User:JesseW/Full mirror list

Site 1-bike.com (http://www.1-bike.com)
WHOIS: [1] (http://whois.org/whois.cgi2?d=www.1-bike.com)
Includes both link and GFDL notice on at least 1 article [2] (http://www.1-bike.com/articles/Miniature_motorcycle_racing).

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2BuyGood.com/InfoPedia

Site: 2BuyGood.com/InfoPedia (http://www.2buygood.com/wiki)
(E-mail sent by Dori asking not to do this -- no response yet)

Furthermore, the site doesn't mention GFDL, it claims copyright in the footer and it attempts to use Javascript to capture middle-clicks and right-clicks in an attempt to prevent copying of the text/source viewing, etc. Clearly, something should be done about this. 81.211.110.171 20:46, 28 May 2004 (UTC)

as User:Zzo38 noted, as of May 30th the wiki on that site is gone and the site's homepage is but a placeholder. -- Finlay McWalter | Talk 21:50, 30 May 2004 (UTC)

- The wiki is back up. - Evil saltine 09:57, 13 Sep 2004 (UTC)

There's no contact information listed, but I found an e-mail on whois (http://precow.tucows.com/cgi-bin/whois.cgi) which came back as invalid. There's a PO-Box listed, maybe I could send a notice by snail mail (not that I suspect it would do any good). - Evil saltine 10:23, 13 Sep 2004 (UTC)
The page info gives another copyright: "Copyright � 2001-2004 Neeraj Pajni". Together with the bottom-of-page reference ("Copyright 2001 - 2004 2BuyGoods.com"), it all gives a rather odd situation. --Kasperl 18:57, 20 Sep 2004 (UTC)
This is some kid (Neeraj Pajni) in his bedroom the about us (http://www.2buygood.com/aboutus.html) even says it is. The Administrative contact for both 2buygoods.com and 2buygood.com is webmaster@ubuystuff.com. However when he registrated ubystuff.com he lists (http://www.dnsstuff.com/tools/whois.ch?ip=ubuystuff.com&email=on) his own name, with a street address and telephone numbers. I'm not in the US, somebody ring his parents and tell them their son has been very naughty. Appologies to all Neerajs if it is a feminine name. The site is hosted by powweb.com in California, if you can find an article on his site that you wrote, send them a take-down notice if we can't get anywhere PowWeb Details (http://www.dnsstuff.com/tools/whois.ch?ip=66.152.98.15&email=on)
As of 17:40, 23 Nov 2004 (UTC), the site is back. It is copying live from Wikipedia. It also includes a very irritating javascript alert when you leave a page. I'm putting them in LOW. I'm contacting a developer to block the site. Live copying is not ok.JesseW 17:40, 23 Nov 2004 (UTC)
Brian Vibbor has blocked the live copying. Let's give a day or two (since tomorrow the US celebrates Thanksgiving) for the dust to settle, then proceed with GFDL issues. -Rholton 05:12, 25 Nov 2004 (UTC)

They've set up a "technical issues" message and a rediect to their store. JesseW 05:25, 25 Nov 2004 (UTC)

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2violent.com

Site: 2violent.com (http://www.2violent.com/)
no link
no mention of GFDL. Includes copyright �2004 -2005 2violent.com. All Rights Reserved.
Example page: http://www.2violent.com/sharon_tate.html
Other pages 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)

Emailed webmaster@2violent.com, clasione@verizon.net (domain admin) politely referring to Sharon Tate copy. -Wikibob | Talk 20:52, 2005 May 22 (UTC)

