Wikipedia:Mirrors and forks/MNO

Mackesys Solicitors
Comment re the above: the page shown above is a verbatim copy of large section from the article Handling stolen goods. Given that their version includes a section on "Relationship to laundering" added here in 2005 by User:David91, other material dating from a rewrite in 2009 by User:Rodhullandemu, and a further typo correction by an anonymous user, the evidence suggests that they have copied Wikipedia and not vice versa.

I can see no attempt to comply with the licence, and indeed at the foot of the page they assert their own copyright ("© 2011 All rights reserved. Mackesys Solicitors, 207 New Cross Road, London, SE14 5UH, U.K.") I find it very odd that a firm of solicitors would do this. (To be honest, I am surprised that a professional law firm would use wikipedia content, which made me initially suspect that the copying was in the opposite direction until I checked the page history.) I haven't looked to see whether they have copied any other pages.

To possibly complicate matters further, the user whose copyright appears to have been most infringed, i.e. User:Rodhullandemu, is apparently now banned from wikipedia. Scil100 (talk) 13:37, 2 August 2011 (UTC)

marriagelicences

 * Site: http://www.marriagelicences.co.cc/wiki.
 * Example: http://www.marriagelicences.co.cc/wiki.php?q=User_talk:Eugene-elgato

Maori Encyclopedia.st

 * Site: "Maori Encyclopedia.st"
 * Copies the whole mi: article namespace, apparently, though not very frequently (currently listing only 137 of the 280 articles), and converts our ordinary internal links to its internal links (but seems not to work out how to deal with piped links, using just the text - eg, the homepage links to http://maori.encyclopedia.st/Tikanga where WP has a piped link saying "tikanga" but linking to the "mi" style guide). Doesn't seem to change the text of the link in any circumstances.
 * Leaves most external links alone, even where they are to the English version, eg in the stub message "You can help Wikipedia by expanding it." readers get directed to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Find_or_fix_a_stub. However, the bottom-of-page links to other language WPs are converted to related sites such as http://enzyklopadie.cc.
 * Not as careful as it should be with some links, giving us the kindly optimistic statement "There are at least 300000 articles already written (partly or wholly in te reo M&#257;ori) that need improvement." - similar "300000" on the other-language sites.
 * Readers will be puzzled at the homepage invitation to participate. There's not even a contact address apart from the "Advertise Here!" link, which goes to http://www.fastclick.com/.
 * Mentions Wikipedia and the GFDL quite prominently at the bottom (much better than when I looked a few months ago when the "Wikipedia" reference was in small black letters on a very dark blue frame background, impossible to notice unless one knew to search for it); BUT NO links to the original article, History page, and Edit page.
 * Largely appropriate "Ads by Goooooogle", similar to Wikicities, and sometimes a panel of articles, sometimes appropriate, or other ads.
 * As of 01:57, 3 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Marijuana.com

 * Site: Marijuana.com/wiki/
 * Copied Wikipedia from May 23 2005. Appears to have kept all namespaces.
 * No Wikipedia or GFDL notice, in fact, claims all material is copyrighted ("Please ask before you take").
 * Is a bit wierd about nonexistent articles:
 * Site-wide ads at the top and bottom.
 * As of 12:11, Jun 5, 2005 (UTC)
 * Now just redirects to Wikipedia itself. -- WC  Quidditch  &#9742;   &#9998;  18:18, 28 December 2005 (UTC)

masterlinux.net
--Fox 2005 (talk) 22:03, 18 June 2009 (UTC)

Maxpedia.org

 * Site: http://www.maxpedia.org
 * Copies the whole article namespace, including images.
 * Mentions Wikipedia and the GFDL; a wap service (edition for a cell phone)
 * As of 15:38, 16 Apr 2005 (UTC)

The Mcfly Network
* Individual article pages link back to wikipedia and mention the GFDL
 * http://www.mcfly.org/en/
 * Run by User:Anthony DiPierro
 * Complete fork of wikipedia.
 * A derivative version under section 4.
 * An aggregation under 5, 6 and 7 of the GFDL.
 * Main page (title page) mentions wikipedia and GFDL
 * GFDL History page mentions Wikipedia and points to a list of Wikipedia contributors.
 * Complete text of the GFDL is included on the site
 * Example: Foundation series

It appears that this is not a fork but a copy. Can someone check this and post here? JesseW 00:48, 13 Oct 2004 (UTC)
 * It was meant to be a fork but not much was ever changed. Ashibaka &#9998; 18:50, 13 Oct 2004 (UTC)
 * Most of the pages are based on the same wikisource. Deleted pages are generally kept, my parse code is not identical to Wikipedia's (thus resulting in different html output), and a few pages have been altered.  Whether this makes it a fork or a mirror according to the GFDL is a legal question which I don't feel I can answer at this time.  However, I've tried to be as closely compliant as possible with the GFDL requirements for a fork.  In order to do this, I have released the entire site as a single GFDL document, parts of which are aggregated under non-GFDL licenses. anthony &#35686;&#21578; 17:39, 23 Nov 2004 (UTC)

If anyone has any suggestions as to how I can be in better compliance with the GFDL, feel free to leave a message on my user talk page. anthony &#35686;&#21578; 17:32, 23 Nov 2004 (UTC)

