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1-bike.com

1-player.net

10baset.info

10beststocks.com

21ma.com

2BuyGood.com/InfoPedia

They've set up a "technical issues" message and a redirect to their store. JesseW 05:25, 25 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Now redirects to dmoz mirror 22:35, 20 September 2007 (UTC)

4reference.net

aaez.biz

aardogs.com

Aheadofnews.com

ArticleHead.com

• Site: ArticleHead.com
• Very recent, apparently almost complete mirror, utilising categories. No mention of Wikipedia, no mention of GFDL, claiming their own copyright. I've sent a first warning notice. --195.11.216.59 13:50, 6 Sep 2004 (UTC)
  • I see GFDL and backlinks at the bottom of every article page; either you didn't see them (because they don't appear on the category pages?) or your warning was instantly effective. ←Hob 17:36, 2004 Sep 6 (UTC)

The latter - I received the following email:

"Thanks for keeping me informed of my obligations. The following changes have been made:

a) on article pages, the note information at the bottom of the page is automatically expanded.

b) on article pages, the footer information at the bottom of the page has been changed from

"Articles and category structure on this site have been graciously provided by Wikipedia. Please consider donating to their cause."

TO

"This article is licensed under the [linked] GNU Free Documentation License. It uses material from Wikipedia: [linked] Wiki entry."

If only all of our mirrors were so ready to meet their legal obligations. --195.11.216.59 21:54, 6 Sep 2004 (UTC)

• Moved to High although i would like them to have a link on the front page to wikipedia and GFDL --Davelane 22:40, 17 Sep 2004 (UTC)
  • It appears, as of March 2005, to have reverted to non-compliance. Burgundavia 20:49, Mar 24, 2005 (UTC)
    • On further inspection, they hide the notice. You can view through clicking Notice+. I am moving to medium.
  • How can this be even considered medium compliance? I clicked on the Notice+, and get this:

This article is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License. It uses material from Wikipedia: Wiki entry.

When I click on Wiki entry I get http://www.articleshead.com/#, and not a link back to the original article. When I click on the GNU FDL link I get the page from http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/fdl.html . But there is no mention of the GFDL or the correct copyright notice unless I click on Notice+, surely this is non-compliance? -Wikibob | Talk 17:48, 2005 May 22 (UTC)

• Looks dead Rumping 23:08, 20 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Dead. The Evil Spartan (talk) 10:42, 26 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

AskMyTutor

Base Science 24

• Site: http://www.base.science24.org/
• Example:[1] from Albania
• Article ends with "Albania provided by Science 24 Base; Our source is Wikipedia. Albania - licensed under GNU Free Documentation License 1.2"
• No link to Wikipedia or original article
• No link to GFDL
• As of 00:21, 14 December 2005 (UTC) --Henrygb
  • Seems to have changed to en.science24.org:
  • Albania example now [2]
  • Page ends with "This page is a mirror of Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia All the content is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License 1.2. Trec Nurkowanie implanty kredyt got�wkowy casinos online" with links to Wikipedia and to GFDL at gnu.org
  • Internal and external links are invisible (apart from Google ads)
  • As of 01:33, 26 January 2007 (UTC) --Henrygb
    • Seems to have disappeared --Rumping 14:03, 23 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

behindthefridge.com

• Site: behindthefridge.com
• Have large excerpts of Wikipedia content.
• Mentions Wikipedia and GFDL.
• No links at all, no links to the original article.
• Has "© THIS PAGE ON American Expatriates, COPYRIGHT 2004 ALL RIGHTS RESERVED" on it.
• As of 12:55, 15 January 2006 (UTC)

Biography.ms

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

bird-center.net

• Site: www.bird-center.net
• Example: http://www.bird-center.net/articles/Main_Page
• Link to local copy of the GFDL (As of JesseW 20:34, 11 August 2005 (UTC))[reply]
• Link to original Wikipedia article (As of JesseW 20:34, 11 August 2005 (UTC))[reply]
• State that content is under the GFDL (As of JesseW 20:34, 11 August 2005 (UTC))[reply]
• State that content is from Wikipedia. (As of JesseW 20:34, 11 August 2005 (UTC))[reply]

