have changed. --Puzzlet Chung 23:20, 9 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Bvio has been erroneously listed on the GFDL compliance page as a former user of Wikipedia content. Since it still uses our content, I've reclassified it. Lurker (said · done) 13:49, 2 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Gives database error as of 00:56, 29 July 2009 (UTC)
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)[reply]
  • I've sent another email asking for a notice and link on every page. Superm401 - Talk 20:37, 25 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Ca–Ci

Calendar of historical events births holidays and observances

Calendar of historical events births holidays and observances
URL http://books.google.com/books?id=t4YZUcjx6poC&printsec=frontcover

Calendar of historical events births holidays and observances is an e-book published by MobileReference for use on mobile devices. The URL links to Google books' incomplete copy. A complete copy has to be purchased from a commercial supplier.

Description
Sample p.197 incorporates text from an earlier version of Wikipedia's article Scientology holidays.
Rating Medium, judging from the Google books copy. Precise degree of compliance is difficult to evaluate without buying a commercial copy
Compliance The licensing information provided on the "back cover" acknowledges that material from Wikipedia has been used, and that this material is licensed under the GFDL, although it also wrongly implies that this material is also "public domain". However, it also asserts "all rights reserved" over the work as a whole, whereas the GFDL requires that the whole of any modification of a work licensed under it—which is what this is—must also be licensed under the same licence or a substantially similar version.

A copy of the GFDL licence doesn't appear to be included anywhere in the publication, as required by the terms of that licence, although a link to an on-line copy of the licence appears to be provided with the licensing information. The licensing information includes an apology for not listing all the authors of the Wikipedia material, and asserts that these can be seen "by following the hyperlink at the bottom of each article". As far as is possible to tell from the Google books copy, such links do appear regularly throughout the the publication, but it doesn't appear to be possible to use the Google books copy to check that these links work and do in fact point to the proper articles.

Contact info support@soundtells.com
Actions None as yet.

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

Cambridge Encyclopedia (encyclopedia.stateuniversity.com)

Cambridge Encyclopedia: Volume 1 through 80
URL http://encyclopedia.stateuniversity.com
Description
Sample http://encyclopedia.stateuniversity.com/pages/19270/Russian-Orthodox-Church.html
Rating "Low/None" compliance with GFDL
Compliance Articles state towards top that "Portions of the summary below have been contributed by Wikipedia." but fails to identify the readers rights nor link back to Wikipedia. As an example the sample URL contains content that is word-for-word identical to this diff [24] which I do not believe is WP:COPYVIO. The text at the bottom says that "Content on this website is from high-quality, licensed material originally published in print form. You can always be sure you're reading unbiased, factual, and accurate information." which is wrong as Wikipedia is not published originally in print form.
Contact info
Actions See entry listed under "S" [25] for actions.

Campus Empire

Campus Empire
URL http://www.campusempire.net
Description
Sample http://www.campusempire.net/school_index.php?school_id=342
Rating "Low/None"
Compliance 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)[reply]

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)[reply]
  • No authors or dates are listed. Medium compliance. Uncle G 11:08, 5 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Canbet.com

Canbet.com
URL http://www.canbet.com
Description
Sample http://www.canbet.com/whatsnew/atlanta-falcons-history.aspx
Rating Medium
Compliance 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)[reply]

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)[reply]

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

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

Canineconcepts.co.uk

CanineConcepts: What is dog agility
URL http://www.canineconcepts.co.uk/ccp51/cc/dog-training/dog-agility-training.shtml
Description
Sample
Rating Low compliance with GFDL (matches Wikipedia:GFDL Compliance). Full compliance.
Compliance 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
Description
Sample http://www.canineconcepts.co.uk/dog-breeds--Affenpinscher--Affenpinscher
Rating Low compliance but working on it (see above).
Compliance 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/
Description
Sample http://www.caninecrib.com/dog/pictures/bostonterrier/boston4.asp -- compare to Image:BostonTerrierBrindleStand_w.jpg)
Rating None
Compliance 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)[reply]
  • 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)[reply]
  • 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)[reply]
  • 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)[reply]

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)[reply]

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: [26].
      • Example failed to load --Rumping 17:02, 23 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

caribbean-forum.com

LarsSanders 17:33, 3 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]

  • 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)[reply]

CaribbeanMD

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

Carlos Zambrano

Carlos Zambrano
URL http://www.carloszambrano.com/
Description
Sample http://www.carloszambrano.com/
Rating None.
Compliance 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)[reply]
  • Now no obvious Wikipedia content in example --Rumping 17:06, 23 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

CARluvers

  • Site: http://www.carluvers.com
  • Example: [28] 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)[reply]

Castles and Manor Houses around the World

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)[reply]


Celebrity Genius

Celebrity Genius
URL http://www.celebritygenius.com/
Description
Sample http://www.celebritygenius.com/Nikki-Cox/biography.html?title=Ryan_White
Rating Low
Compliance Includes link back to en.wp root page (no path) but not to the original article. makes no mention of GFDL; has no attribution/history. copyright claimed in footer: "Celebrity Genius © Copyright 2006 - 2008"
Contact info E-mail, phone number of admin and ISP.
Actions None so far Jeremyb (talk) 05:35, 17 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Celebrityspy.org

Celebrity Spy
URL http://celebrityspy.org/indepth/PageName
Description
Sample http://celebrityspy.org/indepth/California
Rating Low/None
Compliance 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)[reply]

CelebRoad

CelebRoad
URL http://www.celebroad.com/
Description
Sample http://www.celebroad.com/people/christi-shake
Rating None
Compliance 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.

CelebsAgeWiki

CelebsAgeWiki
URL https://www.celebsagewiki.com
Description Changes article format into timeline, possibly with some LLM or templated text on each of their articles.
Sample https://www.celebsagewiki.com/kauko-kangasniemi
Rating None
Compliance © 2020 Celebrity Wiki at bottom of every page, unable to find attribution or anything linking to Wikipedia
Contact info contact link at bottom of page with organizational email adress
Actions


CelebYOLO

CelebYOLO
URL https://www.celebyolo.com/
Description Repackages the first lines of Wikipedia articles about celebrities and their photos, adds a gallery of photos from random non-attributed sources.
Sample https://www.celebyolo.com/celebs/abbie-cornish
Rating None
Compliance No copyright information whatsoever, links back to the English Wikipedia article with a sentence like "Read More about Natasha Bedingfield on Wikipedia".
Contact info No contact information but celebyolo@gmail.com
Actions

Champions (UK) Plc After Dinner Speakers

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

chatrium.com

chatrium
URL http://www.chatrium.com
Description
Sample http://www.chatrium.com/destination.php
Rating
Compliance no mention of GFDL or Wikipedia, no backlink, claims own copyright
Contact info
Actions


ChemEurope.com

ChemEurope.com
URL http://www.chemeurope.com
Description
Sample http://www.chemeurope.com/lexikon/e/Nanoscale_iron_particles
Rating
Compliance Gives both local copy of GFDL and Wikipedia backlink
Contact info
Actions

Identical website at http://www.chemie.de.

Chemistry Daily

  • Site: Chemistry Daily - the chemistry encyclopedia
  • Seems to have a pretty much complete copy of the WP database - including non-chemistry articles. [29]
  • 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 [30] 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)[reply]

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


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)[reply]

Christians on the Left

<Christians on the Left>
URL http://www.christiansontheleft.org.uk/everyday_violence
Description
Sample URL
Rating "High" compliance with CC-BY-SA (matches Wikipedia:CC-BY-SA Compliance) (compare against GFDL if they choose that license).
Compliance In sharing information about IJM's work, Christians on the Left Web site used some of IJM's own language, descriptions and case studies to best describe what IJM does.
Contact info E-mails, phone numbers, contact form URLs, etc. of admin and ISP.
Actions IJM will contact Christians on the Left to ask to reference material/Wikipedia.


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)[reply]

citiesamerica.com

  • As of 16:46, 06 Feb 2007 (UTC)

Citizendia

Citizendia
URL http://www.citizendia.org/
Description \
Sample Academy Award
Rating Uncertain
Compliance Partial. Copyright notice in page footer includes "parts available under the terms of GNU Free Documentation License, from http://en.wikipedia.org"
Contact info Unknown
Actions None yet


Citizendium

Citizendium
URL http://www.citizendium.org
Description
Sample Ellipse
Rating N/A
Compliance Partial. Some articles credit Wikipedia, some do not
Contact info admin AT citizendium.org
Actions At 14/07/2009 I sent the standard letter about the article Chess. SyG
At 25/07/2009 I sent a follow-up letter. SyG
At 27/07/2009 I received a letter from "constables@citizendium.org" saying they had started a discussion on their forum at http://forum.citizendium.org/index.php/topic,2787.15/topicseen.html and they added a mention on Wikipedia on their "Chess" article. SyG
At 01/08/2009 I checked that the link to WP was in their "Chess" article indeed, and I sent a reply saying thank you (among other things). SyG
  • 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)[reply]

  • 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)[reply]
  • 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)[reply]
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)[reply]
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)[reply]
not a problem.Geni 20:26, 14 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]
And are there any such entries? (Tongue in cheek.) Rich Farmbrough, 04:21, 23 April 2010 (UTC).[reply]
http://en.citizendium.org/wiki/Portuguese_language no attribution. Rich Farmbrough, 04:21, 23 April 2010 (UTC).[reply]

citymayors.com

CityMayors
URL http://www.citymayors.com/
Description
Sample http://www.citymayors.com/mayors/denver_mayor.html (city description is the lead to the article Denver, Colorado)
Rating Low
Compliance 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

Cl–Cy

Classic TV & Movie Hits

Classic TV & Movie Hits
URL http://www.classictvhits.com
Description
Sample http://www.classictvhits.com/network.php?id=15
Rating Medium to Low
Compliance 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/
Description
Sample http://www.clearups.com/af.html
Rating "Low/None"
Compliance [32] "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

clickabove.com

clickabove.com
URL http://www.clickabove.com/
Description
Sample http://www.clickabove.com/wm.html
Rating Low/None
Compliance Completely copies Wikipedia article without logging the changes or giving credit to Wikipedia.
Contact info jeff AT uci.net
Actions none

clubblogs.com

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

Clusty

Clusty
URL http://wiki.clusty.com
Description
Sample http://clusty.com/search?v%3Aproject=clusty-encyclopedia&query=dog
Rating High
Compliance 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)[reply]

Talk 01:34, 20 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

CNET

Coda Books

Coda Books
URL http://www.codabooks.co.uk/
Description
Sample http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B005FMRWO0/ref=s9_simh_gw_p351_d0_g351_i1?pf_rd_m=A3P5ROKL5A1OLE&pf_rd_s=center-2&pf_rd_r=0J48C8NBQF7Y8QX0328E&pf_rd_t=101&pf_rd_p=467128533&pf_rd_i=468294
Rating Low/None
Compliance Book's copyright page mentions Wikimedia Commons as the source of the images, but there is no mention of the GFDL. The text is clearly stolen from a variety of articles related to Manchester United F.C. but no mention of Wikipedia is made.
Contact info info@codabooks.com
Actions I attempted to email the company using the email address on their website, but I immediately received a failed email notice. I have also submitted a copyright (or copyleft) infringement notice to Amazon.

codeboy.net

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

  • 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)[reply]

Cognition.com

Cognition (not url)
URL http://wikipedia.cognition.com/
Description
Sample http://wikipedia.cognition.com/?num=10&from_val=1&to_val=10&f=simple&d=wikipedia1,wikipedia2,wikipedia3,wikipedia4,wikipedia5,wikipedia6,wikipedia7,wikipedia8&win=0&sf=524418&fld=-1&search=beat%20a%20drum%20in%20combo&Submit=Search&window=0&positional=1
Rating ""Low/None" compliance with GFDL
Compliance Absolutely false copyright claim on Wikipedia data, inappropriate usage of Wikipedia Trademark as logo

http://wikipedia.cognition.com/info/tos.html Ownership of Materials Materials are copyrighted and are protected by worldwide copyright laws and treaty provisions. They may not be copied, reproduced, modified, published, uploaded, posted, transmitted, or distributed in any way, without Cognition Technologies' prior written permission.

Contact info http://whois.domaintools.com/cognition.com ljkutcher@earthlink.net
Actions Website warned from the web fonm.

collectionagencysupport.com

Collection Agency Services
URL http://www.collectionagencysupport.com/index.php?option=com_frontpage&Itemid=1
Description
Sample http://www.collectionagencysupport.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=22&Itemid=32
Rating Low/None
Compliance 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
Description
Sample http://www.colombialink.com/01_INDEX/index_finanzas_eng/arrow_impossibility.html
Rating Medium
Compliance 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)[reply]
    • No obvious mention of Wikipedia or GFDL in example page --Rumping 17:23, 23 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Comedy Zone

Comedy Zone
URL http://www.comedy-zone.net
Description
Sample http://www.comedy-zone.net/standup/comedian/s/stephenson-pamela.htm
Rating Low/none
Compliance 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)[reply]
  • Sent followup letter to ray.chapman AT comedy-zone.net. Superm401 - Talk 00:37, 7 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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)[reply]

Compwisdom.com

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

Concise Encyclopaedia of India

Concise Encyclopaedia of India
URL http://books.google.com/books?id=9dNOT9iYxcMC (at Google Books)
Description
Sample http://books.google.com/books?id=9dNOT9iYxcMC&lpg=PA1104&pg=PA1104#v=onepage&q&f=false (at Google Books). This was questioned as a source for Etymology of Assam at WP:RS/N.
Rating Low/None
Compliance Note that this is a book, not a website. I don't see any credit given to (nor any other mention of) Wikipedia. Publisher claims "All Rights Reserved."
Contact info www.atlanticbooks.com, info@atlanticbooks.com (as given in the book)
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)[reply]
    • dead - no domain registration --Rumping 17:26, 23 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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)[reply]
  • Dead and gone. --WCQuidditch 18:06, 26 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]
  • Still dead (and gone) astiqueparervoir 02:49, 12 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]
  • Site doesn't work anymore. This, that and the other 10:27, 22 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Connect Online

Connect Online
URL http://encyc.connectonline.com/
Description
Sample http://encyc.connectonline.com/index.php/Tonga
Rating Medium
Compliance 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)[reply]
  • 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)[reply]

Consumer's Research Council of America

Consumer's Research Council of America
URL http://www.consumersresearchcncl.org
Description
Sample http://www.consumersresearchcncl.org/Healthcare/Dermatologists/derma_chapter1.html (compare [33], which shows page was put together on wiki slowly)
Rating "Low/None"
Compliance Poor compliance: "Copyright © Consumers' Research Council of America. All rights reserved. "
Contact info See [34], [35]
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)[reply]

Cooking Vinyl UK

Cooking Vinyl UK
URL http://www.cookingvinyl.com/
Description
Sample http://www.cookingvinyl.com/artist_info.php?id=26#albdesc
Rating None
Compliance 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/
Description
Sample http://www.cooldictionary.com/words/Main_Page.wikipedia
Rating Medium
Compliance 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)[reply]

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)[reply]

www.corkipedia.com

corpusdata.org

corpusdata.org: Full-text corpus data
URL https://www.corpusdata.org/
Description Downloadable English corpora, including Wikipedia text. Sold to researchers.
Sample https://www.corpusdata.org/wikipedia.asp
Rating None
Compliance There is no compliance with CC-BY-SA license. https://www.corpusdata.org/x_license/acad-3.doc adds restrictions incompatible with CC-BY-SA license terms, for example.
Contact info mark.davies@corpusdata.org
Actions None

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/
Description
Sample http://creekin.net/c5157-n125-western-sahara-morocco.html
Rating Low
Compliance
  • 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)[reply]

Cricket Updates

Cricket Updates
URL http://www.cricketupdates.org
Description
Sample http://www.cricketupdates.org/cricket-bowling-machine.html
Rating Low/None
Compliance The above sample is a slightly amended and shortened version of the Wikipedia article Bowling machine. No mention is made of GFDL or Wikipedia. I found two other examples: [36], a significant portion of which is lifted, with only minor re-wording, from Hawk-Eye and [37], which consists of a few extracts from Hot Spot (cricket). These pages aren't complete copies of whole articles, but they are clearly derived from them and consist mainly of shortened and slightly modified extracts. At the foot of every page it says "This blog copyright � 2008 Cricket Updates. All Rights Reserved"
Contact info admin AT cricketupdates.org (from WHOIS)
Actions Sent an E-mail 8 May 2009

Crystalinks.com

Crystalinks Metaphysical and Science Website
URL http://www.crystalinks.com/
Description
Sample http://www.crystalinks.com/chupacabras.html
Rating Medium
Compliance 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)[reply]
  • 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)[reply]
  • Sent standard followup letter to ecrystal AT nyc.rr.com. Superm401 - Talk 07:33, 7 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
    • 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)[reply]

Cuil.com

Cuil Search engine
URL http://www.cuil.com/
Description
Sample http://www.cuil.com/search?q=dublin&sl=long&m=Dublin%20Ireland
Rating Medium
Compliance Uses wikipedia categorisation & article content for tooltips and search organisiation
Contact info
Actions

CultureCentric

CultureCentric
URL http://www.culturecentric.com/
Description
Sample http://www.culturecentric.com/Language-A/affricate_consonant.php
Rating None
Compliance 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)[reply]

Cunnan

Cunnan (SCA wiki)
URL http://cunnan.sca.org.au/wiki/Main_Page
Description
Sample http://cunnan.sca.org.au/wiki/SCA
Rating Low
Compliance 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

Cured.com

Cured.com
URL http://www.cured.com/
Description
Sample http://www.cured.com/drug-index/Aripiprazole/
Rating "None"
Compliance no mention of wikipedia or gfdl. LeadSongDog come howl! 15:41, 26 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Contact info whois masked by Godaddy and Domains By Proxy
Actions

CuteWalls.com

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

cyberpedia.net

cyberpedia.net
URL http://cyberpedia.net/
Description
Sample http://www.cyberpedia.net/info.php?title=Immune_system
Rating Medium
Compliance Mentions wikipedia, links to original article. Mentions gfdl, links to the GNU project site
Contact info
Actions none

cyclechaos.com

Cyclechaos Motorcycle Information & Community
URL http://www.cyclechaos.com/
Description
Sample http://www.cyclechaos.com/wiki/Cruiser
Rating Low/None
Compliance No apparent GFDL, no article history, no credit to Wikipedia.
Contact info cyclechaos.com AT proxy.dreamhost.com

cyclechaos.com Private Registrant
DreamHost Web Hosting 417 Associated Rd #324 Brea, CA 92821
United States
+1.2139471032

Actions Actions taken (if any) to attempt to make the website comply.

Cyese.info

  • Google suggests copy of some articles (e.g. [[38]] should have a copy of Polyol) but protected behind registration requirement --Henrygb 18:21, 11 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]
  • 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)[reply]
    • E-mail sent. -- WB 08:18, 15 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]
  • 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


daum

David Darling

David Darling
URL http://www.daviddarling.info/encyclopedia/ is the root, though http://www.daviddarling.info/encyclopedia/AEmain.html and http://www.daviddarling.info/encyclopedia/ETEmain.html are the main home index pages.
Description
Sample http://www.daviddarling.info/encyclopedia/K/Knuths_up-arrow_notation.html vs old 2004-2005 wiki data http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Knuth%27s_up-arrow_notation&oldid=31684703
Rating None
Compliance Some (not all) pages are verbatim copies of old Wikipedia articles. No mention that the content is under the GFDL, no mention of or links to Wikipedia. "All original content, including text, code, page design, graphics, and sound, in The Internet Encyclopedia of Science, which is part of The Worlds of David Darling web site, is protected by copyright." Please see conversation at Talk:David_Darling_(astronomer)
Contact info daviddarling@daviddarling.info
Actions None

DBPedia

DBPedia
URL https://www.dbpedia.org
Description Has "Global and Unified Access to Knowledge Graphs" directly on its front page in huge text; further information is at https://www.dbpedia.org/about
Sample https://dbpedia.org/page/Hirokichi_Nadao
Rating High or Medium.
Compliance "This content was extracted from Wikipedia and is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License" at the bottom of pages.
Contact info Has a write an email button on the top right on at least the about page.
Actions

dCult.com

dCult.com
URL www.dcult.com
Description
Sample http://www.dcult.com/Architectural-Styles/Brutalist_architecture.php
Rating Low/None
Compliance 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)[reply]


Deletionpedia

  • Site: deletionpedia.dbatley.com
  • Example: deletionpedia.dbatley.com/w/index.php?title=Weapons_of_the_Imperium_%28Warhammer_40%2C000%29
  • Contains large selection of deleted Wikipedia articles
  • Various links to Wikipedia, including AfD debate on article
  • Holds history of deleted articles
  • States "Content is available under GNU Free Documentation License 1.2" with link to GFDL at gnu.org

Detailed Pedia

Detailed Pedia
URL https://www.detailedpedia.com/
Description Use cache.
Sample https://www.detailedpedia.com/wiki-Fire
Rating No rating
Compliance
Contact info detailedpedia@outlook.com
Actions

devon.tv

Devon.TV
URL http://www.devon.tv/
Description
Sample http://www.devon.tv/index.htm
Rating "Low/None"
Compliance 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 (2009/02/14)
  • Site still unchanged (2009/03/08)


DictionPedia

DictionPedia
URL http://www.dictionpedia.com
Description
Sample http://www.dictionpedia.com/en/Civilization
Rating low
Compliance
  • 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
Happy to comply private registration through DomainsByProxy Inc, Contact is DICTIONPEDIA.COM AT domainsbyproxy.com - Abuse contacts abuse AT domainsbyproxy.com (hidden omain registration) and abuse AT godaddy.com (registrar) mail those if you have no luck with the above MttJocy (talk) 02:54, 22 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Actions none

Dig Planet

Dig Planet
URL http://www.digplanet.com/wiki/
Description
Sample http://www.digplanet.com/wiki/Rose_Public_School
Rating Medium
Compliance Links to Wikipedia, no GFDL I can find, no authors, also includes copyright notice
Contact info
Actions


Dirpedia

Dirpedia
URL http://www.dirpedia.com
Description
Sample http://www.dirpedia.com/hobbies.html Compare with Hobby
Rating "Medium"
Compliance 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

Dir.md

News Directory World News Headlines
URL http://dir.md/
Description
Sample http://dir.md/wiki/Premium_Aerotec?host=en.wikipedia.org
Rating Low
Compliance No mention of copyright, authors or license. Links back to the original English Wikipedia article with a confusing "read more". No links or attribution whatsoever for images. Direct hotlinking of images.
Contact info No contacts provided. http://dir.md/policies.html
Actions DMCA request sent via CloudFlare for personal non-free non-Wikipedia site that is also mirrored by dir.md, as an even more obvious case of copyright violation. Awaiting response. ~ ToBeFree (talk) 18:09, 22 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Disabled World

Disabled World
URL http://www.disabled-world.com
Description
Sample Their narcolepsy page has 400 words matching 52% of Narcolepsy, according to Copyscape[39]. Their snoring page has 154 words matching 16% of Snoring, according to Copyscape[40].
Rating "Low/None"
Compliance I don't know whether this site copies entire Wikipedia articles or only parts of articles. I don't know how much the site has copied in total. This requires further research.
Contact info Ian Langtree, who lives in Chateauguay, Quebec, Canada. The site owner provides an "email us" form, but doesn't list his phone number on the site. The site owner's email address and phone number are available via whois. "If required we will send you a reply via email as soon as possible usually within 24 - 48 hours. Our general office hours are 8:00 to 6:00 Monday - Saturday, New York time (USA EDT) or UTC/GMT -5 hours."[41]
Actions Sent email 27 Dec 2011. Unforgettableid (talk)

Discovery Media

Discovery Media, which creates

Serving History

Serious Lost Fan

Search People Finder

Blurb Wire

URL

http://www.discoverymedia.net/

http://www.servinghistory.com/

http://www.seriouslostfan.com/

http://www.search-people-finder.info/

http://www.blurbwire.com/

Description
Sample Will complete later, most pages copy the lead, the contents page and any categories
Rating Medium, I think.
Compliance Links to article page in miniscule text, stating "Some data may have been obtained" when some definitely has. States at bottom of page "Copyright 2010, Discovery Media"
Contact info E-mail, phone number of admin and ISP. To be completed
Actions Actions taken (if any) to attempt to make the website comply. None yet as at 15:22, 19 October 2010 (UTC)


Diseasesign.com

Diseasesign.com
URL http://www.diseasesign.com
Description
Sample http://www.diseasesign.com/cancer.html
Rating Medium
Compliance States that content is from Wikipedia (with link to article at www.wikipedia.org), no mention found of license, no history link. Adds obnoxious adverts.
Contact info contactus*at*diseasesign.com
Actions None as yet

Disease Reference

Disease Reference
URL http://www.disease-reference.com
Description
Sample http://www.disease-reference.com/Autoimmune.htm
Rating Medium
Compliance 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)[reply]
Contact info
Actions

disneyland-hong-kong.com

Disneyland Hong Kong
URL http://disneyland-hong-kong.com/, http://www.great-wall-of-china.com/
Description
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
Compliance Links to original article and offsite GFDL.
Contact info stephenjedge AT hotmail.com, User talk:219.79.37.167 (unverified)
Actions

doctorsmedicalopinion.com

Doctor's Medical Opinion
URL http://www.doctorsmedicalopinion.com/
Description
Sample http://www.doctorsmedicalopinion.com/wiki/R._Alton_Lee from R. Alton Lee and http://www.doctorsmedicalopinion.com/wiki/John_R._Brinkley from John R. Brinkley]
Rating None
Compliance Couldn't find any indication that the articles are taken from Wikipedia
Contact info
Actions

dogedaos.com

The Ultimate Dog Breeds Information Guide and Reference
URL https://dogedaos.com/ |name=Dogedaos |sample=https://dogedaos.com/wiki/Vincent_van_Gogh.html from [[Vincent van Gogh]] |rating=Low |compliance=Full [[IPFS]] copy of Wikipedia |contact |action }} ===dogluvers.com=== {{Wikipedia mirror |url=<nowiki>http://www.dogluvers.com/
Description
Sample http://www.dogluvers.com/dog_breeds/Bayesian_probability
Rating
Compliance 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)[reply]

DomainsAreFree.com

DomainsAreFree
URL http://www.domainsarefree.com/glossary/
Description
Sample http://www.domainsarefree.com/glossary/World_Wide_Web.html
Rating Medium
Compliance 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/
Description
Sample http://double-bass.koopal.com/
Rating "Low/None" compliance with GFDL.
Compliance 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/
Description
Sample http://downloadpedia.org/skins/common/images/wiki.png
Rating "Medium"
Compliance 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. [42]

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.

Dream Fiction Wiki

Dream Fiction Wiki
URL dreamfiction.fandom.com
Description
Sample [43]
Rating Low
Compliance Medium. While the DFW is a fanon wiki, it has dozens of links to both the English and Portuguese Wikipedias, with most of the English links coming from one template. The site also steals a lot of content from both Wikipedia articles and templates.
Contact info
Actions

dropbears.com

Drugbank

Drugbank
URL https://www.drugbank.ca
Description It is a database. Uses blocks of Wikipedia content in multiple places.
Sample https://www.drugbank.ca/drugs/DB09143 (description is from Wikipedia)
Rating "Low" They are using a CC BY SA NC license. They attribute us only sometimes.
Compliance In discussion as of 2019 February
Contact info
Actions Emails send.

duhoc.cn/wiki

duhoc.cn/wiki
URL https://duhoc.cn/wiki/
Description Wikipedia mirror site operated by the "Consulting Center for Study in China in Ho Chi Minh City". Some of them are even copies of sandboxes and userpages.
Sample https://duhoc.cn/wiki/?lang=en&title=Special%3ASearch&search=wikipedia (Search results for "wikipedia"); https://duhoc.cn/wiki/ja/%E5%88%A9%E7%94%A8%E8%80%85:%E6%A3%AE%E6%B4%A5 (Copied a user page in jawiki)
Rating Medium or Low? It describes as "Copyright © All rights reserved.", but also as "Disclaimer: Content from Wikipedia website." and "Content is available under CC BY-SA 3.0 unless otherwise noted.".
Compliance
Contact info https://duhoc.cn/?lang=vi&source=wikipedia, "Phone / Zalo: (08) 68,183,298"
Actions

DuranDuran.wikia.com

  • Site: duranduran.wikia.com/wiki/Duran_Duran
  • Non-commercial fansite (displaying Google ads), forked copy of Duran Duran article, inc. fair use pictures.
  • GFDL (at Wikia), Wikipedia, original article, Wikipedia history and own history all linked
  • Compliance: High

dWikipedia

dwikipedia
URL http://dwikipedia.eth.limo
Description
Sample
Rating unknown
Compliance
  • Snapshot of all Wikipedia contents (2022), stored in a decentralized fashion on the Ethereum Swarm network (BZZ)
Contact info https://www.ethswarm.org/
Actions

E

earth.com

earth.com
URL https://www.earth.com
Description News about species, also has an "Earthpedia".
Sample https://www.earth.com/plant-encyclopedia/angiosperms/araceae/wolffia-arrhiza/en/
Rating Low
Compliance The "plant encyclopedia" almost has the same exact text in Wikipedia, without any links/mentions to Wikipedia.
Contact info 401 Ryland Street, Reno, NV 89502, USA

303-317-2435

earth.com/contact/

Actions

earth-history.com

earth-history.com
URL http://www.earth-history.com/
Description
Sample http://earth-history.com/Egypt/toplevel/Publ-domain.htm
Rating Low
Compliance 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)[reply]
  • Resent to webmaster AT GEERTS.COM. Superm401 - Talk 02:34, 10 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

ebabylone.com

eBabylone
URL http://www.ebabylone.com/encyclopreg.php?title=Main_Page
Description
Sample http://www.ebabylone.com/encyclopedie_IKEA.html
Rating Low
Compliance 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/
Description
Sample http://www.ebaumsworld.com/pictures/view/63233/
Rating Low
Compliance 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 Sent an email asking that the image be correctly attributed and released under the correct licenses. Chase me ladies, I'm the Cavalry (talk) 16:37, 19 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

eBaita.com

eBaita
URL http://www.ebaita.com/
Description
Sample http://www.ebaita.com/enciclopedia.asp?title=Wikip%C3%A9dia
Rating High
Compliance 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
Description
Sample http://listing-index.ebay.com/games/The_Bloodstone_Wars.html
Rating Low
Compliance Some Wikipedia-scraped listings give GFDL notice with local copy of the GFDL (actors, eg. http://listing-index.ebay.com/actors/Pat_Renella.html), others do not (games, eg. http://listing-index.ebay.com/games/The_Bloodstone_Wars.html). Includes link to original article. 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)[reply]

eBookEDEN.com

eBookEDEN.com
URL http://ebookeden.com/
Description
Sample http://books.google.com/books?id=8oZYJeQvc2gC&printsec=frontcover&hl=de#v=onepage&q&f=false; see Talk:Fyodor Dostoyevsky.
Rating High
Compliance No compliance
Contact info
Actions

eBookIt.com

eBookIt.com
URL http://www.ebookit.com/index.php
Description
Sample http://books.google.com.br/books?id=MCfJsyuq2E8C&printsec=frontcover&dq=atheists+are+idiots#v=onepage
Rating None
Compliance book chapter copied verbatim from Discrimination against atheists, claims copyright, no attribution.
Contact info http://www.ebookit.com/contact-us
Actions

eBook 2u (ebook2u dot com)

eBook2u.com
URL http://eBook2u.com
Description
Sample http://www.ebook2u.com/articles/color-code.shtml
Rating Medium
Compliance 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/
Description
Sample http://www.ebroadcast.com.au/lookup/encyclopedia/wa/Washington,_D._C..html
Rating Low
Compliance 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)[reply]

www.economicexpert.com

EconomicExpert
URL http://www.economicexpert.com/
Description
Sample http://www.economicexpert.com/a/Prime:time.html
Rating None
Compliance 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)[reply]

Still badly non-compliant; www.economicexpert.com/a/WPBS.html returns the text of the original 2004 version of this page "New York broadcaster WPBS-TV is one of two PBS flagship stations, the other being KPBS in California...". Content is mangled in such a way as to insert random bits from the California-related articles being wikilinked, before resuming with the description of the New York station. No attribution to author and no GFDL notice on page. (I'm running NoScript under Firefox; any search engine retrieving this page would also see the no-JS version) Not much correlation to the real WPBS-DT article here as is mangled, unattributed and five years out of date. --66.102.80.212 (talk) 15:21, 17 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Economy-point

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

Economy-point.org
URL http://www.economy-point.org/
Description
Sample http://www.economy-point.org/t/train-accident-refines-montparnasse.html
Rating "none"
Compliance 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)[reply]

editthis.info

www.editthis.info
URL http://www.editthis.info
Description
Sample http://www.editthis.info/wiki/Disney_channel
Rating "Low/None"
Compliance 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)[reply]
    • Got "Disc quota exceeded by recipient" mailer-daemon error. Superm401 - Talk 06:42, 10 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

editthis.info/whitmoorwiki

whitmoorwiki (not url)
URL www.editthis.info/whitmoorwiki
Description
Sample http://www.editthis.info/whitmoorwiki/Adolf_Hitler
Rating "Low/None"
Compliance 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/
Description
Sample http://www.edvardmunch.info/edvard-munch/the-scream.asp
Rating "Low/None"
Compliance 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

eLearningGalaxy

elearninggalaxy
URL http://elearninggalaxy.com
Description
Sample http://elearninggalaxy.com/page/Harvard_University.html
Rating Low/None
Compliance apparently noncompliant - page footers say "Copyright © 2015 eLearningGalaxy.com All Rights Reserved. Some content sourced from Wikipedia." No information found on the site which mentions CC-BY-SA or GFDL, see http://elearninggalaxy.com/terms-of-use.php
Contact info http://elearninggalaxy.com/contact.php (contact form)
Actions

xn--ell-dma.vn

elearninggalaxy
URL xn--ell-dma.vn
Description
Sample https://xn--ell-dma.vn/en/Cosmophasis_lami-6408644046
Rating Low
Compliance footers show all rights reserved mark although the sample is a carbon copy to the photos (leads to upload.wikimedia.org) Even has a "Recent Changes" page.
Contact info [44]
Actions contacted via mail

eM Publications

eM Publications
URL http://www.barnesandnoble.com/c/wikimedia-foundation
Description
Sample [45]
Rating
Compliance Confusingly lists Wikimedia Foundation as the author, though the republisher is not affiliated. Lists names of Wikipedia editors who contributed to the articles.
Contact info
Actions

Emereo Publishing

Emereo Publishing
URL http://emereo.org/ (emereo.net until 2016)
Description Listed at Scholarly Open Access: "repackager of online content and wikipedia entries. Seems to specialize in study guides for professional certifications and celebrity biography. Often have 'what you need to know' or '20 most asked questions about' in the title. Over 3000 titles by this publisher are listed via Amazon". Example linked above seems to involve word-switching, which mangles the grammar of the original Wikipedia articles. Other samples: [46] [47].
Sample http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=vdoHBwAAQBAJ&pg=PT64&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false
Rating
Compliance In at least one item, the cover provides no information about the publisher, author or sources, but the first page mentions GFDL (although the last page actually includes only a link to CC-BY-SA in very small font) and all the individual authors for all Wikipedia articles are listed at the end. The format is identical to PediaPress mwlib and preserves both tables and infoboxes (centred at the beginning of each article). There is no attribution for images, although all of them are listed with their authors at the end.
Contact info http://emereo.net/index.php/contacts/
Actions Was probably downscaled in 2016 after negative reviews [48] [49] [50], as with earlier complaints. As of 2018, about 100 books are listed on Amazon.com, largely marked as unavailable.

emporiumbooks.com.au

Said Mohammad Ali Jawid, ISBN 9786131474835 - Books, Discount Books, Cheap Books, Australian Bookstore - Emporium Books
URL http://www.emporiumbooks.com.au/
Description
Sample http://www.emporiumbooks.com.au/book/said-mohammad-ali-jawid.do
Rating Low
Compliance States "High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles!" and contains direct copy of the start of the article as a blurb. No links to original article or authors. Claims "© Emporium Retail Group 2011". Appears to be redistributing printed books from VDM Publishing House and/or Frederic P. Miller, Agnes F. Vandome, John McBrewster, Lambert M. Surhone, Miriam T. Timpledon, Susan F. Marseken, Mariam T. Tennoe and Susan F. Henssonow, but the article content is still copyrighted.

