VBEncycopedia missing?

[Borgs8472]

I downloaded VBEncycopedia (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=102348) from lebanon (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/member.php?u=74325) earlier today, and now the link's dead.

Search has returned nothing.

Did the release break copywrite or something?

[Marco van Herwaarden]

Yes it was removed because it was breaking the TOS of the site linked.

[Borgs8472]

I mean... I didn't download it in that case... :speechless:

:banana:

[Chris M]

Anyone who has downloaded a removed hack should not continue to use it if doing so, or ask the Staff how they can make their version comply with site rules so as to continue use :)

Chris

[Borgs8472]

okay, what can I do to make it comply with site rules? It has full links to wikipedia as well as 'content copyright Wikipedia' at the bottom of every page.

What additional things need to be done?

[Marco van Herwaarden]

Start by reading: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Mirrors_and_forks

[Brad]

You must comply with wikipedia's TOS found here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Mirrors_and_forks

Remote loading

Some mirrors load a page from the Wikimedia servers directly every time someone requests a page from them. They alter the text in some way, such as framing it with ads, then send it on to the reader. This is called remote loading, and it is an unacceptable use of Wikimedia server resources. Even remote loading websites with little legitimate traffic can generate significant load on our servers, due to search engine web crawlers.

If you suspect a website is remote loading Wikipedia content, you can report it to the wikitech-l mailing list or the IRC channel #wikimedia-tech on irc.freenode.net. In most cases they will be blocked.

The appropriate way to run a mirror is to download a dump of the cur table and the images from http://download.wikimedia.org/, and then use a modified instance of MediaWiki to generate the required HTML.

License

Wikipedia's license, the GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) requires that any derivative of works from Wikipedia must be released under that same license, must state that it is released under that license, and must acknowledge the main authors (which some claim can be accomplished with a link back to that article on Wikipedia). This does not apply to material that was released into the public domain, to material whose authors have given permission, and to use that can be defended as fair use.

[Mastar]

what to do now I already installed it on my site? And I'm now a coder so I would need 1,2,3 instructions.

[utw-Mephisto]

just remove the link from the navbar and remove that php file ... this makes it not usable anymore anyway ..