Seems to be HIGH compliance, as far as I can see. Will someone move them to that list, please? JesseW 20:34, 11 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]

blogopt.com

book-spot.co.uk

Brujula.net

cassiopedia.org

catalogofcasinos.com

Chess and beyond

creotec.com

csf.colorado.edu

• Site: csf.colorado.edu

• seems to be dead Davelane 23:16, 14 Sep 2004 (UTC)
• Moved from main page
• confirmed site dead. -Rholton 16:54, 3 Dec 2004 (UTC)
• still dead. Superm401 | Talk 01:20, 6 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]
• still dead. ℬastique▼^parℓer♥^voir♑ 02:46, 12 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]
• still dead. 1ne 17:11, 18 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

CustomerServiceCareers.com

DefinitionCenter.com

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

definition-info.com

dellpda.info

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

didgeridooman.com

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

DigiMelon.COM

DuranDuranFans.com

• Site: DuranDuranFans.com
• Non-commercial fansite, uses articles on Duran Duran and its five members - see Duran Duran
• Removed "From Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia"
• Links removed, lightly edited
• Pictures added -- looks like professional promo pics, probably copyrighted
• Footer provides links to current articles and contains link to gnu.org copy of GFDL
  • "This biography is licensed under the [Free Documentation License]. It uses material from the Wikipedia article "Duran Duran." "

• Example fails. Rest of site looks like a message board--Rumping (talk) 23:49, 26 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Dutch wiki freeler

• Site: http://static.machine.freeler.nl/cgi-bin/wiki.pl
• Mentions the dutch wiki and freeler are partners
• No link from freelerhomepage, so not yet in production
• They (as yet) have not yet contacted the dutch wiki
• They have a simple perl script directly querying the wiki servers, it is NO MIRROR. They are using wiki bandwidth, cpu and memory.
• With the complete database of course also comes the GNU/FDL.
• site unreachable on morning fr Jan 9, possibly in reaction to discussions on dutch wikitech.

Appears to be gone now. [ alerante 02:16, 11 Mar 2004 (UTC) ]

Egenas Encyclopedia

• Site: Egenas Encyclopedia
• Example page: Hypnosis
• States, "From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License".
• Links to Wikipedia's GNU license

Electric Fence Australia

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

Elexi.de

• Site: Elexi.de

• Example mathematics
• States that the article is from Wikipedia.
• Links to GFDL.
• The problem is that even the articles from English Wikipedia are explained as taken from de.wikipedia, and link back goes to de.wikipedia's URL, and its accompanying history page.
• Confirm status (I guess). We probably need the help of someone who can read/write the language. -Rholton 23:10, 3 Dec 2004 (UTC)
  • This site is deep-linking images. [6]

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

ElResearch

• Site: ElResearch
• Sample article: Quadratic - http://www.elresearch.com/wiki/Quadratic
• Links to local copy of GNU FDL.
• Says, "This content from Wikipedia is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License."
• Links to Wikipedia
• Complete copy without any mentions of GFDL. No links to the original article. Small thing at the top says "Wikipedia Entry," besides that, nothing.
• As of 08:36, 15 January 2006 (UTC)
• Invalid e-mail contact. Time to move on to the ISP. -- WB 08:38, 15 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

encyclopaedic.net

Archived because site doesn't seem to be using English content anymore. I notified the other languages. Superm401 - Talk 06:50, 12 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

• Site: http://www.encyclopaedic.net
• Example page: http://encyclopaedic.net/portug/pi/pierre_joseph_phroudhon.html
• Has a metion of GFDL and Wikipedia at the bottom of the article pages, for each language:

  Examples:

  If the article is from WP:PT

  Fonte deste artigo: Wikipedia. Os textos estao disponíveis sob os termos da GNU Free Documentation License.

  If the article is from WP:EN

  This article is from Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia. All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.

