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[edit] Numbers

[edit] 0po0

  • Site: 0po0.com
  • Example: 0po0.com/Mormaer_of_Moray
  • States Free Info by Wikipedia
  • No obvious mention of GFDL
  • No obvious links to GFDL or original article

[edit] 1-1-2008.com

See My Wiki

[edit] 1bx.com and related

1bx.com
URL
  • http://1bx.com/
  • msn988.info
  • iask8.info
  • beidu.info
  • donkeylink.com
  • askmore.net
  • toshare.info
  • fellowshare.com
  • wozhidao.info
  • vb.game-host.org
  • nba.servegame.org
  • toshare.dynup.net
  • stevehome.dynup.net
  • term-life.no-ip.info
  • vioxx.no-ip.info
  • webnote.info
  • juugle.info
  • porkdb.info
  • worlditems.info
  • iask123.info
  • qq818.info
  • qq888.info
  • onebrainman.info
  • syzygytech.info
  • tocatch.info
  • encyclopedia.figureout.info
Sample
  • http://www.1bx.com/en/Tonga.htm
Rating Medium
Details These are a group of interlinked mirror sites. The owner claims the duplication is for "load balancing". On all the sites I checked, there is a link to internal GFDL, the original article, and the original history, below the last ads. The sites use dynamic loading (the owner says he has set up 1 year caching), and hotlink images. Many registrations use whois cloaking services.
Contact info jin AT 1bx.com, 1BX.COM AT domainsbyproxy.com, TOSHARE.INFO AT domainsbyproxy.com, emule2005 AT host.sk (donkeylink.com whois admin), jinhui AT jcomsoft.com (askmore.net whois), generalmanager AT domainsbyproxy.com (private registration), abuse AT sitelutions.com (DNS) (UTC)
Actions
  • Emailed host to complain about lack of contact information in whois. Superm401 -

Talk 03:10, 23 January 2006 (UTC)

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

[edit] 2place.org

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

[edit] 2violent.com

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

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

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

[edit] 7val

7val
URL http://en.wikipedia.7val.com
Sample http://en.wikipedia.7val.com/w/index.php?title=Knowledge
Rating High
Details Dynamic mirror. Links to local mirror of GFDL and history section. No explicit notice that material is under the GFDL, though.
Contact info adminc-sponagl-nospam AT 7val.com (whois; presumably remove "-nospam"), http://www1.sevenval.de/mobile/index.php?id=9&L=1
Actions Sent standard violation letter to adminc-sponagl-nospam AT 7val.com and adminc-sponagl AT 7val.com . Superm401 - Talk 02:31, 19 January 2007 (UTC)

The problem was caused by an error in their rendering engine. Is now fixed. Added link to GFDL and page history. For future issues regarding 7val: Wikimedia Deutschland is in close contact with them. Please contact de:Benutzer:Akl in case there are any problems.

Still dynamic mirror 22:40, 20 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] 999 Network

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

[edit] A

[edit] Aaronlanguage.com

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

[edit] Abaara

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

[edit] Abbaci books

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

[edit] ABC World

ABC World
URL http://abcworld.net/
Sample http://abcworld.net/culture.html
Rating Low
Details I don't see any mention of "GFDL" or "Wikipedia". (I don't see any "Contact" information either). As far as I can tell, all the content on *every* page on this site comes from Wikipedia.
Contact info Contact listed as "Joe Damien" with email address 4leenda AT gmail.com. The contact also includes a phone number +001.41512345678 (fake) and a real physical mailing address which is actually the location of the 5th Avenue Theatre in Seattle, Washington.
Actions primary email sent

Followup letter sent. The Evil Spartan (talk) 16:37, 25 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] About.com

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


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

Wikipedia.

