Wikipedia:Mirrors and forks/PQR

Paleorama.com

 * Shows domain parking page --Rumping (talk) 08:29, 4 December 2008 (UTC)

Pandapedia

 * Site: pandapedia.com
 * Example: pandapedia.com/wiki/Albania
 * Says: Retrieved from "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albania"
 * Page ends with This article is from Wikipedia. All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License with links to http://www.wikipedia.org and to local mirror of GNU Free Documentation License article
 * As of 16:37, 9 July 2007 (UTC)


 * Now no content but says "Technical problems, please revisit or click here for complain. Thanks! Or try to see at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albania" --Rumping (talk) 07:37, 5 June 2008 (UTC)
 * The other language versions display content; it seems they are mirroring even Userpages... --Dami (talk) 15:52, 7 August 2008 (UTC)

Pantheon.org

 * Site: www.pantheon.org
 * Articles "by Micha F. Lindemans" are mirrors of out of date versions of all mythology related articles. Actually, the articles predate the original entries in Wikipedia and have been copied by users without proper notice.
 * With stub notices and images etc. removed


 * Especially noticeable with articles that were confused - e.g. Banebdjed and Ba (now corrected in Wikipedia) - Ba (capital B) on Pantheon is described as if a totally different entity to Banebdjed, even though Ba is said to be in Mendes. No Egyptologist would ever make this mistake - Banebdjed means "Ba of the lord ('neb') of djed", and "djed" is the old name for Mendes, but Wikipedia used to have the "Ba of Mendes" and "Banebdjed" as different gods, which is exactly how Pantheon.org has it.
 * It even has the early version of Chem, something totally obviously wrong to anyone with any competence in the field (e.g. Chem = Ham and wears a womans dress. No. Chem is a misreading of "Min", and never wore a womans dress, although female deities were sometimes depicted as Min (including phallus), though always identifiable as to who they were). This error is very unlikely to be made without copying Wikipedia.
 * N.b. w.r.t. Egyptian mythology, the articles have been updated substantially in Wikipedia since April, so may no longer correspond.
 * Claims exclusive copyright, not GDFL, all rights reserved

peacelink.de

 * 404 --Rumping (talk) 07:38, 5 June 2008 (UTC)

PediaPress

 * Example gives 404 not found. Front page has Wikipedia logo and "Official partner".  Site linked from http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Collection --Rumping (talk) 07:41, 5 June 2008 (UTC)

People's Daily

 * Site: PRC People's Daily
 * Uses at least one Wikipedia article (basically unchanged: The Profile there = our article at the time of their copying)
 * No mention of GFDL
 * No mention of Wikipedia, instead says the ridiculous thing of "Source: Agencies"
 * Contact: This?


 * I posted a message. --mav 10:45, 4 Jan 2004 (UTC)
 * Wikipedians Montrealais and Menchi basically wrote that article from scratch, so it is original, to Wikipedia. I'd know, I'm Menchi and I think I know Montrealais well enough.


 * Well, if we ever had spare lawyers and wanted publicity, "Wikipedia sues Chinese government for copyright infringement" would be hilarious. =] --Delirium 12:29, Feb 6, 2004 (UTC)
 * Well, the PRC censors us, we sue them for copyvio. WooyiTalk to me? 21:15, 19 May 2007 (UTC)

personel.obec.go.th/
I was using WP and suddenly found I was not using WP but this site, which asked me to log in, but appeared exactly like WP and correctly searched for WP articles for editing. This may be a phishing site that was invaded WP. Peterkingiron 17:01, 10 June 2007 (UTC)
 * Site:http://personel.obec.go.th/

phillywire.com

 * Site: phillywire.com
 * No mention/link to GFDL in some articles
 * No mention of wikipedia
 * Instead _they_ claim copyright of the article(s)
 * Examples:, ,
 * They didn't list an email address to contact them, so I sent the standard GFDL vio letter to webmaster AT phillywire.com and admin AT phillywire.com --snoyes 04:46, 1 Dec 2003 (UTC)
 * Reply received: It is being worked on. --snoyes 17:43, 9 Dec 2003 (UTC)
 * Seems to be in 'almost' compliance now: Mentions Wikipedia, mentions GNU/FDL, links to article, links to GNU/FDL. Only minus points: says the article "uses material from" the Wikipedia article, where it seems to be copying almost-verbatim, and GNU/FDL is linked at gnu.org (can we propose to GNU to allow that for the next version?) Andre Engels 01:41, 17 Jan 2004 (UTC)
 * I think they are perfectly fine. No reason to be nit-picky, IMO. --mav 11:36, 18 Jan 2004 (UTC)
 * I agree. Andre Engels 19:28, 18 Jan 2004 (UTC)

Phobia Finder

 * Site: Phobia Finder
 * Uses content of -phobia, with minor editing.
 * No mention of Wikipedia
 * No mention of GFDL
 * Affiliated with Biography Finder.