• Also has a link to the article on wikipedia, at the top, before the start of the content.
• License page: http://encyclopaedic.net/english/license.html

  GNU Free Documentation License

  Version 1.2, November 2002

  Copyright (C) 2000,2001,2002 Free Software Foundation, Inc.

  59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307 USA

  Everyone is permitted to copy and distribute verbatim copie of this license document, but changing it is not allowed. [7]

• -- Get It 18:22, 3 Apr 2005 (UTC)

emeagwali.com

• Site: emeagwali.com
• Example page: [8]
• No mention of Wikipedia
• No mention of the GFDL
• Site mentions its own copyright, no others

engine.blogsome.com

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

- now removed by Blogsome admins

English-football

       1 Grange Cottage
       Pinwall
       Atherstone
       CV9 2EN
       United Kingdom

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

Enlightenweb

• Site: Enlightenweb
• Example: Astronomy
• Javascript links to original Wikipedia article
• Javascript links to Wikipedia copy of GFDL
• Javascript links to Wikipedia.
• Unhelpfully turns up in "-wikipedia" searches
  • but also provides a link from each page to a dynamic HTML page (www.websitings.com/enlighten-html.cfm) which provides HTML source code with HTML links designed for copying by third parties

Enquirerworld

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

EssayCrawler.com

Says essays are no longer being hosted on that site [9]

• Site: EssayCrawler.com
• Advertises as "free essays for students" (sounds like plagiarism)
• No link to Wikipedia main page
• No link to original article
• No mention of GFDL
• Claims "© 2000-2004 essaycrawler.com" at the bottom of each page
• Example: Parthenon from Parthenon.

eurofreehost.com

• Site: eurofreehost.com
• plus they do some dirtyness to boost their google rating. Kim Bruning 14:27, 4 Sep 2004 (UTC)
• Mentions GFDL (with no link). Does not mention Wikipedia. - Evil saltine 09:37, 13 Sep 2004 (UTC)

Below moved from main page... Davelane 21:39, 17 Sep 2004 (UTC)

The site http://www.eurofreehost.com/ appears to be a mirror of Wikipedia; each page claims to be under the GFDL but I found no link to Wikipedia on either a random article (http://www.eurofreehost.com/co/Compulsator.html) or the main page. Also, no Wiki source seems to be available, specifically violating the intent of the GFDL as I see it. Finally, the pages have no link to the text of the GFDL. I've sent a more-or-less standard complaint letter (although I didn't claim to be delighted to see another out-of-date broken mirror of Wikipedia) but it was taken before I made any major contributions, so if someone with more seniority would like to take over, that'd be great. Andrew 04:00, 18 Aug 2004 (UTC) (Update: mail to webmaster AT www.eurofreehost.com bounced; I'll leave this for now, awaiting comment from others. Andrew 04:08, 18 Aug 2004 (UTC))

That site now has the standard disclaimer (as at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Copyrights#Example_notice)

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

ExplainPlease.com

exsudo.com - Konwledge Base

exsudo.de - Wissen und mehr

• Site: exsudo.de - Wissen und mehr
• indicates Wikipedia as source
• links to original article
• links to local copy of the GNU/FDL
• links to german wikipedia main page
• links to article edit page
• links to article history
• license text in German now

exsudo.dk - Konwledge Base

• Site: exsudo.dk - Konwledge Base
• almost complete mirror of Danish Wikipedia
• links to original article
• links to local copy of the GNU/FDL
• does not link to wikipedia main page
• license text in English, not Danish... not sure if this is in agreement on GNU/FDL?

exsudo.se - Konwledge Base

• Site: exsudo.se - Konwledge Base
• almost complete mirror of Swedish Wikipedia
• links to original article
• links to local copy of the GNU/FDL
• does not link to wikipedia main page
• license text in English, not Swedish... not sure if this is in agreement on GNU/FDL?

ezorange.com

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

More research requested

fablis

Factdex - the fact index

• Mainpages: Has two: a coverpage at http://factdex.com/ with links to Wiki articles with conventional main page at http://factdex.com/Main_Page
• Example: http://factdex.com/Australia - Australia
• Software: A wiki using Wikimedia software
• Content: Data dump from late August, 2004
• Linkback: None
• References to Wikipedia remain in place (not changed to Factdex).