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4reference.net

Site: 4reference.net (http://www.4reference.net/)
link to main page only
no mention of GFDL. Standard letter sent by: MB 08:01 13 Jul 2003 (UTC)
Points of contact Wilson, Jaret jaret@msn.com (mailto:jaret@msn.com).
Response received Sun, 13 Jul 2003 15:44:48 -0400. "I'll be glad to include a GFDL notice. The site is new and still a work in progress, so it doesn't surprise me that I've missed something. Thank you for pointing this out. I'll make the change within the next couple days."
No note visible yet -- see [3] (http://www.4reference.net/encyclopedias/wikipedia/Bucharest.html) for example. -- Gutza 02:20, 3 Aug 2003 (UTC)
Whatever they do over there, it's not particularly clever. One of the first pages I randomly clicked was this: http://www.4reference.net/encyclopedias/wikipedia/Elisabeth_in_Bavaria.html . --KF 00:38, 26 Aug 2003 (UTC)
Sternly worded followup letter sent to mr. Wilson by: Gutza 10:41, 29 Aug 2003 (UTC)
- They now show a GFDL notice at the bottom of each page copied from Wikipedia, and they link to Wikipedia, as they always used to. This is good enough for me, I think these guys are GFDL compliant. IANAL though, so I won't strike them in this page on my own accord. --Gutza 23:02, 20 Sep 2003 (UTC)
They don't seem to be overly discriminating with regard to what they vacuum out of here, either. [4] (http://www.4reference.net/encyclopedias/wikipedia/Hephaestos.html) - Hephaestos 08:04, 3 Sep 2003 (UTC)
- LOL. dave 07:22, 5 Sep 2003 (UTC)
My issues with 4reference:
1. They use image captions without the images. Clever, eh???
2. They remove the original paragraphing so the articles are solid blocks of text.
3. Subhead captions are bigger than article headings.
4. No search function - you have to select from alphabetical lists.
5. Lags behind Wikipedia updates.
- Lee M 23:43, 5 Nov 2003 (UTC)
(IANAL) They're still not compliant, because they don't link back to the specific article, making it unreasonably difficult to retrieve a list of authors. Martin 20:34, 15 Nov 2003 (UTC)

I agree. Just sent a letter asking them for per-article direct link-backs (or a list of 5 authors per article). --mav 12:37, 4 Jan 2004 (UTC)

I just got this response: I hadn't noticed that. Thanks for alerting me to it, I'll take care of it soon. Jaret Wilson --mav 22:59, 4 Jan 2004 (UTC)

Not updated as of 06:38, 11 Oct 2004 (UTC) -- JesseW 06:38, 11 Oct 2004 (UTC)

They have this text at the bottom of each page:

"This article courtesy of Wikipedia. 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. GFDL: http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/fdl.html"

It thus appears that they are still not GFDL compliant. David Newton 16:21, 14 Mar 2004 (UTC)

I don't understand. What is wrong with that text being included? JesseW 06:38, 11 Oct 2004 (UTC)

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Abbaci books

Site: Abbaci books (http://www.abacci.com/books)
Removed "From Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia", but added "from the free on-line encyclopedia: Wikipedia" on the bottom
Link to the original article, with link text "Wikipedia"
Link to the GNU/FDL at gnu.org, and give a concise explanation of its meaning ("you can copy and modify it as long as the entire work (including additions) remains under this license.")
Links have been removed, own links have been added
Example: John Hanning Speke (http://www.abacci.com/books/authorDetails.asp?authorID=263)

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About.com

Site: About.com (http://www.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@about.com (mailto:inventors.guide@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.

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about-physicists.org

Site: about-physicists.org (http://www.about-physicists.org/)
No acknowledgement of Wikipedia
No mention of GFDL
Also uses images without compliance with GFDL and CC-by-SA
Domain registered by Direct Information PVT Ltd., St.Petersburg, Russia [5] (http://www.dnsstuff.com/tools/whois.ch?ip=about-physicists.org).
Probably unrelated to about.com above

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Absoluteastronomy.com

Site: [6] (http://www.absoluteastronomy.com/encyclopedia/template.htm)
Link to GNU FDL
Link to article
No link to wikipedia.org
- But says that "The source of this article is Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia", on every page. --Fibonacci 02:54, 11 May 2005 (UTC)

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Academie.de Net-Lexikon

Site: Academie.de Net-Lexikon (http://www.net-lexikon.de/)
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 Enzyklop�die"

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Aheadofnews.com

Sites:
- aheadofnews.com/enc-en, askfactmaster.com/enc-en (wikipedia)
- aheadofnews.com/dict-en, askfactmaster.com/dict-en (wiktionary)

These sites, with (as it seems) identical content has no mention of GFDL, Wikipedia or Wiktionary (or the authors of the articles...) and consists of a copy of all(?) languages from november 2004 (probably), with a few added links a the bottom of each page to similar subjects. All instances of "wiki" has been changed "AskFactMaster.Com". (see e.g. their article about Wikipedia (http://aheadofnews.com/wikipedia) or their article about Wiki (http://aheadofnews.com/wiki)). This basically means that they in the "Wikipedia"-article claims that all content belongs to AskFactMaster.Com ... (but open, of course) \Mikez 15:50, 1 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Update: aheadofnews.com seems to be unreachable as of February 7. \Mikez

Now acknowledges Wikipedia as a source (for both wikipedia and wiktionary material), and mentions GFDL on every page. No links to wp, however. \Mikez 08:25, 25 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Update: Seems to have become freakingnews.com and changed to more of a directory, I could only find links to Wikipedia, not actual content. \Rexruff

