Wikipedia:Mirrors and forks

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Mirrors and forks of Wikipedia are sites that mirror and fork Wikipedia. Many correctly follow the licensing terms; however, many others fail to put the notice accidentally or intentionally. Such pages are listed below in alphabetical order. If you find such links, make sure you add them there. When posting links, make sure you include <nowiki> and </nowiki> around the links so that search engines do not cache or index them (once they do, it is hard to remove):

List new mirrors in the appropriate alphabetical section:

#ABC - DEF - GHI - JKL - MNO - PQR - STU - VWXYZ

Also include them on the GFDL compliance page.

Use this form to add new ones: 
===name===
{{Mirror
|       name = <name of the webpage> (not url)
|        url = <nowiki>URL</nowiki>
|     sample = <nowiki>URL</nowiki>
|     rating = "High", "Medium", or "Low/None" compliance with GFDL (matches Wikipedia:GFDL Compliance).
| compliance = Describe details of compliance or lack thereof. List violations here.
|    contact = E-mail, phone number of admin and ISP.
|     action = Actions taken (if any) to attempt to make the website comply.
}}

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[edit] License

Wikipedia's license, the GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) requires that any derivative of works from Wikipedia must be released under that same license, must state that it is released under that license, and reproduce a complete copy of the license in all copies of the work, and must acknowledge the main authors (which some claim can be accomplished with a link back to that article on Wikipedia). To quote the GFDL 1.2, section 2:

You may copy and distribute the Document in any medium, either commercially or noncommercially, provided that this License, the copyright notices, and the license notice saying this License applies to the Document are reproduced in all copies, and that you add no other conditions whatsoever to those of this License. You may not use technical measures to obstruct or control the reading or further copying of the copies you make or distribute. However, you may accept compensation in exchange for copies. If you distribute a large enough number of copies you must also follow the conditions in section 3.

For details about Wikipedia's interpretation of the GFDL, see Wikipedia:Copyrights. However, always remember that only the GFDL is legally binding.

Note that all notices and/or links must be visible to all users who can see the content. Thus, CSS and JavaScript-only links and/or notices are not acceptable if the Wikipedia article is plain HTML.

The license does not apply to material in the public domain or that is used under fair use. Also, material can be used under other terms if and only if all contributors have approved them.

The web sites listed on the "compliance" pages below use content original to Wikipedia as a source for at least some of their content. Wikipedia itself is not included.

[edit] GFDL compliance

If the following websites have not followed the rules above, any person willing may notify them, but it is preferable that a Wikipedia contributor to an article they have copied does so. A possible process is given in the non-compliance section below.

Please add newly discovered sites to one of the following pages: (in their proper alphabetical place)

(Numbers) ABC - DEF - GHI - JKL - MNO - PQR - STU - VWXYZ

You can see all sites on one page. There is also an archive of sites which are no longer active.

Also, please list the page, using a link to its alphabetical place, on the following lists:

[edit] Non-compliance process

This section describes the steps that might be taken on discovering a new site that uses Wikipedia content.
Note that Wikipedia does not give legal advice. Contributors retain their own copyright for submitted work.

If you do contact a website about infringement relating to work originally submitted to Wikipedia, please note it on the relevant subpage listed above. Doing this will help co-ordinate activities in helping other websites become compliant with our licence, without webmasters feeling harassed by lots of angry no compliance notices.

You may want to consider using a disposable e-mail address for this: since many of the websites listed here are built for advertising purposes, spamming is a possibility. Also, if the owner is planning to shut down the webpage, or remove the Wikipedia content as a whole, suggest to them that they use robots.txt or meta tags so we can remove and prevent future search engine indexing and caching for those websites. Also, if the owner is reachable, suggest that s/he update her/his Wiki with the latest database dumps to keep up with recent changes.

[edit] Steps

This is not an official guideline but a tool you can use for dealing with infringement. Continue the series below as long as the site is non-compliant.

  1. Send a standard GFDL violation letter to the site owner. You can use a whois lookup to get contact info if it is not otherwise available.
  2. One week (or more) later, send a follow-up reminder.
  3. Three weeks (or more) later, send a final warning, noting that continued infringement will result in a DMCA takedown notice being sent to their ISP.
  4. Two weeks (or more) later, send a DMCA takedown notice to the ISP, enumerating articles that infringe your copyright. Note separately that the site also violates the copyrights of others. To find the appropriate address, first search the ISP's website. To find the ISP, you can: enter the domain name in the DNS search at http://dnsstuff.com, then click the IP. First search the ISP's site for a legal address. If that doesn't work, try to look them up at http://www.copyright.gov/onlinesp/list/ . If they're not in the directory, send the notice to the abuse address. Note that sites are not legally required to accept DMCA notices. If they don't the only recourse is legal action.

[edit] Remote loading

Some mirrors load a page from the Wikimedia servers directly every time someone requests a page from them. They alter the text in some way, such as framing it with ads, then send it on to the reader. This is called remote loading, and it is an unacceptable use of Wikimedia server resources. Even remote loading websites with little legitimate traffic can generate significant load on our servers, due to search engine web crawlers.

If you suspect a website is remote loading Wikipedia content, you can report it at meta:Live mirrors. In most cases they will be blocked.

The appropriate way to run a mirror is to download a dump of the compressed 'pages-article' file and the images from http://download.wikimedia.org/, and then use a modified instance of MediaWiki to generate the required HTML, along with above mentioned copyrights information. Please use Articles, templates, image descriptions, and primary meta-pages (pages-articles.xml.bz2) for mirroring purposes.

[edit] Copies of this list

A separate list of sites that utilise Wikipedia content is maintained at http://openfacts.berlios.de/index-en.phtml?title=Copies_of_Wikipedia_content. This list consists primarily of complete copies of all Wikipedia articles. It is intended to show readers where they can get Wikipedia content when Wikipedia itself is down.

*Please add new sites to one of the pages listed at GFDL compliance.

[edit] See also

Wikipedia
Wikimedia