FactSite.co.uk

• Site: FactSite.co.uk
• Content: static copies of en: (Sept 2004) and cy: (March 2005) Wikipedia
• Linkback: each article links back to current version on wikipedia.org

famous.tc

• Site: www.famous.tc
• Uses Wikipedia articles. Seems to have the lot (though their index only shows a small selection biographical articles).
• No mention of GFDL
• No mention of Wikipedia, though they don't seem to specifically filter it out of articles (see [10] from Main Page). Wikipedia namespace articles are redirected back here.
• Examples: [11] from Louisa May Alcott, [12] from United States Department of State (complete with broken interwiki links at the bottom).

flyfloss.com

"Mandelbrot fractal" at fractalmovies.com

Free definition

• Site: www.free-definition.com
• Example: http://www.free-definition.com/Baie-des-Chaleurs.html
• Links to original Wikipedia article
• Links to original article history
• Links to GFDL in each article (to gnu.org site)
• Mentions wikipedia in each article
• Says "based on Wikipedia" on the "info" page.

golf-corner.net

information.static.net

information.ysdn.net

Intelipedia

Lex-24.de

Live Edit Demo

Lockergnomes

• Site: Lockergnomes Free Encyclopedia
• Examples: Archaeology, Wikipedia
• Seems to be a mirror of Smartpedia. Note that the article on Wikipedia replaces all occurrances of the word "Wikipedia" with "Smartpedia".
• Mirrors all namespaces, including Wikipedia: and User:
• Links to Wikipedia (under each article, the "SOURCE" link leads to Wikipedia's version of the article, except for the main page which links to the nonexistent mainpage.inc
• Links to GFDL

— Gwalla | Talk 03:00, 14 Apr 2005 (UTC)

lotsofinformation.com

Palestine article

• Site: Palestine article
• No link to Wikipedia article
• no link to GFDL
• No contact information on the main page of their website. Can anyone find it?
• Standard letter sent by: ?
• I checked the link and got a 404 error. I checked http://www.huntsvillehelp.com/ as well and all there is was text saying "HuntsvilleHelp.com". Seems to me this site is dead. --Bash 04:47, 1 May 2005 (UTC)[reply]

perfectsushi.com

• Site www.perfectsushi.com

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

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

Persian Football

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

(from the article Ali Daei, see Talk:Ali Daei)

• No link to Wikipedia article
• No link to GFDL
• Claiming a different author
• Claiming copyright at the page footer

Site no longer appears to contain the above content. — Feezo (Talk) 07:04, 13 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

phatnav.com

• Site: phatnav.com
• Confusing display of license and authorship information
• No link to wikipedia homepage or the specific article page

• Standard letter sent by mav 11:59, 4 Jan 2004 (UTC)

Response:

I did have a link at one time. My engineer has been making some changes

to the template, so I guess we dropped the link at some point. I'll make

sure it's put back.

--mav 23:21, 7 Jan 2004 (UTC)

• Unchanged still. Also, it'd be nice if they'd avoid titling their pages "Articlename - Wikipedia", which seems like borderline trademark infringement (though the line between attribution and infringement is fine, I'll acknowledge). --Delirium 12:37, Feb 6, 2004 (UTC)
  • Keeps coming up at the top of my google searches these days... we need to nail these guys. +sj+ 16:20, 2004 Mar 28 (UTC)
• I just sent a standard Violation Letter Follow-Up. Andrewlevine 04:01, 19 Apr 2004 (UTC)

UNCONFIRMED Contact info via online sources: 508-481-3336 listed for three names:

• Frances A Barry, 1126 Concord Rd, Marlborough, MA 01752
• Skip Guss, East Coast Golf Academy, 333 Southwest Cutoff Northboro MA 01532 Golfrite AT aol.com
• Shawn P. McCarthy, Diagonal Media Group, Inc. 37 Woodridge Road Marlborough, MA 01752
  • service AT diagonalmediagroup.com
  • shawn.mccarthy AT diagonalmediagroup.com
  • internaut AT diagonalmediagroup.com

Notes:

• McCarthy appears to be author of 'The Art of .COMbat', and a Lycos developer
• Phatnav is shaping up to be the top leech site of Wikipedia content.