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Algebra.com

Site: part of algebra.com (http://www.algebra.com/algebra/about/history/Main_Page.wikipedia)

A seeming verbatim copy of all Wikipedia from May 18. Articles are placed at http://www.algebra.com/algebra/about/history/{{ARTICLENAME}}.wikipedia Phoenix-forgotten 21:43, 2005 Jun 10 (UTC)

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Allabout.cc

Site: Allabout.cc (http://www.allabout.cc/wiki/)
Link to GNU FDL
Link to www.wikipedia.org
Says that "it [the article] uses material from Wikipedia"
Nolink to original article

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All Science Fair Projects Encyclopedia

Site: All Science Fair Projects Encyclopedia (http://www.all-science-fair-projects.com/science_fair_projects_encyclopedia)
Copies of many science and science-related articles (example: [7] (http://www.all-science-fair-projects.com/science_fair_projects_encyclopedia/Massachusetts_Institute_of_Technology))
Link to www.wikipedia.org exists but is not clickable
No GFDL link
"Copyright (C) 2003 All Science Fair Projects.com All Rights Reserved" listed on every page
Copyright notice (http://www.all-science-fair-projects.com/copyright.html) and disclaimer (http://www.all-science-fair-projects.com/disclaimer.html), 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)

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)

Mentions GFDL and has local copy
Acknowledges wikipedia source
No Link back to wikipedia original article

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

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Alumni @ alumni.grunderskolen.no

Site: Alumni @ alumni.grunderskolen.no (http://alumni.grunderskolen.no/gsa/content/view/full/232)
Article mentioned on mainpage where they state that it comes from wikipedia.com, apart from that they are not near compliance. No action taken. Should they prove troublesome or unresponsive, give me a wink.--Dittaeva 18:36, 15 Sep 2004 (UTC)
No longer mentioned on the main page, but the article is still there. It is the only article that I saw, and they give prominent credit to Wikipedia -- though no link, no GFDL, etc. Looks like it was posted by one of their users. Let's call it fair use. Not worth pursuing. -Rholton 03:14, 25 Nov 2004 (UTC)
I'm a member of this alumni, and I don't understand why we are on some list of abusers or something. Many of our members read and contribute to Wikipedia. We think it's a great site and we spread the word about it. Please explain why we are on this list, or remove us. -Abrenna

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Ancientsites forum

Site: Ancientsites forum (http://www.ancientsites.com/aw/Post/110614)

(A forum post.) See Talk:Alamanni.

No mention of Wikipedia
No mention of GNU FDL

AncientSites is now AncientWorlds. I'm a member of that site. I'll inform them and make sure that this individual's post gets fixed. ℬastique▼^talk 13:54, 18 Jun 2005 (UTC)

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Answers.com

Site: Answers.com (http://answers.com/main/ntquery?s=wikipedia&gwp=8)
Link to GNU FDL
Link to en.wikipedia.org
Says in context that "This article is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License. It uses material from the Wikipedia article "Wikipedia"."
~~Nolink to original article~~ Link to original article
Not only Wikipedia content
Footnote: 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)

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Arkansas Encyclopedia

Site: Arkansas Encyclopedia (http://www.geocities.com/arkencyclo/)

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 (http://lakewoodrepublicans.8m.com/michigan.html) 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)

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Armageddon Online

Site: Armageddon Online (http://www.armageddononline.org/)
Partial mirror, possibly with some additions.
No mention of GNU FDL either on individual pages or on site disclaimer and legal information (http://www.armageddononline.org/disclaimer.php).
Some pages contain links to original article and/or Wikipedia:Copyrights (eg, [8] (http://www.armageddononline.org/comet_shoemaker-levy_9.php)), but not all of them (eg [9] (http://www.armageddononline.org/worldwar3.php), [10] (http://www.armageddononline.org/biowarfare.php)). Appears to be haphazard.
All pages have the footnote "All Pages Copyright � Armageddon Online".

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ArticleHead.com

Site: ArticleHead.com (http://www.articleshead.com/index.php)
Very recent, apparently almost complete mirror, utilising categories. No mention of Wikipedia, no mention of GFDL, claiming their own copyright. I've sent a first warning notice. --195.11.216.59 13:50, 6 Sep 2004 (UTC)
- I see GFDL and backlinks at the bottom of every article page; either you didn't see them (because they don't appear on the category pages?) or your warning was instantly effective. ←Hob 17:36, 2004 Sep 6 (UTC)

The latter - I received the following email:

"Thanks for keeping me informed of my obligations. The following changes have been made:

a) on article pages, the note information at the bottom of the page is automatically expanded.

b) on article pages, the footer information at the bottom of the page has been changed from

"Articles and category structure on this site have been graciously provided by Wikipedia. Please consider donating to their cause."