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

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

[edit] Absolute Astronomy

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

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

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

[edit] aboutsociology.com

aboutsociology.com (not url)
URL http://aboutsociology.com
Sample http://www.aboutsociology.com/sociology/Madrid_Metro
Rating "Medium"/High
Details GFDL and Wikipedia are mentioned. No link back directly to article, but an in depth on how to get to that page is given at http://www.aboutsociology.com/copyright.html ("further copyright" section)
Contact info WHOIS: ABOUTSOCIOLOGY.COM AT domainsbyproxy.com
Actions

[edit] AbsoluteArts.com

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

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

Actions

[edit] Academic Kids

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

[edit] Academie.de Net-Lexikon

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

[edit] adago.com

More research requested

  • not responding 22:50, 20 September 2007 (UTC)
  • site is 404ing. My guess is it's dead. The Evil Spartan (talk) 22:36, 25 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Adorons.com

adorons.com
URL http://adorons.com/wiki
Sample http://www.adorons.com/wiki/Your_Choice_Live_Series_Vol.10
Rating None
Details Page bears all the licenses at the bottom, as it is a straight copy from Wikipedia, without any indication that you are actually not on Wikipedia anymore; it even contains a Login link at the upper right hand corner (which, thankfully, doesn't work).
Contact info {{{contact}}}
Actions None Fram 13:29, 11 October 2007 (UTC)
  • Ack. It is dynamically updating from Wikipedia. The Evil Spartan (talk) 22:40, 25 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Advantacell.com

advantacell.com
URL http://advantacell.com
Sample http://advantacell.com/wiki/University_of_California%2C_Santa_Barbara, http://it.advantacell.com/wiki/Verde
Rating Medium
Details Wikipedia pages are attributed to Wikipedia. At the bottom of every page that includes a Wikipedia article is reported: "Retrieved from "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/..." and "This article is from Wikipedia. All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License."
Contact info webmaster AT advantacell.com
Actions None

Suffering from technical issues so little or no Wikipedia content Rumping 22:52, 20 September 2007 (UTC).

[edit] Agenda.z1.ro

Agenda.z1.ro / Agenda ta
URL http://agenda.z1.ro
Sample http://agenda.z1.ro/baba.php
Rating "Low/None"
Details Article on Corneliu Baba appears to be an uncredited translation of our English-language article.
Contact info marius.gheghici AT gmail.com
Actions None so far.

[edit] aircraft-list.com

aircraft-list.com
URL http://aircraft-list.com/
Sample http://www.aircraft-list.com/db/Antonov_An-225/59/
Rating
Details Copy of Wikipedia articles about aircrafts combined with copyrighted images (some maybe without permissions from authors). GFDL notice applied only to text, not entire derived work (website).
Contact info Trimbitas Sorin, Romania. trimbitassorin AT hotmail.com, +40.0724540234
Actions None so far.

[edit] Algebra.com

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

[edit] All2know.com

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

[edit] Allabout.cc

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

[edit] All About-kittens.com

All About-kittens.com
URL http://www.about-kittens.com
Sample http://www.about-kittens.com/563/Korat
Rating "Low/None" "Medium"
Details Mirrors various WP articles on breeds of cats. Pages carry the notice, "© 2005-2006 about-kittens.com. All Rights Reserved ", but do not mention Wikipedia or the GFDL at all. The article on the Korat breed at All About-kittens appears to be a copy of the Wikipedia article as it appeared between July 5 and August 19, 2006, and includes a copy of an image with a limited-use license.
Contact info Administrative Contact: Adrian Agafitei, Calea Nationala nr. 67 Bl. J1, Botosani, BOTOSANI 710006, RO ( )745125530 adiaga AT gmail.com

Technical Contact: Administrator DNS, 1 N State Street, 12th Floor, Chicago, IL 60602, US (312)2362132 administrator AT siteprotect.com.

Actions As I am not a contributor to any of the cat breed articles, I have not tried to contact the site. I did leave a note at Talk:Korat advising the contributors that they could contact the site to complain. Posted notice on Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Cats. -- Donald Albury 01:20, 23 January 2007 (UTC)

Contacting with letter 1, ST47Talk 21:05, 27 January 2007 (UTC)

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

[edit] All About-puppies.com

All About-puppies.com
URL http://www.about-puppies.com/
Sample http://www.about-puppies.com/721/Yorkshire_Terrier
Rating "Low/None" Medium
Details Mirrors various WP articles on breeds of dogs. Pages carry the notice, "© 2005-2006 about-puppies.com. All Rights Reserved ", but do not mention Wikipedia or the GFDL at all. The article on the Yorkshire Terrier breed at All About-puppies appears to be a copy of the Wikipedia article as it appeared during July, 2006.
Contact info Administrative Contact: Adrian Agafitei, Calea Nationala nr. 67 Bl. J1, Botosani, BOTOSANI 710006, RO ( )745125530 adiaga AT gmail.com

Technical Contact: Administrator DNS, 1 N State Street, 12th Floor, Chicago, IL 60602, US (312)2362132 administrator AT siteprotect.com.