States "High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles!" and contains direct copy of the start of the article as a blurb, which is then published online (the creation of the book itself is a separate issue). No links to original article or authors. Claims "© Emporium Retail Group 2011" (perhaps as this is a blurb this copyright claim doesn't extend to it). Claims to be published by VDM Publishing House and/or authors Frederic P. Miller, Agnes F. Vandome, John McBrewster, Lambert M. Surhone, Miriam T. Timpledon, Susan F. Marseken, Mariam T. Tennoe and Susan F. Henssonow, but the article content is still copyrighted. See also VDM Publishing House.

Contact info
Actions

emycontent.com and allaboutall.info

emyContent.com
URL http://www.emycontent.com/ and http://allaboutall.info
Description
Sample http://www.emycontent.com/article/Category:Composers from commons:Category:Composers and http://www.allaboutall.info/article/Orchestra from Orchestra
Rating Medium
Compliance 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)[reply]
    • 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)[reply]

enacademic.com

enacademic.com
URL https://enacademic.com/
Description Appears to attempt to be an "index of dictionaries".
Sample https://enacademic.com/dic.nsf/enwiki/4071423
Rating Low/None
Compliance Mentions Wikimedia Foundation but not CC BY-SA, site in Russian.
Contact info
Actions

en-academic.com

en-academic.com
URL https://en-academic.com/
Description Appears to attempt to be an "index of dictionaries".
Sample https://en-academic.com/dic.nsf/enwiki/4071423
Rating Low/None
Compliance Mentions Wikimedia Foundation but not CC BY-SA.
Contact info
Actions

Encyclopedia 4U

Encyclopedia 4U
URL http://www.encyclopedia4u.com
Description
Sample http://www.encyclopedia4u.com/g/george-w-bush.html
Rating Medium
Compliance 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)[reply]

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)[reply]

Encyclopedia of Ancient Egypt

Encyclopedia of Ancient Egypt
URL http://books.google.com/books?id=MwvM09Z-7DwC&printsec=frontcover

Encyclopedia of Ancient Egypt is an e-book published by MobileReference for use on mobile devices. The URL links to Google books' incomplete copy. A complete copy has to be purchased from a commercial supplier.

Description
Sample p.1235 is an exact, or nearly exact, copy of a section in an earlier version of Wikipedia's article Mathematics in medieval Islam.
Rating Medium, judging from the Google books copy. Precise degree of compliance is difficult to evaluate without buying a commercial copy
Compliance The licensing information provided on the "back cover" acknowledges that material from Wikipedia has been used, and that this material is licensed under the GFDL, although it also wrongly implies that this material is also "public domain". However, it also asserts "all rights reserved" over the work as a whole, whereas the GFDL requires that the whole of any modification of a work licensed under it—which is what this is—must also be licensed under the same licence or a substantially similar version.

A copy of the GFDL licence doesn't appear to be included anywhere in the publication, as required by the terms of that licence, although a link to an on-line copy of the licence appears to be provided with the licensing information. The licensing information includes an apology for not listing all the authors of the Wikipedia material, and asserts that these can be seen "by following the hyperlink at the bottom of each article". As far as is possible to tell from the Google books copy, such links do appear regularly throughout the the publication, but it doesn't appear to be possible to use the Google books copy to check that these links work and do in fact point to the proper articles.

Contact info support@soundtells.com
Actions None as yet.

Encyclopaedia of India, Pakistan and Bangladeshn

Encyclopaedia of India, Pakistan and Bangladesh
URL
Description
Sample http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Reliable_sources/Noticeboard/Archive_70#Circular_references:_Gyan_Publishing_and_ISHA_Books
Rating
Compliance
Contact info
Actions

Encyclopedian

Encyclopedian
URL http://www.encyclopedian.com/
Description
Sample http://www.encyclopedian.com/al/Albania.html
Rating Medium
Compliance 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)[reply]

    • 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)[reply]
      • Received reply noting that my fix was incorporated, making the links distinguishable in FF. Superm401 - Talk 18:16, 14 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Encyclopedia of Law: America

American Legal Encyclopedia
URL http://lawi.us/
Description
Sample http://lawi.us/250-top-law-pages-in-wikipedia-in-may-2012/ and http://lawi.us/250-top-law-pages-in-wikipedia-in-may-2012/
Rating None
Compliance Couldn't find any indication that the articles are taken from Wikipedia, but the style and the listing of topics are similar
Contact info
Actions

Encyclopedia of Law: Asia

Asian Legal Encyclopedia
URL http://lawi.asia/
Description
Sample
Rating None
Compliance Couldn't find any indication that the articles are taken from Wikipedia, but the style and the listing of topics are similar
Contact info
Actions


Encyclopedia PRO

<name of the webpage> (not url)
URL http://www.encyclopediapro.com/mw/Main_Page
Description
Sample http://www.encyclopediapro.com/mw/Acetone
Rating "Low/None"
Compliance No mention of Wikipedia, articles are a complete copy of Wikipedia articles.
Contact info info@goldenframe.com
Actions None

Encyclopédie française

  • URL: www.encyclopediefrancaise.com
  • Example: www.encyclopediefrancaise.com/Conférence_de_Berlin.html appears to be a translation of en:Berlin Conference (1884) rather than a copy of fr:Conférence de Berlin and similarly with other pages
  • No obvious mention of Wikipedia, GFDL, source, history or copyright.
  • Non-compliant

Encylowine

Encylowine
URL http://www.encyclowine.org/?title=Main_Page
Description
Sample http://www.encyclowine.org/?title=Fermentation
Rating "Low/None"
Compliance 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)[reply]

EncycloZine

EncycloZine
URL http://encyclozine.com/, http://Artzia.com, http://eluzions.com/, http://diXionary.com, http://Kosmoi.com/
Description
Sample http://encyclozine.com/Society/Social_Science/Anthropology/
Rating Medium
Compliance 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)[reply]
    • Received response noting that Social_Science/Anthropology was fixed and promising to fix others ASAP. Superm401 - Talk 19:25, 1 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Encycolorpedia

Encycolorpedia
URL encycolorpedia.com
Description A color website with a list of around 1600 named colors and color conversions into dozens of color spaces.
Sample https://encycolorpedia.com/ebc2af
Rating "Low/None"
Compliance The "Named Colors" section was at least partially scraped from Wikipedia due to containing several colors that used to be on the Wikipedia list, but were later deleted due to being poorly sourced or made up by a Wikipedia editor. Examples include zinnwaldite, AuroMetalSaurus, medium candy apple red, awesome, and Cal Poly Pomona Green. No indication of CC-BY-SA license anywhere on the site.
Contact info hello AT encycolorpedia.com
Actions None.

Engineers Edge

Engineers Edge
URL https://www.engineersedge.com
Description
Sample https://www.engineersedge.com/heat_transfer/thermal_diffusivity_table_13953.htm
Rating Low/None
Compliance Adds own copyright notice, no mention of source

Says to edit user submissions, but clearly does not care about copyright: example is a copy-paste of Thermal diffusivity, this page is the table of contents of a likely copyvio of [51], etc.

Contact info
Actions NoneTigraanClick here to contact me 14:14, 13 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Englishpremier

Englishpremier
URL www.englishpremier.net
Description
Sample http://www.englishpremier.net/sheffieldunited/sheffieldunited_stadium
Rating None
Compliance 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

Entqna

entqna.com
URL http://www.entqna.com/
Description
Sample http://www.entqna.com/celebrities/6345-celebrities.html
Rating Low/None
Compliance 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)[reply]

enwik

enwik (not url)
URL https://enwik.org/
Description appears to be a complete mirror
Sample URL
Rating "High", "Medium", or "Low/None" compliance with CC-BY-SA (matches Wikipedia:CC-BY-SA Compliance) (compare against GFDL if they choose that license).
Compliance Mentions that the articles were taken from Wikipedia.
Contact info E-mails, phone numbers, contact form URLs, etc. of admin and ISP.
Actions Actions taken (if any) to attempt to make the website comply.


epier.com

epier.com
URL http://www.epier.com/
Description
Sample http://www.epier.com/BiddingForm.asp?1743236 part from Zeppelin
Rating Medium
Compliance Wikipedia text is copied with no attribution at all which is in violation of the GFD license. Example: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zeppelin which was copied at or after 03:33, October 27, 2007.
Contact info Registrant:
  	ePier Inc. 
  	1503 North Regal
  	Spokane, WA 99207
  	US 

Administrative Contact , Technical Contact :

  	Kim, James
  	jkim@epier.com
  	1503 N REGAL ST
  	SPOKANE, WA 99207-5361
  	US
  	Phone: 509-534-0334
  	Fax: 509-534-0334 

Current Registrar: NETWORK SOLUTIONS, LLC.

Actions message sent from http://www.epier.com/contactweb_basic.asp : 84user (talk) 15:24, 29 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

84user (talk) 15:14, 29 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Failure notice: Email returned as unable to deliver ("wasn't able to establish an SMTP connection. (#4.4.1)") on 2009-06-05. 84user (talk) 00:04, 12 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Equityedu.com

Equityedu.com
URL http://www.equityedu.com
Description
Sample http://www.equityedu.com/testing/plagiarism.html, http://www.equityedu.com/to-Cele/careerbuilder.php
Rating "Low/None" compliance with GFDL.
Compliance Content copied from wikipedia articles, even including clean up tags in some cases ([52]), 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)[reply]

essential architecture

Essential Architecture
URL http://www.essential-architecture.com
Description
Sample http://www.london-architecture.info/LO-061.htm from Millennium_Bridge_(London)
Rating None
Compliance Overall site contains links to smaller domains such as sample URL. Text and photos from outdated version of article, no attribution to Wikipedia or mention of GFDL.
Contact info essential.architecture AT gmail.com
Actions Sent standard violation letter


eurovisionarchive

eurovisionarchive
URL http://eurovisionarchive.members.beeb.net/
Description
Sample http://eurovisionarchive.members.beeb.net/1969.htm from Eurovision_Song_Contest_1969
Rating None
Compliance 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)[reply]

EverybodyLovesItalian.com

EverybodyLovesItalian.com
URL http://everybodylovesitalian.com/
Description Italian recipes with copy-pasted descriptions from Wikipedia
Sample http://everybodylovesitalian.com/nonnas-minestrone-omg-easy-to-follow-recipe/ (with copied text from minestrone), http://everybodylovesitalian.com/pasta-fazool/ (from pasta e fagioli)
Rating None
Compliance No indication of source or license
Contact info http://everybodylovesitalian.com/contact-us/
Actions None

EverybodyWiki

EverybodyWiki Bios & Wiki
URL https://en.everybodywiki.com/
Description Appears to be primarily focused on biographies, with no notability requirements whatsoever. The unnamed creator of the site appears to have started the site off with a database dump of a number of wikis, including Wikipedia, and, based on the poor spelling and grammar throughout the site's interface, is probably not a native speaker of English. Site includes copies of deleted mainspace articles. Also copies from draftspace can be found.
Sample https://en.everybodywiki.com/Dmitry_Green (archive) from Dmitry Green
Rating High
Compliance Entire wiki is listed as under CC-BY-SA. They apparently at some point imported around 45k BLPs from enwiki, but provide full attribution and links back to Wikipedia on each imported page.
Contact info admin AT https://en.everybodywiki.com/Everybodywiki:FAQ#Contact (sysadmin), abuse AT https://help.gandi.net/en/contact (host)
Actions None

Everipedia

Everipedia
URL https://www.everipedia.org/ https://www.everipedia.com/
Description Is now hosted on a blockchain, with a focus on cryptocurrency. A lot of the content is copied from Wikipedia.

Claims to include every wikipedia article. Claims to allow creation of articles on any topic that can be sourced, without regard to notability requirements. Claims to encourage verified celebrities to edit their own pages. Claims to be an improvement on Wikipedia.

Sample https://everipedia.org/wiki/lang_en/Great_American_Lesbian_Art_Show https://www.everipedia.com/Great_American_Lesbian_Art_Show/
Rating Low High
Compliance Articles aren't credited to Wikipedia. Terms of Service claims that the content is licensed under CC-BY 4.0 (note the lack of SA), which is definitely a violation.

Main page and FAQ say everything is licensed under CC-BY-SA-4.0. Individual pages have an Everipedia CC symbol but no direct CC link. Links back to source Wikipedia article, and to other cited sources. Explicitly says article is based on a Wikipedia article. Terms of service page say everything is under CC-BT-SA-4.0, and are linked to from each article

Contact info https://everipedia.org/contact-us https://www.everipedia.com/contact/
Actions ==== Old ====

DCMI takedown sent for Great_American_Lesbian_Art_Show (DES (talk)DESiegel Contribs 21:51, 1 July 2017 (UTC)) Response that said everything is under CC-BY-SA, and pointed out (small) CC symbol which I had mistaken for a copyright symbol. DES (talk)DESiegel Contribs 01:24, 2 July 2017 (UTC) Seems to have dropped the links back to Wikipedia, which would provide the required attribution. I've send another e-mail to see if I'm just missing this or it's been hidden (like with World Heritage). Kuru (talk) 22:15, 20 November 2017 (UTC) Update: Site owner identified this as a bug; seems to have been corrected now.[reply]

Everything Explained Today

Everything Explained Today
URL http://everything.explained.today/
Description
Sample http://everything.explained.today/Pope_Shenouda_III_of_Alexandria/
Rating High
Compliance "This article is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License. It uses material from the Wikipedia article "Pope Shenouda III of Alexandria".
Contact info
Actions None

EverythingOU

everythingOU.com
URL http://www.everythingou.com/
Description
Sample http://www.everythingou.com/
Rating Low/None
Compliance 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)[reply]

Everything Preschool

Everything Preschool
URL http://everythingpreschool.com/
Description
Sample http://www.everythingpreschool.com/themes/whales/encyclopedia.php
Rating Medium
Compliance 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)[reply]
      • 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)[reply]
        • 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)[reply]
          • He said he would look into it. Superm401 - Talk 03:00, 14 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
            • Received email noting that he had replaced the iframe with an include! Superm401 - Talk 04:08, 14 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

e-wiki.org

E-WIKI
URL http://e-wiki.org/
Description
Sample http://e-wiki.org/ru/wiki/%D0%AE%D0%B0%D0%BD%D1%8C_%D0%91%D1%8F%D0%BE
Rating None
Compliance No links whatsoever to the source Russian Wikipedia pages. Also hotlinks images from around the web without attribution.
Contact info
Actions

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


Explained.At

Explained.At: The Information and Knowledge Portal
URL http://explained.at/
Description
Sample http://everything.explained.at/Rome/
Rating Medium
Compliance Displays at bottom of page:

This article is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License. It uses material from the Wikipedia article "Rome". Everything.Explained.At is © Copyright 2009-2013, A B Cryer, All Rights Reserved.

Links back to original article and the GFDL hosted at gnu.org. No mention of CC-BY-SA.

Not sure how their own copyright notice and the "All Rights Reserved" is or is not compatible with our licensing.

Contact info Brian Cryer - email: brian@cryer.co.uk website: http://www.cryer.co.uk/brian/about
Actions No action taken.


explanation-guide

Explanation Guide
URL http://explanation-guide.info
Description Possibly renamed or defunct at some time prior to 16:46, 5 October 2017 (UTC).
Sample http://explanation-guide.info/meaning/Red.html
Rating Medium
Compliance 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)[reply]
    • Got mailer-daemon error. Resent to ls_services_eire AT yahoo.ie . Superm401 - Talk 09:00, 13 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Attempted to view website, domain servers at 8.8.8.8 & 8.8.4.4 (Google) were unable to resolve the domain name. Annotated status of this entry to reflect this using the description property. 0x69494411 16:46, 5 October 2017 (UTC)[reply]

ezResult.com

ezResult
URL http://www.essentialresults.com, http://ezresult.com
Description
Sample http://www.essentialresults.com/article/Lake_Tanganyika
Rating Medium
Compliance 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)
  • essentialresults: No substantial content at examples; site is domain parked
  • ezresult: no obvious Wikipedia content at main page --Rumping (talk) 22:45, 27 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]
  • New example: ezresult.com/Mathematics.html has excerpts which may be fair use. --Rumping (talk) 18:38, 30 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

F

fact-archive.com

Fact Archive
URL http://www.fact-archive.com/
Description
Sample http://www.fact-archive.com/encyclopedia/Parthenon
Rating Medium
Compliance 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


factsabout.com

Facts About
URL http://www.factsabout.com
Description
Sample http://www.factsabout.com/w/wo/world_war_ii.html
Rating Medium
Compliance 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/
Description
Sample http://www.factbook.org/wikipedia/en/a/al/albania_1.html
Rating Medium
Compliance 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)[reply]

Fact-Index

Fact-Index
URL http://www.fact-index.com/
Description
Sample http://www.fact-index.com/a/al/albania_1.html
Rating Medium
Compliance 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

FactualWorld

FactualWorld
URL http://factualworld.com/
Description
Sample http://factualworld.com/index.php?q=Akhtar%20Hameed%20Khan
Rating None
Compliance Claims copyright to all mirrored material. No mention of Wikipedia or its respective licenses.
Contact info http://factualworld.com/contactus.php
Actions

Faith and Beliefs

FaithAndBeliefs.com
URL www.faithandbeliefs.com
Description
Sample http://www.faithandbeliefs.com/index.php?q=Islam
Rating Medium
Compliance Links to en.wiki version. No mention of GFDL. Appears to fetch content from WP on command: instantly mirrors updates.
Contact info
Actions

Fallen Earth Forums

Fallen Earth Forums
URL http://forums.fallenearth.com/
Description
Sample http://forums.fallenearth.com/fallenearth/showpost.php?p=34311&postcount=10
Rating Medium
Compliance 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)[reply]

Famous-astrophysicists.com

Famous Astrophysicists
URL http://www.famous-astrophysicists.com/index.html
Description
Sample http://www.famous-astrophysicists.com/astrophysicists/drake.htm from Frank Drake
Rating None
Compliance 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. Jespley 21:08, 20 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Famouspeople.co.uk

Famouspeople.co.uk
URL http://www.famouspeople.co.uk/index.html
Description
Sample http://www.famouspeople.co.uk/m/margaretthatcher.html
Rating Medium
Compliance 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)[reply]
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)[reply]
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)[reply]

Famous Like Me

Famous Like Me
URL http://www.famouslikeme.com
Description
Sample http://www.famouslikeme.com/76675/article.html from Samantha Mumba
Rating Medium
Compliance 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/
Description
Sample http://www.fastload.org/co/Computer_science.html
Rating Medium
Compliance 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).[reply]
Received response stating they would ignore copyright complaints that were not in the form of a DMCA takedown notice. [::Example redirects to computer-science.brainsip.com/ with no obvious Wikipedia content; www.fastload.org has links to Wikipedia but no substantial content --Rumping (talk) 22:54, 27 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Now seems that the site has fallen into disrepair. 16:27, 19 October 2008 (UTC)

Feedbus.com

Feedbus.com
URL http://feedbus.com/
Description
Sample http://feedbus.com/wikis/wikipedia.php?title=Alicia_Keys
Rating Medium
Compliance Directly links to Wikipedia. No local copy of GFDL. All images are local. Appears to be using an automatic script: [53] No history sections.
Contact info Peter Scott: pscontent AT gmail.com, 3062448761 (Canada)
Actions


Fixed reference

Fixed Reference=
URL http://fixedreference.org/
Description
Sample http://fixedreference.org/en/20040424/wikipedia/Taking_Children_Seriously
Rating High
Compliance 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

File-extensions

File-extensions
URL http://www.file-extensions.org/
Description
Sample http://www.file-extensions.org/elf-file-extension-executable-and-linkable-format-file
Rating Low
Compliance Copies of parts of Wikipedia articles, most often the leads. Link to WP article but no mention that text was taken from WP article.
Contact info Half price
Actions

filepie

Filepie
URL www.filepie.us/
Description
Sample http://www.filepie.us/?title=Bronze(mirror),bronzewiki page
Rating Low
Compliance TOtal copying of wikipedia content
Contact info [
Actions


Fililquarian Publishing

Fililquarian Publishing/Biographiq
URL http://www.filiquarianpublishing.com/
Description
Sample http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=pTgqEJzGqz0C&printsec=frontcover&dq=biographiq&num=100 from Emma Goldman
Rating "Low/None" compliance with GFDL .
Compliance Direct copies, for sale, of scores of Wikipedia biographical articles. Published with a GDFL license, and copyrighted to Filiquarian Publishing, LLC. There are 48 such titles listed at Google Books.[54]
Contact info Joshua Linsk 2020 Highland Pkwy St. Paul, S 55116

, United States +1.9523744322 Fax -- +1.6516980554

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Filmbug

Filmbug
URL http://www.filmbug.com/
Description
Sample http://www.filmbug.com/db/4028 from Elia Kazan
Rating Medium
Compliance 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/
Description
Sample http://flmsdown.net/Anne-Hathaway---Photos-6624.html (beware of popups!)
Rating None
Compliance A few sentences of article; no mention of WP Patstuarttalk·edits 08:14, 25 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Contact info
Actions

FindAtWiki

FindAtWiki (not url)
URL https://findatwiki.com
Description Appears to be a complete mirror.
Sample https://findatwiki.com/Wizards_of_Waverly_Place
Rating "High", "Medium", or "Low/None" compliance with CC-BY-SA (matches Wikipedia:CC-BY-SA Compliance) (compare against GFDL if they choose that license).
Compliance Footer: "This page is based on the copyrighted Wikipedia article: Electronic trading. Articles is available under the CC BY-SA 3.0 license; additional terms may apply."
Contact info Can't seem to find
Actions None

FindTarget

FindTarget
URL http://reference.findtarget.com
Description
Sample http://reference.findtarget.com/search/Willy%20Vandersteen/
Rating Low
Compliance As far as I can see, no link or mention of Wikipedia or the GFDL at all, only their own copyright notice.
Contact info
Actions

FindWords.info

FindWords
URL https://findwords.info
Description
Sample https://findwords.info/term/toothpick
Rating Medium
Compliance Mentions Wikipedia (the text from the pages are in their own section named "Wikipedia", but does not link to the pages)
Contact info
Actions

Firebird.cn

Firebird.cn
URL http://www.firebird.cn/wiki/Main_Page
Description
Sample http://www.firebird.cn/wiki/Albania
Rating None
Compliance
  • 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)[reply]

Fisacgym.it

Fisacgym.it
URL http://www.fisacgym.it
Description
Sample http://www.fisacgym.it/fisac/en/fisac/presentation-teamgym.html
Rating None
Compliance No mention of Wikipedia; claims all material copyrighted by Fisacgym.
Contact info
Actions

FirstCarHire.com

FirstCarHire
URL http://www.firstcarhire.com/country-guide/
Description
Sample http://www.firstcarhire.com/country-guide/united-states/
Rating None
Compliance 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)[reply]


Fitness pills

Fitness pills
URL http://www.fitpills.com/
Description
Sample http://www.fitpills.com/no-hangover/
Rating None
Compliance 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)
  • Example has no obvious Wikipedia content--Rumping (talk) 23:40, 27 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]


FiveAfrica.com

FiveAfrica
URL http://fiveafrica.com/
Description
Sample http://fiveafrica.com/index.php?title=Simone_Scatizzi
Rating Low
Compliance Full text mirror, no acknowledgement of Wikipedia origins, no means to retrieve history or restore contributor attribution
Contact info
Actions

Fleetwoodmac.org

Fleetwoodmac.org
URL http://www.fleetwoodmac.org/
Description
Sample http://www.fleetwoodmac.org/index.php?q=Uncle_Sam_(diamond) http://www.fleetwoodmac.org/mick-fleetwood.php
Rating Low
Compliance 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.
  • Update: Uncle_Sam_(diamond) example has same content as frontpage , the three paragraph intro of Fleetwood Mac, and no obvious mention of Wikipedia. Some group related info also comes from Wikipedia, e.g from Mick Fleetwood, without mentioning source or GFDL. Not obviously scraping. 23:48, 27 June 2008 (UTC)
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
Description
Sample http://motorola.foosquare.com/
Rating Medium
Compliance 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)[reply]
    • 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)[reply]
  • No substantial content at example; site is domain parked --Rumping (talk) 23:49, 27 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Footballshirtculture.com

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

Footballyears.net

Football Years
URL http://www.footballyears.net, http://www.arsenalfcyears.com/, http://thierryhenryyears.com
Description
Sample http://www.arsenalfcyears.com/years/1946-1950overview.htm
Rating None
Compliance 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

Footbo.com

Footbo.com
URL footbo.com
Description
Sample footbo.com/Players/Elias_Hernan_Hernandez/Biography
Rating None
Compliance The Eliam Hernan Hernandez biography at Footbo.com was created there on 21 Jun 2008 with minimal content, but on 1 Sep 2008, the version that is currently there, and has not been edited since then, was copied, word-for-word, with the same typo, from the Wikipedia article which had existed in similar form since 24 July 2008. The Footbo.com page says "Copyright © 2007 Footbo all rights reserved". Footbo is a wiki, so users update the content.
Contact info Abuse report form at footbo.com/ReportAbuse more info on copyright at footbo.com/Copyright
Actions None.

Foundation of Geology

Foundation of Geology: Volume 1
URL http://books.google.com/books?id=Fkw99wNiyQ0C&lpg=PP1&pg=PP1#v=onepage&q&f=false
Description
Sample
Rating Low/none
Compliance A compilation of Wikipedia articles published by Global Vision Publishing House without attribution.
Contact info nsingh_2004@vsnl.net, info@globalvisionpub.com
Actions

France.com

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

franzpeterschubert.com

Franz Schubert - Sonata in C minor, D. 958
URL http://www.franzpeterschubert.com/sonata_d_958.html
Description
Sample
Rating None
Compliance The pages on sonatas 958, 959, 960 are copies of a Wikipedia article "Schubert's last sonatas". None of them mention Wikipedia or the GFDL.
Contact info http://www.franzpeterschubert.com/e-mail.html
Actions Standard violation letter sent.

Gidip (talk) 15:03, 2 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

fraudwatchernetwork.com

Fraudwatchernetwork
URL http://fraudwatchernetwork.com
Description
Sample http://fraudwatchernetwork.com/website/mail-fraud.html
Rating None
Compliance 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)[reply]
  • Sent standard followup to bbdnx2000 AT fraudwatchernetwork.com. Superm401 - Talk 05:54, 19 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

feedbus.com

Feedbus
URL http://www.feedbus.com/
Description
Sample http://feedbus.com/wikis/wikipedia.php
Rating Low
Compliance No GFDL copyright status, ads on webpage.
Contact info Whois Profile
Actions None
  • "a temporary problem extracting the information you are searching" --Rumping (talk) 23:52, 27 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Freebase

Freebase
URL http://freebase.com
Description
Sample http://www.freebase.com/view/sozh (and you can click at the image).
Rating
Compliance Articles mention both Wikipedia and GFDL. Images cite contributor by name and include link to original Wikimedia commons page as well as license(s).
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)[reply]

  • No obvious Wikipedia content at example --Rumping (talk) 23:55, 27 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

freeglossary.com

Free Glossary
URL http://www.freeglossary.com
Description
Sample http://www.freeglossary.com/Painter-Stainers%27_Company
Rating Low
Compliance 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)[reply]

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)[reply]
    • I missed the section below. I should have customized the letter. Superm401 - Talk 05:04, 19 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Page Load Error: Network Timeout --Rumping (talk) 23:56, 27 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

freepedia.org

Freepedia
URL http://www.freepedia.org/ , http://de.freepedia.org/ , http://fr.freepedia.org/ , http://es.freepedia.org/
Description
Sample http://en.freepedia.org/Organization.html
Rating High
Compliance 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
Actions

Fresh, Bold, & So Def Women

<Fresh, Bold, & So Def Women>
URL http://freshboldandsodef.tumblr.com/post/6182648253/felicia-pride-is-an-independent-content-producer
Description
Sample http://freshboldandsodef.tumblr.com/post/6182648253/felicia-pride-is-an-independent-content-producer
Rating "Low/None" compliance with GFDL (matches Wikipedia:GFDL Compliance).
Compliance Text copied directly from wikipedia page; no mention of wikipedia or GFDL.
Contact info
Actions None

Fucking Wikipedia

Fucking Wikipedia (alternately, Fuck-o-Pedia)
URL https://wikipedia.johncave.co.nz/index.php?page=Main_Page
Description Mirror of unstyled (no CSS) rendered pages with expletives added throughout.
Sample https://wikipedia.johncave.co.nz/index.php?page=Soeara_Berbisa
Rating Medium
Compliance The standard CC-BY-SA-3.0 message was copied along with the rest of the content, but there is no link back to Wikipedia and the page history links are broken.
Contact info
Actions None

funeralnearme.com

funeralnearme.com
URL https://funeralnearme.com/
Description Mirror of recently-deceased Wikipedia biographies
Sample https://funeralnearme.com/viktor-gnezdilov-funeral-death-obituary/
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Gainsville.com

Gainsville.com
URL http://www.gainesville.com/apps/pbcs.dll/section?template=wiki
Description
Sample http://www.gainesville.com/apps/pbcs.dll/section?template=wiki&text=Blood
Rating Medium
Compliance 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
Description
Sample http://www.gamblingsitesforsale.com/craps/dice.html copy of Dice
Rating Low/None
Compliance "From Wikipedia the free encyclopedia, by MultiMedia" (Multimedia links to http://www.multimedia.com.ro/). No GFDL visible.
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gamelow.com

GameLow.com
URL http://www.gamelow.com/
Description
Sample http://www.gamelow.com/puzzles/logic.html
Rating None
Compliance 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)[reply]

gameosis.com

Gameosis.com
URL http://www.gameosis.com/
Description
Sample http://www.gameosis.com/drink/flip.html (compare this version of flip cup)
Rating Low/None
Compliance 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.
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gamerwiki.com

GamerWiki
URL http://www.gamerwiki.com/
Description
Sample http://www.gamerwiki.com/index.php/Nintendo_GameCube
Rating Medium
Compliance 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/
Description
Sample http://game.moonlightchest.com/rubik_cube.asp
Rating None
Compliance 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.
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Gateserver.net

Gateserver.net
URL http://www.gateserver.net
Description
Sample http://www.gateserver.net/Topicdetails.aspx?Topicid=52082&name=&catid=329&topicname=Lost_Ten_Tribes
Rating Medium
Compliance They link to www.gnu.org for the GFDL license, and to the specific Wikipedia article. But no history on their site.
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gaudiriudoms2002.org

  • Site: http://www.gaudiriudoms2002.org/

Example: http://www.gaudiriudoms2002.org/index.php?option=com_awiki&view=mediawiki&Itemid=2&article=Talk:Manx_(cat)

gaz.wiki

gaz.wiki
URL https://gaz.wiki
Description automatically translates en.wikipedia.org into several languages, adds an ad at the bottom
Sample https://gaz.wiki/wiki/es/Ice_hockey
Rating Medium-Low
Compliance makes it clear the material is "from Wikipedia", but doesn't mention the license and doesn't link to wikipedia.org
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geekopedia

Geekopedia
URL http://geekopedia.ipupdater.com
Description
Sample http://albania.geekopedia.ipupdater.com/
Rating Medium
Compliance 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)
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  • Asked webmaster AT geekopedia.ipupdater.com for fixed article and link and local GFDL. Superm401 - Talk 20:57, 19 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

geeks.dnip.net

See Wikipedia:Mirrors_and_forks/Abc#borgfind

geneawiki.com

GeneaWiki, part of GeneaNet
URL http://en.geneawiki.com/
Description
Sample http://en.geneawiki.com/index.php/Mitochondrial_Eve (compare to en:Mitochondrial_Eve). Promoted as a "featured article" on GeneaNet's websites and emails.
Rating Low
Medium --Zigger «º» 04:16, 27 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Compliance Pages link to page mentioning GFDL, has local copy of GFDL. Does not mention or link to Wikipedia. Does not list or link to original history/authors.
Page updated 19-Feb-2009, so that it now mentions GFDL & links to that GNU.org license page, and now identifies the Wikipedia article as an origin. Still does not list or directly link to original history/authors. --Zigger «º» 04:08, 27 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Contact info http://www.geneanet.org/contact/presse.php
Actions Used their standard contact web form to advise of breach. But page warns "…queries out of subject … will be totally ignored." --Zigger «º» 00:22, 19 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

general books llc

General Books LLC
URL http://booksllc.net/
Description
Sample See Books LLC; a general Wikipedia publisher on demand.
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geodatabase.de

Geodatabase.de
URL http://www.geodatabase.de/
Description
Sample http://www.geodatabase.de/Joe%20Williams%20(jazz%20singer)
Rating Medium
Compliance 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.
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Portale Storia

portalestoria.net
URL <portale storia>http://www.portalestoria.net</portale storia>
Description
Sample <portale storia>http://www.portalestoria.net/index.htm </portale storia>
Rating high
Compliance Mentions Wikipedia and the GFDL; links to original article and also GFDL.
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geoseven.com

geoseven.com
URL http://www.geoseven.com
Description
Sample http://www.geoseven.com/en/DE/
Rating high
Compliance Mentions Wikipedia and the GFDL; links to original article and also GFDL.
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GetGlue.com

GetGlue.com
URL http://getglue.com/
Description
Sample http://getglue.com/tv_shows/legends_of_hidden_temple
Rating None
Compliance Mirror of first paragraph of Legends of the Hidden Temple article. No mention of Wikipedia or CC-BY-SA-3.0. No attribution.
Contact info support AT getglue.com
Actions friendly letter sent (based on form letter by DES at Wikipedia:Standard CC-BY-SA violation letter

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)

GetWiki

GetWiki
URL http://getwiki.net
Description
Sample http://getwiki.net/-Freeport,_New_York
Rating Low
Compliance They say (at bottom of page) "(...as imported from WP) article has not been saved locally". "About" page http://getwiki.net/-about says "GetWiki imports articles via XML from Wikipedia, Wikinfo, and SourceWatch, among others." They do say on http://getwiki.net/-GetMeta:Copyrights "The default imported contributions assumes GNU FDL terms", and that links to a copy of the GNU FDL, but it appears not to be linked from individual article pages.
Contact info http://getwiki.net/-contact
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Glasglidius

Glasglidius
URL http://glasglow.com
Description
Sample http://www.glasglow.com/e/index.php?title=Robert_Frost
Rating None
Compliance Articles are from Wikipedia but no mention of Wikipedia or the GFDL
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globalcpr.com

globalcpr.com
URL http://www.globalcpr.com/
Description
Sample http://www.globalcpr.com/org/super.html, http://www.globalcpr.com/Constellations.html
Rating Low
Compliance 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//
Description
Sample http://www.globalguide.org/index.html?title=CBC_Radio_Two mirrors CBC Radio Two
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GlobalNY.biz

GlobalNY.biz
URL https://www.globalny.biz/
Description
Sample https://www.globalny.biz/person/id/363
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Compliance No mention of Wikipedia at all.
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Global Encyclopedia of Islamic Mystics and Mysticism (book)

Global Encyclopedia of Islamic Mystics and Mysticism
URL http://books.google.com/books?id=6XCRmgig69MC&lpg=PP1&pg=PR4#v=onepage&q=&f=false
Description
Sample http://books.google.com/books?id=6XCRmgig69MC&lpg=PA17&ots=RdJq-fpSWz&pg=PA15#v=onepage&q=&f=false
Rating None
Compliance Book, not a website: I wasn't sure where/how else to report this. Only bears an "all rights reserved" copyright notice. No credit to (nor mention of) Wikipedia, no mention of CC nor GFDL licenses. Some of the book's content does not appear (and from what I could tell, never did appear) in Wikipedia but other portions are verbatim copies. See also: Talk:Aissawa#Article issues.
Contact info Publisher info: nsingh_2004@vsnl.net; globalvision.pub@gmail.com; http://www.globalvisionpub.com
Actions Contacted Google to note that about this book page displays Jan 1, 2007 while actual book contents say "First Edition, 2009". This is important because the content was added August 4, 2007. Superm401 - Talk 19:23, 13 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

-- Gyrofrog (talk) 16:14, 17 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Global encyclopaedia of political geography (book)

Global encyclopaedia of political geography By M. A. Chaudhary, Gautam Chaudhary (book)
URL http://globalvisionpub.com, http://books.google.com/books?id=vmyN0bMTth8C&dq=urrecht+revanchism+|+nationalism+|+irredentism+-wikipedia&source=gbs_navlinks_s
Description
Sample http://books.google.com/books?id=vmyN0bMTth8C&pg=PA204&dq=urrecht+revanchism+|+nationalism+|+irredentism+-wikipedia&hl=en&ei=dVxUTL2zJsT38Aa1qdmgBA&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CCgQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=urrecht%20revanchism%20%7C%20nationalism%20%7C%20irredentism%20-wikipedia&f=false
Rating None. Listed as © Publisher, no reference to Wikipedia or GFDL
Compliance Multiple articles in this encyclopedia appear to have been lifted verbatim from WP, including "Revanchism", "Scientific imperialism", "Rudolf Kjellén"
Contact info nsingh_2004@vsnl.net, global.vision276@gmail.com
Actions No actions taken.

