[Wikimedia-l] Is there an agreement between GoldenMap and the Wikipedia for the use of Wikipedia content?

[James Alexander]

You might want to add it to
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Mirrors_and_forks so that it's kept
track of and I know some users have done some great work at getting mirrors
taken down through the process there. I also passed it along to our legal
team who's looking into it.

On Fri, Aug 3, 2012 at 5:30 AM, Rui Correia <correia.rui at gmail.com> wrote:

> Thanks Mark and Mike
>
> Mike, well done on finding the "About"! I looked for it and could not find
> it.
>
> But surely saying that "Most of the contents are licensed under
> CC-BY-SA<http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/>"
> is not a licence to copy the entire Wikipedia wholesale, without as much as
> a mention thereof?
>
> Is there a mechanism to deal with this sort of thing? Where can I refer it
> to for action?
>
> Regards,
>
> Rui
>
> On 3 August 2012 14:23, Mike Dupont <jamesmikedupont at googlemail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > 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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