Pinkjustis.info

 * Example: Albania at http://pinkjustis.info/Albania
 * No obvious mention of Wikipedia
 * No obvious mention of GFDL
 * Says "Copyright www.pinkjustis.info 2006"
 * As of 21:29, 24 March 2007 (UTC) --Henrygb
 * Whole site not found --Rumping (talk) 07:52, 5 June 2008 (UTC)

Plant connect

 * Site: www.plantconnect.com
 * Example: www.plantconnect.com/plantconnect/mod.php?mod=plantpedia&title=London
 * States "This is an extract from Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia" with link to www.wikipedia.org
 * No obvious mention of or link to GFDL
 * No obvious link to original article
 * Ends with "Copyright � Total CAD Management 2002-2003 /m/0.59"

Plastic-dream-girl.com/fetishportal

 * Copy of Main Page at http://www.plastic-dream-girl.com/fetishportal/enzyklopaedia.php
 * Mentions Wikipedia but no obvious link
 * No obvious mention of GFDL
 * Various copyright claims
 * As of 01:41, 16 December 2005 (UTC), --Henrygb
 * example not found --Rumping (talk) 07:53, 5 June 2008 (UTC)

Playfuls.com

 * They are also using images from Wikipedia in many places without proper attribution. See for example Image:Map of USA MD.svg, Image:Jammu_and_Kashmir_locator_map.svg  Image:LocationMorocco striped.png --Pharos 21:51, 10 April 2007 (UTC)

Plastic-Surger

 * Site:
 * Plastic surgery related pages
 * No compliance.

Plastics Wiki

 * Site: Plastics
 * The wiki about plastics & polymers
 * Links to Wikipedia and local copy of GFDL at the bottom of each article used

Pontefract Young Farmers

 * site not found --Rumping (talk) 07:55, 5 June 2008 (UTC)

Pop Stars Plus

 * Site: PopStarsPlus.com
 * Includes link to Wikipedia and separate link to original article prominently at top of each article. Also includes "Date copied article: Month Day, Year"
 * WP articles do not appear on all pages - the site includes original articles as well.
 * Links to Wikipedia and local copy of GFDL at the bottom of each article used

PortalJuice

 * Site: Nextopia: PortalJuice
 * Uses full site, for "vertically focused Web search technology"; calls this Encyclopedia (BETA) project
 * Removes "from Wikipedia"
 * Links to Wikipedia and local copy of GFDL on each page


 * Site: PortalJuice.com

--Fritzlein 06:31, 5 Jul 2004 (UTC)
 * Links to GFDL
 * Acknowledges wikipedia

Moved from main page --Davelane 12:28, 14 Sep 2004 (UTC)

PostgreSQL General Bits

 * Site: PostgreSQL General Bits
 * Link to main page of Wikipedia
 * Very small section of article about Edgar F. Codd (1 paragraph)
 * No link to GFDL or the article

prescriptiondrug-info.com

 * Site
 * Mentions GFDL and links to source. appears to be a full mirror of everything includeing userpages.
 * Example www.prescriptiondrug-info.com/drug_information_online.asp?title=Cliff_Richard
 * Ends with "This article is from Wikipedia. All text is available under the terms of the GFDL (GNU Free Documentation License) | Source" with links to GFDL at gnu.org and to original article

pro-researcher.co.uk

 * Site: pro-researcher.co.uk
 * Mentions and links to the GFDL
 * States "Showing data from: Wikipedia - the free online encyclopaedia." on the front page
 * Links to source wikipedia articles
 * Posted by website owner to assess for compliance
 * acknowledges Wikipedia at the top and bottom of each article Manning
 * No history section.
 * Medium compliance.

Pub.eu

 * Site: pub.eu
 * Example: pub.eu/ploughmans_lunch_en.html
 * States the actual descriptive text portion of the article is subject to GDFL
 * Has web addresses to original article (retrieval date: 2007-05-27) and text of GDFL at Wikipedia, though not hyperlinks.
 * States (c) Ovidio Limited 2006-2009.

Public Domain art

 * Site: Public Domain art
 * Uses a part of the article about Public Domain (1 paragraph)
 * Mentions Wikipedia with no link
 * Contains a section of the Fair Use Doctrine of the U.S. Copyright Act, stating something about "fair use", but no GFDL Link.
 * More than one paragraph, AFAICT. Martin 10:22, 29 Aug 2003 (UTC)
 * Redirects to https://supremecenter48.com/404/ --Rumping (talk) 08:00, 5 June 2008 (UTC)
 * Now states "The page you are looking for don't exist on this website" --Rumping (talk) 22:37, 22 June 2009 (UTC)

Public Domain Content Encyclopedia

 * Site Public Domain Content Encyclopedia
 * Uses articles without attribution to WP, link to the WP article or link to the GFDL
 * Mentions WP and GFDL only on bottom of front page
 * See also this note:
 * Administrator associated with scraper sites/link farms

Pythonland

 * Site.
 * Biographies mirrored from WP -- credits WP but no mention of GFDL.