Global Vision Publishing House (publisher)

Global Vision Publishing House
URL http://www.globalvisionpub.com/AllBooks.aspx
Description
Sample See the discussion at the Reliable Sources noticeboard: some (not all) books copy from Wikipedia. Do not presume that any book from this publishing house is a reliable source; do not link to copyvio.
Rating Zero. Listed as © Publisher; Wikipedia and the GFDL do not seem to be mentioned. Some books copy from other sources, both online and printed, and do not appear to acknowledge those either. Many books have a more encyclopædia-like structure, with a series of many articles / short sections rather than one big body of prose; different articles/sections in the books sometimes appear to borrow from different sources. In one case an obvious grammatical error in the source text appears to have been copied verbatim.
Compliance Various Global Vision books have raised concerns of copyvio on wikipedia articles, but in each case the article text predates the date the book was published.
Copied from other (non-wikipedia) sources
  • "Spiritual Value of Social Charity", in which the first visible page of text - apparently written by the publisher themselves - is a direct copy of "History and philosophy of social work in India" (published by somebody else, decades earlier).
  • A randomly chosen sentence from "Encyclopedic Dictionary of Sanskrit Literature" also appears in a 1996 book from a different source: [55]
  • "Nuclear weapons and national security: emerging challenges for Asia" copies extensively from [56]
  • A randomly chosen sentence from "21st Century India : View and Vision " also appears in a 2003 book from a different source: [57]
  • The first sentences of "Rāvaṇa and Laṅkā", [58] nominally written by R.K. Ramakrishnan, is copied from "India in the Rāmāyaṇa age: a study of the social and cultural conditions in ancient India as described in Vālmīki's Rāmāyaṇa", published 1967 [59]
  • "Basics of guidance and counselling" appears to copy from a 1984 book by a different Indian publisher which in turn copies from the 1965 "Testing for Teachers".
  • "Role models in management (leadership and communication)" copies from "Effective Leadership" by Adair
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glosk.com

glosk.com
URL http://www.glosk.com
Description
Sample http://www.glosk.com/AS/Leichhardt/-2243917/pages/Poison_Rocks/106601_en.htm
Rating High
Compliance 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

GoGetPapers

GoGetPapers
URL http://www.gogetpapers.com/
Description
Sample http://www.gogetpapers.com/Questions/Cheater_plug
Rating None
Compliance The "Questions and Answers" section, which seems to be automatically generated through Wikipedia scraping, does not even acknowledge Wikipedia.
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Actions E-mailed the Domains by Proxy e-mail address from WHOIS. PleaseStand (talk) 01:26, 27 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Google Knowledge Graph

Google Knowledge Graph
URL https://www.google.com/intl/en_us/insidesearch/features/search/knowledge.html
Description Google Knowledge Graph
Sample https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mg91_trV4hY
Rating Low
Compliance Entries mention Wikipedia but not license
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Google Knowledge Graph Search API

Google Knowledge Graph Search API
URL https://developers.google.com/knowledge-graph/
Description JSON-LD interface to the Google Knowledge Graph.
Sample https://developers.google.com/knowledge-graph/reference/rest/v1/
Rating Medium
Compliance Entries mention Wikipedia and license; unclear what license covers the API
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Google Knowledge Graph Search Widget

Google Knowledge Graph Search Widget
URL https://developers.google.com/knowledge-graph/how-tos/search-widget
Description JavaScript module that provides API to Google Knowledge Graph
Sample https://developers.google.com/knowledge-graph/how-tos/search-widget-example
Rating Medium
Compliance Entries mention Wikipedia and license; unclear what license covers the API
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Google Maps

Google Maps
URL https://maps.google.com
Description Google Maps "Quick Facts" entries rely on Google Knowledge Graph
Sample https://www.google.com/maps/place/United+States+Naval+Observatory/@38.9216743,-77.0690724,17z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m5!3m4!1s0x89b7b62f93f61443:0xeba717baca31d77d!8m2!3d38.9216743!4d-77.0668837
Rating Low
Compliance Entries link back to Wikipedia but not license. The Google Maps license is more restrictive than CC-BY-SA.
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goo Wikipedia

goo Wikipedia
URL http://wpedia.goo.ne.jp/
Description
Sample http://wpedia.goo.ne.jp/enwiki/User:Igrebnev/sandbox
Rating None
Compliance non-compliant, copyright notice claims copyright
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Actions None, raised at OTRS. I don't speak or write Japanese.--ukexpat (talk) 21:12, 7 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

go-portal.org

  • Site: http://www.go-portal.org/
  • Example: http://www.go-portal.org/index.php/component/awiki/?view=mediawiki&article=Talk%3ACigarette

GoUpstate.com

Spartanburg SC
URL http://www.goupstate.com/
Description
Sample http://www.goupstate.com/apps/pbcs.dll/section?category=NEWS&template=wiki&text=Alicia_Keys
Rating "Medium"
Compliance 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/
Description
Sample http://gov-certificates.co.uk/birth/certificate/Crematoria
Rating None
Compliance 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.
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governpub.com

governpub.com
URL http://www.governpub.com/
Description
Sample http://www.governpub.com/gt/Beowulf.html
Rating Low
Compliance 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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Gpedia

Gpedia
URL http://www.gpedia.com
Description
Sample http://www.gpedia.com/en/gpedia/Main_Page
Rating High
Compliance Every page has a statement at the bottom that it is a derivative work under CC-BY-SA, with a link to the original article. No specific mention of Wikipedia, except as happens to occur in the text of pages.
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Greatestinfo.org

Greatestinfo.org
URL http://www.greatestinfo.org/Main_Page
Description
Sample http://www.greatestinfo.org/Christ
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Compliance 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
Description
Sample http://www.greatpersonalities.com/viewtopic-32.html
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Compliance Once copied several chess/tennis/etc. articles. Has now become a blog (what hasn't). Should be monitored
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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: [60] - 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:
  • [61] 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 [62]), 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 [63]. 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: [64]. 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

grpelvicmed.com

Female Pelvic Medicine & Urogynecology
URL http://www.grpelvicmed.com
Description
Sample http://www.grpelvicmed.com/patientsupport/gynconditions/interstitialcystitis/diagnosis/
Rating None: Wikipedia and GDFL are not mentioned.
Compliance Content copy-pasted from our article, Interstitial cystitis (including the refs in square brackets), and divided into sub-pages.
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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”

Gyan Publishing House

Gyan Publishing House
URL
Description
Sample http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Reliable_sources/Noticeboard/Archive_70#Circular_references:_Gyan_Publishing_and_ISHA_Books
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Contact info 23, Ansari Road, Darya Ganj New Delhi, Delhi 110002 India
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Hamichlol.org.il

Hamichlol
URL http://hamichlol.org.il
Description
Sample www.hamichlol.org.il/%D7%A2%D7%9D_%D7%99%D7%A9%D7%A8%D7%90%D7%9C
Rating
Compliance Mirrors Hebrew Wikipedia. Includes text (underscoring used in what follows to indicates hyperlinked text) at page bottom reading, "Some of the contents of this site are from Hebrew Wikipedia. Page represented in the end and / or at the start of his previous releases that comes from the Hebrew Wikipedia, the text on the page is provided courtesy of the Wikipedia Commons under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 . (You can see the original page and the list of contributors ).

"Other texts on this site were created and published it without otherwise expressly expressed in them - all rights reserved Institute for Literacy and knowledge Correctly (Ltd., PBC, non-profit organization). Sometimes there are other conditions see disclaimer." Thus, there are (1) links to original article and offsite GFDL; and (2) their copyright statement. Also: Has tab to view article history.

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handwiki.org

HandWiki
URL https://handwiki.org
Description It mirrors scientific, technological, computational and biographical articles. Only registered accounts can edit, only people with at least one publication can register. Some aesthetic changes, though appears to largely mirror Wikipedia.
Sample https://handwiki.org/wiki/Biology:Coronavirus
Rating High
Compliance Does not appear commercial. The bottom of pages, attribute the original source. All pages are licensed to CC BY-SA 3.0.
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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
Description
Sample http://hallencyclopedia.com/Tehuantepec
Rating Medium
Compliance 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)[reply]

halloweenfiles

  • Site: www.halloweenfiles.com/
  • Example: www.halloweenfiles.com/wiki.php?title=Talk:Ailurophobia

Hancel.org

wiki.hancel.org
URL http://en.wiki.hancel.org/
Description
Sample
Rating Low
Compliance Fully mirrors Chinese Wikipedia - possibly remote loading
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hawaiilibrary.net

Hawaii Book Library
URL http://www.hawaiilibrary.net/
Description
Sample http://www.hawaiilibrary.net/article/whebn0001219004/battle%20of%20emmaus
Rating Low
Compliance Gives a link to wikipedia as the 'citational source', but attribution given to other mirror 'World Heritage Encyclopedia'. Page footers implies they own copyright to the content.
Contact info Tel 888.736.6475, email consumersupport AT ecsuite.com, 'contact us' form at http://www.hawaiilibrary.net/Suggestions.aspx
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Health-cares.net

<Health-cares.net> (not url)
URL http://heart-disease.health-cares.net/
Description
Sample http://heart-disease.health-cares.net/survive-heart-attack.php
Rating "Low"
Compliance 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)[reply]

Health on Health

Tourette syndrome, Health Reference
URL http://www.healthonhealth.com
Description
Sample http://www.healthonhealth.com/Health-Reference/T/Tourette-syndrome
Rating "Low/None"
Compliance 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)[reply]

He-Free.info

He-Free.info
URL http://www.he-free.info/
Description
Sample http://www.he-free.info/?title=%D7%92%D7%90%D7%95%D7%9E%D7%98%D7%A8%D7%99%D7%94
Rating The site is an exact copy of Hebrew Wikipedia with a very big banner at the top. Besides the "ברוכים הבאים לוויקיפדיה!" ("Welcome to Wikipedia!") at the top of the front page, it makes no mention of having taken its contents from Wikipedia.
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Help.com

Help.com
URL http://help.com/wiki/
Description
Sample http://help.com/wiki/Main_page
Rating Medium
Compliance 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: [65]. Patstuarttalk·edits 03:47, 25 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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

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)[reply]

Hephaestus Books

Hephaestus Books
URL
Description
Sample
Rating Medium
Compliance From book descriptions on Amazon: "Hephaestus Books represents a new publishing paradigm, allowing disparate content sources to be curated into cohesive, relevant, and informative books. To date, this content has been curated from Wikipedia articles and images under Creative Commons licensing, although as Hephaestus Books continues to increase in scope and dimension, more licensed and public domain content is being added. We believe books such as this represent a new and exciting lexicon in the sharing of human knowledge."
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Herbal Freak

Herbal Freak
URL http://www.herbalfreak.com/
Description
Sample http://www.herbalfreak.com/medical-condition/ailments/tourette-syndrome/ from Tourette syndrome
Rating High (commercial)
Compliance No mention at all that the page is verbatim from Wikipedia
Contact info http://www.herbalfreak.com/about-herbal-freak/
Actions Can't figure out how to contact them, no action. SandyGeorgia (Talk) 21:44, 17 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]

hfindia.org

Hemophilia Federation (India)
URL http://www.hfindia.org/node/52
Description
Sample http://www.hfindia.org/node/52 from coagulation
Rating Low
Compliance 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
Description
Sample http://www.hi.is/~joner/eaps/y3_80493.htm from Axiomatization
Rating Medium
Compliance 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)

hide4free.com

  • Site: http://www.hide4free.com/browse.
  • Example: http://www.hide4free.com/browse.php?u=Oi8vZW4ud2lraXBlZGlhLm9yZy93aWtpL1RhbGs6UGVwc2k%3D&b=13

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
Description
Sample Hindustan Times: The new Seven Wonders of the World
Rating "Low/None" compliance with GFDL (matches Wikipedia:GFDL Compliance).
Compliance 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)[reply]

Follow-up by Sancho 3 Sep 2007 (UTC)

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

hip-hop-music.suite101.com

Hip Hop Dance: Rap Music's journey from Block Party to Frat Party
URL http://hip-hop-music.suite101.com/article.cfm/a_history_of_hip_hop
Description
Sample http://hip-hop-music.suite101.com/article.cfm/a_history_of_hip_hop
Rating Low/None
Compliance Does not display a CC license or cite wikipedia as a reference at all even though some material was taken directly (not verbatim) from the article here on b-boying --> [b-boying] was practiced as early as the 19th century by Arab street performs who incorporated flips and acrobatics into their dance.
Contact info E-mail: Peter Berger, dns AT suite101.com and Matthew Van Cura, wannabewriter20@livejournal.com; Phone: 604-682-1402
Actions None

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.

The History Search

The History Search
URL https://thtsearch.com
Description Mirrors of Wikipedia articles, containing only the first image of each page and omitting all table/infobox markup. Claims to focus on "interesting tidbits that happened throughout history" but seems entirely indiscriminate in what subjects it covers.
Sample https://thtsearch.com/content/Boronia_algida/
Rating None
Compliance No attribution on any pages, does not mention Wikipedia anywhere. Claims copyright of all work on content pages. The about page claims to have drawn on "multiple sources".
Contact info https://thtsearch.com/contact
Actions Unknown.

Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
URL http://hitchhikersgui.de/
Description
Sample http://hitchhikersgui.de/Malkin_Tower
Rating Mid-High
Compliance * All pages have been cloned.
  • Real time mirror that ignores "no index" consequently revealing BLP issues related to arbcom and other space. Using the mirror filse should solve it. See [66] as example
  • Retains bytitle "From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia" and very big footer with link to original revision, another with a link to the current revision "From Wikipedia" and another with copyright blurb and link to article plus license but no mention of authors "This page is based on the copyrighted Wikipedia article "X"; it is used under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License (CC-BY-SA). You may redistribute it, verbatim or modified, providing that you comply with the terms of the CC-BY-SA".
Contact info
 Type: PERSON
Name: Bookis Smuin
Address: 1645 10th Ave E
PostalCode: 98102
City: Seattle
CountryCode: US
Phone: +1.2064090810
Fax: +1.2064090810
Email: bookis.smuin@gmail.com
Remarks: Created by LifeGuard at 10/22/2013 1:24:07 PM
Changed: 2013-10-22T22:24:05+02:00
[Zone-C]
Type: PERSON
Name: Bookis Smuin
Address: 1645 10th Ave E
PostalCode: 98102
City: Seattle
CountryCode: US
Phone: +1.2064090810
Fax: +1.2064090810
Email: bookis.smuin@gmail.com
Remarks: Created by LifeGuard at 10/22/2013 1:24:07 PM
Changed: 2013-10-22T22:24:05+02:00
Actions Sent Wikipedia:Standard_license_violation_letter#Letters_for_website_that_acknowledges_Wikipedia_as_a_source. Will update if anything occurs. Sunmist (talk) 19:20, 15 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]
License notices have been added to the bottom of each page. The site is now compliant; I changed the rating from "Low/None" to "Low", but it would be great if someone more familiar with rating mirrors could check it out. Sunmist (talk) 23:55, 22 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Home Fresh

  • Example: [67] from Polyol
  • Links to Wikipedia, GNU copy of GFDL, and original article. --Henrygb 18:03, 11 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Home Grown Poultry Magazine

Home Grown Poultry Knowledge Base
URL http://www.homegrownpoultry.com/lore/upload/
Description
Sample http://www.homegrownpoultry.com/lore/upload/article.php?id=067
Rating "Low/None"
Compliance 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)[reply]

Homestay Finder

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

honda-wiki.org

Honda Wiki
URL https://www.honda-wiki.org/
Description Copies only pages relating to Honda vehicles. Main page is basically List of Honda vehicles. No editing allowed at all, only one user edits it, with all pages except the main page unedited since 2009. Sidebar displays lists of similar sites for other makes such as BMW, possibly using same modus operandi.
Sample https://www.honda-wiki.org/wiki/Honda_RC100
Rating None
Compliance No licensing information in the footer at all, so probably no.
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Horizonmonthly.com

  • Site: [68]
  • Example: [69] 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)[reply]
  • 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)[reply]
  • Copyright notice: "horizonmonthly.com ™ ©All rights reserved" --WCQuidditch 02:05, 28 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]
  • To break it down: Practically no compliance. --WCQuidditch 02:08, 28 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Honduras This Week

  • Site: www.hondurasthisweek.com
  • Example: www.hondurasthisweek.com/index.php?option=com_awiki&view=mediawiki&article=Mathematics&Itemid=102
  • Article ends with "© This material from Wikipedia is licensed under the GFDL (Inserted by aWiki)" with links to en.wikipedia.org, www.gnu.org/copyleft/fdl.html and joomla.anezi.net
  • Page ends with "Copyright © 2009 Honduras This Week Online. All Rights Reserved."
  • No obvious link to original article or history

Hot-Google

Hot-Google
URL http://hot-google.com/
Description
Sample http://en.hot-google.com/?w=Main_Page
Rating Low/None
Compliance 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)[reply]

Howling Pixel

Howling Pixel
URL https://howlingpixel.com/
Description Like mobile version of Wikipedia
Sample
Rating "Low/None"
Compliance
Contact info contact@howlingpixel.com
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Hyperleap

Hyperleap
URL https://hyperleap.com/
Description Preview of text and images from pages linked from an article.
Sample https://hyperleap.com/topic/Giorgia_(singer)
Rating "Low/None"
Compliance No mention of copyright, authors or license. Links to source English Wikipedia article. No links or anything for images, displayed fully in a slideshow.
Contact info No contact information provided, private domain.
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Hypothetical Spacecraft and Interstellar Travel

Hypothetical Spacecraft and Interstellar Travel (Book)
URL https://books.google.com/books?id=u5B0CQAAQBAJ&pg=1&lpg=1&source=bl&ots=hPl9_lcJam&sig=f_TdCavlDSJy_884nt9x3aJj2CM&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjb6ueG45XSAhVF04MKHTPMC9oQ6AEIRTAH#v=onepage&q&f=false
Description
Sample
Rating Low/None
Compliance Doesn't mention GFDL, doesn't mention Wikipedia. Looks like just a copy-paste of various space-related articles.
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I

i2osig.org

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

  • Bio at http://www.iankhama.com/about/ appears to be an uncredited copy of Ian Khama. It's possible that the wikipedia article is a copyvio, but since the wikipedia article has extensive referencing, I'm inclined (without further investigation) to believe the opposite is true. 91.106.172.248 (talk) 12:16, 14 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

IBTimes

International Business Times
URL http://au.ibtimes.com/topics/
Description
Sample http://au.ibtimes.com/topics/detail/900/justin-bieber/
Rating Low/None
Compliance Each IBTimes site (there are 16 country editions in 10 languages) has a "topics" directory. Each subtopic has a short summary lifted from Wikipedia with apparently no attribution. The one I have linked above is the Australian version. I have also found vios on the UK and Canadian editions.
Contact info http://au.ibtimes.com/aboutus/contactus.htm
Actions Actions taken (if any) to attempt to make the website comply.

Icon Group International

Icon Group International
URL The mirroring is done in books published by this organisation, not at a web site. Over a thousand of these books are listed by this Google Books search
Description
Sample Google Books display of the preface of one of these books
Rating Medium
Compliance Releases content under GFDL. Has a copy of the licence and a pointer to the Wikipedia site. Says that the copyright is owned by the individual authors, but doesn't actually list them or point to transparent copies of the articles, so doesn't get a "high" rating.
Contact info ICON Group International, Inc., 7404 Trade St., San Diego, CA 92121 USA

Fax: (858) 635-9414 Email: orders@icongroupbooks.com or phil.parker@insead.edu (direct to the owner of this company)

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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)[reply]

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)[reply]

i-Gratis

i-Gratis
URL http://www.i-gratis.com/
Description
Sample http://www.i-gratis.com/casinos_online_gratis.php
Rating Medium
Compliance 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.

ijkl.nl

ijkl.nl
URL http://www.ijkl.nl
Description
Sample http://ijkm.nl/Mymensingh_Medical_College
Rating
Compliance No evident link to Wikipedia or original article
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ijkm.nl

ijkm.nl
URL http://www.ijkm.nl
Description
Sample http://ijkm.nl/Uskok_War
Rating Low/None
Compliance None; no attribution. Apparent spam site similar to entry above.
Contact info Unknown
Actions None yet

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

illusionwiki.com

Illusion Wiki
URL http://illusionwiki.com
Description
Sample http://illusionwiki.com/Substitution_trunk; http://illusionwiki.com/Aztec_Lady; http://illusionwiki.com/Category:Magic_tricks
Rating
Compliance No authorship listed. No mention of or links back to Wikipedia on many pages that were copied.
Contact info ISP is DreamHost : abuse @ dreamhost.com
Actions Informed administrator on his wiki user's talk page (but then he erased it)

imimage.it

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

in.com
URL http://www.in.com
Description
Sample http://www.in.com/arun-nehru/biography-27411.html
Rating
Compliance No authorship listed. No mention of Wikipedia. Clear copy of this
Contact info
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in2reach.com

More research requested

India Smashits

India Smashits
URL http://india.smashits.com
Description
Sample http://india.smashits.com/wikipedia/Nanoscale_iron_particles
Rating
Compliance Makes it clear that it comes from Wikipedia, has a GFDL link (not locally though). Some pages like http://india.smashits.com/wikipedia/Help:Contents are totally screwed up.
Contact info
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indopedia.org

indopedia.org
URL http://www.indopedia.org/
Description
Sample http://www.indopedia.org/Mind.html
Rating
Compliance 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)[reply]

Indopedia began as a copy of Wikipedia as of December 2004. Since then some of this Wikipedia content has been modified by Indopedia editors, and 448 new articles have been added on Indological subjects.

Partial editing of Wikipedia content has produced false and misleading content.

  • For example, Project:About says falsely, "Indopedia is a trademark of the Wikimedia Foundation, Inc."
  • And Project:How to edit a page says "Indopedia is a WikiWiki, which means that anyone can easily edit any unprotected article and have those changes posted immediately to that page." In fact one must be logged in to edit Indopedia, and registration is restricted. Perhaps this is why (as of July 2008) there are no Special:Recentchanges, and there are no Special:Newpages since December 2007. —teb728 t c 23:40, 29 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]
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

Actions Two attempts have been made in early 2010, by the offended party and by a Wikipedia volunteer on the offended party's behalf, to contact an Indopedia administrator for assistance in blanking an AFD on an attack page which was created in 2004. (No indication that Indopedia ever hosted the attack article itself, but merely our AFD discussion about it; that discussion has already been courtesy-blanked on Wikipedia as it does contain discussion of some of the false claims in the article.) Both attempts have been unsuccessful thus far. Bearcat (talk) 18:07, 5 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

info-reference.com

info-reference.com
URL http://www.info-reference.com/web/Main_Page
Description
Sample http://www.info-reference.com/web/High_King_of_Ireland
Rating None
Compliance Standard GFDL notice, however there is no history published and no link back to the original articles.
Contact info Contact details are being masked.
Actions none yet

infofx.info

infofx
URL http://infofx.info/ and http://en.infofx.info/, http://de.infofx.info/, http://fr.infofx.info/,...
Description
Sample http://dolmen.fr.infofx.info/
Rating None
Compliance 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

Infogalactic

Infogalactic
URL https://infogalactic.com/info/
Description Appears to be a POV fork of the whole English Wikipedia.
Sample https://infogalactic.com/info/USS_Eugene
Rating Uses CC-BY-SA license.
Compliance Appears to comply, but a POV fork is a POV fork.
Contact info info@infogalactic.com
Actions None. lo prenu .katmakrofan. (talk) 23:55, 25 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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: [70] from February 22

The Info List

theinfolist.com
URL
Description
Sample http://www.theinfolist.com/php/HTMLGet.php?FindGo=Jacob%20Kornbluth > http://www.theinfolist.com/php/SummaryGet.php?FindGo=Jacob%20Kornbluth
Rating Low
Compliance Footer "Content is Copyleft Website design, code, and AI is Copyrighted (c) 2014 -2015 by Stephen Payne". The final page which includes part of the English Wikipedia text does not have a link. No mention of CC-BY-SA. No attribution for images?
Contact info
Actions

infomutt.com

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

informat.io

www.informat.io
URL http://www.informat.io/?title=mathematics
Description
Sample http://www.quaest.io/?article=wpcw
Rating low
Compliance 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/
Description
Sample http://www.informationclub.com/encyclopedia/e/ec/ecology.html
Rating
Compliance 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

informationdelight.info

  • Site: www.informationdelight.info
  • Example: www.informationdelight.info/encyclopedia/entry/factorial
  • Contact: info@informationdelight.info
  • Ends with: This article is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License and its copyright supersedes any copyright notice in Information About's Terms of Service below. It uses material from the Wikipedia article "Factorial" with links to GFDL at gnu.org and to original article.

informationdepot.us

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

Not found. Domain dropped [71]--Rumping (talk) 00:07, 11 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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)[reply]

infothis

infothis
URL http://www.infothis.com
Description
Sample http://www.infothis.com/find/Wikipedia
Rating
Compliance
Contact info
Actions

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)

Instagram

History of the Batman
URL http://instagram.com/historyofthebatman
Description
Sample http://instagram.com/p/r_DL22lIt2/?modal=true
Rating Low/None
Compliance None compliance with any license. Lifts (copies and pastes) text directly from Wikipedia and passes it off as their own. No reference to sources, no links, no paraphrasing. Account has over 4000 posts, with nearly all text plagiarised from Wikipedia or other websites. States that words are all her own, that she doesn't copy and paste. Lifts most text from DC Batman Wiki page. All attempts to challenge the source material leads to blocked users, claims of harassment, and deleted comments.
Contact info http://www.facebook.com/historyofthebatman https://www.facebook.com/londyn.v.lamar?fref=ts historyofthebatman@gmail.com ip@instagram.com
Actions Users have challenged and contacted the admin about her usage of copying and pasting. These users have been blocked and threats of reporting for sexual and racial harassment are made about them from herself and her husband through Instagram. She claims she doesn't copy and paste but the evidence is plain to see, even down to the typo's she copies exactly. All action so far has been ignored, she will not change her usage or even admit to using other sources and link to them within her posts.

Instructional Design

Instructional Design
URL http://www.instructionaldesign.org
Description
Sample http://www.instructionaldesign.org/public_domain.html
Rating Low/None
Compliance No mention of Wikipedia, GFDL, or the original article (Wikipedia:Public domain resources). Own copyright is claimed.
Contact info http://www.lightplanet.com/contact-generic.html
Actions none

InternationalHerpetologicalSociety

  • Site: http://www.international-herpetological-society.org/
  • Example: http://www.international-herpetological-society.org/site/index.php?option=com_awiki&view=mediawiki&article=User_talk%3AEugene-elgato&Itemid=61

Inkmasters Office Supplies

inkmasters.co.uk
URL
Description
Sample http://www.inkmasters.co.uk
Rating
Compliance No attribution or mention of CC-BY-SA or GFDL. Probably only one Wikipedia article mirrored.
Contact info
Actions none

Instapedia

instapedia.com
URL http://instapedia.com/w/
Description
Sample http://instapedia.com/m/United_Secretariat_of_the_Fourth_International
Rating Medium
Compliance Mentions the GFDL and Wikipedia, broken link to an article
Contact info
Actions none

Interactive Force

Intro Focus
URL http://www.introfocus.com/
Description
Sample http://www.introfocus.com/psp/look_at_psp.asp
Rating
Compliance 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[72][73][74].
Contact info
Actions None, except to verify that Wikipedia contributors own the copyright

Internethuwelijk

internethuwelijk.nl
URL http://www.internethuwelijk.nl
Description
Sample http://www.internethuwelijk.nl/wiki/Kortrijk
Rating Good
Compliance Redirects to Wikipedia, history of the article, gfdl license,
Contact info contact AT internethuwelijk.nl (whois, otrs)
Actions

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: [75] 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)[reply]

ireference.ca

iReference.ca
URL http://www.ireference.ca/
Description
Sample http://www.ireference.ca/search/House%20of%20Bourbon/
Rating Medium/High
Compliance Has notice at bottom "Article featured on Wikipedia. Used under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License; additional terms may apply." Links to original article and to CC-by-SA license.
Contact info http://www.ireference.ca/contact/
Actions

ISHA Books

ISHA Books
URL
Description
Sample http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Reliable_sources/Noticeboard/Archive_70#Circular_references:_Gyan_Publishing_and_ISHA_Books
Rating
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Contact info
Actions

Iskenderiye IYE

Iskenderiye IYE
URL http://www.iskenderiye.com/
Description
Sample http://www.iskenderiye.com/story/kylie-brant/
Rating None
Compliance 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)[reply]

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
Description
Sample
Rating None
Compliance 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)[reply]
Contact info
Actions None

irelocate.ca

irelocate.ca Canadian Relocation Made Simple
URL http://www.irelocate.ca/
Description
Sample http://www.irelocate.ca/mississauga/index.htm
Rating None
Compliance Contains full and partial copies of Wikipedia articles about Canadian towns and cities. Multiple copies of each article exist in that domain. This is a content mirror, not a fork. Does not mention the GFDL, fails to provide atribution to Wikipedia, and claims copyright of the work.
Contact info
Actions None

iRepresentin

iRepresentin
URL http://www.irepresentin.com/
Description
Sample http://www.irepresentin.com/Tyoo-to/muse.php (from Muse)
Rating None
Compliance 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/
Description
Sample http://isulongseoph-bicol.com/about/what-is-seo/
Rating None
Compliance 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

ipupdater.com

See area51.ipupdater.com

Ivysport.com

Ivy League Clothing Co.
URL http://www.ivysport.com/splash.php?school=
Description
Sample http://www.ivysport.com/category-category_id/329
Rating Medium
Compliance 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
Description
Sample http://www.fonebiz.co.uk/free-mobile-phone-ringtones/wiki.php?title=Alicia_Keys
Rating "Low/None"
Compliance 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: [76] Spanish speaker may be helpful.

Actions

Isfoundhere.com

Isfoundhere.com Information about *
URL http://*.isfoundhere.com/
Description
Sample http://cancer.isfoundhere.com/
Rating High
Compliance No mention of Wikipedia. Invokes Creative creations Attribution-Sharenot License. Live scraped, misattributed eg to "http://en.information database.org/w/index.php?title=Resource&oldid=622724039" (where "information database" is literally substituted for "wikipedia"
Contact info admin [at] isnare [dot] net
Actions Please email admin

Isnare.com

Isnare.com Encyclopedic Articles
URL http://www.isnare.com/encyclopedia/
Description
Sample http://www.isnare.com/encyclopedia/Gold
Rating High
Compliance Link backs are present.
Contact info admin [at] isnare [dot] net
Actions Please email admin

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

J

JamBase

JamBase
URL http://www.jambase.com
Description
Sample http://www.jambase.com/search.asp?bandID=36108
Rating "Low/None"
Compliance 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)[reply]

Jeep CJ

[77] [78] Or is it the other way around?

Jejakjabar

Jejakjabar
URL jejakjabar.com
Description full WP mainspace; default language is Bahasa Indonesia; serves ads.
Sample https://en.jejakjabar.com/wiki/Wikipedia
Rating "High"
Compliance Duly mentions Wikipedia as source and the CC license.
Contact info admin@jejakjabar.com
Actions none

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)[reply]

  • site:[79]
    • 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
Description
Sample http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/biography/Mussolini.html
Rating "Low/None"
Compliance
Contact info
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: [80]
    • Example: [81] 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)[reply]
  • I just got an email from them saying that they working on complying with the GFDL. Where (talk) 17:21, 17 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

jGames.co.uk

jGames.co.uk
URL http://www.jgames.co.uk
Description
Sample http://www.jgames.co.uk/title/Palladium_%28mythology%29
Rating "Medium"
Compliance 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)[reply]
  • Follow-up message sent 02 May 2007. --Kwekubo 00:06, 2 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Final warning sent 03 June 2007. --Kwekubo 14:04, 3 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Jiggies

  • Site: [82]
  • 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))[reply]
  • No mention of Wikipedia. (Still true. JesseW 20:43, 22 July 2005 (UTC))[reply]
  • No list of authors(i.e. a link to the Wikipedia article) (as of JesseW 20:43, 22 July 2005 (UTC))[reply]
  • Main page [84] 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)[reply]
    • Still there when I checked. --Utopianfiat 19:30, 4 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]
  • Putting in LOW. JesseW 20:43, 22 July 2005 (UTC)[reply]
  • Found a disturbing disclaimer replacing all mention of Wikipedia with Jiggies Reference Guide. [85] Sasquatch′TC 06:29, July 26, 2005 (UTC)

Jiskha Homework Help

Jiskha Homework Help
URL http://www.jiskha.com/
Description
Sample http://www.jiskha.com/social_studies/people/king_jr_martin_luther.html
Rating None
Compliance 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/
Description
Sample http://www.journical.com/article.php?q=traditors
Rating None
Compliance 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

Judaic.com

Judaic.com
URL http://www.judaic.com
Description
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
Compliance 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.

