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[edit] P

[edit] Paleorama.com

Paleorama
URL http://www.paleorama.com/
Sample http://www.paleorama.com/Eponyms-N/Nero.php
Rating Low/None
Details No link to original wiki or mention of GFDL. No obvious place for contact information Pictures and link apparently removed.
Contact info
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[edit] Pandapedia

[edit] Pantheon.org

  • Site: www.pantheon.org
  • Articles "by Micha F. Lindemans" are mirrors of out of<A title="Online Dating" style="COLOR: #65b45c; TEXT-DECORATION: underline" href="http://216.130.188.208/cgi-bin/ezlclk.fcgi?id=6718" target=_blank> date </A>versions of all mythology related articles. Actually, the articles predate the original entries in Wikipedia and have been copied by users without proper notice.
With stub notices and images etc. removed
  • Especially noticeable with articles that were confused - e.g. Banebdjed and Ba (now corrected in Wikipedia) - Ba (capital B) on Pantheon is described as if a totally different entity to Banebdjed, even though Ba is said to be in Mendes. No Egyptologist would ever make this mistake - Banebdjed means "Ba of the lord ('neb') of djed", and "djed" is the old name for Mendes, but Wikipedia used to have the "Ba of Mendes" and "Banebdjed" as different gods, which is exactly how Pantheon.org has it.
  • It even has the early version of Chem, something totally obviously wrong to anyone with any competence in the field (e.g. Chem = Ham and wears a womans dress. No. Chem is a misreading of "Min", and never wore a womans dress, although female deities were sometimes depicted as Min (including phallus), though always identifiable as to who they were). This error is very unlikely to be made without copying Wikipedia.
  • N.b. w.r.t. Egyptian mythology, the articles have been updated substantially in Wikipedia since April, so may no longer correspond.
  • Claims exclusive copyright, not GDFL, all rights reserved

[edit] peacelink.de

Peacelink
URL http://www.peacelink.de/keyword/Main_Page.php
Sample http://www.peacelink.de/keyword/Derbyshire.php
Rating Low
Details This appears to be a complete dump of Wikipedia based on the last modified date on the front page. There is a disclaimer at the top that "This is NOT the Wikipedia - The content is from the Wikipedia". However, only the last entry of the history is copied and there is no link to the original article, which means it is violating the GFDL. Also, the link to the GFDL is broken because only main namespace is copied. There are other violations. For example, the title of documents is not changed in contradiction of 4.A. of the GFDL.
Contact info cernik AT freewar.de
Actions Sent standard violation letter. Superm401 - Talk 02:07, 22 January 2006 (UTC). Received reply stating "Thank you for your advise. We will do so as soon as possible." Superm401 - Talk 05:52, 22 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] PediaPress

PediaPress
URL http://pediapress.com/
Sample http://pediapress.com/build/#article:Bristol%20Stool%20Scale
Rating High
Details Links GFDL and original Wikipedia article on every page
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[edit] Pediax

Pediax
URL http://en.pediax.org/
Sample http://en.pediax.org/Detroit,_Michigan
Rating Medium
Details "Content released under GFD-Licence" with a link to the article about the GFDL, not directly to an actual license text and links the corresponding Wikipedia articles on each page.
Contact info
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[edit] People's Daily

  • I posted a message. --mav 10:45, 4 Jan 2004 (UTC)
Wikipedians Montrealais and Menchi basically wrote that article from scratch, so it is original, to Wikipedia. I'd know, I'm Menchi and I think I know Montrealais well enough.
Well, if we ever had spare lawyers and wanted publicity, "Wikipedia sues Chinese government for copyright infringement" would be hilarious. =] --Delirium 12:29, Feb 6, 2004 (UTC)
Well, the PRC censors us, we sue them for copyvio. WooyiTalk to me? 21:15, 19 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] peti.pl

Peti
URL http://www.peti.pl/
Sample http://www.peti.pl/wiki/Mulberry_Street_%28Manhattan%29
Rating Low/None
Details links to GFDL at en.wikipedia.org
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[edit] personel.obec.go.th/

