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Wikipedia:Mirrors and forks

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The Web sites listed here use content original to Wikipedia as a source for at least some of their content (and, in some cases, acknowledge this). The GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) requires that any derivative of works from Wikipedia must be released under that same license. Unless they're fair use, or the authors of the Wikipedia article have given permission. Or its public domain.

If the following websites have not released their derived works under the terms of the GFDL, we could send them a standard letter to notify them of their possible copyright violation. If they decide to release their derived works under the terms of the GFDL, we may harvest those derivative works for content.

  • Abacci books (biographies)
    • link to current version of article
    • link to GFDL
  • 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 [email protected].
    • Response recieved 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."
  • Malaspina Great Books (biographies)
    • acknowledgement link to current version of article
    • no mention of GFDL. Standard letter sent by: MB 08:01 13 Jul 2003 (UTC)
    • Points of contact, McNeil, Russell [email protected]; Duprey, Dave [email protected].
    • Response recieved Sun, 13 Jul 2003 23:25:11 -0700 by Russell McNeil. "I have so far converted about 60 percent of the files - the remainder will be in place by the end of the week."
  • 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 [email protected].
    • Response recieved Sun, 13 Jul 2003 04:26:14 -0700.
    • All articles at inventors.about.com (as of July 14 2003) link back to wikipedia and are released under the GFDL.
  • Internet-Encyclopedia (note: this site "was inspired by wikipedia" and uses it's software)
    • link to current version of article sometimes broken
    • link to GFDL broken
  • onelook.com
    • almost certainly fair use (reproduces only first para of article)
    • link to current version of article
    • no link to GFDL, and no need to so link
  • Chessbase.com article about Howard Staunton
    • link to current version of article
    • no link to GFDL (perhaps not needed - very short text)
  • TYPEsyria.com (bizarrely, they have a copy of our Jordan disambiguation page! Amongst other content.)
    • no link to article
    • no link to GFDL. Standard letter sent by: MB 08:01 13 Jul 2003 (UTC)
  • magnet-university at rare-earth-magnets.com
    • Lots of stuff taken from Wikipedia, like Magnetism article, biographies under "Magnetic personalities", and a few others.
    • It says Copyright 2002 - GNU Free Documentation License. This is hyperlinked to a year 2000 version of the GNU license!
    • No mention of Wikipedia anywhere, no link to article
    • Is this a breach? If so, what should we do?

See also Wikipedia:Sites that use Wikipedia as a source/temp for some preliminary investigation results.

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