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Lucas Teles

4 Aug 2014 4 Aug '14

3:55 a.m.

Hi, everyone. Somehow I was directed to this project in a search on Google: http://www.wikipedia.or.ke/ Does anybody know what is that project? It seems to have a large content in English but pages doesn't mention authorship properly. I am assuming it uses Wikipedia content in violation of copyrights. It also uses the Wikipedia logo improperly. Not sure if a mirror can do that... Regards, Teles -- *Lucas Teles* * Steward at Wikimedia Foundation. Administrator * *at Portuguese Wikipedia.*https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Teles Contact me: [image: Facebook] <http://www.facebook.com/telesr> < https://www.facebook.com/telesr <http://www.facebook.com/telesr> > [image: Twitter] <http://www.twitter.com/Lucas_Teles> < https://twitter.com/Lucas_Teles > [image: Skype] < lucastelesr > Mobile: < 55 71 9374 2725 > I am a Wikimedia volunteer. Wikimedia Foundation can not be held responsible for my actions.

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Pine W

4 Aug 4 Aug

4:29 a.m.

I took a look at this. From my brief investigation, this appears to be a good-faith effort by someone to locally host a Kenyan version of Wikipedia. The donation button properly links to https://donate.wikimedia.org. The server geolocates to Estonia. I am forwarding this report to Legal. I hope that formal legal action is not necessary and that if the maintainers of the website are responsive that a mutually agreeable settlement can be arranged. Thanks for finding this, Teles. Pine On Sun, Aug 3, 2014 at 6:55 PM, Lucas Teles <teleswiki(a)gmail.com> wrote:

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John Mark Vandenberg

10 Apr 10 Apr

1:31 p.m.

http://www.wikipedia.or.ke/ now has ads dancing around the screen, the donate link is gone, and the privacy policy and general disclaimer have been removed. It only has 107,391 articles according to special:statistics. On Mon, Aug 4, 2014 at 9:29 AM, Pine W <wiki.pine(a)gmail.com> wrote:

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Gnangarra

11 Apr 11 Apr

3:35 a.m.

wouldnt wikipedia kenya be at ke.wikipedia.org not wikipedia.or.ke On 10 April 2016 at 19:31, John Mark Vandenberg <jayvdb(a)gmail.com> wrote:

...

I took a look at this. From my brief investigation, this appears to be a good-faith effort by someone to locally host a Kenyan version of

Wikipedia.

The donation button properly links to https://donate.wikimedia.org. The server geolocates to Estonia. I am forwarding this report to Legal. I

hope

that formal legal action is not necessary and that if the maintainers of the website are responsive that a mutually agreeable settlement can be arranged. Thanks for finding this, Teles. Pine On Sun, Aug 3, 2014 at 6:55 PM, Lucas Teles <teleswiki(a)gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, everyone. > > Somehow I was directed to this project in a search on Google: > http://www.wikipedia.or.ke/ > > Does anybody know what is that project? > > It seems to have a large content in English but pages doesn't mention > authorship properly. I am assuming it uses Wikipedia content in

violation

of copyrights. It also uses the Wikipedia logo improperly. Not sure if a mirror can do that... Regards, Teles -- *Lucas Teles* * Steward at Wikimedia Foundation. Administrator * *at Portuguese Wikipedia.*https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Teles Contact me: [image: Facebook] <http://www.facebook.com/telesr> < https://www.facebook.com/telesr <http://www.facebook.com/telesr> > [image: Twitter] <http://www.twitter.com/Lucas_Teles> < https://twitter.com/Lucas_Teles > [image: Skype] < lucastelesr > Mobile: < 55 71 9374 2725 > I am a Wikimedia volunteer. Wikimedia Foundation can not be held responsible for my actions. _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:wikimedia-l-request@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe>

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Richard Symonds

3:41 a.m.

No - Swahili is the language spoken in Kenya (officially), although other languages are used too. There is no "Kenyan Wikipedia" as far as I'm aware! On 11 Apr 2016 02:36, "Gnangarra" <gnangarra(a)gmail.com> wrote:

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wouldnt wikipedia kenya be at ke.wikipedia.org not wikipedia.or.ke On 10 April 2016 at 19:31, John Mark Vandenberg <jayvdb(a)gmail.com> wrote:

good-faith effort by someone to locally host a Kenyan version of

Wikipedia. > The donation button properly links to https://donate.wikimedia.org.