I was using WP and suddenly found I was not using WP but this site, which asked me to log in, but appeared exactly like WP and correctly searched for WP articles for editing. This may be a phishing site that was invaded WP. Peterkingiron 17:01, 10 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Pharma-help.com

Pharma-help.com
URL http://pharma-help.com/ Pharma-help.com
Sample http://pharma-help.com/bulimia-nervosa
Rating Medium.
Details Offsite GFDL but otherwise fine.
Contact info Contact form at http://pharma-help.com/contact-us
Actions None.


[edit] phillywire.com

  • Site: phillywire.com
  • No mention/link to GFDL in some articles
  • No mention of wikipedia
  • Instead _they_ claim copyright of the article(s)
  • Examples: [1], [2], [3]
  • They didn't list an email address to contact them, so I sent the standard GFDL vio letter to webmaster AT phillywire.com and admin AT phillywire.com --snoyes 04:46, 1 Dec 2003 (UTC)
    • Reply received: It is being worked on. --snoyes 17:43, 9 Dec 2003 (UTC)
    • Seems to be in 'almost' compliance now: Mentions Wikipedia, mentions GNU/FDL, links to article, links to GNU/FDL. Only minus points: says the article "uses material from" the Wikipedia article, where it seems to be copying almost-verbatim, and GNU/FDL is linked at gnu.org (can we propose to GNU to allow that for the next version?) Andre Engels 01:41, 17 Jan 2004 (UTC)
      • I think they are perfectly fine. No reason to be nit-picky, IMO. --mav 11:36, 18 Jan 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Phobia Finder

[edit] PhysicsDaily

PhysicsDaily
URL http://www.physicsdaily.com
Sample http://www.physicsdaily.com/physics/Lagrangian_mechanics
Rating Medium
Details Looks like a complete mirror. Notice that article is from Wikipedia and local link to GFDL (as part of larger document) on every page. They do not include a history section or link to original Wikipedia article. However, there are instructions in the copyright page for reaching the original Wikipedia article.
Contact info twfhc4zcxxgw9q AT protectfly.com (protected whois), http://www.registerfly.com/info/contact.php (registrar contact form)
Actions Emailed the registrar. Said they'll respond in a few hours; if they really do, I'll post details then. Superm401 - Talk 00:46, 6 November 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Piano Paradise

Piano Paradise
URL http://www.pianoparadise.com/composers1.html
Sample http://www.pianoparadise.com/vivaldi.html (appears to be this version (January 2004) of our article)
Rating Low/None
Details Complete lack of compliance. No mention of Wikipedia, no mention of GFDL, no links; a few dozen of our composer bios are used.
Contact info composer_biography AT pianoparadise.com
Actions Sent standard email to above address, March 18, 2006, but the email bounced. I've done nothing further. JamesMLane t c 15:13, 18 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Pinkjustis.info

[edit] Plant connect

  • Site: www.plantconnect.com
  • Example: www.plantconnect.com/plantconnect/mod.php?mod=plantpedia&title=London
  • States "This is an extract from Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia" with link to www.wikipedia.org
  • No obvious mention of or link to GFDL
  • No obvious link to original article
  • Ends with "Copyright � Total CAD Management 2002-2003 /m/0.59"

[edit] Plastic-dream-girl.com/fetishportal

[edit] Playfuls.com

Playfuls
URL http://www.playfuls.com/
Sample http://www.playfuls.com/news_05964_Nintendo_Signs_Exclusive_Contract_with_AP_for_Wii_News_Channel_.html from http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wii_Channels&oldid=103227525
Rating High (?)
Details They have responded to the followup email I sent. The article in question now has a link to the Wikipedia article, has been reworded to remove most or all of the verbatim copying, and has been placed under the GFDL. If there is any Wikipedia copying in other articles, I am unaware of it.
Contact info mail AT playfuls.com
Actions Two emails sent; they responded to the second.