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: [87]; 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)[reply]

Third example

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

Fourth example

[89] 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)[reply]

Justrec.com

Justrec.com
URL http://www.justrec.com/
Description
Sample http://www.justrec.com/wilderness.html
Rating "Low/None" compliance with GFDL.
Compliance 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)[reply]
  • 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)[reply]
  • sent followup email Rlevse 23:19, 26 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • sent final warning prior to takendown notice being sent.Rlevse 02:08, 9 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Sent DMCA takedown notice to GO DADDY in Scottsdale, AZ, USA.Rlevse 23:58, 6 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
    • they blew me off.Rlevse 21:27, 14 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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Kapitalism.net

Karava.org

karava.org
URL http://www.karava.org/karava_of_sri_lanka
Description
Sample Govigama, Radala. See article talk pages for more detail.
Rating
Compliance sample articles copied with no evidence of compliance. Likely more articles are copied.
Contact info none
Actions none


KatalogQLT.fm

Katalog(at)KupKomputer.pl
URL http://katalog.kupkomputer.pl/
Description
Sample http://katalog.kupkomputer.pl/archive/Tractor
Rating Medium
Compliance 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

Kelp media

Kelp media
URL Innumerable low-quality domains, including ebhu.ml, fungoliostored.tk, datascraper.io, rainbowshopper.cf, freeebooksfaezdya.ml, ejakata.cf, rtwo.tk which redirect to old.book-index.ru and kelpmedia.com; possibly also happywestie.de, ebookslibrary.club
Description Stores "ebooks" scraped from various sources across various domains, adding a paywall. URLs typically purport to serve a PDF file in order to be indexed as such by Google, but in fact contain nothing of the sort.
Sample http://fungoliostored.tk/jerami-grant-wikipedia.pdf
Rating None
Compliance Some mentions of the source is present, probably by virtue of using a PDF export function. Could not verify.
Contact info
Actions None

Kerala Online

keralaonline.com
URL http://keralaonline.com/
Description
Sample http://keralaonline.com/commentary/rewind-2008_15027.html
Rating Low/None
Compliance sample article copied verbatim the lead from the 2008-12-31 version of the Wikipedia article 2008 Mumbai attacks. No evidence of compliance. Article claims all rights reserved. Unknown whether more articles are copied.
Contact info none
Actions none


Kids.net.au

Kids Encyclopedia Facts

Kids Encyclopedia Facts
URL https://kids.kiddle.co/
Description
Sample https://kids.kiddle.co/Astronomy
Rating Medium/High
Compliance *Footer "All content from Kiddle encyclopedia articles (including the article images and facts) can be freely used under Attribution-ShareAlike license, unless stated otherwise." Second footer "Content is available under CC BY-SA 3.0 unless otherwise noted. Kiddle encyclopedia articles are based on selected content and facts from Wikipedia, rewritten for children and students. Powered by MediaWiki."
  • Does not seem to link the original pages or history.
  • Mirrors and links the file description pages, therefore the authors are attributed.
  • Seems to correctly exclude unfree images, e.g. from Kylie (album).
Contact info Contact form at https://www.kiddle.co/contact.php
Actions

Kiessecker

Killersudoku

Kiwipedia

  • Site: http://www.kiwipedia.com
  • Example: [90]: 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
      • Albania example no longer has content: www.kiwipedia.com/canada.html is Canada or Cnaada (article looks deliberately dyslexic) and ends with "This is a static copy of Wikipedia" with link to www.wikipedia.org --Rumping (talk) 15:38, 30 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]
      • Some of their articles appear to be machine-translated versions of Wikipedia in other languages. The Jade Knight (talk) 21:55, 6 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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)[reply]

knife-making-supplies.net

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

Knol

See Wikipedia:Mirrors and forks/Knol

knolix.com

knover.com

Knover.com — It's all connected!
URL http://www.knover.com/
Description
Sample http://www.knover.com/Profile/alicia_keys/Wikipedia
Rating Medium
Compliance Clear attribution to Wikipedia and local copy of GFDL; however, is directly uploading images from WP server.
Contact info Contact page is here: [91]. Press contact is Richard Bennett, r.bennett AT knover.com, 212-695-2375
Actions

know.cf

Know
URL https://www.know.cf/enciclopedia/en/
Description
Sample
Rating
Compliance Does not appear to attribute content to Wikipedia or link to originals. Does not appear to contain any licensing information whatsoever.
Contact info
Actions

Knowledge Giant

Knowledge Giant
URL http://sex.knowledgegiant.com, http://knowledgegiant.com/
Description
Sample http://sex.knowledgegiant.com/search/Physics, http://knowledgegiant.com/search/Earth_science
Rating Low
Compliance 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 Graph

See Google Knowledge Graph

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)[reply]

Knowledge King

Knowledge King
URL http://www.knowledgeking.net
Description
Sample http://www.knowledgeking.net/encyclopedia/a/al/albania_1.html
Rating
Compliance 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

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]

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)[reply]

knowledgewiki.org

Knowledgewiki
URL http://www.knowledgewiki.org/
Description
Sample http://www.knowledgewiki.org/article/Harris_matrix?enk=RsEnqcaRZskmGUYZZhnGoUa5xhkmmWaxholmyQeJZIE=
Rating No compliance
Compliance The pages not only fail to mention Wikipedia or the contributors, but in fact assert, at the bottom of pages, that the copyright is held by Knowledgewiki. Wikipedia is also not mentioned in their Terms of use.
Contact info No specific DMCA contact found; general "Contact Us" at [96].
Actions None taken as of 18:21, 7 May 2012 (UTC).

I found this site while researching the article history for Harris matrix. The level of copyfraud seems rather serious to me. Ardric47 (talk) 18:21, 7 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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)[reply]

Knowmore

Knowmore
URL http://www.knowmore.org
Description
Sample http://www.knowmore.org/index.php/GNU_General_Public_License
Rating Low
Compliance 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)[reply]

Knowpia

Knowpia
URL https://www.knowpia.com/
Description
Sample https://www.knowpia.com/knowpedia/Wikipedia's%20response%20to%20the%20COVID-19%20pandemic
Rating Low
Compliance Seemingly no attribution, but similar licence
Contact info https://www.knowpia.com/index/about/contactus
Actions

Knows-It-All

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

Kulkul

Kulkul's World
URL http://kulkul.xahoihoctap.net
Description
Sample http://kulkul.xahoihoctap.net/kulkuls-birthday.html?view=mediawiki&article=Willy_Vandersteen
Rating
Compliance Links to Wikipedia (generic) and GFDL
Contact info
Actions

L

LaborLawTalk

LaborLawTalk
URL http://encyclopedia.laborlawtalk.com/index.php
Description
Sample http://encyclopedia.laborlawtalk.com/Wikipedia
Rating Medium
Compliance 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
Description
Sample http://www.lakersplayers.org/elgin-baylor.php
Rating None
Compliance 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."

language is a virus

language is a virus
URL http://languageisavirus.com
Description
Sample http://languageisavirus.com/factsheet.php?title=Navagraha_Kritis
Rating "Low/None" compliance with GFDL (matches Wikipedia:GFDL Compliance).
Compliance 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.

Lardydar Wiki

Lardydar Wiki
URL http://www.lardydar.com/search/wiki/index.php?title=Main_Page
Description
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.
Compliance 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
Description
Sample http://www.last.fm/music/7+Year+Bitch
Rating Low
Compliance 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)[reply]
    • 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)[reply]
      • 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)[reply]

Lateet

Lateet
URL http://www.lateet.com
Description
Sample http://www.lateet.com/mysterious-deaths-at-the-fort-harrison-hotel/
Rating Low/None
Compliance Sample article includes several sentences copied verbatim from Fort Harrison Hotel, particularly §Notable incidents. Wikipedia is mentioned as a source at the end, with a link to the article, but there is no mention that the text was copied from it. Says "© 2015" at the bottom of the page with no mention of license.
Contact info contact form, DMCA compliance notice
Actions I am not an editor of the plagiarized article. I will leave a note on its talk page linking here. PointyOintment (talk) 00:27, 1 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

latitudezero.org

Latkey

  • Site: Latkey
  • Uses portions of Wikipedia articles on alphabets for description of their products related to alphabets
  • Example: [97] (see Historical Background for Cyrillic Alphabet) from Cyrillic alphabet
  • Does not link to GFDL or Wikipedia. Does not mention them at all.
  • Claims "© 2005 Latkey Ltd. All rights reserved." at the bottom of every page.

LawGuru

LawGuru.com Wiki
URL http://wiki.lawguru.com/index.php/Main_Page
Description
Sample http://wiki.lawguru.com/index.php/Settlement_%28law%29
Rating Low/None
Compliance The GFDL does not seem to be available anywhere on the site. There are links at the bottom of all pages that purport to explain copyright, disclaimers, and the GFDL, but the links lead to pages that say "(There is currently no text in this page)". Wikipedia is not directly mentioned.

The site has copied various law-related articles from Wikipedia. The example page given above was taken from [98], a 2005 version of our article Settlement (litigation). Only the then–most recent contributor is listed in the history on LawGuru.

Contact info No contact information was found on the Wiki, but the "About Us" page at www.lawguru.com lists the following, which is the same contact given by WHOIS:

WebSiteBroker, Inc. 73700 Dinah Shore Dr. Suite 104 Palm Desert, CA 92211

Actions No actions have been taken yet. Ardric47 (talk) 23:28, 16 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Legal Information Source

Lexikonia.org

A local copy of italian wikipedia.

  • Site: http://www.lexikonia.org/start.htm
  • Example http://www.lexikonia.org/38168_ferrari.htm
  • 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/
Description
Sample http://libelpedia.org/ http://libelpedia.org/
Rating "Low/None"
Compliance This site currently presents itself as a new, unedited Wikimedia Foundation wiki
Contact info The domain registrant name and address (Thomas Archer, 345 Middlefield Road, Menlo Park, CA) are bogus. The address is a USGS office in Menlo Park. The phone number is clearly bogus: Registrant Phone:+1.8005551212. The registrant email is valid and is believed to be actually in use by Jeffrey_Vernon_Merkey, blocked user User:Gadugi, blocked user User:Waya_sahoni, sockpuppet User:67.186.225.152, and sockpuppet User:67.137.28.188 -- Registrant Email:tjarcher AT comcast.net. This email address has been used by User:Waya_sahoni. The web site itself is refered to at Merkey/Gadugi/Waya sahoni's new wiki, wikigadugi.org. Also see: [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)[reply]
Site is now down. Chase me ladies, I'm the Cavalry (talk) 17:06, 19 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

libra-energy.eu

Solar Trackers, Inverters
URL http://www.libra-energy.eu/
Description
Sample http://www.libra-energy.eu/products/solar-trackers-en
Rating None
Compliance Use of Wikipedia not acknowledged: "Copyright 2010 Libra Energy".

Violations include:

Contact info Site Contact Form (UK)
Actions Listing only - not contributor, which is required by Wikipedia:Mirrors and forks#Non-compliance process. twilsonb (talk) 08:13, 3 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

libraryoflibrary.com

Libraryoflibrary
URL libraryoflibrary.com
Description
Sample http://libraryoflibrary.com/E_n_c_p_d_Wikipedia:Editor_review.html
Rating Medium
Compliance States WP as source.
Contact info nizar(a)kakkad.info, Tel No. +91.4952296882 ISP unknown.
Actions Listing only, leaving details of review to more exprienced editor in subject at hand.

LincolnMortgage.info

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

Lindamontano.com

Linda Mary Montano
URL http://www.lindamontano.com/
Description
Sample http://www.lindamontano.com/livemediafeeds/artist-bio.html
Rating None
Compliance The current text in the Linda Montano article was mostly added in December 2009, apparently at the request of the subject herself (diff). The "Artist Bio" page at lindamontano.com is apparently a mirror, using (essentially) the same text after 2011, according to archive.org (archived 2011 version).
Contact info see http://www.lindamontano.com/livemediafeeds/contact.html
Actions none

lindowmoss.org.uk

Lindow Moss website
URL http://www.lindowmoss.org.uk
Description
Sample http://www.lindowmoss.org.uk/page12.htm see Lindow Man
Rating
Compliance
Contact info mail@lindowmoss.org.uk
Actions Listing only, leaving details of review to more exprienced editor in subject at hand.

Linix Encyclopedia

LinkedIn Pulse

Beverage Can Ends and its Opening Devices
URL https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/beverage-can-ends-its-opening-devices-daniel-hongdian
Description blog post by a user
Sample
Rating Low/None
Compliance Linked post copies some text from beverage can—see article talk page section linked below. No relevant mention of Wikipedia, copyright, or licensing anywhere. Linked post is actually a verbatim copy of an earlier post on a private blog, reported here. Poster probably does not know his post includes Wikipedia content, but must know it's not his content.
Contact info poster's profile; LinkedIn copyright policy with contact info
Actions No contact made. I first edited the article in question today, so the post is not a derivative work of any work of mine. I have left a note on the article talk page: Talk:Beverage can#A blog post on LinkedIn. PointyOintment (talk · contribs) 23:33, 4 October 2017 (UTC)[reply]

LinkFang

LinkFang
URL https://en.linkfang.org
Description mirror of Wikipedia in 15 languages; it also has other mirrors using different domains in different languages (Norwegian, Greek etc.). It inserts ads from Google and another network.
Sample https://es.linkfang.org/wiki/Madrid
Rating high
Compliance matches WP:CCBYSAC
Contact info mapsggug AT gmail.com
Actions

Additional domains:

  • https://www.kowiki.org
  • https://www.nowiki.org
  • https://www.huwiki.org
  • https://www.elwiki.org
  • https://www.frwiki.org
  • https://www.nlwiki.org
  • https://www.czwiki.org
  • https://www.pwiki.org

List of Birds of South Carolina - Birds of South Carolina Pictures

List of Birds of South Carolina - Birds of South Carolina Pictures
URL http://collegegirlwebcams-cg.blogspot.com/2017/10/list-of-birds-of-south-carolina-birds.html
Description It is a direct copy of the text of List of birds of South Carolina as of October 30, 2017, with photographs added from other sources
Sample URL
Rating "Low/None"
Compliance Copyright 2017 claimed
Contact info Posted by Ben Black
Actions none

literaturemania.com

  • Site: literaturemania.com
  • Example: [100]
  • 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)[reply]
All is in order now. Johnleemk | Talk 17:07, 7 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]
  • No history section. Medium compliance. Uncle G 12:09, 5 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

LiveSeattle.com

LiveSeattle.com
URL http://www.liveseattle.com
Description
Sample http://www.liveseattle.com/Default.aspx?tabid=5097
Rating Low/None
Compliance 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)[reply]

Living Lingo: VCE English Language Units 3 and 4

  • Title: Living Lingo: VCE English Language Units 3 and 4
  • ISBN: 978-0-980-86231-7
  • Authors: Kate Burridge, Debbide de Laps with Michael Clyne
  • Printer: Valiant Press, Victoria
  • Article: Cane toad
  • Compliance: On Page 168, two reasonably large paragraphs from the Cane toad article are printed in the book. The book acknowledges that the article is from Wikipedia, and is in fact listed under the section "The authors and publisher wish to thank the following copyright holders for reproduction of their material". However, there is no mention of CC BY-SA or the GFDL.
  • Action: I have not taken any action, since as a student, I am not in a position to do so. Would someone unconnected with VCE English Language be able to take action?

Orthogonal1 (talk) 11:40, 29 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

localcolorart.com

Localcolorartandothers
URL http://www.localcolorart.com
Description
Sample http://www.localcolorart.com/encyclopedia/Recreation/
Rating High
Compliance
  • Link to local GFDL.
  • Mentions and links back to the original article. (extra non-compliance info removed) WB 01:42, 24 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]
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).[reply]


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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.

lookinsheffield.co.uk

lookinsheffield.co.uk
URL http://www.lookinsheffield.co.uk
Description
Sample http://www.lookinsheffield.co.uk/about-sheffield-c5.html
Rating Low/None
Compliance The sample page is a straight copy of Sheffield, there are also pages copied from Transport in Sheffield, and Sport in Sheffield, and many of the photos on the site are sourced from the commons. Wikipedia or the CC-BY-SA are not mentioned on the site, however all pages that use copied material are marked 'Copyright © Look In Sheffield 2009.' —Jeremy (talk) 00:00, 13 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Contact info via form at http://www.lookinsheffield.co.uk/contact-us-c7.html or email at info@ domain name
Actions Informal polite enquiry sent via web form on 28 June 2009; no response received to date. Sent a standard letter to the email address on 12 July 2009. —Jeremy (talk) 00:00, 13 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

lumenlearning.com

Lumen Learning: Simple book Production
URL courses.lumenlearning.com
Description As part of its body it has full samples of several wikipedia articles.
Sample https://courses.lumenlearning.com/culturalanthropology/chapter/eugenics-in-the-united-states/
Rating Medium
Compliance Expand the "LICENSES AND ATTRIBUTIONS" section by clicking in the link, it does not state the new license of the work
Contact info 812 SW Washington St. Suite 1200 Portland, OR 97205 Phone: +1.971.808.1637 Email: info@lumenlearning.com
Actions None

Lycaeum.org

The Lycaeum
URL www.lycaeum.org
Description
Sample http://www.lycaeum.org/wiki/3-MeO-PCP
Rating None
Compliance Mirror/plagiarism of *many* drug articles without attribution.
Contact info tbd
Actions tbd

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."

LyricsFreak.com

Lyrics Freak
URL http://www.lyricsfreak.com/
Description
Sample http://www.lyricsfreak.com/e/eddie+rabbitt/biography.html
Rating "Low"
Compliance Site claims Copyright LyricsFreak 2010, no mention of Wikipedia
Contact info copyright@beat-law.com
Actions standard email sent

lzscl.com

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

M

Mackesys Solicitors

Mackesys Solicitors
URL
Description
Sample http://www.mackesyscrime.co.uk/offences/handling-stolen-goods.html
Rating
Compliance
Contact info
Actions

Comment re the above: the page shown above is a verbatim copy of large section from the article Handling stolen goods. Given that their version includes a section on "Relationship to laundering" added here in 2005 by User:David91, other material dating from a rewrite in 2009 by User:Rodhullandemu, and a further typo correction by an anonymous user, the evidence suggests that they have copied Wikipedia and not vice versa.

I can see no attempt to comply with the licence, and indeed at the foot of the page they assert their own copyright ("© 2011 All rights reserved. Mackesys Solicitors, 207 New Cross Road, London, SE14 5UH, U.K.") I find it very odd that a firm of solicitors would do this. (To be honest, I am surprised that a professional law firm would use wikipedia content, which made me initially suspect that the copying was in the opposite direction until I checked the page history.) I haven't looked to see whether they have copied any other pages.

To possibly complicate matters further, the user whose copyright appears to have been most infringed, i.e. User:Rodhullandemu, is apparently now banned from wikipedia. Scil100 (talk) 13:37, 2 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]

MagicPedia.com

MagicPedia.com
URL http://MagicPedia.com
Description
Sample http://MagicPedia.com/
Rating
Compliance Main page contains copy of magic (illusion) article from Wikipedia with no authorship listed and no mention of Wikipedia.
Contact info ISP is ServInt : admin @ servint.net
Actions none yet


Magnet University

Magnet University
URL http://www.rare-earth-magnets.com/magnet_university/magnet_university.htm
Description
Sample http://www.rare-earth-magnets.com/magnet_university/magnetism.htm
Rating
Compliance 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)

marriagelicences

  • Site: http://www.marriagelicences.co.cc/wiki.
  • Example: http://www.marriagelicences.co.cc/wiki.php?q=User_talk:Eugene-elgato

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

Port Jackson, Attractions of Sydney, Australia
URL http://www.magicaljourneys.com/Australia/index.html
Description
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)
Compliance 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/
Description
Sample http://www.malaspina.org/home.asp?topic=./search/details&lastpage=./search/results&ID=123
Rating
Compliance 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)

MarsPC Computing System

MarsPC: Knowledge Base
URL http://marspc.co.il/articles/
Description
Sample http://marspc.co.il/articles/article/84/ajax-programming
Rating Low/None
Compliance 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: [102]
  • 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)[reply]

masterliness.com

Masterliness
URL http://www.masterliness.com
Description
Sample http://www.masterliness.com/a/Sony.HiFD.htm
Rating
Compliance 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

masterlinux.net

masterlinux.net
URL http://www.masterlinux.net
Description
Sample http://www.masterlinux.net/index.php?option=com_awiki&view=mediawiki&article=List_of_preserved_steam_locomotives_in_Germany
Rating not sure about the ratings
Compliance Site seems to mirror en.wikipdia.org, but only the article namespce. new articles can only be found in following the links ... we found the page in doing research for the german steam locomotive listing, which was thankfully copied and translated for the en.wiki. One of the top links in google was "our" translated article not only in en.wikipediam but also somewhere in the web.

Site provides a Link to "wikipedia" but not to the original article, as well as not to the author's list, the GPL links to GNU Free Documentation License on gnu.org, . Interesting - if you are klicking on the "edit text" in a stub article (try the link to "Beuth" steam locomotive) opens the original edit page of the original en.wikipdeia article ...

Contact info Contact Page whois provides the following info: Registrant Contact: LinkdotNet, Link dotNet (), Fax: , 77 Misr Helwan St, Cairo, 11431, EG

on the page itself these info can be found: Contact Master Linux: Address: Egypt 1] 7 El Bahrain St., In front of El Merryland Heliopolis, Cairo, Egypt / 2] 25 Manshyet El Bakry st, from El Khalifa El Maa'moun, Heliopolis, Cairo, Egypt. E-mail: sales@masterlinux.net

Actions not sure about legal actions to be taken, since only contributing to de.wikipedia, therefore posted here

--Fox 2005 (talk) 22:03, 18 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

MathDaily.com

MathDaily
URL http://www.mathdaily.com/
Description
Sample http://www.mathdaily.com/lessons/Pope
Rating Medium
Compliance 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/
Description
Sample http://www.mbceo.com/sports/more_information.php?c=Montenegro_national_football_team
Rating Low
Compliance No indication that this site is a huge mirror of Wikipedia at all (that I could find at least).
Contact info
Actions

The Mcfly Network

* 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)[reply]

(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)

MDWiki

MDWiki
URL https://mdwiki.org/wiki/
Description fork focused on biomedical and related social sciences, restricted to approved individuals; many articles are mirrored
Sample https://mdwiki.org/wiki/Prednisone (fork) https://mdwiki.org/wiki/Beanie_Babies (mirror)
Rating Medium
Compliance text underWP:CCBYSAC, with "This page may contain content developed from Wikipedia or Meta." in footers. 'check commons for the licence' for most images.
Contact info Docjames
Actions none as of 10-2023

Measuroo

Medbib.com - "the modern encyclopedia"

Medbib
URL http://www.medbib.com
Description
Sample http://www.medbib.com/Froogle
Rating None
Compliance 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.

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)[reply]


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

Medicalopedia

This site copies some articles from en.WP CC-BY-SA licensed articles, doesn't attribute them to Wikipedia and licenses them CC-BY-NC-SA. I've advised an associated editor on his en.WP talk page. --Anthonyhcole (talk) 03:58, 3 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

medievalwarfare.info

medievalwarfare.info; Medieval Weapons & Armour; Castles and Manor Houses around the World
URL http://www.medievalwarfare.info
Description
Sample http://www.medievalwarfare.info/weapons.htm
Rating No compliance
Compliance No compliance; content aggregated from multiple pages without attribution of any kind, all published under their own copyright
Contact info
Actions None

medlibrary.org

medlibrary.org
URL http://medlibrary.org/medwiki/
Description
Sample http://medlibrary.org/medwiki/List_of_Adelaide_parks_and_gardens
Rating Full compliance
Compliance 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)[reply]

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

melayukini.net

melayukini.net
URL https://melayukini.net
Description live machine translation of en.wikipedia.org into more than 30 languages
Sample https://melayukini.net/wiki/Pong
Rating high
Compliance matches WP:CCBYSAC
Contact info Mel Kepada admin@melayukini.net
Actions None

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: [104]). 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)

Memim.com

Memim Encyclopedia
URL https://memim.com/
Description Appears to consist of articles machine-translated from the German Wikipedia (compare the sample with de:Camano Island)
Sample https://memim.com/camano-island.html
Rating None
Compliance Articles have no attribution or link back to the original. All Rights Reserved notice at bottom of page.
Contact info None found; domain is registered through Cloudflare, but no contact information is available in the WHOIS record
Actions None taken

Metajam

Metajam
URL http://metajam.mobi/
Description
Sample http://metajam.mobi/cinema-movie/name/A+-+E/A+Bell+for+Adano/e+a_bell_for_adano
Rating Medium
Compliance * Provides link to (mobile-device-safe) copy of appropriate Wikipedia article and a copy of GFDL of gnu.org (1.3);
  • Site maintainer has taken steps to improve compliance already;
  • Only lead sections are forked directly making it hard to assess authors / dates;
Contact info james@tripleodeon.com
Actions Emailed. Eventually found email listed above to be a working one.

metaweb

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

MetroLyrics

MetroLyrics
URL http://www.metrolyrics.com/
Description Reproduces English Wikipedia articles in the form of "comments" by users explaining the meaning of lyrics.
Sample http://www.metrolyrics.com/elastic-heart-lyrics-sia.html and many others, see example search for one such editor.
Rating None
Compliance Text is copy and pasted without any mention of source, authors or license; instead, text is attributed to a site editor as if it were an original work.
Contact info
Actions Kindly notified via http://www.metrolyrics.com/contactus.html

midimacman.com

Midieval Warfare

Midieval Warfare
URL http://www.medievalwarfare.info
Description
Sample http://www.medievalwarfare.info/weapons.htm#plate
Rating "Low/None"
Compliance Wikipedia not mentioned, claims full copyright
Contact info
Actions

milliondollaridea.com

  • Site: milliondollaridea.com
  • Example: [107]
  • 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)[reply]

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)[reply]
  • 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)[reply]

Ministry of External Affairs of India

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

Mintu-kant2305

Mintu-kant2305, prolific scribd contributor
URL http://www.scribd.com/mintu_kant2305
Description
Sample <nowikihttp://www.scribd.com/doc/19999557/Education-in-Emerging-Indian-Society-F-105</nowiki>, http://www.scribd.com/doc/20074682/Medical-Tourism-F
Rating
Compliance This is a self-publishing forum where evidently some contributors find it easy to compile books by copying Wikipedia articles. At least two of the books of this contributor can be verified to have copied content from Wikipedia articles. More are probable.
Contact info copyright@scribd.com; per [108] DMCA take-down is required.
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

MobileReference

MobileReference
URL http://www.mobilereference.com/

MobileReference is a brand name of a publisher of e-books for use on mobile devices. Many of these publications, but probably not all, and not the web-page itself, are Wikipedia forks. A MobileReference publication which is such a fork should be separately listed under its own title and a link to its entry added to the list of links in the subsection below.

Description
Sample p.1235 of Encyclopedia of Ancient Egypt, published in 2008, is an exact, or nearly exact, copy of a section in an earlier version of Wikipedia's article Mathematics in medieval Islam.
Rating Difficult to tell precisely without buying commercial copies. From the Google books copies, compliance would appear to be Low to Medium, depending on the publication.
Compliance As an example, the licensing information provided on the "back cover" of the Encyclopedia of Ancient Egypt acknowledges that material from Wikipedia has been used and that this material is licensed under the GFDL, although it also wrongly implies that this material is also "public domain". However, it also asserts "all rights reserved" over the work as a whole, whereas the GFDL requires that the whole of any modification of a work licensed under it—which is what this is—must also be licensed under the same licence or a substantially similar version.

On the other hand, Alexander Pope's translation of the Iliad seems to contain no licensing information whatever that I could find in the Google books copy, even though it incorporates a substantial amount of text from Wikipedia's article on Alexander Pope. At the end of some of the incorporated material, however, there is an acknowldegement that "[t]his article uses material from:", followed by a hyperlink to what is presumably the Wikipedia article, although this seems impossible to verify from the Google books copy.

Contact info support@soundtells.com
Actions None as yet.

MobileReference publications that are forks of Wikipedia

This list is not exhaustive.

mobilewiki

mobilewiki
URL https://www.mobilewiki.org/
Description No self-description. Various encyclopaedic articles.
Sample https://www.mobilewiki.org/en/Regimental_badge_area-4084626026#cite_note-10
Rating Low/None
Compliance No description of Wikipedia or any license. It claims its own copyright on the content.
Contact info info@www.mobilewiki.org
Actions Email sent. Awaiting response. Bibeyjj (talk) 17:16, 20 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Fake email address. No known way to contact. Bibeyjj (talk) 19:55, 23 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]

MochaCity.com

MochaRadio.com - The Hottest Hip Hop ...
URL http://mochacity.com/
Description
Sample http://radio.mochacity.com/artist/207/alicia-keys
Rating Low/None
Compliance 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: [109]
Contact info James Lincoln
jhustle75 AT yahoo.com;
818-522-5440 (registered through godaddy).
Other contact information here: [110].
Actions

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

MOCpages

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

ModernClassical.com

ModernClassical.com
URL http://www.modernclassical.com/index.html
Description
Sample our article, theirs; our article, theirs
Rating
Compliance Copies Wikipedia without any kind of attribution. Does not claim copyright, but does not license content appropriately, either.
Contact info
Actions

Molinu

Molinu
URL http://www.molinu.com
Description
Sample http://en.molinu.com/Bill%20Clinton/3356/0
Rating High
Compliance 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. [111]. Not sure what to do about this. --W.marsh 20:30, 6 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

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)[reply]

MoodBook.com

moono.com

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

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


Mondo Latino

Mondo Latino
URL http://www.mondolatino.eu
Description
Sample http://www.mondolatino.eu/arte/pintores/joaquintorresgarcia.php
Rating Low
Compliance 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

Monsters University

Monsters University
URL http://monstersuniversity.ga/
Description
Sample http://monstersuniversity.ga/MAG_Osmani_Medical_College
Rating Low
Compliance No evident link to Wikipedia or original article
Contact info
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 [113]).
  • Copying isn't very up-to-date. The article on the Supreme Court of the United States (at [114]) 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)[reply]

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 [115].

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

  • 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)[reply]

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
Description
Sample http://al37.mtjlcs.com/scientiaestpotentia.html
Rating Low/None.
Compliance 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

MTV Artists

MTV Artists
URL mtv.com
Description
Sample http://www.mtv.com/artists/chris-mcdermott/biography/
Rating "High", "Medium", or "Low/None" compliance with CC-BY-SA (matches Wikipedia:CC-BY-SA Compliance) (compare against GFDL if they choose that license).
Compliance Lists Wikipedia as source
Contact info E-mails, phone numbers, contact form URLs, etc. of admin and ISP.
Actions Actions taken (if any) to attempt to make the website comply.

mumbaiforums.com

  • Site: www.mumbaiforums.com/
  • Example: www.mumbaiforums.com/Special:Contributions/Cody7777777.html

munro-madness.com

munro-madness.com
URL www.munro-madness.com
Description
Sample http://munro-madness.com/hills/ben-alder
Rating Low/None.
Compliance The sample page took content from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_Alder; see discussion at Talk:Ben Alder.
Contact info Peter Lord, Flat 12 Duffield Court, Brennan Close, M15 6WR, United Kingdom.
Actions Left GFDL violation message via [119] referring to sample above. — ras52 (talk) 22:47, 3 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

mupot.kr

  • Site: www.mupot.kr/wikien
  • Example: www.mupot.kr/wikien.php?title=Talk:Cadaver

Muppetpastor 3.0

Muppetpastor
URL http://www.muppetpastor.org/
Description
Sample http://www.muppetpastor.org/?p=40 (uses Venetian Snares, New Radicals and Ann Danielewski)
Rating Low
Compliance 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)[reply]

muraroa

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

Museum of Learning

Museum of Learning
URL http://www.museumstuff.com/learn/
Description
Sample http://www.museumstuff.com/learn/topics/Afghanistan
Rating "Medium"
Compliance Copies entire Wikipedia articles, keeping structure intact. Each article contains links to more articles copied from Wikipedia. Each article does seem to link back to the original article at Wikipedia and contains a link to this page (CC-BY-SA license). The website's "sources" page contains a link to the GFDL. Pages ambiguously state that "Some data may have been obtained from the [article] page on Wikipedia".
Contact info Discovery Media, 3625 Earnscliff Place, APT #16, San Diego, CA, 92111
  • discoverysites@gmail.com
  • According to this page their administrative contact is named "Mr. Magic".
Actions None.

music.paki.ws

  • Site: http://music.paki.ws/
  • Example: http://music.paki.ws/Articles-Info_Result.php?title=File:Greek_cross.svg

Music is Everywhere

Music is Everywhere
URL http://musikkita.wordpress.com/
Description
Sample http://musikkita.wordpress.com/2007/03/02/
Rating "Low/None"
Compliance 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/
Description
Sample http://music.musictnt.com/biography/Alicia_Keys.html http://music.musictnt.com/biography/Alicia_Keys.html
Rating "Low"
Compliance 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: [120])

Actions

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)[reply]

  • 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)[reply]

mybulgaria.info

  • Site: http://www.mybulgaria.info/
  • Example: http://www.mybulgaria.info/modules.php?name=Wiki&title=User_talk:Eugene-elgato

Myoutofcontrolteen

Out of control teen
URL http://www.myoutofcontrolteen.com
Description
Sample http://www.myoutofcontrolteen.com/mr-tourette.html and other pages on site should be examined
Rating Low/None
Compliance 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)[reply]

MyRevolutionaryWar.com

MyRevolutionaryWar.com
URL http://www.myrevolutionarywar.com
Description
Sample http://www.myrevolutionarywar.com/battles/780501.htm
Rating Low/None
Compliance None; articles copied intact, and tagged as Copyright 2008, Genealogy, Inc. Articles such as Battle of Crooked Billet copied directly from Wikipedia.
Contact info webguru@myrevolutionarywar.com
Actions Recommended notice e-mail sent 8/17/2008. Alphageekpa (talk) 11:36, 17 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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

N

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)[reply]

Namuwiki

Namuwiki
URL https://namu.wiki/
Description
Sample https://namu.wiki/w/%ED%8C%8C%EC%9D%BC:external/upload.wikimedia.org/Accademia_degli_euteleti%2C_int.%2C_documenti_sulla_famiglia_buonaparte%2C_carlo_buonaparte_e_letizia_ramolino.jpg
Rating None
Compliance Ostensibly CC-BY-NC-SA pseudo-wiki collaborative website, in reality a collage of copyright violations and contributions of unclear copyright status. Massive violations of Wikimedia Commons images' licenses.
Contact info Shielded behind some Paraguay companies
Actions


National Yellow Multi-Services Directory

National Yellow Multi-Services Directory
URL http://www.nymsd.com/
Description
Sample http://www.nymsd.com/wiki/sites.cgi?page=/wiki/Nanoscale_iron_particles
Rating
Compliance Clearly indicated that the contents are from Wikipedia: has no GFDL notice as far as I have seen though.
Contact info
Actions

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)[reply]

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)[reply]

Several years later, there are still the same terms and conditions imposed. The site is very definitely not compliant because of these. Imposing additonal terms and conditions is against the very core principles of the GFDL. — Alan 18:25, 14 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

NationMaster.com looks okay to me, but its clone(?) (twin?, sibling?, ripoff?) StateMaster.com has the same text on its terms page minus the text ...of the text from articles taken from Wikipedia and.... — User:ACupOfCoffee@ 21:34, 30 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

navajo.cz

Navajo otevřená encyklopedie
URL http://navajo.cz/
Description
Sample http://faktorial.navajo.cz/
Rating
Compliance Czech automatic translation by Eurotran of en.wikipedia articles. Link to original article at top and says "Tento text je volně dostupný za podmínek GNU/FDL licence" with link to local (English) copy of GFDL at bottom
Contact info
Actions

National Bureau of Statistics, Nigerian State Gov

National Bureau of Statistics, Nigerian State Gov
URL http://www.nigerianstat.gov.ng/
Description
Sample http://www.nigerianstat.gov.ng/information/details/Delta; see comments field in backwards copy template
Rating
Compliance None. Claims full reservation of copyright.
Contact info
Actions

Nativewiki

NativeWiki
URL http://www.nativewiki.org/Main_Page
Description
Sample http://www.nativewiki.org/Hia_C-ed_O%27odham
Rating
Compliance Most, if not all articles, appear to have been copied and pasted from Wikipedia with no attribution
Contact info
Actions

NBC.com

NBC's official website, specifically, their Heroes Wiki
URL http://boards.nbc.com/nbc/wiki/index.php
Description
Sample http://boards.nbc.com/nbc/wiki/index.php/Claire_Bennet
Rating None
Compliance 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.