Jokestress 05:06, 28 Apr 2004 (UTC)

Phatnav's pages still claim copyright. Straight mirror of WP content. Makes near fraudulent claims (they copy some of our pages that say "content provided by visitors to this site", further implying content is theirs). I can still see no GFDL or WP links, pages imply they are owned by PhatNav.

This is just about the worst possible violation (straight copy / adding ads / claiming copyright / not crediting authors) and given that they have not responded to previous letters, I propose we escalate according to standard protocol (please drop me a line if you want to work with me on this one). Mat-C 20:41, 30 Apr 2004 (UTC)

Violation still going stong. <quote>PhatNav's Encyclopedia - A "Wikipedia"</quote> sounds like trademark dilution to me. --Spikey 21:28, 21 May 2004 (UTC)[reply]

Appears to be compliant now. "A Wikipedia" no longer displayed, and although it's in VERY tiny print, at the very bottom of each page they say "The Wikipedia is a project of the Wikimedia Foundation Inc. It is offered as open source and is free to reuse according to the GNU Free documentation License. The original version of this page can be found at http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/<ARTICLENAME>." Their copyright notice states "All content Copyright 2003 - PhatNav and Diagonal Media Group Inc. (Except as noted on pages containing separately licensed content.) All rights reserved." Catherine | talk 18:33, 15 Jun 2004 (UTC)

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

Poncier

• Site: Poncier.com
• Example [14] for Albania
• No graphics
• Redlinks ignored
• Problems with diacritics
• Each article ends with This article is from Wikipedia. All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License with link to local version of GFDL
• No link to Wikipedia or original article
• Each article ends with "Copyright © 2004 www.poncier.com"
• As of 14:53, 4 November 2005 (UTC) - Henrygb

Previewseek

protectedplanet.net

protoillyrian

pseudodoxia.flawlesslogic.com

• Site: pseudodoxia.flawlesslogic.com
• Makes attempts to meet GFDL. Does not include all revisions of a page.
• Currently under attack from some Wikipedia users, as they see it as offensive Nazi site.
• Some have been blanking pseudodoxia's copies of their user pages as the word wikipedia has been replaced with pseudodoxia in many places (everywhere?), which may mislead people into believing that those users are associated with pseudodoxia.
• I see nothing. --WCQuidditch ☎ ✎ 15:18, 8 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]
  • We should ask them to add meta noindex so we can remove the Google cached copies among the search engines... -- WB 08:20, 15 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]
• As of June 27, 2006, site seems dead. DS 13:30, 27 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]
  • Poking at http://www.flawlesslogic.com & http://flawlesslogic.com yields Apache server 404 messages. Lights on but nobody home. -- llywrch 19:50, 1 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]
• library.flawlesslogic.com is still up, but that doesn't seem to contain Wikipedia material. Superm401 - Talk 04:39, 3 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Quickseek.com

Uses subdomains to incompetently mirror Wikipedia articles without rendering the markup. Quickseek copyright notice, no Wikipedia or GFDL mention. Appears to be intended as search engine spam.

Examples:

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

update: They appear to be a live leech, delayed a few minutes. Replaces all mention of ‘Wikipedia’ with ‘QuickSeek Encyclopedia’. They copy the Wikipedia: namespace, but not the User:. Low compliance. Chris Chan {t|c} 12:20, 29 April 2006 (UTC) update²: They appear to be running Mediawiki, and be editable. However, there is no easily accessible edit link, and they are not a live leech. They appear to be using a copy of all articles from 15 Feb 2006. Still low-compliance. Chris Chan {t|c} 12:28, 29 April 2006 (UTC) update: They have a "Wikipedia" phrase in black on their main page, but no link, and not the Wikipedia logo. They also claim to be associated with the Columbia University Press. User:Zoe|^(talk) 21:47, 17 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

No mention of Wikipedia on main page or subdomains, not even hidden away in the HTML. Cheekily asserts that copyright is theirs. Kenguest 13:28, 27 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

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

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

• I came across this "mirror" when checking to see if an article was a copyvio. To date, the issue has not been addressed and the sites Terms & Conditions state:

You agree that you are only authorized to visit, view, and retain a copy of pages of this Site for your own personal use, and that you shall not duplicate, download, publish, modify, or otherwise distribute the material on this Site for any commercial use, or for any purpose other than as described in these Terms.