[edit] Plastic-Surger

  • Site: [7]
  • Plastic surgery related pages
  • No compliance.

[edit] Plastics Wiki

  • Site: Plastics
  • The wiki about plastics & polymers
  • Links to Wikipedia and local copy of GFDL at the bottom of each article used

[edit] Pontefract Young Farmers

Pontefract Young Farmers
URL http://pontefract-yfc.co.uk/wiki.php
Sample http://pontefract-yfc.co.uk/wiki.php?title=Moose
Rating None
Details No mention of Wikipedia or the GFDL, no history pages. The site has every page on Wikipedia, including non-mainspace and special pages, and synchronizes them with Wikipedia every few seconds. All content exactly duplicated from Wikipedia without any attribution, credit, or mention.
Contact info Only contact information available is info AT pontefract-yfc.co.uk
Actions No actions taken yet.
  • site not found --Rumping (talk) 07:55, 5 June 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Pop Stars Plus

  • Site: PopStarsPlus.com
  • Includes link to Wikipedia and separate link to original article prominently at top of each article. Also includes "Date copied article: Month Day, Year"
  • WP articles do not appear on all pages - the site includes original articles as well.
  • Links to Wikipedia and local copy of GFDL at the bottom of each article used

[edit] PortalJuice

  • Site: Nextopia: PortalJuice
  • Uses full site, for "vertically focused Web search technology"; calls this Encyclopedia (BETA) project
  • Removes "from Wikipedia"
  • Links to Wikipedia and local copy of GFDL on each page


  • Links to GFDL
  • Acknowledges wikipedia

--Fritzlein 06:31, 5 Jul 2004 (UTC)

Moved from main page --Davelane 12:28, 14 Sep 2004 (UTC)

[edit] PostgreSQL General Bits

  • Site: PostgreSQL General Bits
  • Link to main page of Wikipedia
  • Very small section of article about Edgar F. Codd (1 paragraph)
  • No link to GFDL or the article

[edit] Powerset

Powerset
URL http://www.powerset.com
Sample http://www.powerset.com/explore/semhtml/Wives_of_Henry_VIII
Rating Medium
Details Prominently mentions Wikipedia and links to original article (link says "edit Wikipedia article"). Does not mirror image description pages. Says, "All Wikipedia content is licensed under the GNU Free Document License or the Creative Commons CC-BY-SA license or is otherwise used here in compliance with the Copyright Act" which is too vague. All Wikipedia text is GFDL (except quotes), but not all images are under one of these licenses (and it doesn´t even say which version of CC-BY-SA). Links to offsite copy of GFDL (and CC-BY-SA 2.0).
Contact info See http://www.powerset.com/contact/

info@powerset.com (general email)
415-848-7000 (phone)
Actions

[edit] prescriptiondrug-info.com

  • Site [8]
  • Mentions GFDL and links to source. appears to be a full mirror of everything includeing userpages.
    • Example www.prescriptiondrug-info.com/drug_information_online.asp?title=Cliff_Richard
    • Ends with "This article is from Wikipedia. All text is available under the terms of the GFDL (GNU Free Documentation License) | Source" with links to GFDL at gnu.org and to original article

[edit] protoillyrian

Protoillyrian
URL http://www.geocities.com/protoillyrian/
Sample http://www.geocities.com/protoillyrian/serb.html
Rating None
Details Uses at least Serbs without mention of Wikipedia or the GFDL. Extent of infringement undetermined.
Contact info copyright AT yahoo-inc.com
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[edit] pro-researcher.co.uk

  • Site: pro-researcher.co.uk
  • Mentions and links to the GFDL
  • States "Showing data from: Wikipedia - the free online encyclopaedia." on the front page
  • Links to source wikipedia articles
  • Posted by website owner to assess for compliance
  • acknowledges Wikipedia at the top and bottom of each article Manning
  • No history section.
  • Medium compliance.

