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A Wikipedia clone, also called a Wikipedia mirror site, is a web site that uses information derived wholly or in large part from Wikipedia.The information displayed on the site either may come from an older version of one or more Wikipedia articles that the site has never updated, or may be designed to update the information each time the respective Wikipedia article(s) are edited.
The purpose of mirrors is to reduce network traffic, improve access speed, ensure availability of the original site for technical [2] or political reasons, [3] or provide a real-time backup of the original site. [4] [5] [6] Mirror sites are particularly important in developing countries, where internet access may be slower or less reliable. [7 ...
Chinese Firewall Test - Instantly test if a URL is blocked by the Great Firewall of China in real time. Tests for both symptoms of DNS poisoning and HTTP blocking from a number of locations within mainland China. China Firewall Test - Test if any domain is DNS poisoned in China in real-time. DNS poisoning is one way in which websites can be ...
GFDL licensing information is now included on the web site, giving credit to Wikipedia and linking to the article. However, the GFDL is not hosted locally, but is a link to Wikipedia's GFDL page. I changed this site's compliance rating to Medium. Sancho 23:21, 21 August 2007 (UTC)
Wikipedia:Potentially unreliable sources#Wikipedia mirrors; Wikimedia. meta:Guide to the CC dual-license – for authors who want to make their contributions available to Creative Commons sites; meta:James explains law – Some of the interesting legal questions and issues affecting the project; meta:Mirror filter – Filter list for filtering ...
Enciclopedia Libre, a 2002 fork of the Spanish Wikipedia created in opposition to perceived plans to add advertising to Wikipedia. [5] [6] Everipedia, launched as a 2015 fork of English Wikipedia, and later unforked. [7] [3] Qiuwen Baike, a 2023 fork of the Chinese Wikipedia that aims to be compliant with Chinese government policies. [8]
On 29 October, Ting Chen (User:Wing on the Chinese-language Wikipedia) pointed to the existence of www.wikicn.com, a site calling itself Wiki China that has copied much of the Chinese Wikipedia. The copying extended to user and talk pages, but gave no indication of the source and apparently did not comply with Wikipedia license terms.
So far, Baidu Baike reused text and images in Chinese, English, Japanese, and French Wikipedias without following the licensing conditions. The conservative number of articles plagiarized from the start (April 2006) to now are as follows: Plagiarized from English Wikipedia: 22 articles; Plagiarized from Chinese Wikipedia: 2056 articles. This is ...