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.
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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.
12-08-2005, 10:30 PM
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