(As of October 2008, NBC's Heroes Wiki has been discontinued. NBC now officially endorses a external wiki. ViperSnake151  Talk  17:32, 2 August 2009 (UTC))[reply]

Contact info webmaster AT nbc.com
Actions Standard letter sent, awaiting reply.--Fyre2387 (talkcontribs) 22:55, 10 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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: [121], [122], [123]...). 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".

Neohumanism

  • Site: neohumanism.org/
  • Example: neohumanism.org/f/fu/function.html
  • Near end: "This article is from [small .gif file saying Wikipedia]. All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License." with .cgi link eventually ending up at Wikipedia and ordinary link to local copy of GFDL 1.2.
  • Page ends "Copyright 2004. All rights reserved."
  • No obvious link to original article

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

Netglimse

Netglimse
URL http://www.netglimse.com/
Description
Sample http://www.netglimse.com/celebs/pages/raul_julia/index.shtml from Raúl Juliá
Rating Low/None
Compliance Has notice "Copyright © 2008 NetGlimse.com. Privacy Policy All Rights Reserved." on each page.
Contact info http://www.netglimse.com/feedback.shtml
Actions Used feedback form to send an email about GFDL compliance, -- Rick Block (talk) 17:45, 2 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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)[reply]

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


New World Encyclopedia

New World Encyclopedia
URL http://www.newworldencyclopedia.org/
Description
Sample http://www.newworldencyclopedia.org/preview/Francisco_Su%C3%A1rez from Francisco Suárez
Rating Medium
Compliance 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)[reply]

newsfilter.co.uk

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

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)[reply]

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)[reply]

Nextdaywatches.com

NextDayWatches.com
URL http://www.nextdaywatches.com/main.php?act=product&pid=2245&ngid=1
Description
Sample Above URL from G-Shock
Rating None
Compliance 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/
Description
Sample http://www.nichecreator.com/sample/index.php?k=rootkit
Rating Low/None
Compliance 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.

NiNa.Az

NiNa.Az
URL www.wikidata.uk-ua.nina.az
Description Full copy of the Ukrainian Wikipedia
Sample www.wikidata.uk-ua.nina.az/query/?q=Volksgemeinschaft
Rating Low/None
Compliance Mentions Wikipedia (Ukrainian: Вікіпедія), but neither of CC-BY-SA and GFDL, doesn't contain any links to Wikipedia and claims the Copyright by containing in the site's footer "© Copyright 2021, all rights reserved" (Ukrainian: © Авторські права 2021, всі права захищено).
Contact info Admin, ISP.
Actions Email written to the admin.

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: [124] 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)[reply]

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
Description
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
Compliance 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/
Description
Sample http://www.northcyprustravel.eu/places_to_see.html contains text and images from many articles including Antiphonitis and Salamis, Cyprus
Rating
Compliance 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: [125]
    • 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)[reply]
      • According to the admin, he will change that in the next update. So wait. -- WB 23:20, 15 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]
  • 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 [126] 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)[reply]
    • Email. --F. Cosoleto 12:25, 4 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]
      • Now "Author: Raveex" is replaced with "Author: Wikipedia". --F. Cosoleto 23:05, 6 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

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

nursing-resource.com

  • Site: http://nursing-resource.com/
  • Example: Debridement (see talk). Bandage scissors, which they not only copied but also replaced an existing reference with their own!
  • No obvious link to Wikipedia or to original article. At their disclaimer, they say, "The contents contained herein have been produced by our staff based on textbooks and other reference materials that had been written by a certified professional author, while some of the materials here had been taken from certified resource sites."
  • Not compatibly licensed.

New York Daily News-

  • Site: www.nydailynews.com
  • Example: Filmyard Holdings, [127]
  • Acknowledges the text is from Wikipedia, but thats it. Does link to the original article, but fails to provide licensing info.
  • Not compatibly licensed.

Acather96 (talk) 08:07, 29 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

nicer.app

  • name = Wikipedia.org on Nicer.App WebOS
  • url = https://nicer.app/wiki/frontpage
  • description = aims to project the entire wikimedia realm onto 4K or even 8K screen tech (video/photo/tiled), with semi-transparent easy to read content.
  • rating = ?? high/medium i guess. i merely funnel data into my UI.
  • compliance = full, as far as i (the owner of nicer.app) can tell.
  • contact = email address listed on https://nicer.app/company (read daily).
  • action = none needed so far.

O

Observances, Holidays and Celebrations

Observances, Holidays and Celebrations
URL http://books.google.com/books?id=5VhTa1Eiq7oC&printsec=frontcover

Observances, Holidays and Celebrations is an e-book published by MobileReference for use on mobile devices. The URL links to Google books' incomplete copy. A complete copy has to be purchased from a commercial supplier.

Description
Sample p.112 contains a substantial amount of text identical to that in the the lead of an earlier version of Wikipedia's article Nowruz.
Rating Medium, judging from the Google books copy. Precise degree of compliance is difficult to evaluate without buying a commercial copy
Compliance The licensing information provided on the "back cover" acknowledges that material from Wikipedia has been used, and that this material is licensed under the GFDL, although it also wrongly implies that this material is also "public domain". However, it also asserts "all rights reserved" over the work as a whole, whereas the GFDL requires that the whole of any modification of a work licensed under it—which is what this is—must also be licensed under the same licence or a substantially similar version.

A copy of the GFDL licence doesn't appear to be included anywhere in the publication, as required by the terms of that licence, although a link to an on-line copy of the licence appears to be provided with the licensing information. The licensing information includes an apology for not listing all the authors of the Wikipedia material, and asserts that these can be seen "by following the hyperlink at the bottom of each article". As far as is possible to tell from the Google books copy, such links do appear regularly throughout the the publication, but it doesn't appear to be possible to use the Google books copy to check that these links work and do in fact point to the proper articles.

Contact info support@soundtells.com
Actions None as yet.

Octopus wiki

  • Site: The Octopus wiki
  • Mirrors: Wikipedia's format.
  • Contents: Freely borrows material from Wikipedia without any concerns regarding copyrights, licenses, or whatever.
  • Makes: no mention whatsoever to anything for which it has plagarized.
The Octopus wiki
URL The Octopus wiki
Description
Sample http://desertfae.com/desertfaewiki/index.php?title=The_Octopus_Wiki:General_disclaimer
Rating Low/None
Compliance Freely borrows material from Wikipedia without any concerns regarding copyrights, licenses, or whatever as specified by subsection 2 of the GNU Free Documentation License Conditions and Rights of the Wikipedia authors of the copied articles. See comparisons: (a) Octopus wiki (main article) (history) and (b) Wikipedia (main article, dated 14 March 2009) (history)
Contact info http://desertfae.com/indexplain.htm

mailto:desertfae@gmail.com

text messages: http://www.livejournal.com/tools/textmessage.bml?user=desert_fae#

Actions The Octopus wiki webmaster has been informed
WARNING - School filters returned
A virus (JS.Iframe-4) was found in the downloaded file.

Sophie (Talk) 15:32, 29 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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: [128]!
  • 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
Description
Sample http://www.objectsspace.com/encyclopedia/index.php/User:Thorpe
Rating Low
Compliance
  • 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)[reply]

oceanru.com

Travel Wiki
URL http://oceanru.com/travel
Description
Sample http://oceanru.com/travel/SN_Brussels_Airlines
Rating Low/None
Compliance
  • 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
Description
Sample http://human.en.ogarnij.info/en/They+Might+Be+Giants
Rating Medium
Compliance "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.

Oilfield Wiki

oilfieldwiki.com
URL http://oilfieldwiki.com
Description
Sample http://www.oilfieldwiki.com/wiki/Gazprom
Rating low
Compliance no mention of Wikipedia
Contact info
Actions

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.
Down - 503 (matinance) Sophie (Talk) 15:30, 29 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Omnipelagos

<Omnipelagos>
URL Omnipelagos.com
Description
Sample http://www.omnipelagos.com/entry?n=wikipedia
Rating Medium
Compliance 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)[reply]

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

One Vasai

One Vasai
URL www.onevasai.com
Description Blatant text copy of pages relating to Vasai, versions dating to somewhere between 2008 and 2009. Known pages affected: Other pages appear to be original content, further investigation has not occurred.

onevasai.com is on the spam blacklist.

Sample www.onevasai.com/history.aspx, matches https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?diff=200268582.
Rating "Low/None" compliance with GFDL or CC BY-SA terms
Compliance Claims content as their own copyright.
Contact info admin@onevasai.com or www.onevasai.com/ContactUs.aspx
Actions None take as of 23:46, 27 November 2016 (UTC)

Online-encyclopedia.info

Online-encyclopedia.info
URL http://online-encyclopedia.info
Description
Sample http://online-encyclopedia.info/encyclopedia/a/as/astronomy.html
Rating
Compliance
  • 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)[reply]

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)[reply]

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)[reply]

  • 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
Description
Sample http://www.prescriptiondrug-info.com/drug_information_online.asp?title=Wikipedia
Rating None
Compliance 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 [129], 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/

Description
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
Compliance
  • 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)[reply]
  • 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)[reply]
  • 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)[reply]
  • 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)[reply]
  • 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)[reply]
    • 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)[reply]

Online Sports Database (OSDB)

Online Sports Database
URL www.osdbsports.com
Description statistics and biographies of athletes; biographies are copied from Wikipedia
Sample https://www.osdbsports.com/nhl/players/logan-thompson/39865351-af7a-419c-8db6-5b270c2dd3ec
Rating Low/None
Compliance Website footer says © 2024 OSDB All Rights Reserved. Do Not Copy Without Permission. Photos provided by USA Today. Terms and services claims that OSDB holds all rights and licenses and also provides information for how to file DMCA copyright complaints. (relevant contributors can follow the process outlined here)
Contact info info@osdbsports.com
Actions none taken Wracking talk! 00:19, 8 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Sent a CC-BY-SA non-compliance email per step one of this. Awaiting response. The Kip 02:45, 8 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Onpedia

  • Site: http://www.onpedia.com
  • Example [130] 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)[reply]
  • 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)[reply]

Open Access Text

Open Access Text
URL https://www.oatext.com/index.php
Description Predatory academic journal of low reputation.
Sample https://www.oatext.com/a-review-on-Traumatic-diaphragmatic-ruptur.php#Article. This copies passages of Diaphragmatic rupture (written by Dellbot) verbatim.
Rating None.
Compliance Copies passages of Wikipedia verbatim.
Contact info info@oatext.com
Actions None

open-dictionary.com

open-dictionary.com
URL http://open-dictionary.com/
Description
Sample
Rating
Compliance
  • 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)[reply]

open-encyclopedia.com

open-encyclopedia.com
URL http://open-encyclopedia.com/
Description
Sample http://open-encyclopedia.com/WPBS
Rating
Compliance
  • 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)[reply]

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)[reply]

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: [131] 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
Description
Sample http://www.ancient-civilization.info/ancient-maori/
Rating None
Compliance 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)[reply]
  • Sent abuse notice to hosting provider via contact form. Superm401 - Talk 08:33, 3 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]


Our Encyclopedia

Our Encyclopedia
URL Http://our-encyclopedia.com/
Description
Sample http://our-encyclopedia.com/ (Main Page)
Rating None
Compliance Simply mirrors Wikipedia, while including spamming text at the bottom of every page.
Contact info Fredrik Carlton (), +48.0851041252, Fax: +48.0851041252, Radmansgatan 14, Stockholm, n/a 12030, SE
Actions None as yet.

Defunct as of June 15, 2019.

OVGuide

OVGuide
URL http://http://www.ovguide.com/
Description
Sample http://www.ovguide.com/ezra-buzzington-9202a8c04000641f80000000055f3989#
Rating
Compliance
Contact info
Actions

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

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Paarl Mountain

Paarl Mountain
URL https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&pid=sites&srcid=ZGVmYXVsdGRvbWFpbnxnc3Nhd2NifGd4OjNmMjBlOWNlNTZjOWU3Zg
Description
Sample https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&pid=sites&srcid=ZGVmYXVsdGRvbWFpbnxnc3Nhd2NifGd4OjNmMjBlOWNlNTZjOWU3Zg
Rating Low/None
Compliance Educational document released by a voluntary committee of Geologists to improve understanding of Geology in the Cape Town area.
Contact info
Actions

Perchance.org/betterpedia

Betterpedia
URL perchance.org/betterpedia
Description Hates wikipedia to the max.
Sample All in one page.
Rating Low/None
Compliance No compliance, links to a fake GFDL.
Contact info Contcat form found.
Actions None at all so far

Paleorama.com

Paleorama
URL http://www.paleorama.com/
Description
Sample http://www.paleorama.com/Eponyms-N/Nero.php
Rating Low/None
Compliance No link to original wiki or mention of GFDL. No obvious place for contact information Pictures and link apparently removed.
Contact info
Actions
Shows domain parking page --Rumping (talk) 08:29, 4 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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

Paralumnun.com

Paralumnun New Age Village
URL http://www.paralumun.com/
Description
Sample http://www.paralumun.com/artgraf.htm; see Talk:Graffiti in the United States.
Rating Low/None
Compliance No link to original wiki or mention of CC-By-SA.
Contact info
Actions

peacelink.de

Peacelink
URL http://www.peacelink.de/keyword/Main_Page.php
Description
Sample http://www.peacelink.de/keyword/Derbyshire.php
Rating Low
Compliance 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)[reply]

PediaPress

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

PediaView

PediaView
URL http://pediaview.com
Description
Sample http://pediaview.com/openpedia/Willy_Vandersteen
Rating
Compliance Links to both Wikipedia and GFDL, makes it quite clear that content is from Wikipedia.
Contact info
Actions

Pediax

Pediax
URL http://en.pediax.org/
Description
Sample http://en.pediax.org/Detroit,_Michigan
Rating Medium
Compliance "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

PeopleMaven

PeopleMaven
URL https://www.peoplemaven.com/
Description
Sample https://www.peoplemaven.com/p/YjkzGE/gregory-olsen?refLoc=/l/Kw7gxe/Famous-Alumni-Ridgefield-Park-High-School-(Ridgefield-Park%2C-NJ-)&sort=PeopleScore
Rating Low
Compliance No mention of copyright, authors or license. Small link at the bottom "more information on en.wikipedia.org" which doesn't acknowledge Wikipedia as source. Requires login for some content.
Contact info support@peoplemaven.com
Actions

PeoplePill

PeoplePill
URL https://peoplepill.com
Description
Sample https://peoplepill.com/people/sara-braun/
Rating Low
Compliance Mentions Wikipedia as a source, includes a link to Wikipedia and CC BY-SA 4.0.
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)[reply]

Perbang.dk

Perbang.dk
URL http://www.perbang.dk/rgb/
Description
Sample http://www.perbang.dk/rgb/9F2B68/
Rating
Compliance No link to original wiki or mention of GFDL.
Contact info
Actions Site has scraped the pairs of name/RGB value for various colour articles from en.wiki; not primarily an IP problem, but much of the original en.wiki content was badly-sourced or made up, so perbang.dk should not be used as a source for future edits to colour articles; it should be treated like other mirrors.

Persiawiki.ir

Persiawiki.ir
URL http://www.Persiawiki.ir
Description
Sample http://www.Persiawiki.ir/wiki/Iran
Rating
Compliance No link to original wiki or mention of GFDL.
Contact info
Actions

peti.pl

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

PERL Today

<name of the webpage> (not url)
URL http://perltoday.com/
Description
Sample http://perltoday.com/
Rating "Low/None"
Compliance contains hyperlinks to Wikipedia
Contact info webform at http://perltoday.com/?page_id=2
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)[reply]

Pharma-help.com

Pharma-help.com
URL http://pharma-help.com/ Pharma-help.com
Description
Sample http://pharma-help.com/bulimia-nervosa
Rating Medium.
Compliance 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: [132], [133], [134]
  • 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
Description
Sample http://www.physicsdaily.com/physics/Lagrangian_mechanics
Rating Medium
Compliance 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)[reply]

Piano Paradise

Piano Paradise
URL http://www.pianoparadise.com/composers1.html
Description
Sample http://www.pianoparadise.com/vivaldi.html (appears to be this version (January 2004) of our article)
Rating Low/None
Compliance 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)[reply]

Pickupgame.com

Pickupgame.com
URL http://www.pickupgame.com/Sports_How_To_Play_Every_Sport/dodgeball_rules.php
Description
Sample http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_dodgeball_variations
Rating "Low/None"
Compliance Claim copyright of material lifted from Wikipedia.
Contact info
Actions


Pinkjustis.info

PiPiWiki

PiPiWiki
URL https://pipiwiki.com/
Description Wikipedia clone which uses Google as its search engine. Not all articles are mirrored; some of them link back to Wikipedia.
Sample https://pipiwiki.com/wiki/Sexual_abuse_scandal_in_the_Salesian_order
Rating High
Compliance At the bottom of each page Wikipedia is mentioned and a link to the edit history of specific article is present to satisfy the attribution requirement. Content is relicensed under CC BY-SA 4.0 and the license is mentioned and linked to.
Contact info None
Actions No contact information. No reply to e-mails to admin.pipiwiki etc… No reply from Whois.com abuse email contacts, No reply from ISP abuse contact email at Alibaba/Aliyun.

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/
Description
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 (?)
Compliance 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: [138]
  • 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

Plumbot

Plumbot
URL http://plumbot.com/
Description
Sample http://plumbot.com/Squadron
Rating none
Compliance No attribution or aknowledgement of original contributors, no mention of or link to Wikipedia. Claims copyright to "Plumbot LLC", all rights reserved.
Contact info plumbot.com@domainsbyproxy.com
Actions Initial contact made to above address.

Poast

Poast
URL https://wiki.poast.org/
Description mirror
Sample https://wiki.poast.org/wiki/English_language?lang=en
Rating "High"
Compliance mirror
Contact info E-mails, phone numbers, contact form URLs, etc. of admin and ISP.
Actions Actions taken (if any) to attempt to make the website comply.

PoemHunter

PoemHunter
URL http://www.poemhunter.com/
Description
Sample http://www.poemhunter.com/lewis-carroll/biography/
Rating none
Compliance No attribution, no mention or link to Wikipedia. Every poet's biography appears to be duplicated from Wikipedia - uses at least month old local copy. Does not claim copyright.
Contact info poemhunter.com@monikerprivacy.net
Actions Initial contact made

Polski Breivik

Polski Breivik
URL http://wiki.polskibreivik.pl
Description
Sample http://wiki.polskibreivik.pl/page_Special:Diff/710162352.html
Rating Low/None
Compliance Mentions Wikipedia, no copyright notice
Contact info
Actions

Pontefract Young Farmers

Pontefract Young Farmers
URL http://pontefract-yfc.co.uk/wiki.php
Description
Sample http://pontefract-yfc.co.uk/wiki.php?title=Moose
Rating None
Compliance 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.

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

Popflock.com

Popflock.com
URL http://www.popflock.com
Description complete mirror of Wikipedia, see "compliance"
Sample http://www.popflock.com/learn?s=Main_page
Rating Medium/High
Compliance Complete mirror of Wikipedia, e.g. Main page (history · last edit · Talk) at http://www.popflock.com/learn?s=Main_page.

No bogus copyright claims, clear footer "This article uses material from the Wikipedia page available here. It is released under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike License 3.0" with appropriate links; each image links its file description on the original domain.

On non-copyright matters:

Contact info dustin@popflock.com (source: contact form on popflock.com).

WHOIS registry for the domain "popflock.com":
Registrant Name: Daniel Yonts
Registrant Organization: DefaultLogic.com
Registrant Street: 5600 Bridle Glen Dr
Registrant City: Sugar Hill
Registrant State/Province: Georgia
Registrant Postal Code: 30518
Registrant Country: US
Registrant Phone: +1.8043068585
(source: https://whois.domaintools.com/popflock.com)
Actions No action has been taken yet.

Popular Dance: From Ballroom to Hip-Hop

Popular Dance: From Ballroom to Hip-Hop (this is a book, not a website)
ISBN 978-1-60413-484-1
URL http://books.google.com/books?id=2inCRlYF-iAC
Description
Sample Scroll to page 127.
Rating "Low/None" compliance with GFDL.
Compliance In the "Chronology" chapter of this book, on page 127, there is an entry for the year 2007 that appears to be almost an exact copy of the information that was in our History of hip-hop dance article here (scroll to 2007). This information is now in Hip-hop dance#Education but it was first added to Wikipedia on August 23, 2009 and then moved into a chronological table on August 24, 2009. The Popular Dance book was printed in June 2010 according to the information on page 4.
Contact info Chealsea House/Infobase Publishing; 132 West 31st St.; New York, New York, 10001
Actions None. Considering this is an actual book instead of a website I feel that a violation letter should come from someone above me on the Wikipedia corporate ladder.

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

potiori

potiori
URL http://en.potiori.com/
Description
Sample en.potiori.com/Panther_hollow.html
Rating high
Compliance Includes links to Wikipedia, GDFL and CC-BY-SA
Contact info waldemar@potiori.com
Actions None required

Power Rangers Online

Power Rangers Online
URL http://power-rangers-online.com/
Description
Sample http://power-rangers-online.com/gekisou_sentai_carranger.html
Rating Low/None
Compliance Pages only state that they were copied from Wikipedia
Contact info See http://power-rangers-online.com/about_us.html
Actions

Powerset

Powerset
URL http://www.powerset.com
Description
Sample http://www.powerset.com/explore/semhtml/Wives_of_Henry_VIII
Rating Medium
Compliance 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

Prabook

Prabook
URL https://prabook.com/web/home.html
Description Directory hosted by World Biographical Encyclopedia Inc., possibly related to Bajografik Enciklopedia in Minsk, an organisation whose network has been used to edit Wikipedia pages about Prabook. Valery Tsepkalo is the founder of Prabook.
Sample https://prabook.com/web/abdul.qader_al_rais/3720595
Rating None
Compliance No mention of Wikipedia. User-edited content. Pages include claim of copyright to Prabook.
Contact info https://prabook.com/web/contact.html
Actions

prescriptiondrug-info.com

  • Site [139]
  • 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

profilpelajar.com

profilpelajar
URL profilpelajar.com
Description
Sample https://profilpelajar.com/article/Dance_Se_Puder_(season_2)
Rating Low/None
Compliance No attribution at all.
Contact info ISP: Leaseweb Asia, abuse@sg.leaseweb.com,
Actions

PrintFriendly

PrintFriendly
URL http://printfriendly.com
Description
Sample http://www.printfriendly.com/print/?url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Damballa%20%28company%29
Rating Medium
Compliance This is a general purpose site that allows users to specify subsets of articles to render for printing.

At the top, they now have the Wikipedia favicon logo and a readable URL that links directly to the original article. At the bottom, the full Wikipedia copyright notice is reproduced, including the full license name ("Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License"), with the license linked to Wikipedia:Text of Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License, as well as links to the Terms of Use and Privacy Policy, and the trademark notice. It does not include the required disclaimer information, but to be fair our printable view does not either.

Contact info http://support.printfriendly.com/ , http://support.printfriendly.com/customer/portal/emails/new
Actions Steps:

Project Gutenberg Self-Publishing Press

Project Gutenberg Self-Publishing Press
URL http://self.gutenberg.org/
Description Self publishing site which takes numerous articles from World Heritage Encyclopedia (another mirror)
Sample http://self.gutenberg.org/articles/Wikipedia
Rating Low
Compliance Gives a link to wikipedia as the 'citational source', but attribution given to bed-fellow mirror 'World Heritage Encyclopedia'. Page footers implies bed-fellow mirror "World Public Library" owns copyright to the content.
Contact info online form only at http://self.gutenberg.org/Suggestions.aspx (Identical form to that at WP:Mirrors_and_forks/Vwxyz#World_Public_Library)
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/
Description
Sample http://www.ps3-market.co.uk/sony-playstation-3-game-backward-compatibility/
Rating None
Compliance 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
Description
Sample http://grajdaru.3x.ro/enciclopedia_en.php?title=Tourette_syndrome
Rating High
Compliance Attributes Wikipedia and links to local GFDL.
Contact info
Actions

Pub.eu

  • Site: pub.eu
  • Example: pub.eu/ploughmans_lunch_en.html
  • States the actual descriptive text portion of the article is subject to GDFL
  • Has web addresses to original article (retrieval date: 2007-05-27) and text of GDFL at Wikipedia, though not hyperlinks.
  • States (c) Ovidio Limited 2006-2009.


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: [140]
  • Administrator associated with scraper sites/link farms

Public School Review

Public School Review
URL [Publicschoolreview.com]
Description
Sample Their use of the Oakton High School article
Rating "Medium" to "High" compliance with GFDL (matches Wikipedia:GFDL Compliance).
Compliance 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 [141].
  • Biographies mirrored from WP -- credits WP but no mention of GFDL.

Q

Quaest.io

See Informat.io

Qdoba

Qdoba
URL http://www.qdoba.com/
Description
Sample http://www.qdoba.com/AskScoville1.aspx and Scoville scale#List of Scoville ratings
Rating None
Compliance All there is is COPYRIGHT 2009 QDOBA RESTAURANT INC
Contact info this contact page. Lists phone numbers, address, and contact us form. If I got it right, ISP is Qwest. Phone is +1-877-886-6515. Abuse email is abuse AT qwest.net
Actions None

Quarrel Network

Quarrel Network
URL http://www.quarrel.net/
Description
Sample http://www.quarrel.net/music/wiki.php?title=911th_Engineer_Company
Rating Low
Compliance 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)[reply]

Quazoo

Quazoo
URL http://www.quazoo.com/
Description
Sample http://www.quazoo.com/q/Mother_Earth_Tour
Rating Low
Compliance Duplicate of Snipview (same ip address)
Contact info Same as Snipview - admin@webvision.us
Actions For contacts, action taken see Wikipedia:Mirrors_and_forks/Stu#Snipview

Quickly Find

Quickly Find
URL www.quicklyfind.com
Description
Sample www.quicklyfind.com/info/Astronomy.htm
Rating Medium.
Compliance 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.

R

ranau.net

More research requested

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

Rankly

Rankly
URL https://rankly.com
Description "Rankly is a social top list community. Create, share and discover top lists about the best stuff in life, like the best video games, movies, music, TV-series or makeup. On Rankly, anybody can create a top list, share it with their friends and see their list get ranked by friends and followers."
Sample https://rankly.com/list/best-astronomer-off-all-time
Rating Low/None
Compliance On "best astronomer" list (mobile version), there is no text at all on the page indicating this is from Wikipedia. Created by a site user.
Contact info Terms of use, Privacy policy, contact form, and three people that run the site.
Actions

rashadevans.tv

Official website of Rashad Evans
URL rashadevans.tv
Description
Sample "About Rashad" section
Rating "Low/None"
Compliance Entire sections copied from Rashad Evans. Includes "citation needed"-tags etc.
Contact info jervis@colebloodedmgmt.com (manager of Evans, owns the domain) or creative@everstudios.com (webdesign)
Actions Sendt mail. Sendt followup.

Raspberry.news

  • Site: http:Raspberry.news - advertising itself as a Dutch website for education, research, reports, articles and online encyclopedia
  • The disclaimer mentions that
   1,6. De informatie op de site Raspberry.news artikelen gratis verstrekt en gratis online bronnen (zoals Wikipedia en anderen) te gebruiken.
Or translated, something like
   1,6. The information on the site Raspberry.news articles free offered and free online sources (like Wikepedia and others) to use.
It's not very clear what they mean with that line (the Dutch line is just as bad), but at least it sounds like they're using Wikipedia.
  • Their page about DMCA is in English, and mentions things that they're using it all as fair use, and they're not subject to DMCA as they're based in China.
  • An example of a copied article is the article about the Common pipistrelle or Gewone Dwergvleermuis. Which can be found on their site too. It's a literal copy of the Wikipedia article with no mention of the license or source. Many more such examples can be found.

Not yet contacted them as it doesn't sound they'll listen anyway (and I don't feel like getting involved in a Chinese lawsuit).

Ratusan.com

  • Site: http://www.ratusan.com - selling jewelry
  • Example: [142] - 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)[reply]

read-and-go.hopto.org

Read and go
URL http://read-and-go.hopto.org/sitemap.html
Description
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
Compliance 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)[reply]
  • Redirects to searchportal.information.com with no obvious Wikipedia content --Rumping (talk) 08:10, 5 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Read-Facts-About

Read Facts About...
URL http://www.read-facts-about.com/
Description
Sample http://www.read-facts-about.com/Wikipedia
Rating Medium
Compliance Comprehensive mirror. CC BY-SA 3.0 License statement and link; Toolserver's list of contributors link. No clear attribution to Wikipedia, no links to original material. --Soujak (talk) 13:58, 11 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Contact info Daniele Testa (owner, administrator and technical contact of the domain name); address: Stenbocksgatan 8, 50634, Borås, Sweden; Phone: +46.500400500; email: binero@daniele.se. --Soujak (talk) 13:58, 11 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Actions None taken. --Soujak (talk) 13:58, 11 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Read-Free

Read-Free, Free Article Cited from WIkipedia
URL http://read-free.co.cc
Description
Sample http://read-free.co.cc/wiki/Free_content
Rating Low/None
Compliance GFDL clearly stated on footer section. All back-link to original articles on Wikipedia are properly written.
Contact info read-free@colokan.co.cc
Actions

Real RnB

Curtis Mayfield
URL http://www.realrnb.com/forum/archive/index.php?t-12186.html
Description
Sample http://www.realrnb.com/forum/archive/index.php?t-12186.html
Rating Low/None
Compliance 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

Reach Information

Reach Information
URL www.reachinformation.com
Description
Sample http://www.reachinformation.com/Default.aspx?__VIEWSTATE=%2FwEPDwUKLTMxNjU3Mjc0NmRk&queryString=Battle+of+Belahoe&searchQuery=Search
Rating Medium
Compliance Links to the CC-BY-SA license and the general disclaimer and acknowledges Wikipedia but does not include a hyperlink back to the original article. PleaseStand (talk) 03:50, 10 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Contact info venugopalan5@myway.com
Actions Sent standard violation letter to above e-mail. Acather96 (talk) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Acather96 (talkcontribs) 06:01, 18 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Sent violation letter regarding Cheater plug (an article I created) through contactprivacy.com. As of now, their web host seems to be Mochahost. PleaseStand (talk) 03:15, 25 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Site owner replied on 2 October that he would bring his site into compliance within 3-4 days. As of now, the licensing information is on the "About Us" page. PleaseStand (talk) 01:48, 9 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

The reader view of Wikipedia

The reader view of Wikipedia
URL https://thereaderwiki.com/
Description
Sample https://thereaderwiki.com/en/Horncastle_boar%27s_head
Rating Medium
Compliance Ok for text, bad for images.
  • Discreet link "Wikipedia Page" on the top right, in the middle of whitespace, which is easy to spot but doesn't attribute the content.
  • Footer with link to source page and license, of the kind "This page is based on the Wikipedia article Horncastle boar's head; it is used under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License (CC-BY-SA). You may redistribute it, verbatim or modified, providing that you comply with the terms of the CC-BY-SA."
  • Images are hotlinked from Wikimedia Foundation servers and clicking them only provides a zoomed view, does not reach a file description. No attribution provided, therefore copyright violation.
Contact info
Actions

ReadTiger

Read Tiger
URL http://readtiger.com
Description
Sample http://readtiger.com/wkp/en/Oblivion_%28roller_coaster%29 , https://readtiger.com/https/en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Hiking_in_the_Nordic_countries
Rating Medium/Low
Compliance As of 2019:
  • the Wikipedia mirror is not compliant, having no mention of authors or linkbacks whatsoever, but has a visible text header "This page uses content from Wikipedia and is licensed under CC BY-SA";
  • other mirrors, such as Wikivoyage, reuse the Wikimedia wikis' HTML as is, including the links to file descriptions, permalink headers like "This is an old revision of this page, as edited by Yvwv (talk
Contact info 522c4ec508nuvbyh@5225b4d0pi3627q9.privatewhois.net
Actions Standard violation step 1 letter sent. --Mdann52talk to me! 07:38, 18 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

realtech.co.za

RealTech/realtech.co.za
URL http://www.realtech.co.za/realwiki.php
Description
Sample http://www.realtech.co.za/realwiki.php?title=Iceland
Rating medium
Compliance Includes the Wikipedia:Copyrights#Example notice at the bottom of every Wiki-derived page: "This article is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License. It uses material from the Wikipedia article on foo"
Contact info http://www.realtech.co.za/contact.php
Actions emailed, now at Wikipedia:Copyrights#Example notice's medium level rating
This site is scraping Wikipedia in real time. Is that allowed? Who then was a gentleman? (talk) 18:57, 17 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Recipeland.com

RecipeLand/RecipeFacts
URL http://www.recipeland.com/facts/
Description
Sample http://www.recipeland.com/facts/USA
Rating High
Compliance 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)[reply]

Rediff.com

Rediff.com: This will be the world's tallest building
URL http://www.rediff.com/
Description
Sample http://inhome.rediff.com/cms/print.jsp?docpath=//money/2007/jun/07tall.htm
Rating None
Compliance 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)[reply]

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

reportingpoint.net

Reporting point
URL http://reportingpoint.net/
Description
Sample http://reportingpoint.net/54eda2f698c23b61.html vs https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Howard_Johnson_%28electrical_engineer%29&oldid=95729647
Rating Low/None
Compliance No attribution whatsoever (no contact, either). Seems to have stopped updating, but articles are definitely from the English Wikipedia.
Contact info couldn't find any
Actions none

Reprtz.net

Revolvy

Revolvy
URL http://www.revolvy.com/
Description Mirror which shows many wikipedia articles side by side.
Sample http://www.revolvy.com/main/index.php?s=MarketResearch.com
Rating Low
Compliance Credits and links the original Wikipedia article or file description for the content, license mentioned and linked: "Content from Wikipedia Licensed under CC-BY-SA". No mention of Wikipedia authors.
Contact info
Actions

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)[reply]
    • 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)[reply]
  • No history section. Medium compliance. Uncle G 12:19, 5 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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)[reply]

River-Styx.net

River-Styx.net
URL http://www.river-styx.net/index2.htm
Description
Sample http://www.river-styx.net/aztec.htm; compare Mictlantecuhtli
Rating "Low/None"
Compliance 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)[reply]

Roadnow.com

Road Travel Guide - Roadnow
URL http://www.roadnow.com/
Description
Sample http://roadnow.com/i4/
Rating
Compliance
Contact info
Actions

Rocklahoma.com

Rocklahoma (a Catch the Fever Music Festival)
URL http://www.rocklahoma.com/
Description
Sample http://www.rocklahoma.com/kix_bio.php
Rating None
Compliance Modified content from Wikipedia (removed sections, altered slightly) without a license mentioned anywhere. It is possible though unlikely that Wikipedia is instead using their content without permission; to verify this other biographies need ot be looked at
Contact info information@countryfeverfest.com (not working)
Actions none; depending on a Wikipedia administrator to contact


Romanian Portal

Romanian Portal
URL http://www.romanian-portal.com
Description
Sample http://www.romanian-portal.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=4018&PN=1
Rating "Low/None"
Compliance 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.