I've only found mention of Wikipedia on the front page. Lotsofissues 12:14, 16 May 2005 (UTC)

(i added the above strikethrough) the site only mentions wikipedia on the main page, it no longer mentions much of anything on the article pages. user:anthony DiPierro has stated on wikipedia talk pages in the past that he links the edit pages back to wikipedia; that policy has obviously changed as i was easily able to find content on mcfly which was added since its forking. it is not clear to me what policy is for this change, but i do think it should be attended to. i also would like to know whether there is a procedure for bringing in some of the changes made on mcfly; i found at least one bit (didnt look around too much) that i would like to have added to an article. i regret that the weakness of my license-fu is keeping me from answering this question myself. Burgher 14:22, 22 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Measuroo

 * Site: measuroo.com
 * Example: Dimensional Analysis ( a pretty clear copy of Dimensional analysis.
 * Does not mention Wikipedia or the GFDL at all.
 * Standard complaint sent vie on0-site form by User:jnothman on 22 December 2005 according to apost at the help desk.
 * Seems a clear case of Low compliance at this time. DES (talk) 19:52, 22 December 2005 (UTC)

Media UK - "The Knowledge"
Website

MediaWiki powered sub-section of a specialist media website - appears to be mostly original content with some content copied from Wikipedia (i.e. a derivative work), which is acknowledged. All content is apparently licenced under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.0 licence. No mention of the GFDL.

Relevant pages:
 * Copyright Statement
 * "Good Practice"
 * Template used at bottom of pages containing Wikipedia content

Marknew 16:24, 15 July 2005 (UTC)

www.medicaliterature.com

 * Site: http://www.medicaliterature.com
 * A copy of all Wikipedia pages from October 2004
 * No link to Wikipedia
 * Uses the name Wikipedia
 * Links to a local copy of the GFDL
 * Only the most recent edit is shown in the page history

Medicalopedia
This site copies some articles from en.WP CC-BY-SA licensed articles, doesn't attribute them to Wikipedia and licenses them CC-BY-NC-SA. I've advised an associated editor on his en.WP talk page. --Anthonyhcole (talk) 03:58, 3 December 2011 (UTC)
 * Site: http://medicalopedia.org/reference/Medicalopedia_Reference_Encyclopedia

medlibrary.org
--Jeremyb 05:08, 26 August 2007 (UTC)

meds4dumbbells.com

 * Site: http://meds4dumbbells.com
 * Copies many drug articles verbatim copy&paste style including index, e.g. Codeine, Tramadol, etc.
 * No mention of Wikipedia whatsoever
 * No mention of copyright, except in source code where it claims it for itself
 * No contact info on site. Complaint should be sent to Yahoo by someone who has edited one or more of these articles, which appears to be hosting it judging from the source code (look at bottom)
 * 1st complaint letter about meds4dumbbells.com rejected by Yahoo as I, the sender, have no personal claim to copyright

Memory Alpha

 * Site: Memory Alpha (wiki)
 * Has some adapted articles about Star Trek and those such as "Welcome, Newcomers". Not a verbatim copy, but is in fact most harmless. We will probably one day be copying articles back from this site, knowing they are in capable hands.


 * links to current version of article, with date & time of copy of article
 * links to GFDL.


 * Update: Memory Alpha is now under the Creative Commons License; not sure whether there is still Wikipedia content in it. Andre Engels 01:13, 17 Jan 2004 (UTC)
 * Wikipedia content is still used for user guide and documentation-type pages (example: ). We don't use the GFDL anymore (changing early when all pages were by but a few authors who all could agree on the change); based on my reading of the GFDL, I believed that the similar spirit of the GFDL and the Creative Commons License was sufficient.  Links to the original Wikipedia pages have been preserved in all cases, anyway.  Feedback would be appreciated if there is some potential conflict concerning the licenses.  (I am one of the webmasters of Memory Alpha.) -- Dan Carlson 02:40, Feb 8, 2004 (UTC)


 * Update: Memory Alpha no longer uses duplicates of Wikipedia pages for our policies; we've rewritten or removed copied pages. Listing here should no longer be necessary. -- Dan Carlson 03:51, Apr 11, 2004 (UTC)

metaweb
Seems to be an official wiki of (and I think maybe run by) author Neal Stephenson
 * Site: metaweb
 * Sample article: Algebra - http://www.metaweb.com/wiki/wiki.phtml?title=Algebra
 * local copy of GFDL
 * credits wikipedia as source
 * doesn't import wikipedia history
 * no link to wikipedia article
 * Sample article: Boolean algebra - http://www.metaweb.com/wiki/wiki.phtml?title=Boolean_algebra
 * a derivative of the wikipedia article, but doesn't credit wikipedia (a link to the wikipedia article is present, however)

midimacman.com

 * Site:
 * Example:

Midieval Warfare

 * Backwards copying verified through a comparison of the plate armour article. The content was on Wikipedia in one form or another well before the Midieval Warfare domain was registered in December 2007 (compare our version before the site was registered) — Crisco 1492 (talk) 15:07, 11 July 2012 (UTC)

milliondollaridea.com

 * Site: milliondollaridea.com
 * Example:
 * No attribution
 * No GFDL notice
 * Only copyright information is their site's copyright; their Legal Notice link makes no mention of Wikipedia or the GFDL
 * Appears to be geared toward search engine link spam (also has ads, which is fine)
 * down as of 8/4/06 --Utopianfiat 19:42, 4 August 2006 (UTC)

mind42

 * Site: www.mind42.com aimed at selling mind mapping software
 * Example: www.mind42.com/wiki/Mathematics
 * States at start "From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia"
 * States at end "Retrieved from "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathematics"" as link to original article
 * No obvious mention of GFDL
 * Sent an email requesting full compliance on 4/16/08 -- B figura (talk) 18:57, 16 April 2008 (UTC)
 * Response indicates that a change to full compliance will be rolled out shortly. Will upgrade status when that happens. -- B figura (talk) 23:30, 21 April 2008 (UTC)

mirrorpedia

 * Site: mirrorpedia.com
 * Example: mirrorpedia.com/wiki/Mathematics
 * Fork from around October/November 2006 but with broken code
 * States "Content is available under GNU Free Documentation License 1.2." with link to GFDL at gnu.org
 * No obvious link to article or Wikipedia

mistyped.info

 * http://www.mistyped.info/
 * Example page http://www.mistyped.info/abuse.htm
 * Mirror of Wikipedia, doesn't mention Wikipedia nor GFDL on any page.
 * "provide quality information for even these errant queries, using the unique capabilities offered by searchspell." Searchspell itself does mention Wikipedia and GFDL. So maybe it's a mirror of a mirror or something. --Conti|&#9993; 23:07, Feb 8, 2005 (UTC)
 * Pages contain "This article is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License. It uses material from the Wikipedia article "acrobat". --update --Davelane 16:51, 9 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Their copy of the abortions article doesn't --Utopianfiat 19:45, 4 August 2006 (UTC)

MobileReference publications that are forks of Wikipedia
This list is not exhaustive.


 * Calendar of historical events births holidays and observances
 * Encyclopedia of Ancient Egypt
 * Observances, Holidays and Celebrations
 * Travel Goa

MochaCity.com
Patstuarttalk·edits 03:18, 25 March 2007 (UTC)

Molinu

 * This site claims a copyright at the bottom of every page, e.g. . Not sure what to do about this. --W.marsh 20:30, 6 June 2006 (UTC)

Mon-photo.com

 * http://www.mon-photo.com/ "Fotos del mundo - Photos from around the world"
 * English and Spanish versions: most pages are copied directly from English and Spanish Wikipedias
 * Some pages have links to main page of English and Spanish Wikipedias; others don't
 * No link to source article; no mention of GFDL -- ran (talk) 07:35, 6 December 2005 (UTC)

MoodBook.com

 * http://www.moodbook.com
 * The trance music page has various articles copied from Wikipedia word-for-word (namely Psychedelic trance and Goa trance music, but possibly others as well).
 * No mention of GFDL or Wikipedia anywhere on the site. -Ld | talk 23:25, 6 Jan 2005 (UTC)

moono.com
--StYxXx 16:32, 23 June 2006 (UTC)

Morelawinfo.com

 * http://www.morelawinfo.com/index.php
 * Copies many Wikiedia articles on law and other subjects, such as corporations (Airborne Express copied at ).
 * Copying isn't very up-to-date. The article on the Supreme Court of the United States (at ) includes a typo ("which concisely summaries the case") that was corrected by this edit to our article almost a year ago.
 * At this writing, the Morelawinfo home page features a copy of our Murphy's law article, but perhaps they rotate.
 * Absolutely no compliance. No link, no mention of Wikipedia, no mention of GFDL.  Each article has a "credits" link at the bottom but it's a dead link. JamesMLane 00:44, 6 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Motorcycle Accessories
-Fibonacci 13:10, 25 May 2005 (UTC)
 * Site: http://www.x-moto.net/articles/.
 * Sample article: Maria Sk&#322;odowska-Curie
 * No link to Wikipedia article, though Wikipedia is mentioned (This article is from Wikipedia.).
 * Link to local copy of GFDL (All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.).
 * Claims copyright of content (Copyright © 2004 - 2005 www.x-moto.net).
 * It seems to copy from all namespaces, not just articles (this, for example, is my user page).
 * Does not show images, not even on the image's article (for example, our logo should be here).
 * It seems to do a live copy from our articles.
 * Standard letter sent by me to contact address: contact AT x-moto.net.

MrSci.com
--David Iberri (talk) 22:47, 12 January 2006 (UTC)
 * Site: http://www.mrsci.com
 * Sample article: Vermiform appendix
 * No link to Wikipedia article.
 * Wikipedia is not mentioned.
 * No reference to GFDL.
 * Claims copyright of content (© MrSci.com. All Rights Reserved).
 * Does not show images for articles.
 * Does not appear to be a live mirror.
 * No e-mail address is given on their website, but their domain is through GoDaddy and was registered by Domains By Proxy.
 * Standard letter sent by me to contact address given in whois query (MRSCI.COM AT domainsbyproxy.com).
 * Domains By Proxy also takes complaints about their clients by postal mail.
 * Comment:most of the stuff on this site appears to be lifted from en.wikipedia.org without mentioning wikipedia and claiming their own copyright. Alex.tan 00:40, 13 January 2006 (UTC)

mrscienceguy.com

 * site: mrscienceguy.com
 * Samples: As near as I can tell the bio's of the people (chemists, etc) are copies of the corresponding wikipedia articles from between the June 20, 2004 and July 10th 2004. Compare the following:


 * Dmitri Mendeleev and  (this version seems to be the closest)
 * François Jacob and
 * Amedeo_Avogadro and


 * Claims copyright of content (Copyright © 2005 mrscienceguy.com All Rights Reserved)
 * Wayback machine reports no articles on this prior to 2005, so unlikely that wikipedia could have copied from them.