"This article is licensed under the [linked] GNU Free Documentation License. It uses material from Wikipedia: [linked] Wiki entry."

If only all of our mirrors were so ready to meet their legal obligations. --195.11.216.59 21:54, 6 Sep 2004 (UTC)

Moved to High although i would like them to have a link on the front page to wikipedia and GFDL --Davelane 22:40, 17 Sep 2004 (UTC)
- It appears, as of March 2005, to have reverted to non-compliance. Burgundavia 20:49, Mar 24, 2005 (UTC)
  - On further inspection, they hide the notice. You can view through clicking Notice+. I am moving to medium.
- How can this be even considered medium compliance? I clicked on the Notice+, and get this:

This article is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License. It uses material from Wikipedia: Wiki entry.

When I click on Wiki entry I get http://www.articleshead.com/#, and not a link back to the original article. When I click on the GNU FDL link I get the page from http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/fdl.html . But there is no mention of the GFDL or the correct copyright notice unless I click on Notice+, surely this is non-compliance? -Wikibob | Talk 17:48, 2005 May 22 (UTC)

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ArtPolitic

Site: ArtPolitic (http://www.artpolitic.org)
Says that it is GFDL, but links to an explanation page of the GFDL ([11] (http://www.artpolitic.org/infopedia/wikipedia-copyright-gnu-fdl.html)), instead of the license itself.
- That page (wikipedia-copyright-gnu-fdl.html) would be fine, except for the fact that they did not slurp up the correct pages from Wikipedia to make http://www.artpolitic.org/wiki/GNU_Free_Documentation_License and http://www.artpolitic.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Text_of_the_GNU_Free_Documentation_License load. Those pages are currently 404'd.
Names Wikipedia and links to source article.
Does not have "title page".
Example: [12] (http://www.artpolitic.org/infopedia/fr/Friedrich_Nietzsche.html)

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Arts and Design Info

Site: Arts and Design Info (http://www.arts-design-info.com/)
Mentions GNU FDL license and links to a local copy of it
Acknowledges Wikipedia authorship.
No link to original article
Example: [13] (http://www.arts-design-info.com/data/Digital_art.html) from Digital Art

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Asia Information 01

Site: Asia Information 01 (http://www.asia-info-01.com/)
Mentions GNU FDL license and links to a local copy of it
Acknowledges Wikipedia authorship.
No link to original article
Example: [14] (http://www.asia-info-01.com/data/China.html) from China

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Asinah.net

Site: Asinah.net (http://www.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. [15] (http://united-states.asinah.net/american-encyclopedia/wikipedia/w/wi/wikipedia_1.html) Guan aco 16:46, 21 Aug 2004 (UTC)
Example: [16] (http://www.asinah.net/en/wikipedia/k/ky/kyoto_protocol_1.html) from Kyoto Protocol.
forum page (http://forums.asinah.net/phpBB2/forum38.php) 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 (http://india.asinah.net/).

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AskMyTutor

Site: AskMyTutor (http://www.askmytutor.co.uk/)
Appear to be verbatim copies of (old versions of) many WP articles. Have not checked in great detail yet.
No mention of WP.
Main page mentions "free content", but no license info.
Looks pretty new - domain was registered 5 May 2004.

Please check facts before acting - I have not checked much, no time right now. Tualha 22:53, 29 Jun 2004 (UTC)

www.askmytutor.co.uk (http://www.dnsstuff.com/tools/lookup.ch?name=www.askmytutor.co.uk)->67.18.53.36 (http://www.dnsstuff.com/tools/whois.ch?ip=67.18.53.36)->ISP ThePlanet.com in Texas
It's definitely from Wikipedia. The site appears to use a dump from early February, 2004. See, for example, AskMyTutor's Optimimization (mathematics) (http://www.askmytutor.co.uk/o/op/optimization__mathematics_.html) compared to our Feb 5, 2004 revision (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=Optimization_%28mathematics%29&oldid=2377536). They seem identical (though I've not done any sort of exact comparison). Our next revision is on February 13, and those changes (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=Optimization_%28mathematics%29&diff=2377574&oldid=2377536) don't appear on AskMyTutor. -Rholton 22:56, 27 Nov 2004 (UTC)
I sent a standard e-mail to Peter Pathos (abuse@theplanet.com), which appears to be the hosting site. -Rholton 00:39, 28 Nov 2004 (UTC)