[edit] Playstation 3 Market

Playstation 3 Market
URL http://www.ps3-market.co.uk/
Sample http://www.ps3-market.co.uk/sony-playstation-3-game-backward-compatibility/
Rating None
Details Unattributed copy/paste from earlier version of Playstation 3, including footnote references (but not the footnotes themselves)
Contact info
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[edit] Psihologie

Psihologie Solutii Psiholgice
URL http://grajdaru.3x.ro/news.php
Sample http://grajdaru.3x.ro/enciclopedia_en.php?title=Tourette_syndrome
Rating High
Details Attributes Wikipedia and links to local GFDL.
Contact info
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[edit] Psych Central

[edit] Public Domain art

  • Site: Public Domain art
  • Uses a part of the article about Public Domain (1 paragraph)
  • Mentions Wikipedia with no link
  • Contains a section of the Fair Use Doctrine of the U.S. Copyright Act, stating something about "fair use", but no GFDL Link.
  • More than one paragraph, AFAICT. Martin 10:22, 29 Aug 2003 (UTC)

[edit] Public Domain Content Encyclopedia

  • Site Public Domain Content Encyclopedia
  • Uses articles without attribution to WP, link to the WP article or link to the GFDL
  • Mentions WP and GFDL only on bottom of front page
  • See also this note: [9]
  • Administrator associated with scraper sites/link farms

[edit] Public School Review

Public School Review
URL [Publicschoolreview.com]
Sample Their use of the Oakton High School article
Rating "Medium" to "High" compliance with GFDL (matches Wikipedia:GFDL Compliance).
Details Takes Wikipedia school articles verbatim and copy/pastes them into their own site. Contacted them to cite the Westfield High School (Fairfax County, Virginia) article, which they did. Have asked them to comply for all of their site.
Contact info jcolayco AT publicschoolreview.com, information AT publicschoolreview.com
Actions Two emails sent to comply for the Westfield High School article. A third email sent asking for the entire site to comply. Awaiting response

[edit] Pythonland

  • Site [10].
  • Biographies mirrored from WP -- credits WP but no mention of GFDL.

[edit] Q

[edit] Quaest.io

See Informat.io

[edit] Quarrel Network

Quarrel Network
URL http://www.quarrel.net/
Sample http://www.quarrel.net/music/wiki.php?title=911th_Engineer_Company
Rating Low
Details No mention of GFDL. No link to wikipedia. "Quarrel.Network © 2005 All Rights Reserved." Does have an image (not text) with the word "Wikipedia" at the top of the article
Contact info Editor - webmaster AT quarrel.net
Actions None
  • Example leads to "Wikipedia Unfortunately, no content could be extracted!"--Rumping (talk) 08:02, 5 June 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Quickly Find

Quickly Find
URL www.quicklyfind.com
Sample www.quicklyfind.com/info/Astronomy.htm
Rating Medium.
Details Credits Wikipedia, but GFDL link goes offsite & lacks links to original articles.
Contact info Admin: Stephen Butler (steb AT stebsoft.com) ISP: EV1 Servers (domains AT ev1servers.net)
Actions None.


[edit] www.quotesplace.com

I'm not sure how they use Wikipedia, but they seem to use it. More resarch is needed. JesseW 06:22, 5 Nov 2004 (UTC)

  • It's a direct rip of Wikiquote. Here, compare Wikiquote's article on Pride and Prejudice and their Pride and Prejudice quotes. They do acknowledge the GFDL but don't really acknowledge the authors, as they credit Wikiquote as "SOURCE" and links to here, which is a non-existent page (not sure if this was done out of laziness or poor coding). The only think they really need is a link to the page that it was derived from. I think this should be under medium compliance. --Bash 04:57, 1 May 2005 (UTC)
  • Moved to medium compliance. --Bash 05:01, 1 May 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Qwika.com

  • Site: Qwika
  • No reference to Wikipedia or GNU-FDL, off the homepage. Even uses Monobook background to further confuse.