I have no idea what should be done here. I'd appreciate extra eyeballs to make sure I'm not making a n00b mistake. Wikibofh 23:09, 15 Jun 2005 (UTC)

mumbaiforums.com

 * Site: www.mumbaiforums.com/
 * Example: www.mumbaiforums.com/Special:Contributions/Cody7777777.html

mupot.kr

 * Site: www.mupot.kr/wikien
 * Example: www.mupot.kr/wikien.php?title=Talk:Cadaver

music.paki.ws

 * Site: http://music.paki.ws/
 * Example: http://music.paki.ws/Articles-Info_Result.php?title=File:Greek_cross.svg

Music VF

 * Site: www.musicvf.com/index.php
 * Example: http://www.musicvf.com/Cliff+Richard.bio
 * Ends with: An article from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia, distributed under GFDL (authors) To view the original version of this article or to improve Wikipedia, just follow this link with links to en:Main Page, GFDL at gnu.org, history of original article and current version of original article

mvlife.com

 * Site: http://www.mvlife.com/a11/index2.php?title=Main_Page

myadvertisers.com

 * Site: http://www.myadvertisers.com/wiki/Main_Page
 * All namespaces.
 * No mention of Wikipedia.
 * No mention of GFDL.
 * Main page dates is March 21, 2005.
 * Admin contacted. Waiting for reply.
 * 23:18, 15 January 2006 (UTC)

Mybenches.com
-Fibonacci 03:21, 11 May 2005 (UTC)
 * Site: http://www.mybenches.com/articles/.
 * Sample article: Brachistochrone problem.
 * No link to Wikipedia article, though Wikipedia is mentioned (This article is from Wikipedia.).
 * Link to GFDL (All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.).
 * Claims copyright of content (Copyright © 2004 www.mybenches.com).
 * It seems to copy from all namespaces, not just articles (this, for example, is my user page).
 * Does not show images, not even on the image's article (for example, our logo should be here).
 * It seems to copy from our articles on a daily basis - not a live copy, but not outdated for more than a day, either.
 * Does not seem to provide contact information (I didn't find it, at least).
 * Still has much of the problems above, but at least they added a link back to the Wikipedia article... Wcquidditch | Talk 11:52, 8 November 2005 (UTC)

mybulgaria.info

 * Site: http://www.mybulgaria.info/
 * Example: http://www.mybulgaria.info/modules.php?name=Wiki&title=User_talk:Eugene-elgato

MyWiseOwl.com

 * Site: www.mywiseowl.com
 * Mirror of the full English wikipedia. Including images.
 * Example article http://www.mywiseowl.com/articles/Baden%2C_Switzerland)
 * Clear link to our copy of the text of the GFDL
 * Link (called 'live article') to our copy of the article, at the bottom.
 * Seems to be high degree of compliance.
 * verified 20:15, 6 Apr 2005 (UTC) by 20:17, 6 Apr 2005 (UTC)~


 * Advertising is a mix of money making google text adds, and also 'public service' ads. Interestingly they're also spending money on google ad words e.g. 'Integration Testing'.

- Nojer2 11:33, 28 Feb 2005 (UTC)

www.mywikipedia.us

 * action = no actions taken

Namibia Internet Gateway
--Davelane 21:52, 17 Sep 2004 (UTC)
 * Site: Namibia Internet Gateway
 * A bit of lookup shows that this is hosted at 64.151.72.220 which belongs to the ISP ServePath.com in San Francisco - let your takedowns roll 28 Sep 2004
 * mirror of Wikipedia, but not with correct backlinking.---Dittaeva 08:47, 8 Aug 2004 (UTC)
 * Mentions GFDL but 'unbelivibly' links to a oscommerce site "Welcome to your Online Pharmacist" instead of the licence!!!
 * I checked this today 18/9/04 and it now links to a Nuke site -- my guess is its some kind of spam link device --82.43.209.114 18:47, 18 Sep 2004 (UTC)
 * Needs action! --Davelane 21:52, 17 Sep 2004 (UTC)
 * also see: http://www.namweb.com.na/wiki/wiki.phtml?title=Main+Page namibweb
 * No link to Wikipedia article
 * no link to GFDL
 * No contact information
 * Example - University of Delaware
 * Standard letter sent by: ?
 * http://www.namweb.com.na/wiki/wiki.phtml?title=Main%20Page
 * Appears to be a complete dump of Wikipedia taken at the end of March 2004. The site appears to have been operational since early April 2004. The site includes user pages and the pages fully editable with the exception of the standard protected pages. No mention of GNU Free Documentation License, instead it states  "The site is Sponcored (sic) by Namibia Internet Gateway OaSyS, AfricaLinks,  NamWeb, NIG". Judging by recent changes the site appears to be attracting a few vandals.
 * Wikipedia users seem to be disappearing. The pages are still there. [ alerante | &#x201c;&#x201d; 00:19, 18 Apr 2004 (UTC) ]
 * I can't find any Wikipedia content there anymore. Amaurea 10:16, 7 February 2006 (UTC)

Nationmaster
(basically all wikipedia articles)
 * Site: Nationmaster
 * Not a verbatim copy, because the copyright statement from the printed version has been modified, both the text, size of text, and location.