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Axiomization

Site: Axiomization (http://www.hi.is/~joner/eaps/y3_80493.htm)
Link to original Wikipedia article
~~no link to GFDL~~
contact point: J�n Erlendsson <joner@hi.is>
Standard letter sent by: dave 07:43, 5 Sep 2003 (UTC)
Link to GFDL on www.gnu.org dave 16:55, 5 Sep 2003 (UTC)

Not a verbatim copy: changes in formatting and links, and not the full article. It should qualify under fair use, being a small extract of the entire article, giving credit to us, and licensing the extract under the GFDL.

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Baghdad Museum

Site: [17] (http://www.baghdadmuseum.org/)
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.

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Basic Famous People

Site: http://www.basicfamouspeople.com/
Copies of many of our biographical articles
As out of compliance as it is possible for a site to be:
- No mention of Wikipedia or our article, no link to any Wikipedia page.
- No mention of GFDL, no link to any copy of GFDL.
- At the bottom of each article: "It is believed that all material on this web site is in the public domain." That line is right above the copyright notice. Go figure.
From the site's main page you can also access Basic Celebrations (http://www.basiccelebrations.com/), which copies our list of events for each day. This one has a copyright notice with no statement re PD.

The site appears to have grabbed our data a while back. The biography of Edgar Allan Poe (at [18] (http://www.basicfamouspeople.com/index.php?aid=1530)) is very close to the state ours was in last summer; compare our article as of July 26, 2004: [19] (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Edgar_Allan_Poe&oldid=5176998). The Basic Famous People site often drops the bibliography, external links, etc. To get from any one page to any other, you apparently have to sit through a ten-second blinking ad for some gas deal.

I'll contact them about noncompliance. JamesMLane 03:19, 25 May 2005 (UTC)

I've sent basic violation letter (by email), with an added paragraph telling them that their "public domain" notice on each article is erroneous. JamesMLane 07:20, 26 May 2005 (UTC)

My email to the contact address on the site was returned with a "Host unknown" message. I'm not familiar with Who-is and such to figure out how to contact a website, so I'm abandoning this in the hope that someone else will follow up. JamesMLane 07:27, 28 May 2005 (UTC)

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Brandt.kurowski.net

Site: Brandt.kurowski.net (http://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)

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BIGpedia

Site: BIGpedia (http://www.bigpedia.com/encyclopedia/)
No mention on splash page; main page says "The content of this article is licensed from wikipedia.org under the GNU Free Documentation License." but has no links.

-- As 11:45, 17 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Seems to be connected to science fair projects mirror, as there is a large banner advertising it on the site. JesseW 11:45, 17 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Each page now includes "The content of this article is licensed from wikipedia.org under the GNU Free Documentation License." This includes no links to anything. The main page http://www.bigpedia.com/ contains a link "Copyright disclaimer" that leads to a page that includes a "disclaimer" that attributes the text to Wikipedia. Also, there are instructions for locating the appropriate article on Wikipedia. The page also includes the text of the GFDL.

So, while the situation is far from ideal, there are efforts to comply with the Wikipedia licensing. Thus, this deserves a rating of Medium. -Rholton 03:33, 30 Nov 2004 (UTC)

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www.book-spot.co.uk

Site: www.book-spot.co.uk

A strange site that is apparently running Mediawiki, as pages are editable, although there is no edit button on the site. It has no contact info, but does list wikipedia and the GFDL, with links, at the bottom. Odd. JesseW 10:18, 20 Nov 2004 (UTC)

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Biography Base

Site: Biography Base (http://www.biographybase.com/)
Contains copies of old Wikipedia articles on various people.
Has a mention of Wikipedia but no link to Wikipedia articles.
No link to GFDL.
Now links to GFDL and mentions individual Wikipedia article, but does not directly link. - Evil saltine 10:57, 13 Sep 2004 (UTC)
Still as Evil saltine describes. I'm changing the category for this from Low compliance to Medium Compliance. Maybe it actually should be high? -Rholton 01:21, 28 Nov 2004 (UTC)

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Biography Finder

Site: Biography Finder (http://www.biographyfinder.com/)
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 (http://www.phobiafinder.com/).
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)

