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@gmail.com To: "English Wikipedia" wikien-l@Wikipedia.org Sent: Wednesday, February 09, 2005 9:28 AM Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] Possible copyright violation of Wikipedia content byInfoslurp.com
No copyvio here. Wikipedia is downstreamed to several websites. Infolurp is only one of many sites that mirror Wikipedia's information.
Stacey Greenstein aka UtherSRG
On Wed, 9 Feb 2005 04:56:01 -0500, Bobby Maisnam maisnam@utk.edu wrote:
Hi All,
I am posting to this list because I could not find a way to email Wikipedia at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Contact_us
The following site seems to be a direct copy of Wikipedia content. http://www.infoslurp.com/information/
And it also has Google Ads. I wonder how Google is allowing this site to earn revenue from Wikipedia content.
Example page: Original Wikipedia page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blogger Infoslurp page: http://www.infoslurp.com/information/Blogger
Thanks,
- Bobby Maisnam