You agree that you will not copy, reproduce, alter, modify, create derivative works from, or publicly display any content (except for your own personal, non-commercial use) from our Web site without the prior expressed written permission of QuickSeek.

• Are these conditions also in breach of the GFDL? TheJC ^Talk_{Contributions} 06:49, 2 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]
  • I think they are. How long do they have to "address the issues" before someone else should send another warning? Ardric47 19:34, 8 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]
• Still live 15:00, 12 July 2006 (UTC). Found a clear violation at http://evan.quickseek.com/ as it includes the stub marker "This name-related article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it." while working on an AFD for Evan (mythology). Their page contains "(C) 2005 QuickSeek.com All rights reserved. Evan" at the bottom. This page http://etruscanmythology.quickseek.com/ is another clear violation as it shows the interlanguage links we use but doesn't include the word Wikipedia anywhere. GRBerry 15:00, 12 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Here's some more fun: Look up Bob Dylan on both QuickSeek and Wikipedia. Same content. Now, look up Wikipedia on both. The self-referential link here is kosher, of course. However, look at the one on Quickseek: It's completely blank. Looks like there has been some half-hearted effort to scrub their site of references to Wikipedia. 66.187.233.202 19:53, 12 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

This one has come up on IRC today, but contact info is hard to get. I think more warning e-mails have been sent after thorough hunting around, but this is lower than low compliance, infact the "all rights reserved" bit puts it at just about nill, and the removal of all wikipedia references makes it lower yet. MichaelBillington 10:12, 28 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Well, Copyrights "are theirs" but editrights aren't. Think about it: this may be of questionable legality but it's completely editable, and not exactly a *real* encyclopedia. It ain't moderated (that's for sure), so why not get some benefit out of their wrongdoing? Based on the good-faith assumption that it's within legal limits, I'd condone mass vandalism of the site, although I probably won't be doing it myself. --Utopianfiat 18:43, 4 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Update: I've sent a GFDL violation notice citing Senpai as the "proof" or whatever. I'm going to wait two weeks (the 18th is an important day, so I hope I'll remember) before I notify Rackspace just in case this guy is just misled. If he doesn't respond in 2 weeks, I think it's safe to assume that even if his intents are not malicious, everyone's lives would be better without search engine spam. --Utopianfiat 19:09, 4 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

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

Update: http://cheese.quickseek.com and http://kangaroo.quickseek.com no longer work. No wikipedia content on main page, http://www.quickseek.com. 69.140.152.55 (talk) 23:12, 28 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

realestate.ca

• Site: realestate.ca/Real-Estate/reference/search
• Example: http://realestate.ca/Abstract-of-title/reference/fullview/wikipedia/597773
• Absolutely no mention of GFDL or Wikipedia, except in the URL, with Javascript off (As of JesseW 21:09, 11 August 2005 (UTC))[reply]
• Whois email: info at email dot ca
• Standard letter sent by JesseW 21:09, 11 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]
  • Using http://realestate.ca/Wikipediasister-text-only/reference/fullview/wikipedia/879704 from Template:Wikipediasister (text_only) as the example.
• Update: they now appear to be a squatter site. Chris Chan {t|c} 12:31, 29 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Rolex fakes

• Site: Rouell article (example)
• No link, GFDL, etc
• sorry i will be taking that site down soon anyways