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Biography.ms

Site: Biography.ms (http://www.biography.ms/)
contains Wikipedia biography articles and other materials
- This seems to be a complete mirror. Cacycle 10:41, 11 Apr 2005 (UTC)
I see no mention of Wikipedia, no backlink to articles, and no link to GFDL.
I see no contact address
This seems to be an outdated copy of Wikipedia. Compare Maria Sklodowska-Curie with http://marie-curie.biography.ms/. --Fibonacci 19:46, 10 May 2005 (UTC)

Via http://networksolutions.com, it is registered by PLUS SL, UNITIO; registro@unitio.com; P. de la Castellana, 141; Edificio Cuzco IV; Madrid, Madrid 28046; ES; Phone: +34.917080763. Still no mention of Wikipedia or GFDL. JesseW 02:53, 14 Mar 2005 (UTC)

I find this Biography.ms operation very irritating. Their page naming style (e.g. iphicrates.biography.ms [20] (http://iphicrates.biography.ms/)) has somehow caused Google to place many of their (that is to say, Wikipedia's) articles on less-famous persons at the top of their page rankings (?!). Google "Iphicrates biography", or "Pelopidas biography", with and without the quotes. My contributions have been too minor to give me standing to complain so I hope someone will send an e-mail to registro@unitio.com with the usual warnings (see [[21] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Standard_GFDL_violation_letter)]). If we get no response, perhaps somone from the Spanish Wikipedia could help? ----Blanchette 04:14, 18 Mar 2005 (UTC)

A somewhat irritating/somewhat amusing fact: the mirroring is so sloppily done that many of their articles include text of interwiki links, which of course aren't active links, just these weird unexplained strings at the bottom of the article. See, e.g., http://www.biography.ms/George_W._Bush.html with four full lines' worth. JamesMLane 01:06, 26 Apr 2005 (UTC)

We are getting more and more pages marked as copyright violations, because people don't realize that Biography.ms is a mirror. Very irritating. --Duk 23:47, 2 May 2005 (UTC)

It appears that they are hosted by iberbanda.es (http://www.iberbanda.es/) which appears to be a Spanish speaking site. Maybe someone who speaks Spanish can contact them?

Sent a standard letter in Spanish (my own translation) and English to registro@unitio.com. --Fibonacci 19:46, 10 May 2005 (UTC)

Found an old version of Blackface, of all things. On a biography site? No mention whatsoever of source: [22] (http://blackface.biography.ms/) deeceevoice 12:50, 15 May 2005 (UTC)

They seem to have done a complete dump of the database, then somebody has created an index which only lists people, even though all of the links to all of the other pages work. Rick K 22:22, May 18, 2005 (UTC)

Just wanted to add that I appreciate the work being done. This site is highly annoying. Rl 18:45, 21 May 2005 (UTC)

We could consider approaching the registrar for .ms (http://www.iana.org/root-whois/ms.htm) or the government of Montserrat (http://www.gov.ms). This site is a bit mysterious; there's no advertising, and no apparent motive. Bovlb 07:09, 2005 Jun 6 (UTC)

There now seems to be a mention/link/GFDL notice : [23] (http://hilaire-rouelle.biography.ms/)

And there's plenty of advertising now, so that's a motive right there. Rl 21:38, 19 Jun 2005 (UTC)

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Biology Daily

Site: Biologydaily.com (http://www.biologydaily.com/)
Contains full articles from Wikipedia, examples [24] (http://www.biologydaily.com/biology/Aerobiology) and [25] (http://www.biologydaily.com/biology/Gmail)
There is a mention of Wikipedia.org and GFDL at the bottom of the page but no links and the text has to be "painted" with mouse before it's readable
No links to Wikipedia nor GFDL

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Brough's Books

Site: Brough's Books (http://www.dropbears.com/)
link to current version of article
link to the GFDL on www.gnu.org
Example: [26] (http://www.dropbears.com/b/broughsbooks/history/articles/english_civil_war.htm)

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BrainyEncyclopedia

Site: BrainyEncyclopedia (http://www.brainyencyclopedia.com/)
Link to GNU FDL at gnu.org
Link to Wikipedia
Do not link to the original article
Extend GNU FDL only to "the Wikipedia content included on this page", without further specifying what it is.
Updates seem to be inoften
Examples: United States Department of Defense (http://www.brainyencyclopedia.com/encyclopedia/u/un/united_states_department_of_defense_1.html)

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Clusty.com

Site: Clusty.com (http://clusty.com)

Seems to be just a reparser of Wikipedia content, using clustering. Not clear how GFDL complient they are. Please update with more information.

