Wikipedia's Content Ripped Off More Egregiously Than Usual

Ultraexactzz writes "Wikipedia's content is licensed under the GFDL, which permits such content to be copied with attribution — and Wikipedia is used to its content being copied and mirrored. However, a new website at e-wikipedia.net appears to have taken this a step further by mirroring the entire English Wikipedia — articles, logos, disclaimers, userpages, and all. Compare Wikipedia's About page with e-wikipedia.net's. The site even adds to Wikipedia's normally ad-free interface by including text ads." Just try logging in or actually editing an article, though, and you'll get the message "The requested URL /w/index.php was not found on this server. Additionally, a 404 Not Found error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request." If there's credit here, I don't see it — sure looks like it's intentionally misleading readers.

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[anthonys_junk]

Interesting, seems like someone wants to remain anonymous. /><br />

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updated-date: 2008-05-30 15:41:50.000

created-date: 2008-02-28 20:23:45.000

registration-expiration-date: 2009-02-28 20:23:45.000

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domain: e-wikipedia.net

Wikipedia has taken action already.

[PhilTheRed]

This is what I get now from http://e-wikipedia.net/

Leech (computing) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation, search Access denied: remote loader detected.

This request has been identified as coming from a remote-loading website. This is not Wikipedia, please update your bookmarks. Access Wikipedia only through *.wikipedia.org.

A remote loader is a website that loads content from another site on each request. The content is typically filtered, framed with ads, and then displayed to the user.

The remote loader either: * Pretends to be the source website, perhaps using a deceptive domain name; or * Converts all instances of the name of the source website to some other name.

We consider remote loading websites to be an unfair drain on our server resources, and so they are systematically blocked, as this one has been.

Access denied: remote loader detected

[dgreenwood]

I got the following when I accessed e-wikipedia...

"Leech (computing)
Access denied: remote loader detected.

This request has been identified as coming from a remote-loading website. This is not Wikipedia, please update your bookmarks. Access Wikipedia only through *.wikipedia.org.

A remote loader is a website that loads content from another site on each request. The content is typically filtered, framed with ads, and then displayed to the user.

The remote loader either:

Pretends to be the source website, perhaps using a deceptive domain name; or
Converts all instances of the name of the source website to some other name.
We consider remote loading websites to be an unfair drain on our server resources, and so they are systematically blocked, as this one has been."

Cheers

Darrell

Site down?

[ELProphet]

Looks like the site's down- no matter where you go, you get

Leech (computing)
This request has been identified as coming from a remote-loading website. This is not Wikipedia, please update your bookmarks. Access Wikipedia only through *.wikipedia.org.

Oh, wait... HA! Wikipedia turned off their mirror! This is officially the newest, coolest form of Slashdotting ever!

Re:I guess we can

[kernelphr34k]

My guess is that it was the CHINESE!!!!!!!!!!!