Seems to be down as of now. Should be moved to not-current-users-of-our-content section. Thanks. JesseW 20:39, 11 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]

savage-comedy.com

School Explorer

• Site: http://www.school-explorer.com
• Example: http://www.school-explorer.com/info/Albania of Albania
• Ends with 'Retrieved from "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albania"' with link to original article
• No mention of GFDL
• "Disclaimer" states "distributed by Web Exploring Consultancy (W.E.C.) The Netherlands"
• As of 00:11, 14 December 2005 (UTC) --Henrygb

sicherheitsmeister.com

stalkerpedia.org

Useful Reference

usedaudiparts.com

Verkata

Violaheaven.com

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

Wackipedia.com

• site
• Looks like a live copy of Wikipedia EN.
• Contains this copyright notice in footer: "© 2005, All Rights Reserved -- Wackipedia.com".
• Offers 'Ebonics', 'Redneck' and 'Valley Girl' stylised rewrites of every article.
• No edit links. Benet Allen 13:23, 5 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]
• As of June 2006, all of these problems remain. --carlb 15:36, 10 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]
• States all material is copyright to Wackipedia, and doesn't even rewrite links on the homepage to point to it's own site. It mirrors everything, images, featured articles, but not discussions or users. It even has the audacity to say 'Wackipedia in other languages' at the bottom an link to wikipedia.org domains! It makes almost no effort to remove many references to Wikipedia on various pages (e.g. This is the English language Wackipedia. Wikipedias are also being written in many other languages). It also carries the 'free encyclopedia that anyone can edit' banner, but it maintains that all the pages are copyrighted to Wackipedia and there are no edit buttons. They even have identical formatting of the main page, but with no column at the left side for links etc. —Vanderdecken∴ ∫ξφ 10:42, 16 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I wish these guys would get legal. I'd like to like them.

Their home page is apparently so full of script errors that it won't display. - Jmabel | Talk 19:43, 29 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

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

WakkaWiki.com

• site: http://www.wakkawiki.com/

Looks like an live copy of WikipediaEN. No licence info or history information. Edit links do not work. Walter 23:13, 18 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]

• Confirmed. At most a few minutes behind, no license info, home page says "Welcome to Wikipedia", no link back. Rl 19:53, 2 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]
• No longer uses Wikipedia content, seems to be a cybersquatter site now. Wcquidditch | Talk 01:42, 8 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Warsaw Hotel Info

• Site: http://www.warsaw-hotel.info
• Example: [15] for Albania
• Near end of each article has:
  • "Mirror of Wikipedia, a worldwide community of volunteers building an open-content" with link to Wikipedia article about Wikipedia
  • "All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License" with link to GFDL at GNU
  • "Copyright 2002-2004 (c) Net Travel & Warsaw Hotels Reservation All Rights Reserved Recreation "
• As of 13:55, 28 November 2005 (UTC) --Henrygb

• Encyclopedia element seems to have been removed 15:27, 19 December 2007 (UTC)

Web-Dictionary.org

• Site: Web-Dictionary.org
• Sample article: Albania - http://www.web-dictionary.org/encyclopedia/al/Albania.html
• Links to local copy of GNU FDL. Says "All text is available is licensed under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License."
• Keeps "From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia."
• Contains link to original Wikipedia article and main page.
• Says, "All content is copyright of the respective authors and copyright holders."
• No link to original article.
• No history section listing authors and dates.
• Low compliance.

• 502 error 15:29, 19 December 2007 (UTC)

websign.sk

Seems to have mirrored from eurofreehost.com before they were compliant. Includes (unlinked) notice that content is GDFL. No mention of wikipedia. Example: [16]

• 502 error 15:31, 19 December 2007 (UTC)

Whatis.Tv

• Site: http://www.whatis.tv/

The main page consists of a table of contents of sorts, which eventually leads to a copy of all wikipedia articles. No author or source attribution is given at all anywhere on the site that I could find. 80.58.43.44 10:17, 1 Mar 2005 (UTC)

• Confirmed. This will be added to the GFDL Compliance list. It's clearly a case of low compliance, since

• it doesn't state that the info is released under the GFDL and
• there are no links back to Wikipedia --Bash 07:17, 1 May 2005 (UTC)[reply]