Database was downloaded about February 15 2005; comments are based on article http://www.nationmaster.com/encyclopedia/Warsaw-Uprising but appear to apply to all other articles

The copyright notice at the bottom of each page states

"Copyright NationMaster.com 2003-2005. All Rights Reserved. Usage implies agreement with terms."


 * incorrectly attributes copyright
 * restrictions beyond those permitted by the GFDL ("all rights reserved")
 * restricts usage of material which is not permitted by the GFDL.
 * breaches "D. Preserve all the copyright notices of the Document." of GFDL terms for distribution of modified documents

The copyright notice links twice to a set of terms. These terms include the following


 * NationMaster.com holds copyright on all aspects of this site (including but not limited to content and layout), with the exception of the text from articles taken from Wikipedia and where copyrights are held by our sources.

Which means that it should partly be ignored, however the term


 * By using this site, you agree to the following terms and conditions

interacts with the term


 * You may not replicate, modify, reproduce, publish, distribute, display or transmit any portion of this web site, except as permitted in this document.

to form a breach of the GFDL.

The terms (but not the article) do link both to Wikipedia and the content disclaimer, but not to the Wikipedia copyright terms.


 * there is no copy of or link to the GFDL
 * there is no attribution to the original author of the document
 * there is no link to the original document.

Images may have a better condition, e.g. http://www.nationmaster.com/encyclopedia/Image:Uprising-kotwica.jpg shows the correct GFDL link, however, even this fails since the user page link does not work as expected.

This site seems to have nearly cleaned up its act. The disclaimer at the bottom of articles now reads:


 * The Wikipedia article included on this page is licensed under the GFDL.
 * Images may be subject to relevant owners' copyright.
 * All other elements are (c) copyright NationMaster.com 2003-5. All Rights Reserved.
 * Usage implies agreement with terms.

"Wikipedia" is linked to the equivalent Wikipedia article. "GFDL" is linked to GNU's What Is Copyleft? page, which is probably not compliant (they should have a copy of the GFDL on their site, or at least a direct link to the text) but pretty close. &mdash; Gwalla | Talk 05:21, 28 May 2005 (UTC)


 * As of 27 July 2005, the Copyright notice still links to "Terms and Conditions" which says:

Terms and Conditions

By using this site, you agree to the following terms and conditions:

NationMaster.com holds copyright on all aspects of this site (including but not limited to content and layout), with the exception of the text from articles taken from Wikipedia and where copyrights are held by our sources.

''You may not use any robot, spider or any automated or manual device to monitor or copy any aspect of this site (including content) without the NationMaster.com prior permission, unless your purpose is to index the content for a traditional search engine (eg. Google, Teoma, etc). You may not replicate, modify, reproduce, publish, distribute, display or transmit any portion of this web site, except as permitted in this document.''

''You are permitted to quote no more than 20 individual figures (eg. US GDP per capita, Andorran life expectancy, etc) or lines of text from this site, provided you provide a link back to a valid page at NationMaster.com. You may not copy graphs, maps, scatterplots, etc.''

If you would like permission to quote the data in another way, or to make an enquiry about licensing, please contact us.

You are free to link to any page on the site, without needing to seek permission.

which rather implies restriction on the GDFL rights, but each page from wikipedia seems to have proper acknowledgement. DES 21:21, 27 July 2005 (UTC)


 * Several years later, there are still the same terms and conditions imposed. The site is very definitely not compliant because of these.  Imposing additonal terms and conditions is against the very core principles of the GFDL.  &mdash; Alan✉ 18:25, 14 July 2008 (UTC)

NationMaster.com looks okay to me, but its clone(?) (twin?, sibling?, ripoff?) StateMaster.com has the same text on its terms page minus the text ...of the text from articles taken from Wikipedia and.... &mdash; User:ACupOfCoffee@ 21:34, 30 August 2009 (UTC)

Nebulasearch.com

 * Site: Nebulasearch.com
 * Mentions and links to the GFDL
 * Acknowledges Wikipedia authorship
 * Links to source wikipedia article

Neighborhoodscout.com

 * Site: www.neighborhoodscout.com

Verbatim excerpts from Wikipedia articles (examples:, , ...). Don't see any credit given to Wikipedia or GFDL terms. They have the pages marked at the bottom with "Copyright© 2001-2005 Location Inc Group".