The

server geolocates to Estonia. I am forwarding this report to Legal. I

hope > that formal legal action is not necessary and that if the maintainers

> the website are responsive that a mutually agreeable settlement can be > arranged. > > Thanks for finding this, Teles. > > Pine > > > On Sun, Aug 3, 2014 at 6:55 PM, Lucas Teles <teleswiki(a)gmail.com>

wrote:

> Hi, everyone. > > Somehow I was directed to this project in a search on Google: > http://www.wikipedia.or.ke/ > > Does anybody know what is that project? > > It seems to have a large content in English but pages doesn't mention > authorship properly. I am assuming it uses Wikipedia content in

violation >> of copyrights. >> >> It also uses the Wikipedia logo improperly. Not sure if a mirror can

>> that... >> >> Regards, >> Teles >> >> >> -- >> >> *Lucas Teles* >> >> * Steward at Wikimedia Foundation. Administrator * >> *at Portuguese Wikipedia.*https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Teles >> Contact me: >> [image: Facebook] <http://www.facebook.com/telesr> < >> https://www.facebook.com/telesr <http://www.facebook.com/telesr> > >> [image: Twitter] <http://www.twitter.com/Lucas_Teles> < >> https://twitter.com/Lucas_Teles > >> [image: Skype] < lucastelesr > >> Mobile: < 55 71 9374 2725 > >> I am a Wikimedia volunteer. >> Wikimedia Foundation can not be held responsible for my actions. >> _______________________________________________ >> Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: >> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines >> Wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org >> Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l

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Amir E. Aharoni

9:34 a.m.

Wikipedia goes by languages, never by countries. (There's nds-nl.wikipedia.org, where nl kind of stands for “Netherlands”, but it's still a language variant for Netherlands. In any case, it's very much an anomaly.) Wikimedia Kenya would be ke.wikimedia.org, if it existed. -- Amir Elisha Aharoni · אָמִיר אֱלִישָׁע אַהֲרוֹנִי http://aharoni.wordpress.com ‪“We're living in pieces, I want to live in peace.” – T. Moore‬ 2016-04-11 4:35 GMT+03:00 Gnangarra <gnangarra(a)gmail.com>om>:

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wouldnt wikipedia kenya be at ke.wikipedia.org not wikipedia.or.ke On 10 April 2016 at 19:31, John Mark Vandenberg <jayvdb(a)gmail.com> wrote:

good-faith effort by someone to locally host a Kenyan version of

Wikipedia. > The donation button properly links to https://donate.wikimedia.org.

The

server geolocates to Estonia. I am forwarding this report to Legal. I

hope > that formal legal action is not necessary and that if the maintainers

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Gerard Meijssen

11:15 a.m.

Hoi, Sorry for some nit-picking. It is only one variation of NDS it is not a variation of NL. The problem with NDS is that there has been a formal adoption of one variant of NDS that is only for Germany. Thanks, GerardM On 11 April 2016 at 09:34, Amir E. Aharoni <amir.aharoni(a)mail.huji.ac.il> wrote:

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wouldnt wikipedia kenya be at ke.wikipedia.org not wikipedia.or.ke On 10 April 2016 at 19:31, John Mark Vandenberg <jayvdb(a)gmail.com>

wrote:

> http://www.wikipedia.or.ke/ now has ads dancing around the screen, the > donate link is gone, and the privacy policy and general disclaimer > have been removed. > > It only has 107,391 articles according to special:statistics. > > On Mon, Aug 4, 2014 at 9:29 AM, Pine W <wiki.pine(a)gmail.com> wrote: > > I took a look at this. From my brief investigation, this appears to

good-faith effort by someone to locally host a Kenyan version of

Wikipedia. > The donation button properly links to https://donate.wikimedia.org.