Romwell.com

Romwell.com
URL http://www.romwell.com/
Description
Sample http://www.romwell.com/health/giardia_and_giardiasis.html; see Talk:Giardiasis and investigation
Rating Unknown. While this page copies from us, I do not know if others do.
Compliance None.
Contact info
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)

RC-Wiki

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

rtbot.net

rtbot.net
URL http://www.rtbot.net/
Description
Sample http://http://www.rtbot.net/flannel
Rating "Low/None"
Compliance Does neither mention Wikipedia nor GFDL
Contact info Contact Us or
Actions 1) WHOIS 2) cc standard letter posted via webpage for "report abuse" [144] and sent as "infringing on a copyright" as the subject. They are listed as P.O. Box 6197, Denver, CO 80206, US Phone: +1.3037474010; however, this is just a holding company (www.protecteddomainservices.com) who provide "anonymous" domain name purchases to obfuscate any potential whois info for clients. 3) Form was completed, and a copy posted to rtbot.net via their "Contact us" page [145] on 30-07-2012. Unfortunately it seems the rtbot page is a scam, as it fails and directs to a dead mail page which states: "Sorry, but this form is no longer accepting submissions".

Dear Sir/Madam:

I have noticed that you are making use of English Wikipedia articles as part of your website, rtbot.net. One example is http://www.rtbot.net/belitung_shipwreck, which includes material from the Wikipedia article "Belitung Shipreck", which is located at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belitung Shipwreck. Wikipedia encourages the redistribution of its content. However, it is necessary to comply with the terms of our primary license, the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License (CC-BY-SA). Failure to do so is a copyright violation. The text of the CC-BY-SA can be found at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WP:CC-BY-SA . That is the relevant legally binding document. However, Wikipedia does offer advice about how to comply with the CC-BY-SA. This can be found in detail at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Copyrights . One of the most important steps is to mention the CC-BY-SA.

At the bottom of every page that uses Wikipedia material, you should include text similar to, "This page is based on the copyrighted Wikipedia article (put article name here); it is used under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License. You may redistribute it, verbatim or modified, providing that you comply with the terms of the CC-BY-SA." You should link the text "Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License" to a copy of the text of the CC-BY-SA. Also, you must link back to the original Wikipedia article.

I am the derivative copyright holder to the image used from the Belitung Shipwreck page, (the one with the red cross on it next to the island - copy of it http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Belitung_shipwreck_location.jpg) and creator of most of the content of the article, released to Wikipedia under the cc-by-sa licence.

Unfortunately you also have many other pages which include my work, including: Robot, Navlab, Beardmore Halford Pullinger, Philia culture, Particle Astrophysics Magnet Facility (http://www.rtbot.net/Particle_Astrophysics_Magnet_Facility), History of Norfolk, Norfolk, British Expeditionary Force (World War II), Sentry (AUV) (http://www.rtbot.net/Sentry_%28AUV%29), Roman Norfolk (http://www.rtbot.net/Roman_Norfolk), Ramona Milano, and hundreds of other where I have contributed, though in smaller part.'

There are thousands of other pages also used on your site which quote hundreds and thousands of editors whose work is also being used without accreditation. Please acknowledge receipt of this letter and I hope you will endeavour to fix this soon.

Thank you for your cooperation.

Runiversalis

Runiversalis
URL https://руни.рф/
Description Pro-Russian fork of Russian Wikipedia
Sample https://руни.рф/Донбасс_—_сердце_России
Rating High
Compliance
Contact info https://руни.рф/Руниверсалис:Редакторы#Как_стать_редактором_Руниверсалис
Actions

Ruwiki

Ruwiki
URL https://ruwiki.ru/
Description Fork of Russian Wikipedia, under Russian legislation.
Sample https://ru.ruwiki.ru/wiki/Moscow_Calling_(манга)
Rating High
Compliance
Contact info https://ru.ruwiki.ru/wiki/Рувики:Контакты
Actions

RxWiki

RxWiki
URL http://www.rxwiki.com/
Description
Sample http://www.rxwiki.com/index.php?title=Ergoline
Rating None
Compliance 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/
Description
Sample http://sagereport.com/Cali-to-Car/cat.php
Rating Medium
Compliance 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
Description
Sample http://www.sailracer.co.uk/sailing/topical.asp?txt=rooster%20sailing
Rating None
Compliance Wikipedias Rooster article is dumped on the page (complete with wikilinks, templates and cats even though the site is a Wiki !!!) with no attribution or links.
Contact info Simon Lovesey

01489 559111
info AT sailracer.co.uk

Actions

San Luis Obispo Bill of Rights Defense Committee

  • Site: http://www.slo-bordc.org/link/wikipedia/view
  • Only uses opening paragraph from USA PATRIOT Act.
  • Mentions Wikipedia, and provides link to article.
  • No GFDL mention.
  • Almost certainly fair use.

Sci Peeps

Sci Peeps
URL Scipeeps.com
Description
Sample http://www.scipeeps.com/Sci-Biochemistry_Topics_E_-_F/fermentation.html
Rating Low.
Compliance 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.
The cited article is gone. There may be others. decltype (talk) 14:28, 24 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Science 24

See Wikipedia:Mirrors_and_forks/Abc#Base_Science_24

ScienceDaily

ScienceDaily
URL http://www.sciencedaily.com/encyclopedia/
Description
Sample http://www.sciencedaily.com/encyclopedia/archaeology
Rating Medium
Compliance 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)[reply]
  • 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)[reply]
  • See their website now for a great GFDL compliance! Auroranorth 13:27, 27 October 2006 (UTC)

Scientia Ricerca

Scientia Ricerca
URL https://scientiaricerca.com/cons-archive.php
Description journal listed at https://predatoryjournals.com/publishers/#S, a group of open access journals, another infringement by Alain L. Fymat, International Institute of Medicine and Science, journal editor
Sample https://scientiaricerca.com/srcons/SRCONS-04-00097.php
Rating Low/None
Compliance No mention of or attribution to Wikipedia, although extensive copy, and claims copyright
Contact info See User:SandyGeorgia/AlainFymat for full information
Actions Sending letters

SciFiPedia

SciFiPedia
URL http://scifipedia.scifi.com/index.php/Main_Page
Description
Sample http://scifipedia.scifi.com/index.php/The_Prisoner
Rating Low/None
Compliance 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

de.scio.pw

URL de.scio.pw
Description unclear propose. only features one single advertisement above every page
Sample de.scio.pw/Berlin
Rating "None"
Compliance no license at all.
Contact info no contact details on the site.
Actions no actions taken yet.

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
Description
Sample http://www.livingflowers.com/de:Diakritisches_Zeichen
Rating High
Compliance 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)[reply]
  • 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)[reply]
  • 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

scoopweb.com

Scoop Web
URL [146]
Description
Sample [147], [148]
Rating Low/None
Compliance Live mirror fetching detected via hidden span tags, no mention of the GFDL.
Contact info Moorjani, Tanuj tanuj.moorjani AT gmail.com
Actions None

Scribd

Scribd
URL May be multiple e-books copied from Wikipedia.
Description
Sample http://www.scribd.com/doc/19999557/Education-in-Emerging-Indian-Society-F-105
http://www.scribd.com/doc/20074682/Medical-Tourism-F
http://www.scribd.com/doc/24333292/According-to-2003#stats; see Talk:DNA_dynamics and Talk:DNA computing
Rating
Compliance This is a self-publishing forum where evidently some contributors find it easy to compile books by copying Wikipedia articles.
Contact info copyright@scribd.com; per [149] DMCA take-down is required.
Actions

Scripophily.net

  • Site: http://www.scripophily.net
  • Example: http://www.scripophily.net/lefrhme19.html
  • No mention of Wikipedia - uses material from H.L. Mencken article.
Any progress on this one? 84.235.135.246 10:02, 4 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]
Nope. Example: http://www.webcitation.org/5m6moDhYo (archive of http://www.scripophily.net/amhocode1.html). Some of this content is my creation; I could sue. --Elvey (talk) 08:15, 18 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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: http://searchenterpriselinux.techtarget.com/qna/0,289202,sid39_gci913129,00.html
  • Contains a small section of the article about vendor lock-in
  • Mentions Wikipedia, but has no link
  • No GFDL Link

Search-People-Finder.info

see Wikipedia:Mirrors_and_forks/Def#Discovery_Media

SearchSpaniel.com

  • Site: http://www.searchspaniel.com/

Seattle Luxury

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


second.wiki

Second Wiki
URL https://second.wiki
Description Some articles have been machine-translated into English from non-English Wikipedias (e.g. "Brollachan" from German)
Sample https://second.wiki/wiki/mc3basica_electrc3b3nica
Rating Medium
Compliance Footer mentions correct license and indirectly mentions Wikipedia. No link back to the original article.
Contact info None found.
Actions None.

Selling Timeshare

sellingtimeshare.co.uk
URL sellingtimeshare.co.uk
Description
Sample www.sellingtimeshare.co.uk/wiki.asp?k=timeshare
Rating
Compliance
Contact info
Actions

seminar4u.blogspot.com

seminar4u.blogspot.com
URL Various articles here: seminar4u.blogspot.com
Description
Sample Multiple articles copied. A review of 5 random articles found that 3 contained text substantially similar to earlier text in wikipedia articles: [150] [151] [152]. There are probably a lot more out there.
Rating
Compliance None as yet. Bottom of the page says "Copyright © 2007 - Seminars, Seminar Topics, Notes on Engineering Computers, Electronics, Mechanical, Mba - is proudly powered by Blogger". No link back to wikipedia articles, no credit.
Contact info [153]
Actions Contacted. No response as of 03 May 2011. bobrayner (talk) 10:22, 3 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

sensagent.com

Sensagent
URL http://dictionary.sensagent.com/ http://dictionnaire.sensagent.leparisien.fr/
Description Multi-language Dictionary
Sample http://dictionary.sensagent.com/transport/en-en/#wikipedia
Rating Low
Compliance Individual articles attribute to wikipedia
Contact info d dot dutoit at memodata com
Actions Sent compliance letter on 2008/01/25.

Seo Wiki

Seo Wiki
URL http://www.seomastering.com/wiki/
Description
Sample http://www.seomastering.com/wiki/Autovivification
Rating Low/None
Compliance Copied article content: an IP address user added a Python section to our article and then copied the entire article to Seo Wiki in the same minute. No visible attribution except in a stub template that contains a broken link suggesting to "help Wikipedia by expanding it". No license given for content on their wiki.
Contact info about us page, contact form
Actions Added {{backwardscopy}} to our article's talk page. Will add to WP:GFDLC and WP:CCBYSAC. PointyOintment (talk) 09:21, 6 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Serial Killer Calendar

Serial Killer Calendar
URL www.serialkillercalendar.com
Description
Sample http://www.serialkillercalendar.com/Brief_Bio_of_PETER_DUPAS.html
Rating Low.
Compliance update: This site has long since properly credited the GNU/GFDL sections and sources. Why is this notice still here? If you took the effort to make this public, then at least have the respect to acknowledge your personal victory (that was done immediately and willingly), OK Longhair? 210.5.75.10 (talk) 15:18, 24 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Contact info madhatterdesign AT gmail.com
Actions Sent GFDL compliance email. -- Longhair\talk 11:25, 14 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

seriouslostfan.com

see Wikipedia:Mirrors_and_forks/Def#Discovery_Media

servinghistory.com

see Wikipedia:Mirrors_and_forks/Def#Discovery_Media

sexyclopedia.com

Site: http://www.sexyclopedia.com/ Example: http://www.sexyclopedia.com/?title=Category:Eastern_Orthodox_Wikipedians

SheppardSoftware.com

Sheppard Software
URL http://www.sheppardsoftware.com/
Description
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
Compliance 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. [154]

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

Sidhe Communications

Sidhe Communications
URL http://www.sidhecommunications.com/
Description
Sample http://www.sidhecommunications.com/excel-communications.html
Rating Unknown
Compliance Describe details of compliance or lack thereof. List violations here.
Contact info E-mail, phone number of admin and ISP.
Actions Actions taken (if any) to attempt to make the website comply.

Sidereel.com

Sidhe Communications
URL http://www.sidereel.com
Description
Sample http://www.sidereel.com/britain_and_irelands_next_top_model/season-1/episode-5; see Talk:Britain and Ireland's Next Top Model, Cycle 7
Rating Unknown
Compliance None
Contact info
Actions

singaporemoms.com

  • Site:http://www.singaporemoms.com/parenting_encyclopedia.html
    • Example:http://www.singaporemoms.com/parenting/Homeopathy 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)[reply]
    • no action taken as yet.Geni 23:35, 16 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Sinoz

  • Site: http://www.sinoz.com/articles/
    • Example: http://www.sinoz.com/articles/Fresnel_zone_plate 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)[reply]


Sir Tom Jones Online

  • Site: http://www.freewebs.com/jvprn/index.htm
  • Example: http://www.freewebs.com/jvprn/discography.htm
  • Wikipedia content: [155] Tom Jones (Singer)
  • no mention or link back to Wikipedia
  • no mention of GFDL
  • contact: tomrocks65 AT optonline.net
  • no action taken as yet. 22:20, 13 March 2006 (UTC)

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/
Description
Sample http://www.skeysource.com/
Rating Low/None
Compliance 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: [156] 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

Slider

Slider
URL http://www.slider.com/about.html
Description
Sample http://enc.slider.com/Enc/Ralph_Bunche_Park
Rating Low/None
Compliance No mention of or link to Wikipedia, no attribution to authors, asserts copyright; no onsite copy of GFDL (but each article links to Slider's unattributed copy of Wikipedia's GFDL article, which contains a link to GFDL on the gnu.org site).
Contact info webmaster@trellian.com
Actions I've done nothing.

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)[reply]

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)[reply]
    • 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/sm-201/index.php?title=Golden_Age_of_Porn
Description
Sample
Rating None
Compliance 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)[reply]
The article named above seems to be the exception on this site. Looking at some random articles did not find any further copies from Wikipedia. Therefore, rather than someone with legal knowledge, one of the authors of the original article needs to take this up.
Use of the name "Wikipedia" is a matter for the foundation, not editors, but appears to be simple confusion between the term "wiki" and the registered trademark "Wikipedia". SpinningSpark 13:55, 2 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Corvus cornix 00:00, 25 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Snazon.com

Snipview

Snipview
URL http://www.snipview.com/
Description
Sample http://www.snipview.com/q/Julio_Ripamondi_Base
Rating Low.
Compliance Their 'more from Wikipedia' button pops up the whole wikipedia articles, but no mention of copyright or the CC BY-SA license.

Images have 'Image via ' + link to Wikipedia underneath them, again no mention of licensing.

Contact info Only an email address: admin@webvision.us
Actions Standard letter sent; see User:Batternut/Licensing_Vio_-_Snipview for letter sent and subsequent activities

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)[reply]

source-of-knowledge.com

LarsSanders 09:19, 4 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]

LarsSanders 09:25, 4 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Snyke

somecoolsite.com

See Wikipedia:Mirrors_and_forks/Vwxyz#zipox

songnhong.com

See Wikipedia:Mirrors_and_forks/Vwxyz#zipox

Sonycmg.com

Sony Music UK
URL http://www.sonycmg.com
Description
Sample http://www.sonycmg.com/artists/mariah_carey/
Rating None
Compliance The artist page is an exact copy of the lead section of the artist's Wikipedia page. Also, at the end of the article, the website provides a link to Wikipedia.
Contact info [159] Information
Actions None


specwire.com

See Wikipedia:Mirrors_and_forks/Vwxyz#zipox

solarnavigator.net

Solar Navigator
URL http://www.solarnavigator.net
Description
Sample http://www.solarnavigator.net/films_movies_actors/charlize_theron.htm
Rating None
Compliance 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).
  • Most wikilinks are dead. Also, Wikipedia is mentioned in some cleanup tags. Example: wiki.thesopranos.com/Jon_Bon_Jovi

SouthernCaliforniaHomes

SouthernCaliforniaHomes
URL http://www.southerncaliforniahomes.com/
Description
Sample http://www.southerncaliforniahomes.com/san-diego/escondido/local-info
Rating None
Compliance No mention of either Wikipedia or CC BY-SA.
Contact info http://www.southerncaliforniahomes.com/contact-us
Actions

space.cenet.org.cn

Speedy deletion Wiki

speedydeletion.wikia.com
URL speedydeletion.wikia.com
Description
Sample
Rating
Compliance
Contact info
Actions

SpeedyLook

SpeedyLook
URL http://www.speedylook.com
Description
Sample http://www.speedylook.com/Water_melon.html (based on fr:Pastèque)
Rating None. No mention of Wikipedia or GFDL. No copyright information on site.
Compliance Site appears to consist of mechanical translations of articles from the French Wikipedia.
Contact info
Actions

spellcorrect.info

spellcorrect.info
URL http://www.spellcorrect.info
Description
Sample http://www.spellcorrect.info/slaves.htm from Slavery
Rating Medium
Compliance 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)[reply]
    • 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)[reply]
      • Received reply noting that a local link had been added. Sent reply about new problem. Superm401 - Talk 23:20, 29 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
        • 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
Description
Sample http://www.spiritus-temporis.com/s5w-reactor
Rating Low/None
Compliance 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

SpivO.com

SpivO Encyclopedia
URL http://www.spivo.com/encyclopedia/
Description
Sample http://www.spivo.com/encyclopedia/?title=Orange_(fruit)
Rating Low/None
Compliance Calls pages "SpivO Encyclopedia", the only references to Wikipedia are those in the articles extracted and on pages where the url is invalid (e.g., if title includes spaces instead of "_", they say "...consult the Wikipedia article"), and uses "WikiReflection" technology (see http://www.vacilando.org/index.php?x=7065). It is copying the userspace, and images are linked to the Wikimedia servers. No mention of GFDL. There is, however, an edit button at the top of every page, but it will only open an edit window for pages on the English Wikipedia, and will open whatever page the user typed in, regardless of redirects. Interestingly, using the interwiki links (i.e., [[wikt:is:brjálaður]]) pages from other projects can be copied, but any links will link back to the English Wikipedia. 18:28, 2 November 2008 (UTC)
Contact info Admin:Chris Kazor - info [atsign] spivo [.] com; 813-626-5261 and 206-202-2053 listed

Technical contact: Customer Support - support [atsign] hostingtrek [.] com; 877-571-1805

Actions none

Spock.com

spock.com
URL http://www.spock.com
Description
Sample http://www.spock.com/Felix-Gouin
Rating "Low/None"
Compliance Copied most of the article almost verbatim with only a link to the original material here on wikipedia.
Contact info Intelius

500 108th Avenue Northeast Suite 2500 Bellevue, Washington 98004 United States

ISP:
full whois info here
info@corp.spock.com

Actions None
  • Not a gross violation. Only a short excerpt of the article, with source given. To be fully compliant, the page should probably also mention CC-BY-SA. A link to the original article is enough to fulfill the requirement to attribute the authors. decltype (talk) 14:09, 24 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Spokeo.com

spokeo.com
URL http://www.spokeo.com
Description
Sample http://www.spokeo.com/Max+Schreck+1
Rating "Low/None"
Compliance Copied most of the article verbatim with only a link prefixed "related links" to the original wikipedia article.
Contact info https://www.spokeo.com/contact 556 S. Fair Oaks Ave Suite #101-179 Pasadena, CA 91105

United States

ISP:
full whois info here

Actions None
  • To be fully compliant, the page should also mention CC-BY-SA. A link to the original article is enough to fulfill the requirement to attribute the authors. -84user (talk) 16:15, 21 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]

SportsHead

sportshead
URL http://www.sportshead.com
Description
Sample http://www.sportshead.com/sportsdetails/index/Cap_Anson
Rating Low/None
Compliance No indication at all that the biographies are lifted verbatim from wikipedia, no GFDL license on page, no links back to wikipedia
Contact info none found at whois.net. Registered to CHALLENGEGAMES.COM through GoDaddy. No contact info on website.
Actions Emailed standard notice to advertising@challengegames.com, who seem to own the violating website. Chase me ladies, I'm the Cavalry (talk) 16:58, 19 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]
  • Still infringing. I do not think I hold copyright to any of the articles they host. decltype (talk) 14:12, 24 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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

Notification sent. Had to keep it brief to fit their 500 character feedback form. decltype (talk) 14:20, 24 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Stablepedia

Stablepedia
URL http://www.stablepedia.org
Description
Sample http://www.stablepedia.org/wiki/France
Rating High
Compliance The site points out to the GFDL on every page requested from wikipedia [160]
Contact info staiii AT gmail.com
Actions none

StacyLondon.org

stacylondon.org
URL http://www.stacylondon.org
Description
Sample http://www.stacylondon.org/stacy-london-biography.php
Rating "Low/None"
Compliance Copied most of the article almost verbatim to both the home page and the biography page with no attribution or links to the original material here on wikipedia.
Contact info email: upender1953 AT gmail.com
phone: +91.910404015045 (India)
ISP: hostgator.com
full whois info here
Contact Us page on website
Actions None

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)[reply]
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)[reply]
Fixed, I think. He's emailed back promising changes. Chase me ladies, I'm the Cavalry 03:59, 23 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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)[reply]

Start surfing

startsurfing.com
URL http://startsurfing.com/encyclopedia
Description
Sample http://startsurfing.com/encyclopedia/l/i/s/List_of_backronyms.html
Rating Medium
Compliance Some. They've reproduced the full Wikipedia body text with no menus, skins, images, however, it is at least licencesd under the GFDL and attributed to Wikipedia.
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)[reply]

Statemaster.com

statemaster.com
URL http://www.statemaster.com/encyclopedia/
Description
Sample http://www.statemaster.com/encyclopedia/CAC-Wirraway
Rating
Compliance Mentions Wikipedia & GFDL, links to original article: "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."
Contact info
Actions


encyclopedia.stateuniversity.com

encyclopedia.stateuniversity.com
URL http://encyclopedia.stateuniversity.com/
Description
Sample http://encyclopedia.stateuniversity.com/pages/11271/Jane-Seymour-Fonda.html
Rating Low/None
Compliance No compliance. No attribution, no GFDL. They claim copyright by "Net Industries".
Contact info Registered through: GoDaddy.com http://registrar.godaddy.com; Expiration Date: 14-jul-2011; http://www.stateuniversity.com/about/copyright
Actions Sent informal message complaining about one article. Srleffler (talk) April 21, 2009

I see "stateuniversity.com" is globally blacklisted at http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Spam_blacklist . I am adding this entry here as they look to me like an extensive collection of copyright violating wikipedia-derived content. No attributions, no GFDL, and they claim, obscurely, that content is copyright "Net Industries" and obtained from a printed, unnamed, source. Examples are everywhere. http://encyclopedia.stateuniversity.com/pages/21768/Ted-Turner.html and wikipedia's article on Ted Turner are obviously connected.

Until this entry, neither stateuniversity.com nor "Net Industries", nor "Cambridge Encyclopedia" were listed in Wikipedia:Mirrors and forks.See also http://encyclopedia.stateuniversity.com/collection/1/Cambridge-Encyclopedia.html. "Cambridge Encyclopedia" has a lot of obvious copyvio'ed biographies. 84user (talk) 14:19, 23 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

stateuniversity.com's copyright page claims they will responds to takedown notices:

"Intellectual Property

It is the policy of StateUniversity.com to respond expeditiously to claims of intellectual property infringement. StateUniversity.com will promptly process and investigate notices of alleged infringement and will take appropriate actions under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act and other applicable intellectual property laws. If there is any link or material in any page on this site that would infringe on any copyright, the link or material, provided it is being served from StateUniversity.com's server rather than that of a third party, will be removed immediately upon proof or appropriate demonstration of controlling interest or ownership. Any names that appear in this site may be trademarks/service marks/registered trademarks or copyrighted materials and are therefore the property of their respective owners."

84user (talk) 14:34, 23 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

  • At least on this page, they acknowledge Wikipedia, but they don't conform to the license. - Jmabel | Talk 19:07, 27 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

static.wiki

static.wiki
URL https://static.wiki
Description technical demonstration of fitting Wikipedia data into an SQlite database.
Sample http://static.wiki/en/Nissan_Leaf
Rating Medium
Compliance Articles refer to CC BY-SA and link back to Wikipedia, but lack history and author information.
Contact info https://github.com/segfall/static-wiki/issues
Actions

StudyCrime.com

Starwood Hotels

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

sthweb.bu.edu


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

Sulekha.com Travel

Sulekha.com Travel
URL http://travel.sulekha.com/
Description
Sample http://travel.sulekha.com/blog/2007/07/thiruvanaikaval-shiva-temple.htm?contributor=R+Phani+Kumar
Rating unknown.
Compliance 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.

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

SuperSentai.com

SuperSentai.com
URL www.supersentai.com
Description
Sample www.supersentai.com/database/2003_abaranger/index.htm
Rating None
Compliance This website and others in its network (www.rangercentral.com, www.kamen-rider.com, www.tokucentral.com) copy content from Wikipedia pages and use it to form their own database pages. The content on these five pages (4 5) are directly lifted from our article Kamen Rider OOO (character); it even uses spelling forms that are actually disfavored amongst the English speaking fans of the show.
Contact info michaelpbastian@gmail.com
Actions I (—Ryulong (琉竜)) have sent an e-mail demanding that he source the information to Wikipedia.

Suprari

Suprari
URL http://www.suprari.com
Description
Sample http://www.suprari.com/wiki.php?page=Nancy_Ajram
Rating "None" compliance with GFDL (matches Wikipedia:GFDL Compliance).
Compliance 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

swisscorner.com

  • Site: www.swisscorner.com/
  • Example: www.swisscorner.com/wiki.php?title=User_talk:Eugene-elgato

SwissPedia

SwissPedia
URL http://www.swisscorner.com
Description
Sample http://www.swisscorner.com/wiki.php?title=Willy_Vandersteen
Rating Low
Compliance Only indication that this is a Wikipediacopy is at first glance the "edit" button, which connects to Wikipedia. No other mention of Wikipedia, no GFDL.
Contact info
Actions

Syncrat Publishing

Syncrat Publishing
URL http://www.syncrat.com/
Description
Sample http://www.syncrat.com/4j0
Rating None
Compliance The text of entire articles are reproduced (stripped of images and wikilinks, but with section headers and See Also links). The "date published" appears to be the date the article was copied from Wikipedia; in 2005 for the articles I saw. No mention of Wikipedia at all let alone links to source articles on WP or GFDL license. Each page has "© Copyright 2012" at the bottom, linking to their legal/copyright page, which states "All contents of this site are copyrighted by the site owner and associated authors. You may not copy or transmit the contents of this website either electronically, in hard copies, or in any other form. You may not alter, modify, distribute, publish, transmit or create derivative works of any part of the content of this website for public, commercial or private purposes.", clearly in violation of GFDL. Their "Note to Authors" claims "The greatest care has been taken to contact all authors and obtain the correct rights to their works." The Wikipedia rips aren't visible from the site's index page, which links several articles primarily of a self-help nature.
Contact info No email addresses I could find, just a contact form: http://www.syncrat.com/about/contact
Actions None yet, I just discovered it.

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

Taumatawhakatangihangakoauauotamateapokaiwhenuakitanatahu.com

Taumatawhakatangihangakoauauotamateapokaiwhenuakitanatahu
URL http://taumatawhakatangihangakoauauotamateapokaiwhenuakitanatahu.com/
Description
Sample http://taumatawhakatangihangakoauauotamateapokaiwhenuakitanatahu.com/
Rating "High", "Medium", or "Low/None" compliance with GFDL (matches Wikipedia:GFDL Compliance).
Compliance Describe details of compliance or lack thereof. List violations here.
Contact info E-mail, phone number of admin and ISP.
Actions Actions taken (if any) to attempt to make the website comply.

TaxGloss

  • Site: http://www.taxgloss.com/
  • Example:[162] 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
Description
Sample http://www.teach-ict.com/wiki/index.php?title=Computer
Rating High
Compliance 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/
Description
Sample http://teamsugar.com/173310
Rating Medium
Compliance Links to original WP article and remote copy of GFDL - however, still using upload.wikimedia.org for images
Contact info Contact page: [163]. brian AT sugarpublishing.com, me AT briansugar.com, 415-4094001
Actions

Tagate.com

Tagate.com Webportal
URL Tagate.com
Description
Sample http://www.tagate.com/wars/index.shtml
Rating None
Compliance Copies directly from Wikipedia pages (for example, Wars of the Three Kingdoms --> http://www.tagate.com/wars/page/three_kingdoms.shtml) while claiming All Rights Reserved.
Contact info tagate AT gmail.com
Actions Have sent an email explaining WP licensing, will provide copy if needed. Will post if reply is received. I AM NOT a contributor to this article, thus I have no claim of copyright, so further action must be taken by someone else.-RunningOnBrains(talk) 17:37, 22 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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

Territorioscuola

Territorio Scuola
URL http://www.territorioscuola.com/
Description
Sample http://www.territorioscuola.com/wikipedia/en.wikipedia.php?title=Wikipedia_talk:Articles_for_creation/Giorgio_Matteo_Aicardi
Rating Low
Compliance Sources linked to, history linked to, mentions WP, does not mention GFDL, and problably should not be extracting non-article pages such as the AFC page noted above, as well as the user page used before.
Contact info
1-480-422-2022, abuse@securedservers.com
Actions none known

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. [164] [165] -- 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)[reply]
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)[reply]

TheCatalyst.org

TheCatalyst
URL http://www.thecatalyst.org/
Description
Sample http://www.thecatalyst.org/resource/2006/04/21/John-Dewey/
Rating low/none
Compliance 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/
Description
Sample http://www.thecomdaily.com/itm.html (compare Information technology management), http://www.thecomdaily.com/Ann---Az/Astrology.php (compare Astrology)
Rating low/none
Compliance Site claims copyright, mentions neither Wikipedia nor GFDL
Contact info
Actions none

TheFree4all

www.thefree4all.com
URL http://www.thefree4all.com/
Description
Sample http://www.thefree4all.com/topic/Factorial or http://www.thefree4all.com/topic/Wikipedia
Rating none
Compliance no mention of Wikipedia, GFDL or original article
Contact info
Actions none

TheFreeDictionary.com

TheFreeDictionary
URL http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com/
Description
Sample http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com/Albania
Rating Medium
Compliance 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).[reply]
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)[reply]
Reiterated this via the feedback form. Superm401 - Talk 06:21, 19 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Just visited FreeDictionary via !<www.OneLook.com>, specifically article (disambig. pg?) ITS. Credited en.Wp, stated GNU license, but included "©2012 Farlex, Inc." Is this correct? It's my understanding of free-use and share-alike, that each "publisher," in turn, allows free use also, or what is the point of the licensing. Can they claim a copyright of info they obtained under either system? I hope you are still active here. I haven't been able to send this info to WM, so I'm going to cc your Talkpage.
Rags,69.171.178.79 (talk) 21:57, 18 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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
Description
Sample http://www.the-free-web-encyclopedia.com/default.asp?t=England
Rating Low
Compliance
  • 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)[reply]

TheGrid

TheGrid, gauk Media
URL https://thegrid.co.nz/
Description Mirror with different styling; each page has tag cloud linking to other articles. Image repository. Links to major categories from each article. Appears to be primarily concerned with New Zealand articles.
Sample https://thegrid.co.nz/list-of-new-zealand-by-elections/
Rating None
Compliance No attribution on content pages. Claims copyright of all work on content pages, but has a separate page (here) stating "Sections of The Grid are published is under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License" with attribution to Wikipedia.
Contact info TheGrid@gaukmedia.com
Actions No action taken yet.

The Meaning of the Name

The Meaning of the Name
URL http://themeaningofthename.com/
Description
Sample http://themeaningofthename.com/abrahao/
Rating None
Compliance Content indicated as being fully under copyright by the following passage on the Terms of Use page: "© 2014 The Meaning Of The Name. All rights reserved."
Note also a passage in the Terms of Use which mentions Wikipedia as a source with need not be attributed:

SOURCES OF INFORMATION

If not explicitly written, all images are sourced from Wikipedia, Wikimedia and Fotolia web sites. Please note that a specific End-user license agreement (EULA) is applied to each of them.

The data displayed on this website is obtained from open U.S., U.K., Canadian, French, Belgium and other governmental statistics, Wikipedia website or is considered as common knowledge, hence does not need to be cited.

Contact info Only webform is available: http://themeaningofthename.com/contact-us/
Actions Modified version of standard letter sent; see User:Ceyockey/LicensingVio_TheMeaningoftheName for letter sent and subsequent activities.