 * See talk, Talk:New_York_City
 * Standard letter not yet sent. --Aude 22:20, 19 December 2005 (UTC)
 * I have sent a letter now.--Pharos 06:15, 20 December 2005 (UTC)
 * Added Wikipedia mention in this link. --F. Cosoleto 12:10, 4 December 2006 (UTC)

Neohumanism

 * Site: neohumanism.org/
 * Example: neohumanism.org/f/fu/function.html
 * Near end: "This article is from [small .gif file saying Wikipedia]. All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License." with .cgi link eventually ending up at Wikipedia and ordinary link to local copy of GFDL 1.2.
 * Page ends "Copyright 2004. All rights reserved."
 * No obvious link to original article

Netencyclo

 * Homepage: www.netencyclo.com
 * Example: www.netencyclo.com/en/Albania mirrored from Albania
 * Multilingual, but underlying appears French
 * Starts: Your continued donations keep Wikipedia running! with link to http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Fundraising then main heading Netencyclo, The wikipedia mirror - The biggest multilingual encyclopedia
 * Ends: © 2007 Netencyclo ... Netencyclo, the Wikipedia mirror : the biggest multilingual free-content encyclopedia on the Internet. All Wikipedia content is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License (see details)... with link to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Copyrights
 * No obvious link to original article or history
 * As of 12:48, 1 May 2007 (UTC), SE16

Netipedia
netipedia.com Copy of Wikipedia articles. They use the Wikipedia name. They removed all community related articles, talk pages, and GFDL terms.

No history, author information, or link to wikipedia.org or any related site seem present. DES 21:23, 27 July 2005 (UTC)
 * User pages are included. Alph a x &tau;&epsilon;&chi; 03:49, 24 February 2006 (UTC)

newsfilter.co.uk
Research requested. JesseW 22:20, 18 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Site pedia.newsfilter.co.uk

Seems to give full content of wikipedia articles. Indicates source is wikipedia and content is under the GDFL with a proper link, and each article links to the corresponding article on wikipedia. Seems to be just a dump of wikipedia as of a fixed (but unspecified) date with advertisements added at top and bottom. DES 21:43, 27 July 2005 (UTC)

New York City Model

 * Site newyorkcitymodel.com
 * Some (but not all) of their "Famous Supermodels" articles seem to be derived from Wikipedia content; this has come to lighgt as a result of Elona Bojaxhi and Bridget Hall being tagged as copyvios from there. However there are earlier versions of these articles whch differ from the newyorkcitymodel.com pages in small details.
 * Does not link back to Wikipedia or acknowledge authorship as far as I can tell.
 * Their legal notice is quite interesting - copyright reserved, and asserts Moroccan jurisdiction (the domain is indeed registered to a Moroccan company).
 * Standard letter not yet sent. --rbrwr&plusmn; 20:02, 31 Dec 2004 (UTC)

New Wikipedia
--Timish ¤ Gül Bahçesi  12:34, 5 May 2008 (UTC)
 * Site: Newwikipedia.info
 * appears to be Polish, copyied everything from articles to wikipedia pages (including admin lists)
 * They use the Wikipedia trademark
 * Seems like the page is already down --92.78.177.139 (talk) 17:26, 23 January 2010 (UTC)

Nexuscience.com
UPDATE: Account suspended? Appears to be offline. - RoyBoy [ &#8734; ] 03:48, 10 Feb 2005 (UTC)


 * Site: Nexuscience.com
 * Links to original article, by each article title
 * Links to more recent Wikipedia articles which had been found at the time of compilation are on each page, by way of link?
 * Links to local copy of GNU/FDL on every page, including main page
 * Pages which contain original Wikipedia articles state 'From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia'. A link to the main page of Wikipedia is included in addition to a link to the original article.
 * Bottom of main page states 'All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, copyright Wikipedia contributors'
 * The compilation as a whole on CD is stated to be licensed under the GNU/FDL in the installation license and in the readme.txt file

Nigerian Nation

 * Site: nigeriannation.com
 * Uses Wikipedia articles
 * Uses Wikipedia style sheet, but the logo is changed
 * Does not mention GFDL
 * Does not link back to Wikipedia or acknowledge authorship
 * Standard letter not yet sent.

No-Gambling.com
Now mentions Wikipedia prominently, links to Wikipedia main page, and GNU/FDL license at gnu.org. Andre Engels 01:19, 17 Jan 2004 (UTC)
 * Site: No-Gambling.com
 * Does not acknowledge wikipedia authorship
 * Does not state that the article is licensed under the GNU FDL.
 * Does not link to the relevant wikipedia page (or wikipedia at all)
 * Example: from Shuffling playing cards
 * Standard letter sent. --snoyes 17:17, 13 Jan 2004 (UTC)

www.nobslinks.com

 * Site: http://www.nobslinks.com
 * For some reason, the site has only a few unlinked copies of Wikipedia articles on Nobel Prize winners. I can only find this site through google, does not seem to be linked to by any other site.
 * Does not acknowledge wikipedia authorship
 * Does not state that the article is licensed under the GNU FDL.
 * Does not link to the relevant wikipedia page (or wikipedia at all)
 * Example: http://www.nobslinks.com/chemistry-npw/links/curie-marie.htm
 * No email address on site, will try webmaster AT nobslinks.com, etc. KWH 21:23, 2 September 2006 (UTC)

Nodeworks Encyclopedia

 * Site: Nodeworks Encyclopedia
 * Links to Wikipedia (but not individual article) on each page
 * Links to local copy of GNU/FDL on every page
 * Example article
 * Bottom of main page states 'This article is from Wikipedia. All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License. '
 * No history section.
 * Medium compliance.