Quaest.io
See Informat.io

Quarrel Network

 * Example leads to "Wikipedia Unfortunately, no content could be extracted!"--Rumping (talk) 08:02, 5 June 2008 (UTC)

ranau.net
More research requested
 * Site www.ranau.net
 * Example: http://www.ranau.net/articles/Main_page
 * Seems to be made by the same person as bird-center. JesseW 20:39, 11 August 2005 (UTC)


 * No Wikipedia content on example --Rumping (talk) 08:08, 5 June 2008 (UTC)

Raspberry.news
1,6. De informatie op de site Raspberry.news artikelen gratis verstrekt en gratis online bronnen (zoals Wikipedia en anderen) te gebruiken.
 * Site: http:Raspberry.news - advertising itself as a Dutch website for education, research, reports, articles and online encyclopedia
 * The disclaimer mentions that
 * Or translated, something like

1,6. The information on the site Raspberry.news articles free offered and free online sources (like Wikepedia and others) to use.
 * It's not very clear what they mean with that line (the Dutch line is just as bad), but at least it sounds like they're using Wikipedia.


 * Their page about DMCA is in English, and mentions things that they're using it all as fair use, and they're not subject to DMCA as they're based in China.
 * An example of a copied article is the article about the Common pipistrelle or Gewone Dwergvleermuis. Which can be found on their site too. It's a literal copy of the Wikipedia article with no mention of the license or source. Many more such examples can be found.

Not yet contacted them as it doesn't sound they'll listen anyway (and I don't feel like getting involved in a Chinese lawsuit).

Ratusan.com

 * Site: http://www.ratusan.com - selling jewelry
 * Example: - most of Albania article
 * Page states "This article is from Wikipedia. All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License." with link to local copy of GFDL
 * No link to Wikipedia or original article
 * Page ends with "Copyright © 2004 - 2005 www.ratusan.com"
 * As of 00:04, 14 December 2005 (UTC) --Henrygb
 * No Wikipedia content on example --Rumping (talk) 08:08, 5 June 2008 (UTC)

read-and-go.hopto.org

 * Redirects to searchportal.information.com with no obvious Wikipedia content --Rumping (talk) 08:10, 5 June 2008 (UTC)

realtech.co.za

 * This site is scraping Wikipedia in real time. Is that allowed? Who then was a gentleman? (talk) 18:57, 17 March 2009 (UTC)

Recipeland.com

 * Now redirects to en.wikipedia.org articles --Rumping (talk) 08:21, 5 June 2008 (UTC)

Rediff.com
Fredwerner 03:39, 10 June 2007 (UTC)

Redshort.com
See Mirrors_and_forks/Vwxyz

Reference.com

 * Site: http://www.reference.com/
 * Example: Article on "ipso facto"
 * does not use infoboxes e.g. in article on "Albania"
 * no Wikipedia graphics
 * Acknowledges Wikipedia and links to Wikipedia:Copyrights
 * also ends each page with its own "Copyright © 2005, Lexico Publishing Group, LLC. All rights reserved."
 * Mentions and links to the GFDL at gnu.org
 * and links to its own terms of use
 * Links to source Wikipedia article
 * and to Wikipedia history page
 * Links to edit Wikipedia article
 * Links to Wikimedia Foundation donations page

Reprtz.net

 * site: http://www.reportz.net/
 * Example:

Rickygervais.com

 * Site: http://www.rickygervais.com
 * The page http://www.rickygervais.com/karlpilkington.php uses content from Karl Pilkington
 * Source is mentioned: "from the online encyclopedia, Wikipedia..."
 * Claims copyright of text: "copyright © Ricky Gervais 2004 - 2005"
 * No mention of GFDL
 * No link to original article
 * Standard violation letter sent 5th January 2006. --Kwekubo 01:28, 5 January 2006 (UTC)
 * Update: article now links to original article and to GFDL, and no longer claims copyright. Seems fully compliant now. --Kwekubo 21:33, 5 January 2006 (UTC)
 * No history section. Medium compliance. Uncle G 12:19, 5 June 2007 (UTC)

referenceencyclopedia.com

 * Site: referenceencyclopedia.com
 * Example: referenceencyclopedia.com/?title=Dollar_sign
 * States: This page is based on the copyrighted Wikipedia article ( Dollar_sign ); it is used under the GNU Free Documentation License
 * Links to Wikipedia and original article, and to GFDL at gnu.org
 * No longer seems to have Wikipedia content --Rumping (talk) 08:24, 5 June 2008 (UTC)

River-Styx.net
--cjllw ʘ  TALK 06:54, 29 May 2007 (UTC)

Rootsweb
23:16, 10 December 2005 (UTC)
 * Page http://www.rootsweb.com/~albwgw/history.html largely copied from Albania.
 * Ends with "Source: Wikipedia" and link to original article
 * Probably a one-off page rather than a major mirror.

RSA article

 * Site: RSA article
 * No visible link to current Wikipedia article
 * no link to GFDL
 * Standard letter sent by: ?
 * It is an HTML copy of the print version so "Retrieved from "http://www.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=RSA"" is on the page. But there still isn't a link to the GFDL. We really should add that to our print page template. --mav 02:19 24 Jul 2003 (UTC)
 * Example 404 not found --Rumping (talk) 08:27, 5 June 2008 (UTC)