Originally reported by JesseW 21:49, 19 Oct 2004 (UTC)

Hello, I'm the person responsible for Clusty's Wikipedia section. Here's a brief overview of what we do. We received approval from "Jimbo" before the site's launch, and we intend to fully comply with Wikipedia policies.

We download the database 1-2 times weekly (whenever it's updated) and parse it with a massive converter. The entire search is indexed and hosted locally. We intelligently index the contents based on inherent Wikipedia features and structure including redirects, disambiguations, and categories. We also intelligently generate abstracts.

In addition to providing a dedicated Wikipedia search, we also boost relevant Wikipedia entries in general Web+ search results, showing their abstracts (with thumbnailed images) above other search results.

At this time, we only use the English database. As the Wikipedia collections in other languages grow, we may consider including them.

For the Clusty Wikipedia tab homepage (http://wiki.clusty.com/), we crawl the Wikipedia "Main Page" daily and host it locally. We attribute the page and tab to Wikipedia in a large heading on top of the page.

We respect Wikipedia's limited (and often strained) resources, and try to minimize bandwidth drain. For images, we have downloaded the most recent available image dump (from July). For each image not in the dump, we download it from Wikipedia only once, upon its first request, and serve it to subsequent requests from a local cache.

Contact me with any questions or comments: arment@vivisimo.com (mailto:arment@vivisimo.com)

Marco.org 15:34, Oct 21, 2004 (UTC)

As far as I can tell (IANAL), what you're doing seems to comply, with the following exception: When you mirror the Wikipedia main page, there is no mention of the GFDL, and no direct link back to the Wikipedia main page.

Note that out GFDL license applies to the text only. Our images include some that are "fair use", "for non-commercial use only", etc. As a reuser, you are responsible for determining if your use of those images is acceptable. I don't know how that applies to your main-page mirror.

As far as the thumbnails in your search results -- this seems very similar to what Google does in its image search. I suspect that you are safe in that use (again, I Am Not A Lawyer).

For the moment, I am leaving your site in the "undetermined" category.

By the way, I really like what you're doing. -Rholton 15:41, 3 Dec 2004 (UTC)

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Chessbase.com

Site: Chessbase.com (http://www.chessbase.com/newsdetail.asp?newsid=1049)

(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)

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Chinese Psychology Online

Site: Chinese Psychology Online (http://www.zgxl.net/eng/eng.htm)
Mention of wikipedia
No mention/link to GFDL
No link to wikipedia homepage or the article at wikipedia
Instead _they_ claim copyright of the article(s)
Examples: [27] (http://www.zgxl.net/eng/health/humanbody/dna.htm), [28] (http://www.zgxl.net/eng/health/humanbody/rna.htm), [29] (http://www.zgxl.net/eng/atsk/atsk.htm)
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?:

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��1?��?��<ETH>1?�<ETH>��ߡ��1⁄4��1⁄2��?�<ETH>��?�?�?�<eth>�Y��1⁄4<thorn>*�ѯ�ظ��?�

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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)

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Chemistry Daily

Site: Chemistry Daily - the chemistry encyclopedia (http://www.chemistrydaily.com/)
Seems to have a pretty much complete copy of the WP database - including non-chemistry articles.

[30] (http://www.chemistrydaily.com/chemistry/Schlock_Mercenary)

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 [31] (http://www.chemistrydaily.com/copyright.html) are pretty good though, including copy of GFDL license, plus reference to wikipedia.

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Chess and beyond

Site: Chess and beyond (http://www.chessandbeyond.com)

(Several pages. [32] (http://www.chessandbeyond.com/the_club/stratigies_openings.htm), [33] (http://www.chessandbeyond.com/the_club/stratigies_endgame.htm), [34] (http://www.chessandbeyond.com/the_club/rules_of_chess.htm), [35] (http://www.chessandbeyond.com/the_club/stratigies_tactics.htm), [36] (http://www.chessandbeyond.com/the_club/rules_smallwindows/king.htm), [37] (http://www.chessandbeyond.com/the_club/rules_smallwindows/queen.htm), [38] (http://www.chessandbeyond.com/the_club/rules_smallwindows/rook.htm), [39] (http://www.chessandbeyond.com/the_club/rules_smallwindows/bishop.htm), [40] (http://www.chessandbeyond.com/the_club/rules_smallwindows/knight.htm), [41] (http://www.chessandbeyond.com/the_club/rules_smallwindows/pawn.htm), [42] (http://www.chessandbeyond.com/the_club/rules_smallwindows/checkmate.htm), [43] (http://www.chessandbeyond.com/the_club/rules_smallwindows/draw.htm), [44] (http://www.chessandbeyond.com/the_club/rules_smallwindows/castling.htm))