Theopedia

Theopedia
URL http://www.theopedia.com/
Description
Sample http://www.theopedia.com/Articles_of_Religion_(Anglican), http://www.theopedia.com/index.php?title=Five_Solas&oldid=5759
Rating None
Compliance Redistributing under CC BY, a violation of the GFDL and CC BY-SA. Does not link to transparent copy or authorship. The first example is a fork of Thirty-Nine Articles, the second a direct copy then fork of Five solas
Contact info http://www.theopedia.com/Special%3AListusers&group=sysop&username=
Actions Distributed under GFDL? in past, but no notices exist as of 5 April 2011, making them now None. Left discussion post at the Theopedia Five Solas article. Wikipedia copies are against Theopedia policy.

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)[reply]
  • 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)[reply]
  • No history section listing authors and dates.
  • Medium compliance.

The Planets

The Planets
URL www.the-planets.com/
Description
Sample www.the-planets.com/star-biography/Penelope-Cruz-Biography.htm
Rating None
Compliance 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/
Description
Sample 50cent
Rating None
Compliance 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)[reply]
Contact info THE-REAL-STORY.COM AT domainsbyproxy.com, (480) 624-2599
Actions Standard letter Patstuarttalk·edits 05:38, 25 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Therfcc

  • Site: Therfcc.org
  • Example: [166]
  • Large amounts of Wikipedia content
  • Acknowledges GNU/FDL
  • Mentions Wikipedia, but no link to main page or individual articles.

theskyiscrape

  • Site: http://www.theskyiscrape.com
  • Example: http://www.theskyiscrape.com/index.php?option=com_awiki&view=mediawiki&Itemid=148&article=File:Greek_cross.svg

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)[reply]
  • Got another reply, they've fully complied. --wj32 talk | contribs 10:58, 4 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • hmm are they mirroring live by any chance?Geni 10:23, 15 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

tickerdvd.com

More research requested

TicketCity.com

TicketCity.com (not url)
URL http://www.ticketcity.com/
Description
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).
Compliance "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
5912 Balcones Dr Suite 201
Austin, TX 78731
US
512-472-5797 fax: 512-469-7682
Actions E-Mail first letter MECUtalk 23:19, 10 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
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)[reply]

ticketexplore.com

ticketexplore.com
URL www.ticketexplore.com
Description
Sample http://www.ticketexplore.com/sports_ncaa_college_football/washington_huskies_tickets.asp
Rating None.
Compliance 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
Description
Sample http://www.ticketnest.com/sports-tickets/Washington-Huskies/index.php
Rating None.
Compliance 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.

ticketvistas.com

ticketvistas.com
URL http://www.ticketvistas.com/
Description
Sample http://www.ticketvistas.com/sports-tickets/super-bowl
Rating None.
Compliance No compliance. Text is lifted from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washington_Huskies.
Contact info info AT ticketvistas.com
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 at end: "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 under top mention of Wikipedia
  • Page ends "© Copyright 2007 TimesDaily. All Rights Reserved."

tobacco-cigars.com

tobacco-cigars.com
URL http://www.tobacco-cigars.com/
Description
Sample http://www.tobacco-cigars.com/index9.shtml
Rating None
Compliance 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)[reply]

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)[reply]

Tony Levin

Tony Levin
URL http://tonylevin.org/biography/
Description
Sample http://tonylevin.org/biography/
Rating
Compliance No mention of Wikipedia; Claims own copyright. All context hyperlinks link back to WP. matt (talk) 19:26, 3 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Contact info None available on website (except contact form), WHOIS details registrant as Birmingham City University
Actions

Article history shows content back at least as far as 2007, whereas the domain was registered in 2009 with the same content – so no question of who was first. The website has a "get involved" page, which asks readers if they have any relevant "content that [they] would like to contribute to the site" – this maybe the source of the duplicate content. This issue must, however, be dealt with correctly. At the time of writing, there are reports that the subject of this biography has died and we must treat this with respect. matt (talk) 19:26, 3 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Toolstation Western Football League

Brislington Football Club
URL http://www.toolstationleague.com/brislington/index.php
Description
Sample http://www.toolstationleague.com/brislington/index.php
Rating None, no mention of ikipedia or CCA license
Compliance None: Direct copy of article as it existed on 8 September 2011 <http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Brislington_F.C.&oldid=449191588>
Contact info ken.clarke@toolstationleague.com
Actions Standard email sent 11 September 2011 Jezhotwells (talk) 17:17, 11 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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

Top7

Top7.com
URL http://top7.com/
Description
Sample http://top7.com/item/582694/Lemon-meringue-pie
Rating Low/None
Compliance No obvious mention of Wikipedia
Contact info
Actions

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

Topsimages.com

Top7.com
URL https://www.topsimages.com/
Description Aggregator of images which it tries to resell.
Sample https://www.topsimages.com/thumbs/lwOkoi6G6c3tvWNxC-88JBeQXHOO-XbDOSMDv5h0QGMASRoBmIJWZcEw0OYmEGfCnnif4Uqsf5Nm88a7ZEVP3A.jpg
Rating Low
Compliance Commercial. Bogus footer "Copyright © www.topsimages.com (2019)". No mention of authors or license, deep link to thumbnail or original but not to file descriptions. No clear attribution or mention of copyright, just a link under each photo "More @ en.wikipedia.org".
Contact info No contact provided.
Actions

totalbike.com/wiki

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


Totally Explained

Totally Explained
URL http://totallyexplained.com/
Description
Sample http://special_relativity.totallyexplained.com/
Rating High
Compliance 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.

TQHealth

TQHealth
URL http://tqhealth.com/
Description
Sample http://tqhealth.com/index.php/health/blood-pressure/88-how-is-bp-measured
Rating "Low/None"
Compliance verbatim copies, no attribution, claims copyright, mentions neither CC nor GFDL
Contact info
Actions

Trango

Trango - Extraordinary Climbing Gear
URL http://www.trango.info
Description
Sample http://www.trango.info/trango-towers
Rating Low/None
Compliance 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[reply]
  • 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)[reply]

Tranquillizer

Tranquillizer - Health, Fitness, and Relaxation
URL http://www.tranquillizer.co.uk
Description
Sample http://www.tranquillizer.co.uk/weight-training-concerns.html
Rating Medium
Compliance 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 to City

Travel to City
URL http://travel2city.com/
Description
Sample http://travel2city.com/dalmatia/
Rating None
Compliance Non-compliant. Material is copied from Wikipedia. No mention of Wikipedia on the page or attribution to WP editors. Assertion of copyright with no license to reuse material.
Contact info info@travel2city.com
Actions

Travel Goa

Travel Goa
URL http://books.google.com/books?id=4CObR5YkAjUC&printsec=frontcover

Travel Goa is an e-book published by MobileReference for use on mobile devices. The URL links to Google books' incomplete copy. A complete copy has to be purchased from a commercial supplier.

Description
Sample p.748 contains a substantial amount of text identical to that in a section of an earlier version of Wikipedia's article Architecture of India. The supposed earlier date of publication (2007) of Travel Goa does not indicate that the Wikipedia text was copied from it. The text and images common to Travel Goa and the Wikipedia article comprise apparently independent contributions by several different Wikipedia editors at different dates starting from March 12, 2007.
Rating Medium, judging from the Google books copy. Precise degree of compliance is difficult to evaluate without buying a commercial copy
Compliance The licensing information provided on p.1188 acknowledges that material from Wikipedia has been used, and that this material is licensed under the GFDL, although it also wrongly implies that this material is also "public domain". However, it also asserts "all rights reserved" over the work as a whole, whereas the GFDL requires that the whole of any modification of a work licensed under it—which is what this is—must also be licensed under the same licence or a substantially similar version.

A copy of the GFDL licence doesn't appear to be included anywhere in the publication, as required by the terms of that licence, although a link to an on-line copy of the licence appears to be provided with the licensing information. The licensing information includes an apology for not listing all the authors of the Wikipedia material, and asserts that these can be seen "by following the hyperlink at the bottom of each article". As far as is possible to tell from the Google books copy, such links do appear regularly throughout the the publication, but it doesn't appear to be possible to use the Google books copy to check that these links work and do in fact point to the proper articles.

Contact info support@soundtells.com
Actions None as yet.

Trip Atlas

Trip Atlas
URL http://tripatlas.com/
Description
Sample http://tripatlas.com/Latin_mnemonics
Rating Low/None
Compliance §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)[reply]
  • Article ends "This article provided by Wikipedia. To edit the contents of this article, click here for original source" with links to Wikipedia and to original article. 02:18, 16 February 2011 (UTC)
  • Page ends "©2011 TripAtlas.com" 02:18, 16 February 2011 (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)

T. S. Monk

Legacy
URL https://theloniousmonk.store/pages/legacy
Description I suspect that this has been copied and pasted in both directions. The T. S. Monk Wikipedia article was, itself, a copyvio of the subject's (old) website (link) until 2007, when the article began to take its current shape. There was an intervening copy-paste from that site ([168]), but it had since been mostly edited down to something more original. Now I suspect that the above URL's content has been copied from this Wikipedia article; it is dated 2019 but mirrors text that has been in this article for a while.

One paragraph added to this article in 2017 was promotional in tone ([169]), I thought it had been copied from the newer website, although it seems to predate it. Someone had already removed the most egregious portion and I just removed the rest; the paragraph in its entirety currently appears on the newer website.

(Archive.org doesn't have any captures from the old website since 2017, and, when I checked today, did not have any versions of the new website.)

Sample https://theloniousmonk.store/pages/legacy
Rating Low/None
Compliance No mention of Wikipedia nor its licenses.
Contact info https://theloniousmonk.store/pages/contact-us
Actions None

Turkcewiki

Turkcewiki
URL http://en.turkcewiki.org/
Description Live (?) mirror, probably created to circumvent the block of Wikipedia in Turkey.
Sample http://en.turkcewiki.org/wiki/House
Rating Low
Compliance No mention of copyright, authors or license. No links to the original article or history. Clicking on the images loads their attribution by means of MediaViewer JavaScript being loaded as is. The footer contains an ambiguous statement "This website is a mirror of Wikipedia, and is not affiliated with the Wikimedia Foundation"; in the Turkish version the same footer seems to imply that the content is in the public domain.
Contact info None
Actions


TutorGig

TutorGig
URL http://www.tutorgig.com/
Description
Sample http://www.tutorgig.com/es/Kunst+og+kultur and http://www.tutorgig.com/ed/William_Og_de_Burgh
Rating Medium
Compliance 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 information 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

Twistervideos.com

Twistervideos.com
URL www.twistervideos.com
Description
Sample http://www.twistervideos.com/f5-tornadoes/2-greensburg-ks/7-outbreak-overview
Rating None
Compliance Copies directly from Wikipedia pages (for example, May 2007 tornado outbreak --> http://www.twistervideos.com/f5-tornadoes/2-greensburg-ks/7-outbreak-overview) while claiming "Copyright © 2009 TwisterVideos.com All rights reserved".
Contact info http://www.twistervideos.com/contact-us
Actions Have sent an email explaining WP licensing, will provide copy if needed. Will post if reply is received. I AM NOT a major contributor to these articles, thus I have no claim of copyright, so further action must be taken by someone else.-RunningOnBrains(talk) 08:24, 1 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

tvd.im

Military Equipment Guide with Photos
URL http://tvd.im/
Description
Sample https://tvd.im/small-arms/5261-st-kinetics-cis-40-agl.html
Rating Low/none
Compliance None, Wikipedia pages are copied directly with zero credit or attribution.
Contact info [170]
Actions None taken.

TvWiki

TvWiki
URL http://www.tvwiki.tv/wiki/Main_Page
Description
Sample http://www.tvwiki.tv/wiki/Crime_Traveller and http://www.tvwiki.tv/wiki/Wikipedia
Rating Medium
Compliance 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))[reply]

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)[reply]

  • Database seems to be broken, but still appearing in Google searches --Rumping (talk) 11:22, 18 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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)[reply]

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)[reply]

U

Uberpedia

Uberpedia
URL http://www.uberpedia.org/
Description
Sample http://www.uberpedia.org/wiki/Personal_union
Rating Medium
Compliance 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

Uhostfull

Uhostfull
URL http://hydydit.uhostfull.com/verizon-card-softare/index3.php
Description
Sample http://hydydit.uhostfull.com/verizon-card-softare/index3.php
Rating None
Compliance None. Under the "section" "credit card debt reduction arbitration" appears the phrase "preemptive arbitrations by alleged credit card debtors", which I wrote for the consumer arbitration article; most of the same paragraph includes other phrases I wrote for that article.
Contact info http://uhostfull.com, Whois Privacy Protection Service, Inc.
Actions None taken. I don't want to file a DMCA notice absent a more solid case of copyright infringement.


Unification Encyclopedia Project

Ufaqs

Ufaqs
URL http://www.ufaqs.com
Description
Sample http://www.ufaqs.com/wiki/en/bi/Bill%20Clinton.htm
Rating Medium
Compliance 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

Ukrainian

Ukrainian
URL http://www.ukrainian.org/balta/
Description
Sample http://www.ukrainian.org/balta/
Rating Low/None
Compliance Completely copies Wikipedia article 'Balta, Ukraine', which has been written over a period of time by different users.
Contact info
Actions

unidentifieduniverse.com

https://unidentifieduniverse.com/2015/10/25/raining-diamonds/ copies an old version of Diamonds on Jupiter and Saturn without attribution. Attempted to leave a comment on the blog on 11 May 2016. --Beland (talk) 17:56, 11 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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
Description
Sample http://www.pillnow.net/university/Library/Cyberpunk
Rating Medium
Compliance
  • 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)[reply]

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)[reply]

US Bazaar

  • Site: http://www.us-bazaar.com/
  • Example: [171] 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

Usefulref.com

Usefulref.com
URL http://usefulref.com/
Description
Sample http://www.usefulref.com/directory/wp/a/Acorn_Computers.htm
Rating Medium
Compliance Compliant. A notice in footer reads "Reference Directory is based on information from Wikipedia and is provided for general information only. Text is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License. No link to original article.
Contact info [172]
Actions None.

Uselessdaily.com

Uselessdaily.com
URL http://www.uselessdaily.com/
Description
Sample http://www.uselessdaily.com/movies/x-men-97-trivia-60-facts-about-the-animated-series/
Rating
Compliance No license attributing information to Wikipedia. No link to original article.
Contact info [173]
Actions None yet. Could not easily locate an email to send notice. Attempted message via site's message system experienced an error.

Userpedia.com

USGOVi.com

USGOVi.com
URL http://www.usgovi.com/
Description
Sample http://www.usgovi.com/judicial/ (lifted from United States Supreme Court)
Rating None
Compliance 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)[reply]

USGovernetics.com

USGovernetics.com
URL http://www.usgovernetics.com/
Description
Sample http://www.usgovernetics.com/Hoc-to-Hot/holocaust.php
Rating Low/None
Compliance 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

vdmg.com

See Wikipedia:Mirrors_and_forks/Vwxyz#zipox


VDM Publishing House

Said Mohammad Ali Jawid, ISBN 9786131474835; METROID-FREDERIC-VANDOME-MCBREWSTER-MILLER; ASPNET Frederic-P-Miller
URL http://www.alphascript-publishing.com/index.php?&act=nav&nav=10042 http://www.betascript-publishing.com/index.php?&act=nav&nav=10042 http://www.fastbooks.de/index.php?&act=nav&nav=13 http://www.emporiumbooks.com.au/
Description
Sample http://www.emporiumbooks.com.au/book/said-mohammad-ali-jawid.do http://www.amazon.com/METROID-FREDERIC-VANDOME-MCBREWSTER-MILLER/dp/6130093691/ref=sr_1_7?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1302166030&sr=1-7 http://search.barnesandnoble.com/ASPNET/Frederic-P-Miller/e/9786132570130/?itm=1&USRI=ASP+Alphascript
Rating Low
Compliance States "High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles!" and contains direct copy of the start of the article as a blurb, which is then published online (the creation of the book itself is a separate issue). No links to original article or authors. Claims to be published by imprints of VDM Publishing House and/or authors Frederic P. Miller, Agnes F. Vandome, John McBrewster, Lambert M. Surhone, Miriam T. Timpledon, Susan F. Marseken, Mariam T. Tennoe and Susan F. Henssonow, but the article content is still copyrighted. See also emporiumbooks.com.au.
Contact info
Actions

Vegetarian Worldwide

  • Site: [174]
  • Article: Vegetarianism
    • blatant copy of content [175] == /* Recomended reading */ [176]
    • blatant copy of content [177] == /* Country specific information */
  • No mention of Wikipedia
  • No link to Wikipedia
  • No mention of GFDL
  • Says "Copyright © - Vegetarian-Worldwide.com, All rights reserved. Vegetarian-Worldwide is part of Worldwide-Infomedia Services"

--Mig77(t) 10:52, 29 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Verified Handles

VerifiedHandles.org
URL https://VerifiedHandles.org/
Description Database of social identities, contains English Wikipedia article snippets.
Sample https://verifiedhandles.com/vhid/86823500762
Rating High
Compliance Links to Wikipedia article and CC BY-SA license.
Contact info JEMEDIA (support@verifiedhandles.org)
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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)[reply]

Videoinside.org

Videoinside.org
URL http://videoinside.org
Description
Sample http://videoinside.org/show/Willy_Vandersteen
Rating
Compliance Wikipedia is named as source and GDFL-licence is linked.
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vikimy.com

vikimy
URL vikimy.com
Description
Sample http://vikimy.com/l-en/Philosophy?ref=search
Rating Medium
Compliance Mentions wikipedia, links to wikipedia articles with mention of CC-BY-SA 3.0. Claims to 'use material' but in fact is a straight mirror. Does not seem to release material under same license.
Contact info hakkikonu@gmail.com, phone +90.5547347332 (Turkey); for ISP use abuse@godaddy.com, phone +1.4806242505 (US)
Actions none

Vipstars.us

vipstars.us
URL http://www.vipstars.us/
Description
Sample http://www.vipstars.us/2007/01/23/penelope-cruz-biography/#more-659
Rating None
Compliance 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)[reply]

Virgin Radio

Virgin Radio
URL www.virginradio.co.uk
Description
Sample www.virginradio.co.uk/music/artists/cliff_richard/biography/
Rating Medium
Compliance "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

VisualWikipedia or VisWiki

  • Home: visualwikipedia.com/en/ or viswiki.com/en/
  • Example: visualwikipedia.com/en/Microeconomics or viswiki.com/en/Microeconomics
  • Interesting reformating of articles and related articles
  • Ends with: "The main article content on this page (titled: "Microeconomics") was retrieved on the fly from Wikipedia (i.e., your page access date equals the data retrieval date). All article text on this website (VisualWikipedia.com) derived from Wikipedia, is licenced under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License. Article images, with the exception of video thumbnails, are entirely from Wikipedia, and their copyrights should follow accordingly. All videos and video thumbnails shown on this site are from YouTube. Other visual/semantic contents are mine. VisualWikipedia is NOT in any way affiliated with Wikimedia Foundation Inc. or any of its associates; in particular, VisualWikipedia.com is a completely separate entity from wikipedia.org with no association with it. VisualWikipedia.com © 2008, 2009 T. Hoshi" with links to Wikipedia and Wikimedia, and to GFDL at gnu.org.
  • No obvious link to original article or to history
  • As claimed, seems to be loading in real time

I just found one of my photos on viswiki that was lifted without attribution from Wikipedia. http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/dc/Psilocybe.ovoideocystidiata.one.jpg

There is no contact link on viswiki, so I can't complain to them. This theft will not be tolerated! Shroomydan (talk) 05:07, 13 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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: [178] 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)[reply]

voyager.in

  • Site: www.voyager.in
  • Site Features wikipedia articles with db hosted on their own server

VSD

VSD
URL
Description
Sample Print on demand books [179]
Rating Low
Compliance States "High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles!" and contains direct copy of the start of the article as a blurb, which is then published online (the creation of the book itself is a separate issue). No links to original article or authors. Claims to be published by Bookvika publishing and/or authors Ronald Cohn and Jesse Russell, but the article content is still copyrighted. See also VDM Publishing.
Contact info None
Actions

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

http://vvikipedia.fr redirects to the French Wikipedia main page, while the ancient.greek example above returns a 404. Move to archive? --stranger195 (talkcontribsguestbook) 04:36, 24 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

W

The W2N.net Wikipedia

The W2N.net Wikipedia
URL http://wiki.w2n.net/
Description
Sample http://wiki.w2n.net/pages/Wikipedia.w2n explains how Jimmy Wales founded The W2N.net Wikipedia
Rating Low/None
Compliance "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.

Wa-pedia

Wa-pedia
URL http://www.wa-pedia.com
Description
Sample http://www.wa-pedia.com/history/edo_period_era.shtml is a copy of the wikipedia article on Edo Period from approximately October 2004.
Rating Low/None
Compliance
Contact info
Actions None yet taken.

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 ([180]) 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 [181]). 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)[reply]

WallpaperWeb

WallpaperWeb
URL http://www.wallpaperweb.org/
Description
Sample http://www.wallpaperweb.org/wallpaper/babes/natasha-bedingfield.html
Rating Low/None
Compliance No credit is given to Wikipedia and no mention is made of the Creative Commons license on the Natasha Bedingfield page cited here. No copyright notice appears at all. However, other pages (such as their Avril Lavigne page) do say "Source: en.wikipedia.org" near the end of the material taken from Wikipedia.
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Wanabo

  • Site: wanabo.com
  • Example: http://www.wanabo.com/cities/hillsboro-oregon
  • No mention/link to GFDL
  • No mention of Wikipedia
  • Has copyright notice

Wannago

Wannago
URL http://www.wannago.org
Description
Sample http://wannago.org/site/cms/index.php?option=com_content&task=blogcategory&id=41&Itemid=75
Rating Low/none
Compliance 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/
Description
Sample http://wapedia.mobi/en/Dollar_sign
Rating Medium
Compliance compliance

Website:

  • 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)

Application for android or iOS

  • Article correctly shows the wikipedia footer at the bottom of the page
  • As of 09:58, 16 June 2011 (UTC)
Contact info http://wapedia.mobi/en/Special:Feedback
Actions

Warsearch

Warsearch.com
URL http://www.warsearch.com/
Description
Sample http://www.warsearch.com/topic/Modhir_Ahmed
Rating "Low"
Compliance Clearly states "From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia": looks to be a live mirror, not a copy, and hides the history and other tabs,and things like the Wikipedia footer (woith all licensing info)
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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)[reply]

Welcome to New York

Welcome to New York
URL http://www.welcometonewyork.com.cn/
Description
Sample http://www.welcometonewyork.com.cn/forum/archiver/tid-10501.html
Rating Low
Compliance No mention of Wikipedia or GFDL. Copying may be limited to chemical elements (sample is Caesium).
Contact info admin@v236.com
Actions None yet taken

whoislog

whoislog
URL http://www.whoislog.info/
Description
Sample http://www.whoislog.info/profile/david-mabberley.html
Rating None
Compliance Does not attribute Wikipedia as source; does not specify copyright or GDFL. They claim that they "provide biographical facts with surrounding information and external resources depending on biographical entity"
Contact info info AT whoislog .info
Actions Sent e-mail on 25 January 2015 to urge attribution of source or cease and desist. Chris Troutman (talk) 03:55, 27 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

why-war.com

Why-war
URL http://www.why-war.com/encyclopedia/
Description
Sample http://www.why-war.com/encyclopedia/places/Alaska/
Rating Low Medium
Compliance 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)[reply]
  • Nothing changed, though I'm changing this to medium because of the mention of GFDL and Wikipedia. (talk) 22:26, 12 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

WIKI 2

WIKI 2
URL https://en.wiki2.org/
Description Modified formatting, with quick color selection. A subject-relevant video is added to many articles, chosen by a bot called "Tubie". Multiple languages are supported, including English and Spanish.)
Sample https://en.wiki2.org/wiki/Black_hole
Rating Apparently compliant
Compliance Says it complies with CC BY-SA 3.0 Unported License and makes all text available under that license. Says all articles are based in Wikipedia. Currently a live mirror, see here.
Contact info mailto:talk-to-me@wiki2.org
Actions none

wiki2.wiki

wiki2.wiki
URL wiki2.wiki
Description Translation of articles from English. No big design changes. Send buttons and notifications. Available in many a language. Search feature missing.
Sample https://bg.wiki2.wiki/wiki/Never_Gonna_Give_You_Up (in Bulgarian)
Rating Middle
Compliance Says it complies with CC BY-SA 3.0 Unported License and makes all text available under that license. Says all articles are based in Wikipedia. No refrence to contributors, history, donations. Currently a live mirror.
Contact info admin@wiki2.wiki
Actions none yet

WikiAlpha

WikiAlpha
URL http://en.wikialpha.org/
Description
Sample
Rating Medium
Compliance Site officially releases all content into the public domain. However, content copied from Wikipedia is tagged with a license indicating it is used under the Creative Commons license Wikipedia uses.
Contact info
Actions Licensing issues were discussed at AN/I with administrators from WikiAlpha.

WikiArt

Wikiart
URL https://www.wikiart.org/
Description Mirror of Wikipedia articles on artists and Wikimedia files.
Sample https://www.wikiart.org/en/abdul-qader-al-raes (from Abdul Qader Al Rais)
Rating Medium
Compliance Text from Wikipedia is clearly indicated as such under a tab named "Wikipedia article" with a link to the source article at the bottom, rather easy to spot and click. However, the CC-BY-SA license is not mentioned until you click "More", after which the footer expands to " This is a part of the Wikipedia article used under the Creative Commons Attribution-Sharealike 3.0 Unported License (CC-BY-SA). The full text of the article is here → ".
Contact info Probably info@socialtalents.com , Ukraine
Actions

Wikibin

Wikibin
URL http://wikibin.org
Description
Sample http://wikibin.org/articles/paul-bristow.html
Rating
Compliance 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 [182]), but apart from logos at top no indication of history.
Contact info
Actions

Wikicars

http://wikicars.org - Uses many Wikipedia articles without attribution. Site is at least GFDL but is not attributing original authors. --kingboyk (talk) 12:21, 31 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Wiki.cn

Main Page - Wiki.cn
URL http://www.wiki.cn
Description
Sample http://www.wiki.cn/wiki/Biology
Rating "Low/None" compliance with GFDL
Compliance 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)[reply]

Appears to follow GFDL. Bottom of each page links to [183]. I wonder if this is hosted inside China and if it is censored. --Apoc2400 (talk) 14:32, 2 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

WikiChecker

en.wikichecker
URL http://en.wikichecker.com/article/
Description
Sample http://en.wikichecker.com/article/?a=Talk:Ecumenical%20Patriarch%20of%20Constantinople
Rating N/A
Compliance N/A
Contact info N/A
Actions N/A

WikiChiro.org / ChiroWiki.org

Resolved

The following is the website of a proven sockmaster and subject of another SPI who has been indef banned:

WikiChiro.org or ChiroWiki.org
URL http://www.wikichiro.org
Description
Sample Interesting diff. Lists of articles are on the Main page and category + category. See also SpecialPages.
Rating "Low/None" compliance with GFDL.
Compliance Actively copying many, if not most, chiropractic articles and then "chirofying" them, IOW whitewashing them by removing criticism and making them chiropractic propaganda.
Contact info Unknown, but the administrator is User:Drsjpdc, who edits there under many guises,[184][185][186][187][188][189][190] including this one who edits here as a possible sock who has engaged in votestacking.
Actions None. I'll let Wikimedia's legal department take care of this.
  • Having never done this before, I'm unsure what to do next. This seems like blatant misuse of the hard work of many editors here who have contributed to those articles and kept them NPOV. This is an attempt to create a huge mirror that will be "the premiere site for information about Chiropractic". Since it will be a whitewashed version, it can't be "fair use" by any definition of the term. This obviously deceptive use of material here shouldn't be allowed to occur. -- Brangifer (talk) 05:37, 19 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

[COMMENT] At Wikichiro. we are not "removing all criticism", only that coming from a specific cabal of people who have invaded and taken over the rules of Wikipedia to slander a profession. This group has been the subject of numerous discussions, and their leader is, according to my sources involved in dozens of self-promoting lawsuits around the country designed to abuse the legal system to squelch free speech and the practice of any alternative to drugs and surgery their fearless leader deems quackery. This band is notorious in all Alt med circles. They have in this way perverted wikipedia's purpose and found very creative means of twisting wiki's rules to accomplish their goals. This may well constitute a violation of a permanent federal injunction in place since the late 70's. They also band together to so completely harass anyone who opposes their prejudices that they force them from editing on Wikipedia. Thus, the necessity of Wikichiro and other sites which sincerely try to provide an objective and less overtly prejudiced view of these fields.

For example: In the article on back pain, I tried to provide a reference to the fact that some major studies were done and Published in the British Medical Journal, in 1990 and 1995 which used Chiropractic adjustments, NOT generic manipulation. I was reverted on the grounds that some study later without Chiropractic involvement (perhaps they used some PT or MD who had a weekend class in manipulation) showed that manipulations had no better result that any other form of therapy. The lame excuse was that I can't use even a landmark published study from 1990 and follow-up from 1995 to modify somthing that uses a newer study. But we are comparing apples and oranges. It's an absurd position. These people have a highly coordinated agenda.

BTW: All articles used from Wikipedia on Wikichiro are fully attributed to Wikipedia. There are other parties who, I also understand, have taken this cabal to your legal department, and are negotiating to avoid federal lawsuits. Those voices, which most vociferously oppose this conspiracy have already been totally banned from Wikipedia. If the management of Wikipedia would undertake to purge itself of this kind of organized and coordinated bullying of serious editors (WHICH really constitutes the worst meatpuppetry!!!, then expert in these fields, could contribute without the endless harassment that these bullies are creating, to drain their time and energy away from improvement of wikipedia knowledge base, then perhaps the whole encyclopedia could benefit, and the world would be the beneficiary. I know it's a long read to get to the crux of this, but please see the talk page at [[191]] if you are truly interested in improving the climate here, and read this garbage, as well as the harassment over the bio at Stephen J. Press BTW: we were advised from a very high level, that we could copy Wikpedia's articles so long as they were properly attributed. Sincerely,
68.239.180.104 (talk) 21:25, 14 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Note that the IP editor above is none other than Stephen J. Press himself, User:Drsjpdc. His conspiracy theory rantings are not only incorrect, they are incorrect because he is siding with and repeating the rantings of an editor who has been indef banned by the Arbitration Committee itself. The rant above constitutes a serious and libelous violation of WP:Battle and WP:BLP. Press is currently the (again, again, again!!) subject of a new SPI (he's already a proven sockmaster) and an ANI thread:
These actions by this editor will be added to the evidence against him there. -- Brangifer (talk) 04:26, 15 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]
I note that Press did a big no no when he edited my original entry by adding the following link. I'm moving it here with an explanation. He added this link http://www.wikichiro.org/index.php?title=Category:Articles_with_attribution_to_Wikipedia, and it wasn't on any articles I looked at, and I looked at quite a few. That is a category that must have been very new when I wrote the entry above, if it even existed at the time. I doubt that such a notice qualifies as proper attribution, as it doesn't link directly to the original article where the contribution history is located. That's what counts when it comes to attribution. A generic link back to Wikipedia doesn't qualify. -- Brangifer (talk) 05:19, 15 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]
The category over there was created on 28Dec. The attribution requirements from Wikipedia are very loose, but IANAL and I have no idea whether this qualifies. - 2/0 (cont.) 20:52, 15 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

A new development: Misuse of the copyrighted term Wikipedia to imply a relationship, and inclusion of WikiChiro links in a copied Wikipedia/Wikimedia template that reinforces that implication:

Brangifer (talk) 06:39, 20 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I'm a but confused about what the complaint here is about. If they are complying with the GFDL or the CC, (attribution in particular), for example as outlined at [192] then there's nothing we can do. They have the right to re-use our content, modifying it as they see fit, in accordance with the license that content was released under. And any contributor to wikipedia should hopefully know that, since the licensing terms are made clear whenever you edit a page. (And just to make that clear, if you are contributing to wikipedia, you should be aware that provided they comply with the license, anyone can copy content you have create, modify it and re-use it as they see fit whether you like or agree with their changes and be those changes removing criticism or 'whitewashing'.)
If they are not complying with the terms, then someone who made substanial edits to one of their pages they copied may want to pursue them. I doubt you'll get much help from the 'wikimedia legal department', there are unfortunately plenty of violators and the foundation has not yet taken an active interest in pursuing them which given the likely difficulties thereof isn't surprising so expecting them to take care of this is pretty pointless.
At the moment, it sounds like they may be willing to cooperate, so I suggest you discuss with them what you expect if you are not happy with how they are currently attributing, no matter how much you may disagree with their views. If you aren't willing to do that, then I don't see much chance for anything happening.
If they are improperly implying a relationship with wikipedia, then the foundation may be interested in that however if they copied a template it may be simply they haven't yet properly updated the template and so it's unintentional. While that's still wrong and something they need to fix, that sort of stuff tends to happen when others copy our content so in such a case I also doubt the foundation will be interested in it.
Finally if you believe a wikipedian is violating policy here on wikipedia, then that should be handled elsewhere not here.
Nil Einne (talk) 12:56, 30 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Some of this is moot now, since they seem to be making an attempt to attribute things, and the editor involved has been indef banned here. -- Brangifer (talk) 01:59, 16 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

wiki.cypee

  • Site: wiki.cypee.com
  • Example: wiki.cypee.com/?title=Talk:Trinity

en.wikiderpia.org

wikiderpia
URL en.wikiderpia.org/wiki/Main_Page
Description
Sample en.wikiderpia.org/wiki/Wikiderpia
Rating
Compliance exact copy except every instance of wikipedia is changed to wikiderpia; shows "Central login" dialog as if a sister-site.
Contact info wikiderpia.org@contactprivacy.com
Actions

WikiDesk

WIkiDesk
URL https://wp-en.wikideck.com/
Description Only redesign appearent; "About Us" page 404s.
Sample https://wp-en.wikideck.com/Upper_Manhattan
Rating High
Compliance Includes mentions to contributors, history, original page, original project.
Contact info N/A
Actions None

Wikidumper.org

  • Site: wikidumper.org or wikidumper.blogspot.com
  • Example: wikidumper.blogspot.com/2006/12/mathematics-and-god.html
  • User-submitted editor-selected (Clifford Pickover) Wikipedia articles subject to potential deletion. See for this example Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Mathematics_and_God_(third_nomination) etc.
  • Each article ends similarly to example "This article is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License. It uses material from the "Wikipedia article "Mathematics and God". This entry is a fragment of a larger work. Link may die if entry is finally removed or merged." with links to GFDL at gnu.org and to original Wikipedia article (so no history if that was deleted).

wikies.wiki

WikiFocus Books

WikiFocus Books International
URL http://www.wikifocus.com/
Description
Sample http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10431154-the-hunger-games
Rating Low
Compliance Appears to be a Betascript imprint. The "books" reprint Wikipedia articles related to a central topic. Includes this disclaimer "WikiFocus Books are collaborative books designed for education on specific subject matter. Our motto is “Collaborative Books for Creative Minds” and it is our mission to provide focused content for both educational and entertainment purposes. We present targeted information on specific subjects which are compiled from online collaborative resources from across the globe. Some text and images contained in this book have been reused and/or repurposed for commercial distribution under the Creative Commons Attribution-Sharealike 3.0 Unported License (CC-BY-SA) and the GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL)."
Contact info George Andersen
Actions Compliance with GFDL and Wikipedia's terms should be assessed.