Actions None, as I am not a contributor to any of the dog breed articles. Added notice to Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Dog breeds. -- Donald Albury 01:21, 23 January 2007 (UTC)

Contacted this one as well ST47Talk 21:11, 27 January 2007 (UTC)
Upgraded to medium. Now mentions Wikipedia, no link to direct article. Gives link to Wikipedia version of GFDL. The Evil Spartan (talk) 22:45, 25 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] allmichaeljordan.com

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

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

[edit] Allrss.com

Allrss.com "RSS Compendium"
URL http://allrss.com/
Sample http://allrss.com/wikipedia.php?title=Harmonic_coordinate_condition
Rating Low
Details Using PHP script at http://www.vacilando.org/index.php?x=7065

to copy without page history, author credit, or link to article. GFDL available at site, but only on searching for "GFDL"; otherwise, no license mention on article pages. Other mirrors may exist.

Contact info Peter Scott: pscontent AT gmail.com
Actions none as of 20:22, 19 May 2007 (UTC)
  • Appears to be scraping (it has my user talk page). The Evil Spartan (talk) 22:50, 25 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] All Science Fair Projects Encyclopedia

* "Copyright (C) 2003 All Science Fair Projects.com All Rights Reserved" listed on every page * Copyright notice and disclaimer, albeit very informative, are not linked to from either the main page or the article pages

  • Standard letter sent. Telso 04:24, 29 Aug 2004 (UTC)

** Article pages show update as of 10-05-04 but still not compliant. JamesMLane 12:49, 9 Oct 2004 (UTC)Update statement removed

Copy of WP content. Maybe just taking the science articles. Although mentions where it is from, does not mention GFDL, link back to wikipedia or the articles. Dunc_Harris| 16:10, 29 Aug 2004 (UTC)

  • MIT example says "The contents of this article is licensed from www.wikipedia.org under the GNU Free Documentation License. Click here to see the transparent copy and copyright details"
    • Mentions GFDL and has local copy [2]
    • Acknowledges wikipedia source
    • No Link back to wikipedia original article

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

[edit] Alternative To Reality

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

[edit] Amazines.com

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

[edit] andamannicobarin.com

  • Site: www.andamannicobarin.com
  • Example: www.andamannicobarin.com/wiki-Mormaerdom_of_Moray
  • States twice: This article is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License. It uses material from Wikipedia with 2 links to GFDL at gnu.org, link to avoo.com wiki main page and link to en.Wikipedia main page
  • Page ends Copyright © 2005 AndamanNicobarin.com. All rights reserved.
  • No obvious link to article or history

[edit] animalwebguide.com

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

[edit] animefanwiki.de

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

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

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

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

[edit] Annlongfineart.com

Ann Long Fine Art
URL http://www.annlongfineart.com
Sample http://www.annlongfineart.com/artists/magritte
Rating "Low/None" compliance with GFDL
Details No mention of GNU FDL and of Wikipedia. c 2007 ann long fine art on all pages
Contact info ann AT annlongfineart.com
Actions 2006 version of page taken. First letter sent. The Evil Spartan (talk) 10:34, 26 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Anoca.org

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

[edit] Answers.com

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

[edit] Archaeologics

Archaeologics
URL Archaeologics.com
Sample http://www.archaeologics.com/Health-RtoZ/Syphilis.php
Rating Low/None
Details Claims copyright in our page.
Contact info ARCHAEOLOGICS.COM AT domainsbyproxy.com, DBP AT domainsbyproxy.com (webmaster listed in dns), noc AT godaddy.com/abuse AT godaddy.com (isp admin)
Actions sent "Letter for website that doesn't acknowledge Wikipedia as a source" to first address. 17:34, 26 September 2006 (UTC)

sent reminder letter to first address. 21:27, 9 March 2007 (UTC)