[edit] R

[edit] ranau.net

More research requested

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

[edit] Ratusan.com

  • Site: http://www.ratusan.com - selling jewelry
  • Example: [11] - most of Albania article
  • Page states "This article is from Wikipedia. All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License." with link to local copy of GFDL
  • No link to Wikipedia or original article
  • Page ends with "Copyright © 2004 - 2005 www.ratusan.com"
  • As of 00:04, 14 December 2005 (UTC) --Henrygb
    • No Wikipedia content on example --Rumping (talk) 08:08, 5 June 2008 (UTC)

[edit] read-and-go.hopto.org

Read and go
URL http://read-and-go.hopto.org/sitemap.html
Sample http://read-and-go.hopto.org/Investment-banks/Investment-bank.html<br> http://read-and-go.hopto.org/Romanian-painters/Corneliu-Baba.html
Rating Low/None
Details Without Javascript, there is no mention of Wikipedia or the GFDL. With Javascript, there is a bare link the original article. All text is copied wholesale with all the markup (and in-text mention of Wikipedia; see http://read-and-go.hopto.org/Wikipedia/Criticism-of-Wikipedia.html) stripped. There is no history section for these changes. Pages are surrounded by ads. Possibly search engine spam. Site map (http://read-and-go.hopto.org/sitemap.html) contains an index to articles, but omits all the 'W's.

Amusingly, loses many non-code-page-1252 characters. See Corneliu Baba example: "Iaşi" becomes "Iai"
Contact info jattsona [at] gmail.com
Actions Standard letter sent by Calair 01:38, 3 February 2006 (UTC)
  • Redirects to searchportal.information.com with no obvious Wikipedia content --Rumping (talk) 08:10, 5 June 2008 (UTC)


[edit] Real RnB

Curtis Mayfield
URL http://www.realrnb.com/forum/archive/index.php?t-12186.html
Sample http://www.realrnb.com/forum/archive/index.php?t-12186.html
Rating Low/None
Details Clearly this one article (Curtis Mayfield) was copied without credit. I haven't looked to see if the site copies anything else. - Jmabel
Contact info
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[edit] Recipeland.com

RecipeLand/RecipeFacts
URL http://www.recipeland.com/facts/
Sample http://www.recipeland.com/facts/USA
Rating High
Details Includes the following small print message at the bottom of every Wiki-derived page: "Wikitext content courtesy Wikipedia and the GNU Free Documentation License, click here to retrieve the original article from Wikipedia". Probably the only issue is the presence of a "Copyright ©1996-2005 metro.isp Inc & Sean Wenzel All rights reserved." notice just above the Wikipedia credit which makes it unclear that Wikipedia content is still copyright the Wikimedia foundation.
Contact info http://www.recipeland.com/feedback/
Actions none taken
  • Now redirects to en.wikipedia.org articles --Rumping (talk) 08:21, 5 June 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Rediff.com

Rediff.com: This will be the world's tallest building
URL http://www.rediff.com/
Sample http://inhome.rediff.com/cms/print.jsp?docpath=//money/2007/jun/07tall.htm
Rating None
Details Article includes substantial text identical to Burj Dubai, lacking any acknowledgment or citation, and bearing their own copyright: "(c) 2003 rediff.com India Limited. All Rights Reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed."
Contact info couldn't find any
Actions none

Fredwerner 03:39, 10 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Redshort.com

See Wikipedia:Mirrors_and_forks/Vwxyz#zipox

[edit] Reference.com

  • Site: http://www.reference.com/
  • Example: Article on "ipso facto"
  • Acknowledges Wikipedia and links to Wikipedia:Copyrights
    • also ends each page with its own "Copyright © 2005, Lexico Publishing Group, LLC. All rights reserved."
  • Mentions and links to the GFDL at gnu.org
  • Links to source Wikipedia article
    • and to Wikipedia history page
  • Links to edit Wikipedia article
  • Links to Wikimedia Foundation donations page