No mention of wikipedia
No mention of GFDL
Claims to own copyright
Standard letter sent by Arvindn 15 Nov 2003.
Still in violation - who sends another letter? Andre Engels 01:59, 17 Jan 2004 (UTC)

Site's been down for a while -- Arvindn 12:55, 2 Mar 2004 (UTC)

~~Site back up, follow up letter sent by me -- Arvindn 09:10, 4 Mar 2004 (UTC)~~ Online contact form gives 404 when you hit "send", and email bounced. Any idea what to do? -- Arvindn 10:39, 4 Mar 2004 (UTC)

Run whois on the domain name. (Just in case: whois is a UNIX command, some web based whois interfaces are also out there, you might want to google for them.) Then contact the email address that whois returns. Legal issues with a web site are a valid reason to retrieve and contact email addresses from whois databases. 217.9.28.225 20:18, 2 Aug 2004 (UTC)

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Civil-War.ws

Site: Civil-War.ws (http://www.civil-war.ws)
Copies large amounts of articles from Wikipedia pages such as Civil War and Abraham Lincoln.
No link to original article, no mention of Wikipedia.
No mention of GFDL.
Is for-profit (has ads).
Is currently down. - Evil saltine 11:02, 13 Sep 2004 (UTC)
Page is back up, haven't checked anything but status. --Kasperl 19:31, 20 Sep 2004 (UTC)

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Complexity Theory page

Site: Complexity Theory page (http://www.xtrj.org/ssm4/complexity_theory.htm)
No link to original article
No mention of GFDL

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Catholic University of Brussels

Site: Catholic University of Brussels (http://www.kubrussel.ac.be/onderwijs/etew/tew/vakken/tweedekan/ecsector/kennistech/semantic_web_wiki.htm)
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)

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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

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CapitanCook

Site: CapitanCook (wiki) (http://www.capitancook.com/)
Exs: (ca. 630 articles on geographic locations [45] (http://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Awww.capitancook.com+wikipedia))

Link to Wikipedia article
All content is already under GFDL (notice on each page)
No local copy of FDL text (just a link to the GNU's FDL page)

Not a verbatim copy - is a wiki, all articles may be edited.

Update - It looks like it has changed to a pure directory of links. I couldn't find any content. \Rexruff

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Casinozone.info

Site: Casinozone.info (http://www.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.

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csf.colorado.edu

Site: csf.colorado.edu (http://csf.colorado.edu/archive/2003/permaculture/msg00530.html)

seems to be dead Davelane 23:16, 14 Sep 2004 (UTC)
Moved from main page
confirmed site dead. -Rholton 16:54, 3 Dec 2004 (UTC)

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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

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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.
As of 03:33, 14 Mar 2005 (UTC)

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)

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Cookery-Online

Site: cookery-online.co.uk (http://www.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 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)

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Cooldictionary.com

Site: Cooldictionary.com (http://www.cooldictionary.com/words/Main_Page.wikipedia)

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. Phoenix-forgotten 21:53, 2005 Jun 10 (UTC)

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CustomerServiceCareers.com

Site: CustomerServiceCareers.com (http://www.CustomerServiceCareers.com)
Uses Wikipedia content. Gives credit to Wikipedia, including a confusing link back to the site (but not to the article). The word "Wikipedia" actually links to www.free-definition.com/Wikipedia.html. They also have an incorrect copyright statement. They seem to be at least trying, but it needs some major improvment.
I sent them a friendly e-mail. -Rholton 05:28, 2005 Feb 18 (UTC)

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Conk

Site: CONK! Encyclopedia (http://conk.com/encyclopedia/)
Mirrors Wikipedia
Contains notice: "Data for the CONK! Encyclopedia provided by Wikipedia" with a non-working link to Wikipedia:About and no mention of GDFL.
Example: Zone plate (http://www.conk.com/search/encyclopedia.cgi?q=Zone_plate) from Zone plate.
Have sent email. --Laura Scudder | Talk 23:49, 16 May 2005 (UTC)

Mirrors and Forks : (Numbers) ABC - DEF - GHI - JKL - MNO - PQR - STU - VWXYZ

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Dutch wiki freeler

Site: http://static.machine.freeler.nl/cgi-bin/wiki.pl
Mentions the dutch wiki and freeler are partners
No link from freelerhomepage (http://www.freeler.nl), so not yet in production
They (as yet) have not yet contacted the dutch