Wikipedia:Mirrors and forks/DEF

• Site is still unchanged (2009/02/14)
• Site still unchanged (2009/03/08)

• 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"!

Happy to comply private registration through DomainsByProxy Inc, Contact is DICTIONPEDIA.COM AT domainsbyproxy.com - Abuse contacts abuse AT domainsbyproxy.com (hidden omain registration) and abuse AT godaddy.com (registrar) mail those if you have no luck with the above MttJocy (talk) 02:54, 22 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

http://www.discoverymedia.net/

http://www.servinghistory.com/

http://www.seriouslostfan.com/

http://www.search-people-finder.info/

http://www.blurbwire.com/

• Snapshot of all Wikipedia contents (2022), stored in a decentralized fashion on the Ethereum Swarm network (BZZ)

303-317-2435

earth.com/contact/

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

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)[reply]

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)[reply]

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

• 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)[reply]

States "High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles!" and contains direct copy of the start of the article as a blurb, which is then published online (the creation of the book itself is a separate issue). No links to original article or authors. Claims "© Emporium Retail Group 2011" (perhaps as this is a blurb this copyright claim doesn't extend to it). Claims to be published by VDM Publishing House and/or authors Frederic P. Miller, Agnes F. Vandome, John McBrewster, Lambert M. Surhone, Miriam T. Timpledon, Susan F. Marseken, Mariam T. Tennoe and Susan F. Henssonow, but the article content is still copyrighted. See also VDM Publishing House.

• Sent letter to team AT allaboutall.info asking for link to original article and onsite GFDL. Superm401 - Talk 07:14, 11 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • 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)[reply]

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

Encyclopedia of Ancient Egypt is an e-book published by MobileReference for use on mobile devices. The URL links to Google books' incomplete copy. A complete copy has to be purchased from a commercial supplier.

A copy of the GFDL licence doesn't appear to be included anywhere in the publication, as required by the terms of that licence, although a link to an on-line copy of the licence appears to be provided with the licensing information. The licensing information includes an apology for not listing all the authors of the Wikipedia material, and asserts that these can be seen "by following the hyperlink at the bottom of each article". As far as is possible to tell from the Google books copy, such links do appear regularly throughout the the publication, but it doesn't appear to be possible to use the Google books copy to check that these links work and do in fact point to the proper articles.

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

Talk 07:06, 12 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

• • 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)[reply]
    • Received reply noting that my fix was incorporated, making the links distinguishable in FF. Superm401 - Talk 18:16, 14 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

• 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)[reply]
  • Received response noting that Social_Science/Anthropology was fixed and promising to fix others ASAP. Superm401 - Talk 19:25, 1 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Says to edit user submissions, but clearly does not care about copyright: example is a copy-paste of Thermal diffusivity, this page is the table of contents of a likely copyvio of [13], etc.

  	ePier Inc. 
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  	Spokane, WA 99207
  	US 

Administrative Contact , Technical Contact :

  	Kim, James
  	jkim@epier.com
  	1503 N REGAL ST
  	SPOKANE, WA 99207-5361
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  	Fax: 509-534-0334 

Current Registrar: NETWORK SOLUTIONS, LLC.

84user (talk) 15:14, 29 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Failure notice: Email returned as unable to deliver ("wasn't able to establish an SMTP connection. (#4.4.1)") on 2009-06-05. 84user (talk) 00:04, 12 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

• 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)[reply]

Claims to include every wikipedia article. Claims to allow creation of articles on any topic that can be sourced, without regard to notability requirements. Claims to encourage verified celebrities to edit their own pages. Claims to be an improvement on Wikipedia.

Main page and FAQ say everything is licensed under CC-BY-SA-4.0. Individual pages have an Everipedia CC symbol but no direct CC link. Links back to source Wikipedia article, and to other cited sources. Explicitly says article is based on a Wikipedia article. Terms of service page say everything is under CC-BT-SA-4.0, and are linked to from each article

DCMI takedown sent for Great_American_Lesbian_Art_Show (DES ^(talk)_{DESiegel Contribs} 21:51, 1 July 2017 (UTC)) Response that said everything is under CC-BY-SA, and pointed out (small) CC symbol which I had mistaken for a copyright symbol. DES ^(talk)_{DESiegel Contribs} 01:24, 2 July 2017 (UTC) Seems to have dropped the links back to Wikipedia, which would provide the required attribution. I've send another e-mail to see if I'm just missing this or it's been hidden (like with World Heritage). Kuru (talk) 22:15, 20 November 2017 (UTC) Update: Site owner identified this as a bug; seems to have been corrected now.[reply]

• 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)[reply]
    • 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)[reply]
      • 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)[reply]
        • He said he would look into it. Superm401 - Talk 03:00, 14 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
          • Received email noting that he had replaced the iframe with an include! Superm401 - Talk 04:08, 14 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

This article is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License. It uses material from the Wikipedia article "Rome". Everything.Explained.At is © Copyright 2009-2013, A B Cryer, All Rights Reserved.

Links back to original article and the GFDL hosted at gnu.org. No mention of CC-BY-SA.

Not sure how their own copyright notice and the "All Rights Reserved" is or is not compatible with our licensing.

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)[reply]
  • Got mailer-daemon error. Resent to ls_services_eire AT yahoo.ie . Superm401 - Talk 09:00, 13 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• Attempted to view website, domain servers at 8.8.8.8 & 8.8.4.4 (Google) were unable to resolve the domain name. Annotated status of this entry to reflect this using the description property. 0x69494411 16:46, 5 October 2017 (UTC)[reply]

• 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)

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)[reply]

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

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)[reply]

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)[reply]

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. [::Example redirects to computer-science.brainsip.com/ with no obvious Wikipedia content; www.fastload.org has links to Wikipedia but no substantial content --Rumping (talk) 22:54, 27 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Now seems that the site has fallen into disrepair. 16:27, 19 October 2008 (UTC)

, United States +1.9523744322 Fax -- +1.6516980554

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

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

• Update: Uncle_Sam_(diamond) example has same content as frontpage , the three paragraph intro of Fleetwood Mac, and no obvious mention of Wikipedia. Some group related info also comes from Wikipedia, e.g from Mick Fleetwood, without mentioning source or GFDL. Not obviously scraping. 23:48, 27 June 2008 (UTC)

• Standard letter sent 3 December 2005 AJR - Talk 00:36, 3 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]
  • 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)[reply]

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

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

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)[reply]

• 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)[reply]
  • I missed the section below. I should have customized the letter. Superm401 - Talk 05:04, 19 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]