[WikiEN-l] More license stuff - www.4reference.net

Tue Jul 8 22:49:59 UTC 2003

a.crossman at blueyonder.co.uk wrote:

>While we're talking about the GFDL, www.4reference.net seems to have 
>a lot of Wikipedia stuff online. Bizarrely, most of it is non-article 
>space stuff like user pages, though some pages are real articles.
>
>Anyway, their pages don't seem to mention the license either. e.g:
>http://www.4reference.net/encyclopedias/wikipedia/HTML.html
>
>They do however mention that they got it from us.
>
>There are many such pages. A google search for:
>site:http://www.4reference.net Wikipedia
>turns them up. Top hit is Mbecker's white board. :-)
>
>Evercat
>
I suspect we'll see more and more of this.  Wikipedia is a
convenient source of free content for sites hoping to increase
traffic so they get ad rates high enough to pay for the bandwidth
charges.  Perhaps every page should be stamped with an invariant
section promoting wikipedia.org as *the* place to get one's
encyclopedia articles. 1/2 :-)

4reference.net doesn't seem to include any of the pictures,
very lame.

Stan