WikiGadugi

WikiGadugi
URL http://en.wikigadugi.org/wiki/Main_Page
Description
Sample http://en.wikigadugi.org/wiki/Beauty
Rating High
Compliance Mentions Wikipedia at [193] 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

Wikinfo.org
URL http://www.wikinfo.org/
Description
Sample http://www.wikinfo.org/10 Things You Didn't Know About Wikipedia
Rating High
Compliance Compliance is very good, attribution, licence mentioning and linking, page mentioning and linking, the whole shebang. Common message is: Adapted from the Wikipedia article, "(Page name)" (Page URL), used under the GNU Free Documentation License. The website also used the MediaWiki engine and links to mediawiki.com and mentions the GPL. The site is very similar to wikipedia, modifing most project pages and all the disclaimers to the site, all in compliance with the GDFL. The site itself also uses the GDFL.
Contact info Email site operator at fredbaud@ctelco.net
Actions None apparently needed.

Wiki Ireland

Wiki Ireland
URL http://www.wiki.ie
Description
Sample http://www.wiki.ie/wiki/Geography_of_Ireland
Rating Medium
Compliance
  • 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)[reply]
  • Links to GFDL and Wikipedia articles added by site owner. --Cloudie 14:13, 10 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Wikileasing.com

Wikileasing.com
URL http://www.wikileasing.com
Description
Sample http://www.wikileasing.com/3/Imperator.html, http://www.wikileasing.com/0/Jupiter.html
Rating Low
Compliance 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)[reply]
  • They say to me: "In a few days we will handle this isseu". --F. Cosoleto 23:16, 6 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]
  • No obvious Wikipedia content remaining--Rumping (talk) 11:35, 13 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Wikiless

Wikiless.org
URL https://wikiless.org
Description Live proxy which acts as MITM to serve current Wikipedia content.
Sample https://wikiless.org/wiki/Wikipedia:About?lang=en https://wikiless.org/wiki/Politique_de_confidentialit%C3%A9?lang=fr
Rating Medium
Compliance Copyright: the website just reproduces the copyright footers and page history verbatim. Trademarks: the Wikipedia logo is reproduced as is and there is no indication anywhere that the domain is not Wikipedia, except by following some roundabout chain of links to reach https://wikiless.org/about ; there is evidence of users being confused: it's probably a trademark violation.

No ref=canonical back to Wikipedia.org, no terms of service or privacy policy provided.

Contact info

Actions

  • Warned about GDPR non-compliance: UntrackMe, privacy-redirect
  • Wikimedia Foundation intervened for trademark infringement, the repository was taken down by the host.
    • As of January 2023 the sidebar looks broken, the logo doesn't load and the favicon is a struck W. It's not clear whether some of this was a consequence of the skin changes (as Vector 2010 is still used).

Wikilove

Wikilove
URL http://www.wikilove.com/
Description
Sample http://www.wikilove.com/Religious_Views
Rating
Compliance
Contact info
Actions

Wikimapia

Wikimapia
URL http://wikimapia.org
Description
Sample http://wikimapia.org/1938447/Wynnewood-PA
Rating Low
Compliance Mentions Wikipedia and links to original article. No mention of GFDL.
Contact info http://wikimapia.org/forum/
Actions

Wikimergic

Wikimergic
URL http://en.wikimergic.org
Description Unreleased, prototype. Object-oriented, version controlled, inheritable theorizing (and wikiing) for sciencing. Appears to be very slow or almost down as of 2020.
Sample http://en.wikimergic.org/wiki/Our:Copyrights
Rating High
Compliance full. Every possible page links back to original article save for a few in WP:MediaWiki namespace in which case this is done through their talk page. Identical licensing.
Contact info http://en.wikimergic.org/wiki/Our:Contact_us
Actions

Wikimirror

Wikimirror
URL http://www.wikimirror.com
Description
Sample http://www.wikimirror.com/Quadratic
Rating Medium
Compliance Mentions Wikipedia and the GFDL but there is no included history or link to the original article. There is no link to the GFDL. Checked, March 2010, site no longer hosts Wikipedia content
Contact info information AT wikimirror.com, abuse AT domainsbyproxy.com
Actions

Wikimirror.org

wikimirror.org
URL https://en.wikipedia.wikimirror.org/wiki/
Description The website only serves mainland China, Wikipedia service is blocked in mainland China. In addition, in order to avoid attacks by DDOS, the website refused to connect to non-mainland China. You can use this mirror for editing.
Sample http://en.wikipedia.wikimirror.org/wiki/Special:Random
Rating Not rated
Compliance
Contact info Please contact User:AnYiLin.
Actions

Wikimiki

Wikimiki
URL http://www.wikimiki.org
Description
Sample http://copyright.en.wikimiki.org
Rating None
Compliance No compliance. Evil porn site!
Checked March 2010, site no longer hosts Wikipedia content, now displays: "NOTICE: This domain name expired on 03/09/2010 and is pending renewal or deletion"
Contact info wikimiki.org AT contactprivacy.com, admin AT adpilot.info
Actions Sent standard non-compliance GDFL letter. UPDATE: sent reminder + warning=

Wikimili

Wikimili
URL https://wikimili.com
Description Trimmed-down version of Wikipedia with live updates to the frontpage etc. According to third party statistics, the website appears to be growing its visibility in the first half of 2019 (+100 % monthly growth for a few months) but may have stabilised at the end of 2019. Monetised with several advertisements.
Sample https://wikimili.com/en/Virgin_Killer
Rating Low/Medium
Compliance Includes a discreet but clear footer "This page is based on this Wikipedia article [linked] Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license [linked]; additional terms may apply. Images, videos and audio are available under their respective licenses." The header "WikiMili The Free Encyclopedia" can be misleading if one doesn't scroll to the end and is brought to think it's the actual free encyclopedia i.e. Wikipedia.

Images are hotlinked, but clicking the thumbnails only shows the same image in a lightbox, so there is no mention of license or authors in any way. The non-text content is therefore a total copyright violation. Fair use content is also included.

Contact info https://wikimili.com/contact.html provides support@wikimili.com as a contact but doesn't state what entity is behind the website, nor do the privacy policy and terms of use. Owner hides behind DNS registrar and CDN.
Actions None.

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

WikiNASIOC

  • Site: [194]
  • Example: [195]
  • Contains data from meta:Help:Unified login. I haven't found any problems with Wikipedia content (although the example page from Metawiki seems to be a copyright infringement). I'm not sure if this site should be listed somewhere on Metawiki instead, and if so, where.
  • The site appears not to have been updated since 2008, so Creative Commons licences are irrelevant. GFDL is mentioned, but the Wikimedia source is not mentioned. One revision by User:Bináris was imported and is correctly sourced on the history page. However, this was not the first revision of the Wikipedia page, and earlier revisions are not mentioned at all (as far as I can see). Thus, the history is incomplete (without any link to a complete history), which is why I think that there is a copyright infringement. The second edit on WikiNASIOC (by User:2k2blackwrx) appears to be a local edit; I can't find it on MetaWiki (and the user account is not registered on any Wikimedia project according to Sulutil, although there's a possibility that it might have been renamed in the past few years).
  • Mentions "Content is available under GNU Free Documentation License 1.2." but the link goes to an external copy of GFDL 1.3 (!), i.e. wrong version number. Has "Category:Meta-Wiki" (with a red link) but does not mention Wikimedia in any way. Not sure if the category is enough for crediting Wikimedia.

WikiNew

WikiNew
URL https://en.wikinew.wiki/
Description Appears to be a complete snapshot of Wikipedia from 6 April 2021, to the point of calling itself Wikipedia. However, it is not possible to edit the articles, create an account, or view the history. It appears they just copied the current state of the articles on 6 April 2021. The most prominent difference is that unlike Wikipedia, each page includes advertisements.
Sample https://en.wikinew.wiki/wiki/Tartan_Day
Rating
Compliance There are two issues that stand out: (1) While the site calls itself a wiki, it is not possible to edit the articles. (2) The site claims to be Wikipedia instead of having copying it.
Contact info Found an e-mail address at the very last row on the main page: admin@wikinew.wiki. No idea whether the address works as no attempt has been made to contact it.
Actions None.

WikiNewsFeed

WikiNewsFeed
URL https://wikinewsfeed.org
Description RSS feed aggregator of Portal:Current Events
Sample https://wikinewsfeed.org/feed/rss
Rating High
Compliance Mentions Wikipedia, includes notices to copyright, license and links to original articles
Contact info https://wikinewsfeed.org/about.html
Actions none

WikiNow

WikiNow
URL https://www.wikinow.co/
Description "WikiNow lets you discover the news you care about, follow the topics that matter to you and share your favourite stories with your friends."
Sample https://www.wikinow.co/topic/jeff-bezos
Rating None
Compliance No compliance: no mention of copyright, license, authors or source. The "Wikipedia" tab on each topic loads section 0 of each article, infobox and images included, while overriding all links with links or stripping them (in the case of images). Bogus footer "© WIKINOW".
Contact info None.
Actions

wikipe.wiki

wikipedia.7val.de

  • Site: http://wikipedia.7val.de/
  • Example: http://wikipedia.7val.de/wiki/Talk:Cadaver

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
  • Update, March 2010, site no longer hosts Wikipedia content

wikipedia.su

wikipedia.su
URL URL
Description full mirror
Sample http://en.wikipedia.su/wiki/Clonmacnoise_Crozier
Rating Low/None
Compliance Seems to be an exact mirror of Wikipedia, with no attribution whatsoever.
Contact info
Actions None

Wikipediam.org

Wikipediam
URL https://en.wikipediam.org/wiki/Main_Page
Description
Sample https://en.wikipediam.org/wiki/Hayabusa2
Rating "Low/None" compliance with GFDL or CC-BY-SA
Compliance Appears to be a Wikipedia mirror with Wikipedia name and logo throughout but no attribution. The main page looks current. No one can edit. There is an anchor HTML tag that appears to be an editing link but only serves as a link to the "Home" page. There is a footer saying, "This website is a mirror of Wikipedia, and is not affiliated with the Wikimedia Foundation" but no mention of the CC-BY-SA or GFDL.
Contact info None provided
Edit: used WHOIS here and found wikipediam.org[at]domainsbyproxy.com
Actions

wikipedian.net

wikipedian.net
URL https://www.wikipedian.net/
Description Unattributed Wikipedia mirror with bogus contact info
Sample
Rating Non-compliance with either licence
Compliance Unattributed mirror, with false copyright claim of "© COPYRIGHT 2021 BY WWW.WIKIPEDIAN.NET"
Contact info None
Actions

wikipeluangusaha.com

wikipeluangusaha.com
URL https://www.wikipeluangusaha.com/
Description Machine translation of English Wikipedia articles into all languages other than English (default target language is Hebrew)
Sample https://fr.wikipeluangusaha.com/wiki/Mirror
Rating Medium
Compliance Licensing of content seems OK.
The website infringes Wikimedia trademarks by branding itself as "Wikipedia" and cross-linking to actual Wikipedia/WMF pages without warning.
Contact info None
Actions

Wiki.phantis.com

Main Page - Phantis
URL http://wiki.phantis.com/index.php/Main_Page
Description
Sample http://wiki.phantis.com/index.php/Euboea
Rating "Low/None" compliance with GFDL
Compliance 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)[reply]

WikiPilipinas

WikiPilipinas
URL http://en.wikipilipinas.org/
Description
Sample http://en.wikipilpinas.org/index.php?title=Calamian_Group_of_Islands
Rating "Medium"
Compliance 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?.

wikirage

wikirage
URL http://www.wikirage.com/
Description
Sample http://www.wikirage.com/wiki/Ethiopian_Orthodox_Tewahedo_Church/
Rating
Compliance
Contact info
Actions

wikiredia.com

wikiredia
URL https://en.wikiredia.com/
Description seems to be a remote loading site of everything, including user pages
Sample https://en.wikiredia.com/wiki/George_Insole
Rating Low/None
Compliance No mention of Wikipedia copyright permission
Contact info not given
Actions

wikirun

Wikirun
URL http://wikirun.com/
Description
Sample http://wikirun.com/Teyba_Erkesso
Rating No compliance with GFDL.
Compliance Site contains many verbatim copies of Wikipedia articles, but has no attribution of original source or use of GDFL/CC-BY-SA licensing. Examples: Miami MarathonWikirun Wikipedia, Teyba Erkesso Wikirun/Wikipedia, Yuliya Krevsun Wikirun/Wikipedia
Contact info Admin email: ryan at wikirun.com and ISP: registrar.schlund.info.
Actions Sent standard non-compliance of GDFL letter on April 27, 2010. Awaiting response.

WikiTextbook

WikiTextbook
URL http://wikitextbook.co.uk
Description
Sample http://wikitextbook.co.uk/index.php?title=Cell_structure%2C_tissues_and_organs_%28A_level_Bio%29 from Cell (biology)
Rating Low
Compliance 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)[reply]

Wikitia

Wikitia
URL https://wikitia.com/wiki/Main_Page
Description Wikitia is a paid-editing site that copies articles from the Wikipedia Draft space.
Sample https://wikitia.com/wiki/Donald_Lewis_Sparks from Donald Lewis Sparks
Rating Medium
Compliance The site indicates that its content is CC-BY-SA, but does not link to the original article or draft.
Contact info Not given.
Actions None.

Wikitrans

Wikitrans
URL https://epo.wikitrans.net
Description
Sample https://epo.wikitrans.net/Ward_21
Rating Low/Medium
Compliance Permalink in the sidebar, mention of Wikipedia, no deception. No mention of the license nor attribution for images?
Contact info
Actions

Wikitruth

Wikitruth
URL
Description
Sample
Rating Medium
Compliance 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-trust

UCSC Wikipedia Trust Project
URL http://wiki-trust.cse.ucsc.edu/index.php/Main_Page
Description
Sample http://wiki-trust.cse.ucsc.edu/index.php/Politics_of_Denmark
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).
GFDL link is to copy at gnu.org. No obvious link back to original article (though history is held). --Rumping (talk) 09:52, 16 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Compliance 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 at Santa Cruz. 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/
Description
Sample
Rating low
Compliance 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.

wiki.unas.cz

wiki.verkata.com

  • Site: http://wiki.verkata.com/
  • Example: http://wiki.verkata.com/en/wiki/Talk:Cigarette

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 [196] and Wikipedia:Votes_for_deletion/Wikiverse.
  • Example: Apple Computer

WikiVotr

Wikivotr
URL http://wikivotr.com/newarticles.php
Description
Sample http://wikivotr.com/story.php?title=Forced-perspective
Rating "Low"
Compliance It is clear that the articles are originally from Wikipedia, and the original articles are linked. I could see no further compliance.
Contact info
Actions

Wikivisually

Wikivisually
URL https://wikivisually.com
Description A mirror that focuses more on images and videos, and making things visually appealing for users.
Sample https://wikivisually.com/wiki/American_Civil_War
Rating Low
Compliance Copyright violation: fails to mention Creative Commons license. Doesn't explicitly state provenance or authors, instead provides oblique references to Wikipedia such as "the entire wiki" (in the header). A link "show wikipedia page here" loads a popup with the original HTML of the Wikipedia page, which states "This page is loaded from Wikipedia" but again fails to state that the initial page is also copied from Wikipedia. Only from Wikipedia's own HTML, one can finally reach license and author information.
Contact info
Actions Reported to Google AdSense for various violations of their policies.

WikiVividly

WikiVividly
URL https://wikivividly.com/wiki/
Description Mirror seemingly from an HTML dump, with some stylistic changes, probably trying to ride on the popularity of Wikivisually. "Wiki as never seen before with photo galleries, discover something new today". Alexa rank around 100k as of 2019. Appears to be down as of March 2020; domain is for sale as of January 2023.
Sample https://wikivividly.com/wiki/Louis_XI_of_France
Rating None
Compliance No mention whatsoever of copyright, licenses, Wikipedia or Wikipedia contributors, no links.
Contact info No imprint or contacts
Actions Reported to Google AdSense.

wiki-wiki.org

wiki-wiki.org
URL wiki-wiki.org
Description Mirror with some kind of voting widget on top or something.
Sample http://wp.wiki-wiki.ru/wp/index.php/%D0%92%D0%B8%D0%BA%D0%B8%D0%BF%D0%B5%D0%B4%D0%B8%D1%8F
Rating None
Compliance No links to Wikipedia or Creative Commons.
Contact info Asks donations for http://www.wikiznanie.ru/donate/ (+7 9152683101, Sberbank 410014467409842, others).
Actions

wiki.w2n.net

  • Site: wiki.w2n.net/
  • Example: wiki.w2n.net/pages/User_talk:Eugene-elgato.w2n

Wikiwak

WikiWand

Wikiwand
URL http://www.wikiwand.com/
Description "Modernized" presentation of Wikipedia articles with proprietary (unfree) software, see WikiWand.
Sample http://www.wikiwand.com/en/Late_Quaternary_prehistoric_birds
Rating Medium
Compliance Links to Wikipedia page, license (on creativecommons.org), and contributor list; notes that "additional terms may apply" and that images may be licensed differently.
Contact info Only via online chat
Actions n/a

wikix.ipupdater.com

Wikix
URL http://wikix.ipupdater.com/
Description
Sample http://albert-einstein.wikix.ipupdater.com/
Rating Medium
Compliance 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).[reply]
  • Reported site to http://www.ipupdater.com/, using the contact form of that page. --Fibonacci 03:17, 30 May 2005 (UTC).[reply]
  • Reported it to the webmaster again. Ipupdater apparently hasn't done anything. Superm401 - Talk 00:05, 6 November 2005 (UTC).[reply]
  • Never received an answer to my letter. Fibonacci 05:03, 2 December 2005 (UTC).[reply]
  • Sent letter asking for on-site GFDL. Superm401 - Talk 23:05, 22 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]
  • 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)[reply]

wikiy.org

wikiy.org
URL https://www.wikiy.org/
Description Up-to-date unattributed copies of Wikipedia articles. Photos are included; tables and templates such as infoboxen are laid out differently.
Sample Soetran, B. 130, Drimnagh, Siddharth Katragadda
Rating Low/None
Compliance No compliance. Claim copyright on our content.
Contact info info @wikiy.org
Actions

wikizeroo.net

Wikizeroo.net (not url)
URL http://www.wikizeroo.net
Description 1:1 live mirror, displaying advertisements above proxied content, confirmed via "Special:MyTalk". Server IP is blocked from editing on the English Wikipedia.
Sample http://wikizeroo.net/index.php?q=aHR0cHM6Ly9lbi53aWtpcGVkaWEub3JnL3dpa2kvQWx0ZV9CciVDMyVCQ2NrZV8oRnJhbmtmdXJ0KQ
Rating Unsure; ToBeFree is hoping for trademark action by WMF in the next weeks. They will probably comply "highly" after that.
Compliance Now complying with CC-by-sa (implicitly using the compatibility clause of version 3, they are attributing version 4 of the license). Apparently no imprint. As of time of writing, still potentially misusing Wikimedia trademarks, by displaying the Wikipedia logo in the top left and displaying the project logos including the WMF information text on the front page.
Contact info E-mails, phone numbers, contact form URLs, etc. of admin and ISP.
Actions No imprint found, IP hidden behind CloudFlare. DMCA request sent for Alte Brücke (Frankfurt) by ToBeFree, reached ISP and admin via CloudFlare. After first telling me that they are allegedly actively in touch with Wikipedia, allegedly having fullfiled all their requirements, and basically denying my request, they fortunately came to their senses on their own accord a few hours later. They have now added a red attribution box below all pages and are now apparently complying with the license. Wikimedia Foundation legal counsel has been informed and is now aware of potential trademark violations. ~ ToBeFree (talk) 21:28, 7 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]
  • Comment: Looks like wikizeroo.net has turned into a generic blog site. JIP | Talk 20:05, 23 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Wikizero.com

Wikizero.com
URL https://www.wikizero.com/
Description Mirror (live) of all languages of Wikipedia. Copies the main HTML of Wikipedia, moves the TOC to a sidebar and injects ads from https://admatic.com.tr/ . Main page is in Turkish (but suggests 7 languages), suggesting it's mostly a way to evade the block of Wikipedia in Turkey. 40 % of traffic from Turkey and top 1000 website in Turkey, according to Alexa.
Sample https://www.wikizero.com/it/Sabbioneta , https://www.wikizero.com/de/Karl_Tschierschky
Rating None
Compliance Switched to wholesale copyright violation in 2020. The footer now doesn't contain any mention of the source, only a permanent link to Wikipedia without explanation. The Creative Commons license is not mentioned anywhere.

Formerly had a link to Wikipedia at the top as "Wikipedia open wikipedia design." Footer stated "This page is based on a Wikipedia article written by contributors (read/edit). Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license; additional terms may apply. Images, videos and audio are available under their respective licenses." However, this is not non-exisitent.

Bogus further footer states "Copyright 2020 WikiZero".

Contact info info@wikizero.com (may be incorrect)
Actions Email sent based on "Letters for website that acknowledges Wikipedia as a source" on 29th May 2021. Bibeyjj (talk) 15:43, 29 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Email bounced back, with the following message: "DNS Error: 8685848 DNS type 'mx' lookup of wikizero.com responded with code NOERROR 8685848 DNS type 'aaaa' lookup of wikizero-com.mail.protection.outlook.com. responded with code NXDOMAIN 8685848 DNS type 'a' lookup of wikizero-com.mail.protection.outlook.com. responded with code NXDOMAIN". This indicates an incorrect email address. Bibeyjj (talk) 21:05, 30 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Winentrance.com

Winentrance
URL http://www.winentrance.com
Description
Sample http://www.winentrance.com/general_knowledge/jockin-arputham.html
Rating high
Compliance unattributed. Yet the website is copyright asserted
Contact info E-mail: admin@genuineinfotech.com, feedback@winentrance.com, Phone : 91-422-4372678, 2496043
Actions none so far.

Wink

Wink
URL http://wink.com/
Description
Sample http://wink.com/p/Raul_Julia
Rating Low/None
Compliance Footer on each page says "Copyright © 2007 Wink Technologies, Inc. All Rights Reserved." No mention of GFDL. Pages directly link to Wikipedia.
Contact info http://wink.com/feedback/
Actions Send message about GFDL compliance using feedback form. -- Rick Block (talk) 18:07, 2 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Wn.com

Wokiwiki

It seems that the site "Wokiwiki" (http://www.zaped.info/) is a "distorted mirror" of Wikipedia. It serves WP articles after arbitrarily replacing a percentage of the words by other vaguely related words, so that the articles look superficially right but are actually nonsense. Since they offer advertising space, my guess is that they are trying to bypass Google filters that eliminate similar pages. See e.g their Iron article. It doesn't seem that WP is being properly attributed on that page. I have been told that this looks like a case of Wikipedia's copyright/license violation (besides potentially damaging WP's reputation). --Jorge Stolfi (talk) 00:28, 5 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

  • This site is still up, serving their intentionally and extensively corrupted version of Wikipedia under the name "Wikipedia" — including a corruped copy of Wikipedia's main page. --Jorge Stolfi (talk) 22:31, 15 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]
  • I uploaded a screenshot just in case. --Jorge Stolfi (talk) 22:49, 15 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]
    • The URL above now redirects to a site that asks the user to answer a "survey". It looks like a phishing site, and uses javascript in an attempt to prevent the reader from leaving or closing the window, or even exiting the browser. (I had to disable javascript in order to get out of it.) Since I did not answer the "survey" I cannot tell whether the adulterated Wikipedia contents is still being served.
My guess is that they used the adulterated copy of Wikipedia in order to get their site indexed by Google. As a consequence, a Google search under almost any subject will now turn up that site as an alternative hit *distinct from wikipedia*. Now that they have seeded Google's database, they have moved on to their real purpose. (But this is just a layman's guess.) All the best, --Jorge Stolfi (talk) 14:36, 14 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Here is a sample of what Google turns up with the search "germanium Wokiwiki"
Germanium tetrachloride Wokiwiki
Germanium tetrachloride is a colourless aqueous acclimated as an average in the assembly of antiseptic germanium metal. In contempo years, GeCl4 acceptance ...
--Jorge Stolfi (talk) 14:47, 14 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

wordaz

wordaz
URL http://www.wordaz.com
Description
Sample http://www.wordaz.com/bunyard.html
Rating Low
Compliance The website aggregates web content including Wikipedia. It credits Wikipedia where applicable but the entire site is marked copyright.
Contact info
Actions

WordDisk

WordDisk
URL https://worddisk.com/wiki/search/
Description Vocabulary learning site /Wikipedia mirror
Sample https://worddisk.com/wiki/History_of_the_Japanese_in_Seattle/
Rating "Medium/High"
Compliance Footer states <This article uses material from the Wikipedia article "History of the Japanese in Seattle", and is written by "contributors". Text is available under a "CC BY-SA 4.0 International License"; additional terms may apply. Images, videos and audio are available under their respective licenses.>
Contact info https://worddisk.com/contact/
Actions Compliance fixed

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

WordSense

WordSense
URL https://www.wordsense.eu/
Description Mirror of Wiktionary mostly.
Sample https://www.wordsense.eu/taigh/
Rating High
Compliance Ok:
  • Links the history of the source page and their own copyright page which mentions CC-BY-SA.
  • The attribution text is rather discreet, at the end of a footer-like text in the right sidebar: «This article is distributed under the terms of this license. WordSense is a Wiktionary fork. The list of authors can be seen on Wiktionary in the page history. The article was edited and supplemented».
Contact info https://www.wordsense.eu/intern:contact/
Actions None

wordsonline.org

wordsonline.org
URL http://wordsonline.org/Main_Page
Description
Sample http://wordsonline.org/AbbeY
Rating None
Compliance
  • 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)[reply]

workfriendly

  • Site: http://www.workfriendly.net
  • Example: [197] 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))[reply]

WorldUniversityDirectory.com

worlduniversitydirectory.com
URL https://worlduniversitydirectory.com/edu/
Description Mirrors all articles.
Sample https://worlduniversitydirectory.com/edu/extinfo/?rdp_we_resource=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Mirrors_and_forks/VWXYZ#WorldUniversityDirectory.com
Rating None
Compliance No attribution, not licensed under same license.
Contact info
Actions

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

World Heritage Encyclopedia

World Heritage Encyclopedia (WHE)
URL gutenberg.us
Description WHE is a registered trademark of the World Public Library Association 501(c)(4) non-profit literacy-promotion organization. They preserve public domain works, as well as CC-BY-SA content such as encyclopedias. At the bottom of the page it says Copyright © 2017 World Library Foundation.
Sample http://www.gutenberg.us/articles/asian_infrastructure_investment_bank
Rating Undetermined
Compliance Undetermined
Contact info info@worldlibrary.net
Actions see entry for World Public Library

Worldheritage.org

URL [199]
Description
Sample [200]
Rating none
Compliance no attribution given at all. In fact website footer implies they own copyright to the content
Contact info online only via http://worldheritage.org/Contact
Actions message sent via contact screen. November 2015 discussion on wiki.

Also fraudulently replaces “Wikipedia” with own credits (ex.) in a Nookd fashion.

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)[reply]

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)

WorldLingo

WorldLingo Translations LLC
URL http://translate.dc.gov
Description
Sample http://translate.dc.gov/ma/enwiki/en/Anwar_Choudhury ... it's an old copy of the current Wikipedia article, taken from sometime between May-August 2008.
Rating "Low/None"
Compliance Articles now say "The original article is from Wikipedia."
Contact info They have an address here: http://translate.dc.gov/en/company/
Actions (none)
WorldLingo
URL http://www.worldlingo.com/
Description
Sample http://www.worldlingo.com/ma/enwiki/en/Aissawa
Rating "Low/None"
Compliance Articles now say "The original article is from Wikipedia."
Contact info http://www.worldlingo.com/en/company/
Actions none

World News Network

World News Network
URL http://*.wn.com
Description
Sample http://article.wn.com/view/2008/02/15/Valentines_Day_grosses_Rs_262_cr_for_flower_sellers/
Rating "Medium"
Compliance 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 News Network
URL http://wn.com
Description
Sample wn.com/Merlin_Bartz (Click on "Biography")
Rating Low
Compliance They copy Wikipedia articles without attributing Wikipedia in any way - or if they do attribute it, they hid the notice so well that I can't find it. As Jmabel noted, "[t]hey appear to be some sort of syndication thing (supplying a lot of news sites) so these get heavily reused."
Contact info They've got a "contact" pop-up link at the bottom of each page.
Actions I left them a note on June 30, 2012. --Philosopher Let us reason together. 12:50, 30 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Resolved
 – as of July 3, 2012. Thanks! --Philosopher Let us reason together. 05:46, 3 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]

World-of-celebrities.com

World Public Library

World Public Library
URL http://www.worldlibrary.org/
Description
Sample http://www.worldlibrary.org/articles/Andorra_la_Vella
Rating Low
Compliance Gives a link to Wikipedia as the 'citational source', but attribution given to affiliated[202] other mirror 'World Heritage Encyclopedia'. Page footers implies they own copyright to the content.
Contact info Phone: 888.736.6475. Email: consumersupport@ecsuite.com, info@WorldLibrary.net[203]. Contact form at http://www.worldlibrary.org/Suggestions.aspx
Actions message sent via contact screen, (9 Jun 2015)

The copy is crude, with reference link numbers that don't actually link to references and a mess of unresolved metadata at the bottom. But some of the links in the article also point to other "self-published" pages.

At the bottom of the article is:

"Copyright © 2016 World Public Library. All rights reserved. eBooks from Project Gutenberg are sponsored by the World Public Library Association, a 501c(4) Member's Support Non-Profit Organization, and is NOT affiliated with any governmental agency or department." -- Morfusmax (talk) 22:48, 10 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]

worldsexexplorer.com

World Visit Guide

World Wide Web Find

    • Example simply produces search engine --Rumping (talk) 15:37, 13 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]


gooWikipedia

gooWikipedia
URL http://wpedia.goo.ne.jp/
Description
Sample http://wpedia.goo.ne.jp/enwiki/User:Eugene-elgato (User:Eugene-elgato)
Rating ?
Compliance Wikipedia mentioned in the headings, but no mentions of CC-BY-SA or GFDL.
Contact info は、エヌ・ティ・ティ レゾナント株式会社 (NTT Resonant Inc.) resofaq@nttr.co.jp
Actions None

wstuff.com

See Wikipedia:Mirrors_and_forks/Vwxyz#zipox

Wulong for life

Wulong for life
URL http://www.wulongforlife.com
Description
Sample http://www.wulongforlife.com/premiumwulong_002.htm
Rating "Low/None".
Compliance 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
Description
Sample http://www.wikimotorcycles.org/index.php/Cagiva
Rating None
Compliance 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/
Description
Sample
Rating
Compliance 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

Wow

Wow (run by AOL.com?)
URL http://us.wow.com
Description
Sample http://us.wow.com/wiki/Cancer
Rating Low/None
Compliance Content forking, mentions and links to Wikipedia, states "Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License; additional terms may apply". Uses clickfarm-style google advertising. Provides direct links to WP image files but wikilinks are migrated to their website in order to generate more click revenue
Contact info webform
Actions should be re-educated
I am currently in the process of negotiating with AOL. Unfortunately, due to the nature of negotiation, this may take a while and I will not be able to provide status updates. Also, please note that the above notes on compliance were not written by me. Orthogonal1 (talk) 12:01, 1 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Wikishire

Wikishire
URL http://www.wikishire.co.uk
Description
Sample http://www.wikishire.co.uk/wiki/Main_Page
Rating Low/None
Compliance Content forking, no mention or link to Wikipedia
Contact info none
Actions none, no contact info available

X

Xasa

xdope.com

xdope.com
URL http://xdope.com
Description
Sample http://xdope.com/Prodi.html
Rating None
Compliance
Contact info
Actions
  • Emailed request for Wikipedia mention and GFDL notice. --F. Cosoleto 15:36, 6 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Xtrj.org

Xtrj.org
URL http://www.xtrj.org/
Description
Sample http://xtrj.org/ssm4/turing_machine.htm
Rating Low
Compliance 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)[reply]
  • Replied saying "You are right. I will do so per you suggested." Superm401 - Talk 02:57, 28 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]
  • 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)[reply]

Y

yauba

yauba
URL http://www.yauba.com/
Description
Sample http://www.yauba.com/?q=twitter&target=all
Rating Low
Compliance Wikipedia article text used at top of page in section "Yauba also knows this about:" there is a mention of Wikipedia and the GFDL licence but no link back to article nor work attribution. Footer says: "Copyright © 2009 Yauba. All Rights Reserved. Portions of results licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License / Wikipedia. " and links to GFDL and to wikipedia homepage.
Contact info Ahmed Hossain CIO < ahmed at yauba dot com >
Actions None. -reported by Paul1337 (talk) 01:02, 17 May 2009 (UTC). In progress, working with them (started when same problem was seen on french wikipedia). Loreleil (talk) 08:31, 29 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

yomi.mobi

  • Site: http://yomi.mobi/
  • Example: http://yomi.mobi/egate/User_talk:Eugene-elgato/

You Health Questions and Answers

YouQA
URL http://www.youqa.com/
Description
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
Compliance 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)[reply]

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)[reply]

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.[reply]

Still violating and tried to remove this current discussion. Presumed malicious. – Kaihsu 15:12, 30 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

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)[reply]
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)[reply]


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)[reply]

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)[reply]
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)[reply]
I admire your integrity, 5ko. – Kaihsu 10:01, 1 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Case now reported to Wikipedia:Administrators'_noticeboard/Incidents#linkspammer_from_yamour.com. – Kaihsu 14:40, 1 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

See meta:Talk:Spam blacklist#yamour.com -- yamour.com to be blacklisted. --A. B. (talk) 03:48, 5 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Yourlit.com

Yourlit.com
URL http://www.yourlit.com
Description
Sample http://www.yourlit.com/Fantasy-Novels/The_Curse_of_Chalion.php, http://www.yourlit.com/X-Men-Villains/Fabian_Cortez.php
Rating None
Compliance At the bottom of each page: "©Yourlit.com All rights reserved"
Contact info
Actions standard email

Z

Zazzle.com

<name of the webpage> (not url)
URL Zazzle.com
Description
Sample http://www.zazzle.com/product/148013931882947437
Rating Low/None
Compliance 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
Description
Sample http://www.zdnet.co.za/m/a/t/Matthew_Brettingham_02b0.html
Rating Medium
Compliance
  • 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)[reply]
  • Contacted site owner with copyright notice Tawker 06:40, 22 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Zoo-Hoo

Zoo-Hoo.com
URL http://zoo-hoo.com/
Description
Sample http://www.zoo-hoo.com/index.php?q=giraffe
Rating Low
Compliance 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/
Description
Sample http://www.zinc.org/properties.html
Rating Low/None
Compliance 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.

Zeably.com

Zeably.com
URL http://www.zeably.com
Description
Sample http://www.zeably.com/Apple
Rating Low/None
Compliance No attribution given and is copyrighted: see below the sample page. Copies only text, no markup.
Contact info Details can be found here.
Actions Sent a "specific violation" complaint email. Kaldari (talk) 23:31, 17 November 2013 (UTC)[reply]