Wikipedia:Mirrors and forks/Def

• Person: Pawel Chodaczek
• Address: AdPilot
• address: Kordeckiego 31/17
• address: 05-230 Kobylka
• e-mail: pch007 AT gmail.com
• phone: +48 0507012835

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

• Phone: 1-480-624-2599
• Email: DATAFORMATO.COM AT domainsbyproxy.com
• http://who.godaddy.com/whois.aspx?domain=dataformato.com&prog_id=godaddy
• http://domainsbyproxy.com/LegalAgreement.aspx (postal address for legal issues)

• Sent standard violation letter to lgoffi AT hotmail.com . Superm401 - Talk 02:02, 27 February 2006 (UTC)
• Sent standard followup to jessica AT interactivegroupinc.net. Superm401 - Talk 09:55, 9 January 2007 (UTC)

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

• Site is still unchanged (2007/12/07)

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

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

• Each page gives correct (sortof) license at the bottom, but the link to further information on the license (the link "copyright") does not lead to a functioning page. No proper explaining of the GFDL, and no backlinks to Wikipedia.
• References to Wikipedia are not explicit, even though Wikimedia is mentioned.
• A bottom link pointing to About:DictionPedia leads to a page about Wikipedia.
• The site is heavily filled with Google AdSense Ad's etc.
• What's worse, the site's main page which is simply a search field, claims that content is (C) DictionPedia.
• The page title still has "Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia"!

• Mentions Wikipedia.
• Tries to link to the original article, but with bad URL.
• Mentions og links to GFDL at GNU page.
• See Wikipedia:Mirrors and forks/Vwxyz#zdnet.co.za.
• Two 'random article' links at bottom link to two other .za websites.
• Home page does not work anymore.

• rmckay AT hotmail.com (admin; Mr. Russell McKay)
• abuse AT theplanet.com (ISP)
• copyright AT theplanet.com (ISP)

• Sent standard violation notice to webmaster AT earth-history.com. Superm401 - Talk 01:22, 3 January 2007 (UTC)
  • Got email delivery error. Superm401 - Talk 02:02, 3 January 2007 (UTC)
• Resent to webmaster AT GEERTS.COM. Superm401 - Talk 02:34, 10 January 2007 (UTC)

eBaum's World

P.O. Box 18091

Rochester, NY 14618

• Sent standard letter via e-mail. -Rholton 17:22, 3 Dec 2004 (UTC)
• Sent followup letter to enquiries AT ebroadcast.com.au . Superm401 - Talk 06:00, 10 January 2007 (UTC)

Hi. This is the qmail-send program at yahoo.com.
I'm afraid I wasn't able to deliver your message to the following 
addresses.
This is a permanent error; I've given up. Sorry it didn't work out.

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

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

• Sent standard letter to RobKohr AT RobKohr.com . Superm401 - Talk 06:36, 10 January 2007 (UTC)
  • Got "Disc quota exceeded by recipient" mailer-daemon error. Superm401 - Talk 06:42, 10 January 2007 (UTC)

• Left a note about GFDL compliance on User talk:206.253.147.54 who added a spam link to the site on The Scream and Edvard Munch.
• Sent standard letter to Webmaster AT EdvardMunch.Info . Superm401 - Talk 06:45, 10 January 2007 (UTC)

• Sent letter to team AT allaboutall.info asking for link to original article and onsite GFDL. Superm401 - Talk 07:14, 11 January 2007 (UTC)
  • Received reply from ssamoylov AT gmail.com, noting that there is a link to the original article. Replied back asking for local link to the GFDL. Superm401 - Talk 23:51, 11 January 2007 (UTC)

• Sent letter to pws AT parwebsolutions.com asking for local GFDL link. Superm401 - Talk 07:12, 12 January 2007 (UTC)
  • Said he would add link soon. Superm401 - Talk 01:11, 14 March 2007 (UTC)

• Sent letter to address above asking that notice links be underlined. Superm401 -

Talk 07:06, 12 January 2007 (UTC)

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

• Not always link to current version of article
• Not always link to GFDL

• Sent standard letter. There is no webmaster email address posted, so I posted it on the forum. Vacuum c 21:14, August 18, 2005 (UTC)
• Sent another standard letter to kosmoi AT btinternet.com . Superm401 - Talk 07:47, 12 January 2007 (UTC)
  • Received response noting that Social_Science/Anthropology was fixed and promising to fix others ASAP. Superm401 - Talk 19:25, 1 June 2007 (UTC)

All Wikipedia content is licenced under the GNU Free Documentation License." It links to the original article and an offsite GFDL.

