[Wikimedia-l] Is there an agreement between GoldenMap and the Wikipedia for the use of Wikipedia content?
Mike Dupont
jamesmikedupont at googlemail.com
Fri Aug 3 12:23:45 UTC 2012
on the copyright page they say that the content is mostly cc-by-sa
http://en.goldenmap.com/stylesheets/terms.php
On Fri, Aug 3, 2012 at 12:18 PM, Delirium <delirium at hackish.org> wrote:
> It looks like a direct scrape, even to the extent of having some internal
> links being broken because they didn't update them (e.g. the link to
> Wikimedia Commons at the end of the article). I believe it's just one of the
> (many) unauthorized mirrors that don't properly credit the source of their
> content.
>
> The English Wikipedia keeps track of such sites here:
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:CC-BY-SA_Compliance
>
> -Mark
>
>
>
> On 8/3/12 1:44 PM, Rui Correia wrote:
>>
>> Dear All
>>
>> I came across a site called Golden Map, which has an encyclopaedic
>> collection of articles that are the same as in the Wikipedia, but I don't
>> see anywhere any information expalining what the association/ permission
>> is. Is there an agreement in place for this?
>>
>> Look - for example - at this page on the Wildebeest
>> http://en.goldenmap.com/Wildebeest
>>
>> Best regards,
>>
>> Rui
>>
>
>
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