Third letter sent. No change or reply. ~a (usertalkcontribs) 06:06, 25 March 2007 (UTC)

NOTE - someone needs to finish the final step for this domain (the DMCA takedown notice). The reason is: this fork is very old and I am a fairly new editor so none of the material on the fork infringes on any of my copyrights. An older editor needs to look through their old (2005?) original contributions and find it on this site before a takedown notice could be sent. ~a (usertalkcontribs) 13:55, 14 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] area51.ipupdater.com

area51.ipupdater.com (no other name given
URL http://area51.ipupdater.com
Sample http://cedilla.area51.ipupdater.com
Rating Medium-High
Details Links to corresponding Wikipedia article, links to copy of GFDL on GNU's site.
Purpose may be spammy: has Google Ads, no real content of its own
Contact info admin AT area51.ipupdater.com
Actions none

No response 23:01, 20 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] aRiKaH

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

[edit] Arizona Gardens

ArizonaGardens.org
URL http://www.arizonagardens.org
Sample http://www.arizonagardens.org/Grapefruit
Rating "High", compliance with GFDL (matches Wikipedia:GFDL Compliance).
Details Uses articles from wikipedia, provides links back to Wikipedia in each article. Site is licensed GFDL 1.2.
Contact info sherman.boyd AT gmail.com
Actions I actually run the site, and I'm adding this Mirror entry. If my site doesn't comply notify me and will strive to reach the highest standard of compliance.

[edit] Arkansas Encyclopedia

  • I didn't see this listed anywhere. It strikes me as very odd. I initially came accross this through a Google hit that led me to this http://lakewoodrepublicans.8m.com/michigan.html. They do state that the text content is GFDL ("All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License."), but there is no link to the license and no link back to Wikipedia and no history. What is really odd though, is that it looks as though the content is actually spread across various domains. For example this entry on Germany: http://beerot.itgo.com/germany.html (which does not even mention GFDL anywhere). Or the "main" page: http://www.geocities.com/arkencyclo/. Seems like every click is a different domain. Bkonrad | Talk 14:14, 13 Mar 2004 (UTC)
The pictures of the article Michigan are not hosted by them but directly form Wikipedia. That is not a nice thing to do. Walter 09:11, 15 Apr 2004 (UTC)
I just examined this site and they're no longer stealing bandwidth, and are now linking the article. I'd move them to high degree. Derrick Coetzee 13:03, 19 Oct 2004 (UTC)
They mention Wikipedia nowhere. High is not appropriate. Medium? JesseW 15:31, 19 Oct 2004 (UTC)
Mentioning Wikipedia is not required. However, information on authors is, and I couldn't find any. — Kate Turner | Talk 15:34, 2004 Oct 19 (UTC)
  • Each article links to the GFDL on www.gnu.org, and to the corresponding article on Wikipedia.
All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.
Source: Original text from the article in Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia: <article name>.
In my book, that puts them at least into medium compliance, which is where I will move them. -Rholton 05:17, 28 Nov 2004 (UTC)
Not functioning as described in examples 23:04, 20 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Armageddon Online

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

[edit] Armeniapedia

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

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

[edit] ArsenalHQ

Arsenal HQ
URL http://www.arsenalhq.com/
Sample http://www.arsenalhq.com/history.php
Rating None
Details Direct copy of History of Arsenal F.C. (specifically, this version) but marked "All Rights Reserved". No credit to Wikipedia.
Contact info Details available here.
Actions Violation letter sent. Qwghlm

[edit] Art History Club

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

[edit] articles.co.nr

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


[edit] Artilifes.com

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

[edit] Artistopia

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

[edit] ArtLine.ro

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

[edit] ArtPolitic

[edit] Atlas Words

  • Site: http://www.atlaswords.com

[edit] Arts and Design Info

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

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

[edit] Asia Information 01

  • Site: Asia Information 01
  • Mentions GNU FDL license and links to a local copy of it
  • Acknowledges Wikipedia authorship.
  • No link to original article
  • Offline since Nov. 2005 [10]