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• Sent email to jitendrajain AT gmail.com asking for CSS fix, local GFDL link, and link to original article. Superm401 - Talk 05:41, 13 January 2007 (UTC)
  • Received reply from jitendrajain AT gmail.com noting that he had changed the GFDL link. Unfortunately, it is now broken, but this will hopefully change. He falsely claimed the notice looked fine in Firefox (my browser) and I replied, correcting him and noting that the notice must be legible to everyone. Finally, he expressed doubt about his scripting ability and noting that the dump type the site used is no longer available. I said neither the GFDL nor the CSS required scripting, and that adding a link to the original article should be relatively easy. Superm401 - Talk 09:15, 13 January 2007 (UTC)
    • Received reply noting that GFDL link has been fixed, but doubting that CSS overlay every displayed wrong. He also said the pages were static, and thus it would be difficult to add a link to the original article. I replied thanking him for fixing the GFDL (but noting a couple of insignificant issues with that). I attached a screenshot of the notice on my browser to show the problem. Finally, I asked him how he had modified the GFDL link if the pages were static, and what OS he had. Superm401 - Talk 22:12, 13 January 2007 (UTC)

• The terms of use state:
  • All copyright ... in eslbase.com and its content ... are owned by or licensed to eslbase.com or otherwise used by eslbase.com as permitted by law.
  • In accessing eslbase.com you agree that you will access the content solely for your personal, non-commercial use. None of the content may be downloaded, copied, reproduced, transmitted, stored, sold or distributed without the prior written consent of the copyright holder.

No mention is made of the GFDL here.

• Standard letter sent by Angela, 11 November 2003 via the feedback form on their site.
  • Sent standard provider letter to abuse AT beeb.net . Superm401 - Talk 07:05, 13 January 2007 (UTC)

• Standard email sent. -Rholton 02:21, 25 Nov 2004 (UTC)
  • Sent email to m.gutting AT comcast.net asking for GFDL to be re-uploaded, and for better notice text and formatting. Superm401 - Talk 07:34, 13 January 2007 (UTC)
    • Received reply from support AT everythingpreschool.com (correct address) noting that the GFDL was reuploaded and the disclaimer improved. I replied thanking them but noting that part was cut off. I also brought up some wording problems. Superm401 - Talk 22:57, 13 January 2007 (UTC)
      • Received another reply from support AT everythingpreschool.com . Notice was improved to note copyright and GFDL requirements, and is less cut off now. I replied suggesting using SSI instead of an iframe. Superm401 - Talk 03:00, 14 January 2007 (UTC)
        • He said he would look into it. Superm401 - Talk 03:00, 14 January 2007 (UTC)
          • Received email noting that he had replaced the iframe with an include! Superm401 - Talk 04:08, 14 January 2007 (UTC)

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

Dear Sir/Madam,

As creator of the images used on http://explanation-guide.info/meaning/Gbe-languages.html, http://explanation-guide.info/meaning/African-languages.html, and http://explanation-guide.info/meaning/Nilo-Saharan-languages.html (all copies of the Wikipedia articles of the same title) I object to your use of them.

The images are released under the Creative Commons Attribution License 2.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0). Explanation-Guide, unlike Wikipedia, does not give the required attribution, thereby violating the license.

I trust that you resolve this issue soon, either by not using the images or by giving proper attribution to the creator.

Thank you,

Mark Dingemanse

Dear Mr. Dingemanse,

Please accept my apologies: I was not aware that the images are licensed separately to the texts. Thankyou for pointing this out.

As a short-term solution we have linked each image to an information page which links to the relevant page at Wikipedia. I hope this established attribution. We will try and add a more user-friendly and informative solution in the near future.

Yours sincerely

Lawrence Smith

Dear Mr. Smith,

thank you for your quick response. However, the short-term solution you propose does not work at present for the images I mentioned. The problem is that the respective Wikipedia articles contain scaled down versions of the original images. In the Wikipedia articles, this scaled down version is linked to the original image and to the attribution information, thereby fulfilling the license requirements. On explanation-guide, this link is lost, the scaled down version is copied, and the information page instead refers to a non-existent page on Wikipedia. Which leaves the issue unresolved.

