Wikipedia: Mirrors and forks/Stu

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SearchEnterpriseLinux.com

Site: SearchEnterpriseLinux.com
Contains a small section of the article about vendor lock-in
Mentions Wikipedia, but has no link
No GFDL Link
- Seems fair use. Andre Engels 01:50, 17 Jan 2004 (UTC)

SearchSpaniel.com

Site: SearchSpaniel.com

More research requested.

www.sicherheitsmeister.com

Site: www.sicherheitsmeister.com
seems to be a complete copy from end of May 2004 (contained 5 out of the 5 random articles I tried)
every page mentions based in parts on the wikipedia project, the free encyclopedia, which will stay free always
every article page contains mentioning of the GNU FDL (but the link is broken)
no authors mentioned, page history is last edit only
no images

regards, High on a tree

www.smartpedia.com

Site: www.smartpedia.com

More research requested. JesseW 06:49, 5 Nov 2004 (UTC)

SCA wiki

Site: SCA wiki
Link & mention of GFDL
No link to/credit given to wikipedia article; only a generic notice: "some of the initial information in Cunnan was taken from the Wikipedia but has been, or will be rewritten to make it relevant to people interested in medieval re-enactment"
Example: [1]
- As this is another wiki it is hard to control what other users put in. There is a general directive on the Village Pump to credit all wikipedia articles appropriately, and there has been a recent effort by several users to track down and tag such pages when they have become apparent. Even considering that the citation here was not appropriately credited, I am not entirely sure why this was listed as a low compliance site when there were both links to wikipedia and GFDL. Conrad Leviston 13:13, 21 Jun 2004 (UTC)

SmartPedia

Site: SmartPedia
Status changed to medium compliance. Kwekubo 15:33, 20 Jun 2004 (UTC)

Snazon.com

Site: Snazon.com
Example: http://www.snazon.com/encyclopedia/wiki/wiki.phtml?title=Wikipedia:Votes_for_deletion (from ca Nov 17 2003)
Contains "From Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia" text
Mentions Wikipedia, but link is local (to copy of Wikipedia:About), not to us
Link to GNU FDL does not work -404 error.
No link to article.

Star Trek: USS Scorpion

Site: Star Trek: USS Scorpion
The page known allies combines material from various Wikipedia pages, possibly with other text included as well.
No mention of Wikipedia
No mention of the GNU/FDL

StudioReview

Site: StudioReview
many articles on this site are verbatim copies of Wikipedia articles (too many to list; as with KnowledgeGeek, all content may actually be driven dynamically or statically off Wikipedia)
no mention of Wikipedia
no mention of GFDL
admin and domain registrant of site is Ron Vreeland and has the following contact addresses: mailto:ron@cherone.com , mailto:webmaster@studioreview.com
site is listed as a supporter of KnowledgeGeek (also accused of non-compliance) and appears to be driven by same or similar content and engine as KnowledgeGeek

Seems to have undergone same improvements as KnowledgeGeek.com. Largely compliant now? --Ds13 06:53, 2004 Mar 21 (UTC)

SmartPedia

Site: SmartPedia

(Upgraded from low compliance)

Apparently only Wikipedia content
No mention of any copyright other than:

at the bottom of the pages.

No mention of Wikipedia
No mention of GNU/FDL
No link to original article

First standard letter sent by Kwekubo 20:40, 29 May 2004 (UTC)

As of May 31, Smartpedia now says in small type at bottom:

"This document is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL), which means that you can copy and modify it as long as the entire work (including additions) remains under this license.

GFDL | SOURCE"

GFDL links to the gnu.org text, and SOURCE links to the Wikipedia article, but there is no actual text credit given to Wikipedia.

On the main page: "Smartpedia is run by the non-profit Wikimedia Foundation." Someone going to write them? This is not only a cheek, it could also get us into legal trouble. -- stw (Talk) 20:48, 15 Jul 2004 (UTC)

ScienceDaily

Site: ScienceDaily

(basically all wikipedia articles)

link to current version of article & Wikipedia main page
link to the GFDL on www.gnu.org

San Luis Obispo Bill of Rights Defense Committee

Site: San Luis Obispo Bill of Rights Defense Committee
Only uses opening paragraph from USA PATRIOT Act.
Mentions Wikipedia, and provides link to article.
No GFDL mention.
Almost certainly fair use.

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Teachersparadise.com

Site: Teachersparadise.com
Sample article - http://www.teachersparadise.com/ency/en/wikipedia/e/ed/edmund_barton.html
Mentions GFDL
No mention of Wikipedia
Their "edit this page" button links back to Wikipedia's edit page form.
Listed here - August 10, 2004. →Raul654 21:06, Aug 10, 2004 (UTC)

TheBestLinks.com

Site: TheBestLinks.com

More research requested.