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

Wikidpedia

• Site: http://www.pagerank10.co.uk/wiki/ (diverts from http://www.wikidpedia.org
• Sample article: http://www.pagerank10.co.uk/wiki/?title=Mandurah, http://www.pagerank10.co.uk/wiki/?title=Perth%2C_Western_Australia
  • Difficult to tell what this is. Search facility doesn't work, no mention anywhere of GFDL and no way to access article history to determine contributors. Orderinchaos78 10:39, 20 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]
  • Seems to not be working at all any more the url http://www.pagerank10.co.uk/wiki/ comes up blank 404 as does http://www.page-rank-10.info/wiki/

Wiki.defau.lt

• Site: Wiki.defau.lt
• Sample article: Biology - http://wiki.defau.lt/wiki/wiki.phtml?title=Biology
  • Seems to be an outright dump, perhaps it's someone's test wiki
  • I'm getting 'Forbidden You don't have permission to access / on this server.' message now Silverfish 20:22, 16 Mar 2004 (UTC)
  • Still gives "forbidden" message. Seems no longer to be an issue. -Rholton 22:23, 6 Dec 2004 (UTC)
  • Still dead. Superm401 | Talk 01:22, 6 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]
• Still dead as of 00:37, 14 April 2006 (UTC), it now is a 404 not found instead of 403 forbidden. Chris Chan.talk.contribs 00:37, 14 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]
• Now it's page cannot be displayed. I think the website is gone for good now. Andrewrhchen 21:44, 21 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

worldsearch.com

• Site: http://encyclopedia.worldsearch.com/
• Example page: Elections
• No mention of GFDL or Wikipedia. Copyright at bottom of pages says:

©2004-2005.§/Newave. All rights reserved

• Terms of Use page says, among other things:

How You Can Use the Services

You may use the Services on E.WS and the Newave Sites for your personal, non-commercial use. You may make a single copy of the individual screens you see when you use the Services, but only for your personal use. You cannot distribute or transfer the copies to others in exchange for money or other consideration. You may not-and agree not to-modify, reformat, copy, display, distribute, transmit, publish, license, create derivative works from, transfer or sell any information, products or services obtained from the Services, except as set forth below. This means that you may not mirror the home page or results pages of E.WS or any Newave Site on your own Web site or Web page.

No License Granted

Except for allowing you to use E.WS for your personal use as set forth in the paragraph above, when you use E.WS, you are not receiving a license or any other rights from us, including intellectual property or other proprietary rights of Newave or other companies with which we are affiliated.

YOU UNDERSTAND THAT YOU HAVE NO RIGHTS TO THE SERVICES OR ANY OTHER NEWAVE PROPERTY EXCEPT AS WE INDICATE IN THESE TERMS.

--Calton 00:59, 28 Jan 2005 (UTC)

• Zone plate, which I've worked extensively on, is also copied word for word, even the non-rendered math. I've now sent them a violation letter. --Laura Scudder | Talk 23:06, 16 May 2005 (UTC)[reply]
• Site is gone. Being sold for only $300,000 - any buyers? The Evil Spartan (talk) 22:30, 12 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

xarts.net

• Site: dictionary.xarts.net

(E-mail sent by Dori asking not to do this -- no response yet)

• • Cybersquatted The Evil Spartan (talk) 22:33, 12 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

zipox

Zirozebar

Zirozebar

URL	http://www.zirozebar.com/pedia-en/wiki
Description	Looks to be a complete copy of Wikipedia, in en and fa at very least. Messes up some formatting, and hotlinks the images. The text appears to be stored on their servers.
Sample	http://www.zirozebar.com/pedia-en/wiki/User:AntiCompositeNumber
Rating	Low to Medium -
Compliance	Clearly states source and links to the exact scraped revision, but makes no mention of the CC BY-SA license
Contact info	Email address at the top of the page is infozirozebar.com
Actions	None so far as of 03:04, 8 January 2017 (UTC) Offline as of 2019-07-01. www.zirozebar.com just leads to a default IIS page. Sunmist (talk) 09:40, 29 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]