[edit] Asinah.net

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

[edit] ask.dyndyns.dk

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

[edit] AskFactMaster

AskFactMaster
URL http://askfactmaster.com/enc-en/
Sample http://askfactmaster.com/?title=United%20States
Rating Medium
Details There is a text notice saying "This article is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License. It uses material from the Wikipedia article" (the actual name of the article does not appear). There is no link to the original article or the GFDL and they do not include the history section. All instances of Wikipedia are changed to AskFactMaster.com (e.g. http://askfactmaster.com/?title=Wikipedia) but there is no history section entry for this change.
    • Now links to GFDL at gnu.org 22:40, 27 September 2007 (UTC)
Contact info support AT lukol.com, abuse AT sagonet.com (host)
Actions
  • Emailed support AT top-greetings.com asking for a plain-text notice with links to the GFDL and original article. I also asked for replacements (Wikipedia->AskFactMaster.com) to be reversed (or a history section entry added). Superm401 - Talk 22:30, 19 February 2006 (UTC)
  • Received reply stating "I'll address the issues you mentioned in details within several days and will get back to you." Superm401 - Talk 06:38, 23 February 2006 (UTC)
  • Sent followup asking that GFDL be hosted locally and that he link to actual article not main page. Superm401 - Talk 00:17, 6 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] assault-weapons.com

[edit] AssistiveTechnology.cc

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

[edit] Avapedia

Avapedia
URL http://atla.wikispaces.com/
Sample http://atla.wikispaces.com/Aang, http://atla.wikispaces.com/Zuko, http://atla.wikispaces.com/Azula
Rating Undetermined
Details Site links back to specific Wikipedia articles in a few cases, but most Wikipedia links are generic, and all together absent in some articles. Notice appears licensing all contributed content under GFDL, with link to http://www.gnu.org/licenses/fdl.html#TOC1.
Contact info help AT wikispaces.com (for the hosting site, only email I could find)
Actions None as of yet.

[edit] avoo.com

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

[edit] azplayers.com

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

[edit] B

[edit] Backgammon.co.uk

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

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

ptkfgs 04:54, 4 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Backgammoned.net

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

ptkfgs 20:23, 7 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Baghdad Museum

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


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

[edit] BambooWeb Dictionary

  • Site: http://www.bambooweb.com/
  • At the bottom of every article page is a link to the Wikipedia article and a notice that says it is from wikipedia and under the GFDL.

[edit] Banglavasha

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

[edit] Barry's Tickets

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


[edit] Basic Famous People

Basic Famous People and Basic Celebrations
URL http://www.basicfamouspeople.com/ and http://www.basiccelebrations.com/
Sample http://www.basicfamouspeople.com/index.php?aid=899 and http://www.basiccelebrations.com/
Rating Low/None
Details No mention of Wikipedia or the GFDL on either. Basic Famous People says both "It is believed that all material on this web site is in the public domain." and "Basic Famous People Copyright © 2004 - 2006 By Steven J. Hayes. All rights reserved. " Both are completely wrong. The Famous People site modifies the articles, removing external links and references and changing formatting. Basic Famous People copies biographical articles. Basic Celebrations copies our date pages (such as February 25). It has only a copyright notice.
Contact info sjhayes2 AT verizon.net (whois), abuse AT godaddy.com (host and registrar)
Actions Sent standard violation letter to whois address and address given on site. Superm401 - Talk 19:43, 25 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] BBC Music

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

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

Disclaimers at the end of the article state that:

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

[edit] 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)

[edit] Bibleocean

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

[edit] BigMac.biz

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

[edit] BIGpedia

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

[edit] Biocrawler

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

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

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

[edit] Biodatabase.de

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

[edit] Biographicon.com

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

[edit] Biography Base

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

[edit] 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)

[edit] Biolicense.net

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

[edit] Biology Daily

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

[edit] bird-center.net

Seems to be HIGH compliance, as far as I can see. Will someone move them to that list, please? JesseW 20:34, 11 August 2005 (UTC)
  • Server not found --Rumping 16:38, 23 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] BirminghamUK.com