[edit] Reprtz.net

[edit] Rickygervais.com

  • Site: http://www.rickygervais.com
  • The page http://www.rickygervais.com/karlpilkington.php uses content from Karl Pilkington
  • Source is mentioned: "from the online encyclopedia, Wikipedia..."
  • Claims copyright of text: "copyright © Ricky Gervais 2004 - 2005"
  • No mention of GFDL
  • No link to original article
    • Standard violation letter sent 5th January 2006. --Kwekubo 01:28, 5 January 2006 (UTC)
    • Update: article now links to original article and to GFDL, and no longer claims copyright. Seems fully compliant now. --Kwekubo 21:33, 5 January 2006 (UTC)
  • No history section. Medium compliance. Uncle G 12:19, 5 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] referenceencyclopedia.com

  • Site: referenceencyclopedia.com
  • Example: referenceencyclopedia.com/?title=Dollar_sign
  • States: This page is based on the copyrighted Wikipedia article ( Dollar_sign ); it is used under the GNU Free Documentation License
  • Links to Wikipedia and original article, and to GFDL at gnu.org
    • No longer seems to have Wikipedia content --Rumping (talk) 08:24, 5 June 2008 (UTC)

[edit] River-Styx.net

River-Styx.net
URL http://www.river-styx.net/index2.htm
Sample http://www.river-styx.net/aztec.htm; compare Mictlantecuhtli
Rating "Low/None"
Details This site contains a number of pages on mythological underworlds and deities, most if not all the text appearing is pieced together from a variety of wikipedia articles, alongside material apparently sourced from elsewhere. There is no visible link to or acknowledgement of wikipedia, or the GFDL, on any of the pages. The pages also contain a number of wikipedia imgs and photos, likewise uncredited. The site does acknowledge some sources of (non-wiki) material and imgs, although I suspect those tagged with "image courtesy of.." does not mean they've obtained explicit permission. Most likely an unwitting GFDL violation on the part of the website.
Contact info info [at] river-styx [dot] net
Actions none yet taken.

--cjllw ʘ TALK 06:54, 29 May 2007 (UTC)


[edit] Romanian Portal

Romanian Portal
URL http://www.romanian-portal.com
Sample http://www.romanian-portal.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=4018&PN=1
Rating "Low/None"
Details I have no idea how much of the site is plagiarized from us, but the sample page I've given is clearly a series of plagiarisms from Wikipedia, perhaps all directly from the Romanian Wikipedia, perhaps some translated from others.
Contact info By snail mail: Romanian-Portal.com; P.O. Box 957633; Hoffman Estates, IL 60195
By E-mail: info AT Romanian-Portal.com
By phone/fax: 1-847-755-5584
Actions None taken.

[edit] Rootsweb

23:16, 10 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] RSA article

  • Site: RSA article
  • No visible link to current Wikipedia article
  • no link to GFDL
  • Standard letter sent by: ?
  • It is an HTML copy of the print version so "Retrieved from "http://www.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=RSA"" is on the page. But there still isn't a link to the GFDL. We really should add that to our print page template. --mav 02:19 24 Jul 2003 (UTC)
    • Example 404 not found --Rumping (talk) 08:27, 5 June 2008 (UTC)

[edit] RC-Wiki

RC-Wiki
URL http://www.rc-wiki.com/
Sample http://www.rc-wiki.com/wiki/Radio_control
Rating "Low/None"
Details RC-related article fork, does neither mention Wikipedia nor GFDL
Contact info RC-Wiki
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[edit] RxWiki

RxWiki
URL http://www.rxwiki.com/
Sample http://www.rxwiki.com/index.php?title=Ergoline
Rating None
Details Pharmacology-related article fork, does neither mention Wikipedia nor GFDL
  • now mentions GFDL (and link to GFDL article) but not original source 08:30, 5 June 2008 (UTC)
Contact info editor AT rxwiki.com, Mirixa Corporation 703-683-1955
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