The

server geolocates to Estonia. I am forwarding this report to Legal. I

hope > that formal legal action is not necessary and that if the maintainers

of > > the website are responsive that a mutually agreeable settlement can

> arranged. > > Thanks for finding this, Teles. > > Pine > > > On Sun, Aug 3, 2014 at 6:55 PM, Lucas Teles <teleswiki(a)gmail.com>

wrote: > > > >> Hi, everyone. > >> > >> Somehow I was directed to this project in a search on Google: > >> http://www.wikipedia.or.ke/ > >> > >> Does anybody know what is that project? > >> > >> It seems to have a large content in English but pages doesn't

mention

> authorship properly. I am assuming it uses Wikipedia content in

violation >> of copyrights. >> >> It also uses the Wikipedia logo improperly. Not sure if a mirror can

do > >> that... > >> > >> Regards, > >> Teles > >> > >> > >> -- > >> > >> *Lucas Teles* > >> > >> * Steward at Wikimedia Foundation. Administrator * > >> *at Portuguese Wikipedia.*

https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Teles

> >> Contact me: > >> [image: Facebook] <http://www.facebook.com/telesr> < > >> https://www.facebook.com/telesr <http://www.facebook.com/telesr> > > >> [image: Twitter] <http://www.twitter.com/Lucas_Teles> < > >> https://twitter.com/Lucas_Teles > > >> [image: Skype] < lucastelesr > > >> Mobile: < 55 71 9374 2725 > > >> I am a Wikimedia volunteer. > >> Wikimedia Foundation can not be held responsible for my actions. > >> _______________________________________________ > >> Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: > >> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines > >> Wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org > >> Unsubscribe:

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Amir E. Aharoni

11:27 a.m.

Precisely: It only goes to show that it's languages and not countries :) -- Amir Elisha Aharoni · אָמִיר אֱלִישָׁע אַהֲרוֹנִי http://aharoni.wordpress.com ‪“We're living in pieces, I want to live in peace.” – T. Moore‬ 2016-04-11 12:15 GMT+03:00 Gerard Meijssen <gerard.meijssen(a)gmail.com>om>:

...

Wikipedia goes by languages, never by countries. (There's nds-nl.wikipedia.org, where nl kind of stands for “Netherlands”, but

it's

still a language variant for Netherlands. In any case, it's very much an anomaly.) Wikimedia Kenya would be ke.wikimedia.org, if it existed. -- Amir Elisha Aharoni · אָמִיר אֱלִישָׁע אַהֲרוֹנִי http://aharoni.wordpress.com ‪“We're living in pieces, I want to live in peace.” – T. Moore‬ 2016-04-11 4:35 GMT+03:00 Gnangarra <gnangarra(a)gmail.com>om>:

wouldnt wikipedia kenya be at ke.wikipedia.org not wikipedia.or.ke On 10 April 2016 at 19:31, John Mark Vandenberg <jayvdb(a)gmail.com>

wrote: > > > http://www.wikipedia.or.ke/ now has ads dancing around the screen,

the

> donate link is gone, and the privacy policy and general disclaimer > have been removed. > > It only has 107,391 articles according to special:statistics. > > On Mon, Aug 4, 2014 at 9:29 AM, Pine W <wiki.pine(a)gmail.com> wrote: > > I took a look at this. From my brief investigation, this appears to

be > a > > > good-faith effort by someone to locally host a Kenyan version of > > Wikipedia. > > > The donation button properly links to https://donate.wikimedia.org

> The > > > server geolocates to Estonia. I am forwarding this report to

Legal. I

> > hope > > > that formal legal action is not necessary and that if the

maintainers

of > > the website are responsive that a mutually agreeable settlement can

> arranged. > > Thanks for finding this, Teles. > > Pine > > > On Sun, Aug 3, 2014 at 6:55 PM, Lucas Teles <teleswiki(a)gmail.com>

mention > > >> authorship properly. I am assuming it uses Wikipedia content in > > violation > > >> of copyrights. > > >> > > >> It also uses the Wikipedia logo improperly. Not sure if a mirror

can

do > >> that... > >> > >> Regards, > >> Teles > >> > >> > >> -- > >> > >> *Lucas Teles* > >> > >> * Steward at Wikimedia Foundation. Administrator * > >> *at Portuguese Wikipedia.*

https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Teles

> >> Contact me: > >> [image: Facebook] <http://www.facebook.com/telesr> < > >> https://www.facebook.com/telesr <http://www.facebook.com/telesr>

> >> [image: Twitter] <http://www.twitter.com/Lucas_Teles> < > >> https://twitter.com/Lucas_Teles > > >> [image: Skype] < lucastelesr > > >> Mobile: < 55 71 9374 2725 > > >> I am a Wikimedia volunteer. > >> Wikimedia Foundation can not be held responsible for my actions. > >> _______________________________________________ > >> Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: > >> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines > >> Wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org > >> Unsubscribe:

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