[edit] bizgos.com

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

[edit] Blinkybits

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

[edit] Blogspot

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

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

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

Actions

[edit] bobby-fischer.net

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

[edit] bookonlinesale.com

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

[edit] bookrags.com

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

[edit] Bookyards

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

[edit] bopedia.com

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

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

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

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

[edit] borgfind

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

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

[edit] 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)

[edit] bowise.com

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

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

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

[edit] BT Research

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

[edit] 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)

[edit] Braindex

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

[edit] BrainyEncyclopedia

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

[edit] Brandt.kurowski.net

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


[edit] Brassbandinformation.co.uk

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

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

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

[edit] Brendaadderly.com

[edit] BrisWiki

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

[edit] Britain tv

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

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

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

[edit] Brough's Books

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

[edit] Bvio

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

[edit] C

[edit] 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

[edit] Campus Empire

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

[edit] Campusprogram.com

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

[edit] Canbet.com

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

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

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

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

[edit] Canineconcepts.co.uk

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

[edit] Caninecrib

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

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

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

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

[edit] captaincopyright.ca

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

[edit] caribbean-forum.com

LarsSanders 17:33, 3 August 2005 (UTC)

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

[edit] CaribbeanMD

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

[edit] Carlos Zambrano

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

[edit] CARluvers

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

[edit] 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)


[edit] 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)

[edit] Celebrity Fuzz

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

[edit] Celebrityspy.org

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

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

[edit] CelebRoad

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

[edit] Champions (UK) Plc After Dinner Speakers

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

[edit] 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)

[edit] Chemistry Daily

  • Site: Chemistry Daily - the chemistry encyclopedia
  • Seems to have a pretty much complete copy of the WP database - including non-chemistry articles. [23]
  • 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 [24] are pretty good though, including copy of GFDL license, plus reference to wikipedia.
  • Annoying popups and JavaScript.

[edit] 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)

[edit] 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)

[edit] 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

[edit] Chinese Psychology Online

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

[edit] 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)

[edit] citiesamerica.com

  • As of 16:46, 06 Feb 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Citizendium

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

Geni 01:19, 26 March 2007 (UTC)

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

[edit] citymayors.com

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

[edit] Civil-War.ws

See Wikipedia:Mirrors_and_forks/Mno#Otherground

[edit] Classic TV & Movie Hits

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

[edit] Cleartest.com

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

[edit] clearups.com

clearups.com
URL http://www.clearups.com/
Sample http://www.clearups.com/af.html
Rating "Low/None"
Details [26] "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

[edit] clubblogs.com

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

[edit] Clusty

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

Talk 01:34, 20 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] CNET

[edit] codeboy.net

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

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

[edit] collectionagencysupport.com

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

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

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

Actions none


[edit] colombialink.com

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

[edit] Comedy Zone

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

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

[edit] Compwisdom.com

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

[edit] concordchrysler300.com

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

[edit] Conk

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

[edit] Connect Online

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

[edit] Conservapedia

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

[edit] Consumer's Research Council of America

Consumer's Research Council of America
URL http://www.consumersresearchcncl.org
Sample http://www.consumersresearchcncl.org/Healthcare/Dermatologists/derma_chapter1.html (compare [27], which shows page was put together on wiki slowly)
Rating "Low/None"
Details Poor compliance: "Copyright © Consumers' Research Council of America. All rights reserved. "
Contact info See [28], [29]
Actions none yet

[edit] 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)

[edit] Cooking Vinyl UK

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

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

Actions None yet

[edit] Cooldictionary.com

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

[edit] 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)

[edit] 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

[edit] Creekin.net

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

[edit] Crystalinks.com

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

[edit] CultureCentric

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

[edit] Cunnan

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

[edit] CuteWalls.com

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

cyberpedia.net
URL http://cyberpedia.net/
Sample http://www.cyberpedia.net/info.php?title=Immune_system
Rating Medium
Details Mentions wikipedia, links to original article. Mentions gfdl, links to the GNU project site
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[edit] Cyese.info

  • Google suggests copy of some articles (e.g. [[30]] should have a copy of Polyol) but protected behind registration requirement --Henrygb 18:21, 11 November 2005 (UTC)
  • Site ont found, as of 00:06, 14 April 2006 (UTC). Chris Chan.talk.contribs

[edit] cytaty.servis.pl

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