Description of the site: uses modified MediaWiki software to serve up an unmodified current-version English Wikipedia article database. The visual appearance is slightly different and a bar near the top lists some of the first few links in the article. They have added some special pages for popular pages, new pages, and a "quick index", and have added them to the sidebar. They have also added the ability to add links and discussion to the bottom of articles (blog-style).

This mirror I would say is noncompliant. The GFDL is linked, but there is no indication whatsoever that it's Wikipedia material, much less a link to Wikipedia or the article. The authors therefore receive no credit. The creating company's contact is info@innovateit.com, but I have not contacted them. Deco 19:27, 28 Nov 2004 (UTC)

They mirror everything! Down to the User space! Hell, they have a mirror of this discussion. [2] [3] -- AllyUnion (talk) 07:43, 8 Dec 2004 (UTC)

TYPEsyria.com

Site: TYPEsyria.com

(bizarrely, they have a copy of our Jordan disambiguation page! Amongst other content.)

no link to article
no link to GFDL. Standard letter sent by: MB 08:01 13 Jul 2003 (UTC)
- no response received as of Jul 18. Will contact via domain name administrative contact arasa@emirates.net.ae. Does anyone know what country .ae is? Does anyone know of a translator program, or know the language of this country? MB
  - Sounds like United Arab Emirates. Guessing from their location, I'm guessing they speak Arabic (perhaps a different dialect, but I doubt it), like all the other countries around there. There should be a lot of English too. dave
  - .ae is the United Arab Emirates, and the main languages include Arabic, English, Persian, Hindi, and Urdu.
Looks like typesyria is down, but typenetwork.com still has several coppies of Wikipedia, including almost the entire site typeencyclopedia.com. It uses a very old, outdated version of Wikipedia. LDan 04:09, 19 Oct 2003 (UTC)

Type United Kingdom

Site: Type United Kingdom
No link to original wikipedia article
No GFDL link
standard letter sent by LDan
The same network as typesyria.

Wikipedia printable version

Links to current Wikipedia article, but not at the stable URL (not a clickable link either)
No GFDL link
I think we should send the developers the standard letter - I already submitted a feature request and mentioned this issue on their mailing list; no response whatsoever. It is very important that the printable version is OK per our copyright since that is a nice clean HTML copy of an article. --mav 10:46, 31 Jul 2003 (UTC)
Works now. :) Martin 14:27, 3 Sep 2003 (UTC)
- What does this mean? +sj + 16:20, 2004 Mar 28 (UTC)

Therfcc

Site: Therfcc
Large amounts of Wikipedia content
Acknowledges GNU/FDL
Mentions Wikipedia, but no link to main page or individual articles.

Example: [4]

TypeEncyclopedia.com

Site: TypeEncyclopedia.com
There is a mention of the GNU FDL
Link to our copyright page (I guess that's OK)
Link to our Main Page
No link to individual article
Example:http://www.typeencyclopedia.com/ency_help.asp?t=Dolly_the_sheep
Contact: mailto:webmaster@typenetwork.com

I emailed them. --mav 11:46, 4 Jan 2004 (UTC)
Opps! They are in full compliance after all (link to individula articles is under "This article"). --mav 14:07, 4 Jan 2004 (UTC)

Travel Destinations

Site: Travel Destinations
Link to GNU FDL.
No link to Wikipedia homepage, but mention as a source.
No link to original article.
Says the content is from Wikipedia.
Example: [5] from Beijing

TopArticle.com

Site: TopArticle.com
Link to GNU FDL.
Link to Wikipedia homepage via "Help build the worlds largest free encyclopedia"
No link to original article.
Says the content is from Wikipedia.

TutorGig

Site: TutorGig

(basically all wikipedia articles)

Link to current version of article, labelled "Edit this article".
Link to the GFDL on www.gnu.org
Indicates source is Wikipedia and links to Wikipedia home page.
Removed "From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia"

t-st.de

Site: t-st.de
Copy of the German Wikipedia
Use the Wiki-text as their source, as can be seen when their wiki-to-HTML translation does not work (e.g. in tables)
Links to local copy of the GNU/FDL article, which links to GNU/FDL at gnu.org
Keeps "aus Wikipedia, der freien Enzyklopädie"
Links to article & German main page

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Useful Reference

Site: Useful Reference
Sample article: Albania - http://www.usefulreference.com/a/al/albania_1.html
Mentions GNU/FDL, and links to GNU/FDL at gnu.org
Mentions Wikipedia, and links to main page
Does not link to article page
Gives GNU/FDL only for Wikipedia, not for their version of the article

USA Information 01

Site: USA Information 01
Mentions GNU FDL license and links to a local copy of it
Acknowledges Wikipedia authorship.
No link to original article
Example: [6] from Jazz