Hi,
an unknown third party has made a web proxy of Estonian Wikipedia at his webaddress (let's not promote this address here any futher, but You can guess it -- it's in form of www."popularwebencyclopedianame".ee ).
His web clone looks just like real Wikipedia site. How can an unknowing web user be sure, that his site follows WMF privacy policy?
Is that kind of usage of Wikipedia and WMF logos ok for the WMF?
-- Raul
Hi,
an unknown third party has made a web proxy of Estonian Wikipedia at his webaddress (let's not promote this address here any futher, but You can guess it -- it's in form of www."popularwebencyclopedianame".ee ).
His web clone looks just like real Wikipedia site. How can an unknowing web user be sure, that his site follows WMF privacy policy?
Is that kind of usage of Wikipedia and WMF logos ok for the WMF?
-- Raul
No, of course it is not OK. Their privacy policy redirects to https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/meta/wiki/Privaatsus but you can't tell if they just copied that, or committed to it. Our policy is quite strict; I certainly don't follow it on Wikinfo and am much freer with my use of checkuser when trouble starts than WMF policy allows. So no, you shouldn't assume WMF policy is being followed on such a mirror, or any fork. Nor should you assume an invasive policy is being followed; it is not that easy to find very much from an ip and what computer and software is being used. The software is just not set up to gather personal information. See http://www.wikinfo.org/index.php/Wikinfo:Privacy_policy
Fred
Raul Kern, 19/04/2011 08:25:
an unknown third party has made a web proxy of Estonian Wikipedia at his webaddress (let's not promote this address here any futher, but You can guess it -- it's in form of www."popularwebencyclopedianame".ee ).
At least they aren't adding any banner, as happens with the .it domain. Pietrodn in 2009 found a way to get people out of the trap: adding
if (top != self) top.location.replace('http://toolserver.org/~pietrodn/wikipedia_redirect.php');
to [[MediaWiki:Common.js]] (cf. https://fisheye.toolserver.org/browse/pietrodn/php/wikipedia_redirect.php?hb... ) we redirected about a million visitors to the correct URL (informing them about it) and now the domain itself has partly surrendered and redirects to the real URL (with a banner...). I don't know if it would work in this case (there are also some minor drawbacks).
Sadly, only the WMF could recover such domains, but they've never been interested.
Nemo
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