Non-violence.org

 * Site: Non-violence.org
 * Uses Wikipedia articles
 * Mention of GFDL
 * Link to Wikipedia

North Texas e-News

 * Site:
 * On this day page with every link on interior of page to a wikipedia article
 * Noncompliant - © Copyright 2002-2005 by North Texas e-News, llc

Notfah.com

 * Site: www.notfah.com
 * Seems to run a mediawiki installation with a text copy of Wikipedia. No images.
 * No copyright notice, mention of the GFDL
 * No mention of Wikipedia (except on the main page, which is our one without the templates)
 * Sent a standard letter to the owner (in Cairo, Egypt!). -- WB 08:05, 15 January 2006 (UTC)
 * According to the admin, he will change that in the next update. So wait. -- WB 23:20, 15 January 2006 (UTC)


 * Mirror was taken down by the owner. 10:40, 25 March 2006 (UTC)

Novamobile.net

 * Site: www.novamobile.net
 * The article on Base Station Subsystem here is a cut and pasted copy of this version of the Wikipedia page. The version on their site has the date 2006-06-18, it even has a copy of the expand tag.
 * No mention of Wikipedia or GFDL. Article says "Author : Raveex" on one of the first lines which is clearly not the case and as such a violation of gfdl.
 * Most articles (at least the ones I checked) listed here are cut and pasted from Wikipedia and claim the same author.
 * No action taken. - 130.233.243.229 11:02, 26 October 2006 (UTC)
 * Email. --F. Cosoleto 12:25, 4 December 2006 (UTC)
 * Now "Author: Raveex" is replaced with "Author: Wikipedia". --F. Cosoleto 23:05, 6 December 2006 (UTC)

Now Try Us

 * Site: www.nowtryus.com
 * Example: www.nowtryus.com/article:Partial_differential_equation
 * States: "From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia"
 * No obvious link to Wikipedia or to original article
 * States: "All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License." with link to GFDL at gnu.org

nursing-resource.com

 * Site: http://nursing-resource.com/
 * Example: Debridement (see talk). Bandage scissors, which they not only copied but also replaced an existing reference with their own!
 * No obvious link to Wikipedia or to original article. At their disclaimer, they say, "The contents contained herein have been produced by our staff based on textbooks and other reference materials that had been written by a certified professional author, while some of the materials here had been taken from certified resource sites."
 * Not compatibly licensed.

New York Daily News-
Acather96 (talk) 08:07, 29 January 2011 (UTC)
 * Site: www.nydailynews.com
 * Example: Filmyard Holdings,
 * Acknowledges the text is from Wikipedia, but thats it. Does link to the original article, but fails to provide licensing info.
 * Not compatibly licensed.

nicer.app

 * name = Wikipedia.org on Nicer.App WebOS
 * url = https://nicer.app/wiki/frontpage
 * description = aims to project the entire wikimedia realm onto 4K or even 8K screen tech (video/photo/tiled), with semi-transparent easy to read content.
 * rating = ?? high/medium i guess. i merely funnel data into my UI.
 * compliance = full, as far as i (the owner of nicer.app) can tell.
 * contact = email address listed on https://nicer.app/company (read daily).
 * action = none needed so far.

Octopus wiki

 * Site: The Octopus wiki
 * Mirrors: Wikipedia's format.
 * Contents: Freely borrows material from Wikipedia without any concerns regarding copyrights, licenses, or whatever.
 * Makes: no mention whatsoever to anything for which it has plagarized.


 * WARNING - School filters returned

A virus (JS.Iframe-4) was found in the downloaded file.  S o p h i e  ( Talk ) 15:32, 29 November 2010 (UTC)

www.objectssearch.com encyclopedia
Appears to be a complete clone of the en: Wikipedia.
 * Site: www.objectssearch.com encyclopedia
 * mentions Wikipedia at foot of page, with link back to www.wikipedia.org
 * mentions GFDL, links to GNU online copy
 * no link back to Wikipedia source article: this needs fixing

Objectssearch Encyclopedia - 'the free encyclopedia'

 * Site: Objectssearch Encyclopedia - 'the free encyclopedia'
 * Only links back to en.wikipedia.org, does not link back to original article.
 * Mentions GFDL, linking to GNU.org.
 * This site is stealing Wikipedia bandwidth. When looking up an article, the script get.jsp queries the en.wikipedia.org server realtime, strips the result down to the text alone and places it its own page. Evidence: I tested various pages that I knew had changed very recently (not more than two hours ago), e.g. Tuareg languages. They all returned the most recent version.
 * The best example is of course looking up the main page: !
 * Needs action. Probably standard letter is not enough. Someone who is more fluent and eloquent than I am in English, please help. - Mark Dingemanse (talk)  21:32, 30 Oct 2004 (UTC)
 * This report posted on Non-compliant_site_coordination - Mark Dingemanse (talk)  22:38, 31 Oct 2004 (UTC)

OmniKnow

 * Site: OmniKnow
 * Credits Wikipedia and links to original in each article.
 * Links to GFDL (on gnu.org) on every page.
 * Example
 * (bonus!) Links to Wikimedia fundraising page from each article.
 * No history section.
 * Medium compliance.
 * Down - 503 (matinance)  S o p h i e   ( Talk ) 15:30, 29 November 2010 (UTC)

Omnipelagos

 * seems to run a "six degrees of separation" type search on its old store of Wikipedia articles.

