Stacey, I just have a couple of more questions/notes: [1] So, is it ok to display Google AdSense on the website? This would basically mean that the website is earning revenue from Wikipedia content. [2] And the website also removes the "Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia" text from the page title tags and the "From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia" text from the pages. [3] The main website [ http://www.infoslurp.com/ ] does not have any links to the Wikipedia content [ http://www.infoslurp.com/information/ ] section. It has information about "Hair Transplants" and points the user to another website. In fact, on the main website, it does not mention anything about Wikipedia or the Wikipedia section. The only advantage that I see is that it is providing Wikipedia content on a different website. That way it might be contributing in decreasing the bandwith load on the actual Wikipedia website. But what good is such a "mirror" (not sure if it an actual mirror) if it is hidden and the only way you can get to it is to stumble upon it accidentally? To me, it seems to be a clear case of trying to make money out of Wikipedia content using questionable methods. Comments are welcome. - Bobby ----- Original Message ----- From: "Stacey Greenstein" <stacey.nj(a)gmail.com> To: "English Wikipedia" <wikien-l(a)Wikipedia.org> Sent: Wednesday, February 09, 2005 9:28 AM Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] Possible copyright violation of Wikipedia content byInfoslurp.com

Hold on a sec, this isn't just a mirror. They're scraping Wikipedia pages in real time and serving them up with ads. It may not be a GFDL violation but they're using server resources every time someone views a page. I think web sites which have done this before were cut off from accessing Wikipedia. Rhobite

They make people believe they are wikipedia based on what is written on their main page. In itself, it is definitly not correct. Second, they mention no where (except weird circumvoluted comments on their disclaimer pages, which no one would understand but us) that the content is from Wikipedia. In particular, nothing is on articles. No reference to name, or link to history of the page. This is a clear violation of copyright. On top of it, if they suck Wikipedia real time, this is real bad press for them. Incidently, all their links to other languages and other projects are broken. I recommand some one take his best pen and write them a gentle letter pointing out to all the relevant places. If there is a page somewhere listing mirrors under violation of our copyright, consider adding it to it. Anthere PS : Reading their disclaimer, I wonder if it might not be a joke... Rhobite a écrit:

Delirium a écrit: You mean... we are famous ? :-)

On Wednesday 09 February 2005 20:59, Anthere wrote: IANAL. I am not trained in law. This is not legal advice and the info I give may be incorrect. It is mostly a trade mark violation, with only minor copyright problems. They don't need to mention Wikipedia anywhere. They just need to mention five authors, except if the authors don't require that (which is the case of most Wikipedia authors, i.e. anonymous users). However, I looked at their site and I think that somebody could confuse it for the real Wikipedia. This may create trade mark confusion, especially if they have a high Google pagerank. IANAL. I am not trained in law. This is not legal advice and the info I give may be incorrect. -- NSK http://portal.wikinerds.org/slashdotting2005feb4

Thanks for the information. So I guess it is not a copyright issue but it does raise questions about misuse of Google Adsense and Wikipedia content. On a hunch, I decided to do a search for a phrase from a random Wikipedia article. I searched for the phrase "new AC alternator on all Fords and the now-famous Mustang GT" on Google. http://www.google.com/search?q=%22new+AC+alternator+on+all+Fords+and+the+no… or http://tinyurl.com/67j67 I got 19 hits. Out of them, 12 display Google AdSense links. I did not realize that so many sites are using Wikipedia content to collect Google AdSense revenue. - Bobby p.s. Two of the sites are directly loading images off Wikipedia http://www.xasa.com/wiki/en/wikipedia/f/fo/ford_mustang.html http://www.conk.com/search/encyclopedia.cgi?q=Ford_Mustang

On Wednesday 09 February 2005 17:58, Bobby Maisnam wrote: Please read the GFDL. -- NSK http://portal.wikinerds.org/slashdotting2005feb4