I do trust that you will find a solution soon.

Thank you,

Mark Dingemanse

Dear Mr. Dingemanse,

Once again my apologies. The links now take into account scaling issues and link to the correct Wikipedia page.

Yours sincerely

Lawrence Smith

• Sent letter to info AT explanation-guide.info asking that image links be fixed. Superm401 - Talk 07:56, 13 January 2007 (UTC)
  • Got mailer-daemon error. Resent to ls_services_eire AT yahoo.ie . Superm401 - Talk 09:00, 13 January 2007 (UTC)

• First email sent with a proposal for improvement. Andre Engels 00:03, 10 Feb 2004 (UTC)
  • Reaction: "We will take up your suggestion during our next database/site update." Andre Engels 10:37, 10 Feb 2004 (UTC)
  • This has been updated. (ezresult webmaster) 10:37, 10 Feb 2004 (UTC)

Received reply: "I will sort out the articles where there is use of wiki articles and put the info beneath it! Thanks for understanding. If I can be of any further assistance, do not hesitate to contact me! Alvin van Wunnik". I assume compliance is only a matter of time now! Chase me ladies, I'm the Cavalry 23:12, 22 October 2007 (UTC)

states: "This article is from Wikipedia. All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License." but ends with "copyright ? 2004 FactsAbout.com"

• Standard letter sent. --snoyes 18:34, 9 Dec 2003 (UTC)

• Standard follow-up sent by mav 10:53, 4 Jan 2004 (UTC)

• Still not compliant. Lotsofissues 06:48, 11 May 2005 (UTC)

• Still not compliant. Jespley 21:08, 20 September 2006 (UTC)

Sent out a second email, specifying contents of first email and the requirement to comply. Chase me ladies, I'm the Cavalry 02:36, 22 October 2007 (UTC)

Received an email in reply from Mark Ayres. Email states: "Thanks for your email and your comments regarding GFDL compliance at www.famouspeople.co.uk. I have no record and don't recall receiving the earlier email that you refer too. However, we've reviewed the licence [again] to try and clarify your comments, and we stand corrected on a few points. Personally I don't find this licence a very straightforward one to interpret, but I agree that some changes are needed. As such we've added a locally hosted copy of the licence rather than the remote one at FSI, and this page is linked to by the text "GNU Free Documentation License" on every page on the site. The "Copyright 2007Splashweb, all rights reserved" statement was actually changed some weeks ago to "Copyright Statement. FamousPeople.co.uk is published by Splashweb".The "Copyright Statement" link leads to an updated Copyright Statement page with a link, in context, through to the copy of the licence. Many thanks for highlighting these points, not only to help ensure that compliance, but also these changes will make the copyright issue clearer to our visitors.". Site seems to be in 'medium' compliance from now. Chase me ladies, I'm the Cavalry 22:53, 22 October 2007 (UTC)

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

Received response stating they would ignore copyright complaints that were not in the form of a DMCA takedown notice. Superm401 - Talk 16:46, 21 January 2006 (UTC). The GFDL link issue has been corrected.

• No mention of Wikipedia. (without JS)
• No mention of GFDL. (without JS)

• cnreg AT hichina.com
• bjnic AT bjtelecom.net (host?)

• Standard letter sent 3 December 2005 AJR - Talk 00:36, 3 December 2005 (UTC)
  • Response received by email 13 December, now uses attribution text from Wikipedia:Copyrights#Example notice (links to GFDL at gnu.org and to source article at Wikipedia.) Apparently the non-compliance was accidental, in an email to me they say: "We are ready to fully comply with the requirements. It just dropped through bug detection. :(" -- AJR - Talk 17:04, 13 December 2005 (UTC)

• Copy-and-paste from the article West Bromwich Albion F.C.

• Standard violation letter sent. Superm401 - Talk 09:10, 22 January 2006 (UTC)
• Sent standard followup to bbdnx2000 AT fraudwatchernetwork.com. Superm401 - Talk 05:54, 19 January 2007 (UTC)

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

• Violation letter sent October 21 2004 Sjc 09:01, 21 Oct 2004 (UTC)
• Sent standard violation letter. Superm401 - Talk 04:39, 19 January 2007 (UTC)
  • I missed the section below. I should have customized the letter. Superm401 - Talk 05:04, 19 January 2007 (UTC)

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