Onelang - Encyclopedia & Reference

 * Site: Onelang - Encyclopedia & Reference
 * links to GFDL and credits Wikipedia
 * Seems to be GFDL/GPL confusion in the link
 * exact copy of Wikipedia as seen here
 * Some formatting issues and some articles missing (e.g. Albania)
 * No link to original article
 * Articles end with "This article uses material from Wikipedia and is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License" with link to local copy of Wikipedia article about GNU General Public License rather than GFDL (or GPL) itself --Henrygb 12:07, 2 December 2005 (UTC)

onelook.com

 * Site: onelook.com
 * The first part (ca. 230 characters, sometimes less) of basically each article
 * almost certainly fair use
 * link to current full version of the article
 * link to GFDL on acknowledgments page
 * contact form

OnlineSeats.com
A ticket agency! I found, from our Duran Duran article, but spot-checks on other artist bios do not seem to be from WP. Perhaps they copied from another DD fansite who uses our material. On further research: it looks like they allow site users to upload bios and links. What should be done?
 * Site: onlineseats.com
 * "Copyright 2004 © - Onlineseats" - no mention of Wikipedia or GFDL anywhere. Policy and Terms here --  Copyright Policy We will terminate the privileges of any user who uses this Site to unlawfully transmit copyrighted material without a license express consent, valid defense or fair use exemption to do so, but doesn't indicate whether they will remove or credit infringing materials.   [[User:CatherineMunro|Catherine\talk]] 21:50, 30 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Onpedia

 * Site: http://www.onpedia.com
 * Example for Albania
 * Ends with "This article is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License. It uses material from the Wikipedia article "albania"." with link to GFDL at GNU and wrong (but working) link to original article. --Henrygb 23:11, 11 November 2005 (UTC)
 * The links to Wikipedia are apparently parsed, and often broken. All links are in lower case, and spaces are replaced by dashes. See their List-of-communities-in-Ontario for an example. Mind  matrix  19:33, 29 June 2006 (UTC)

open-encyclopedia.com
Still largely non-compliant as of 2008, and still using outdated database text from the end of 2004. For instance, "'New York broadcaster WPBS-TV is one of two PBS flagship stations, the other being KPBS in California...' At least that's how this article would begin if PBS were exactly like other major US networks such as ABC, CBS and NBC. PBS, however, is different" is original to one initial version of the intro for our WPBS-TV article, created in 2004 and removed by subsequent editors years ago. --carlb (talk) 17:23, 10 April 2008 (UTC)

Opentopia.com

 * Site: encycl.opentopia.com
 * Credits Wikipedia and links to original in each article.
 * Includes From Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia at the bottom.
 * Links to Wikipedia GFDL page and Copyright page on every page.
 * Links to Wikimedia fundraising page from each article.

Orthodox Wiki

 * Site: orthodoxwiki.org
 * Article Pope Cyril VI of Alexandria copied to Cyril VI (Atta) of Alexandria on 2 July 2005
 * Both articles then edited differently
 * No attribution to Wikipedia
 * Licence is Creative Commons by-nc-sa 2.0 dual GFDL and CC by-sa 2.5 (updated by Jschroe)
 * --Henrygb 22:34, 17 July 2005 (UTC)


 * I'm the administrator of OrthodoxWiki. I just ran across this page, and would like to say that I've left a message for the contributor, asking him to explicitly cite Wikipedia as a source when he imports an article in the future. We'll have to make our guidelines more explicit about this. I added a link back to Wikipedia in the article in question.


 * We've recently moved our wiki to a dual license (GFDL and CC by-sa), with an explicit statement that Wikipedia content does not become CC - just our original content is dually licensed. Please let me know if this is an unacceptable arrangement!' I would ask Henrygb and others to contact us in the future if they suspect any non-compliance. We're earnestly trying to work through these issues and appreciate kind guidance. I wish someone had contacted me instead of or in addition to posting this message here.


 * It will take a little time, but we will also do an audit to ensure that our other imported articles are in compliance. Is there a clear statement of exactly what is required for compliance anywhere? Thanks, Jschroe / FrJohn


 * P.S. One other note is that the person who imported this article likely took both from a third source is the author or, at least, has authorization from the original source of the article. He is the webaster of http://www.zeitun-eg.org/, which contains a lot of information about the saint. (Updated)


 * There are similar problems with Cyril Lucaris: copied without attribution to Wikipedia source at http://www.orthodoxwiki.org/Cyril_Lucaris


 * Attribution was provided in the history -- admittedly this is insufficient, but it wasn't fully absent. I'm grateful that in this case User:Henrygb did login and fix the issue. Jschroe

Osmanlı Tarihi Kültürü Medeniyeti Edebiyatı Sanatı

 * Site: http://www.osmanlimedeniyeti.com
 * Example: from Albania, followed by English-Turkish dictionary
 * States: "Source: en.wikipedia.org" with link to wikipedia
 * No mention of GFDL
 * No link to original article
 * As of 00:36, 14 December 2005 (UTC) --Henrygb

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