http://www.wikipedia.or.ke/ now has ads dancing around the screen, the donate link is gone, and the privacy policy and general disclaimer have been removed.
It only has 107,391 articles according to special:statistics. On Mon, Aug 4, 2014 at 9:29 AM, Pine W <[email protected]> wrote: > I took a look at this. From my brief investigation, this appears to be a > good-faith effort by someone to locally host a Kenyan version of Wikipedia. > The donation button properly links to https://donate.wikimedia.org. The > server geolocates to Estonia. I am forwarding this report to Legal. I hope > that formal legal action is not necessary and that if the maintainers of > the website are responsive that a mutually agreeable settlement can be > arranged. > > Thanks for finding this, Teles. > > Pine > > > On Sun, Aug 3, 2014 at 6:55 PM, Lucas Teles <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Hi, everyone. >> >> Somehow I was directed to this project in a search on Google: >> http://www.wikipedia.or.ke/ >> >> Does anybody know what is that project? >> >> It seems to have a large content in English but pages doesn't mention >> authorship properly. I am assuming it uses Wikipedia content in violation >> of copyrights. >> >> It also uses the Wikipedia logo improperly. Not sure if a mirror can do >> that... >> >> Regards, >> Teles >> >> >> -- >> >> *Lucas Teles* >> >> * Steward at Wikimedia Foundation. Administrator * >> *at Portuguese Wikipedia.*https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Teles >> Contact me: >> [image: Facebook] <http://www.facebook.com/telesr> < >> https://www.facebook.com/telesr <http://www.facebook.com/telesr> > >> [image: Twitter] <http://www.twitter.com/Lucas_Teles> < >> https://twitter.com/Lucas_Teles > >> [image: Skype] < lucastelesr > >> Mobile: < 55 71 9374 2725 > >> I am a Wikimedia volunteer. >> Wikimedia Foundation can not be held responsible for my actions. >> _______________________________________________ >> Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: >> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines >> [email protected] >> Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, >> <mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe> > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines > [email protected] > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > <mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe> -- John Vandenberg _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines New messages to: [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe>
