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? seems a (chinese) copy of entire wikipedia ?[edit]

http://en.wiki.hancel.org/ — Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.95.169.110 (talk) 17:48, 11 January 2022 (UTC)

Qaz.wiki: parasitic Wikipedia copy[edit]

Exact copy of Wikipedia, with ads all around: https://qaz.wiki/, https://nl.qaz.wiki/, https://de.qaz.wiki/, etc...

Also registered as https://qwerty.wiki/ VEENLIJK (talk) 10:30, 30 November 2020 (UTC)

hi!

furthermore registered as qwe.wiki. and zxc.wiki seems to be the same, too. i blacklisted all four domains now at dewiki. -- seth (talk) 19:32, 20 February 2021 (UTC)

OpenFacts has been offline since 2012[edit]

We should remove the reference to it --PeterTrompeter (talk) 16:07, 13 January 2021 (UTC)

w3ki[edit]

The website https://www.zh-tw.w3ki.com appears to copy and then automatically translate some articles, such as https://www.zh-tw.w3ki.com/wiki/Transcaucasian_Republic. Does this count as a mirror? CMD (talk) 14:49, 1 March 2021 (UTC)

Reworking this page[edit]

The usage of this page has changed a lot over the past decade. Nowadays, Wikipedia is so popular that listing every source copying from us with the intent of taking some form of legal task is a fools' errand.

Instead, I think this is more useful as both a resource for documenting mirrors, for editors - as well as for tools like Earwig's copyvio detector, to prevent false positives. This is currently implemented, but due to the inconsistent nature of entries here, performs poorly.

I've created an example of what I'd like to change the page to look like at User:Elli/Mirrorsandforkstest. Notably, the format would change to a sortable table, and each domain name would be an entry, instead of each website. This is to mirror the more spam-blocklist nature this has taken on. Thoughts? I'd be happy to implement this change, but I'd like to get feedback from people who contribute to or use this list before going ahead. Elli (talk | contribs) 02:34, 7 March 2021 (UTC)

Hard and soft[edit]

Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2021-09-26/News and notes mentioned a "hard fork" of Chinese Wikipedia, making a distinction which this article doesn't mention. Ought the term be defined here, with examples distinguishing it from other kinds of Wikipedia forks? Jim.henderson (talk) 16:37, 27 September 2021 (UTC)

Do something about alchetron.com[edit]

This is getting out of hand. This alchetron.com website seems to steal all the wikipedia pages left and right while also arbitrarily editing some information in those articles during the process for whatever reasons. They also put random (usually unrelated) images and pictures from Google search in "their" articles too, which only gives out wrong impression. Stapling "(Text) CC BY-SA" in some pages do not quite justify the legally questionable "Alchetron © (Year)" written in the same pages. AnonymousEdit1234 (talk) 06:16, 7 December 2021 (UTC)

How can I tell if an apparent mirror is malicious?[edit]

I think the article should explain what to look for in a mirror site to tell if it's malicious or not. For example, I just found a site called en.wiki.hereiszyn.com, which appears to be an exact copy of Wikipedia (it's not listed here). Is that allowed, or does it need to indicate that it's a mirror in some way? If you try to edit a page on the site, it displays a page saying that your IP has been blocked from editing, which might be just because it's directly piping you through to real wikipedia, except real wikipedia sees your IP as this other domain. Or, it could be a phishing scam to try to get people to put in their actual wikipedia credentials before they notice that the domain is wrong. I mean, they got me to do just that, although I quickly realized that something was up when it didn't actually log me in, so I went to real wikipedia and changed my password. But it could also be a harmless mirror that just doesn't have a functioning login system, because it doesn't need one. I don't know what to look for to tell the difference. I also would like to understand more about how to identify a live mirror as opposed to a fixed one, if that's even possible from a user perspective.

Thedeseuss (talk) 19:45, 20 December 2021 (UTC)