If the copyright license has been followed -wikipedia should exclude all clones. However, often, material is copied without crediting it to Wikipedia.
Fred User:Fred Bauder > The "Google test" used to be a tool for checking the notability of a > subject > or to find sources about it. For some languages it may be also used for > other purposes - for example in Hebrew, the spelling of which is not > established so well, it is very frequently used for finding the most > common > spelling, especially for article titles. It was never the ultimate tool, > of > course, but it was useful. With the proliferation of sites that > indiscriminately copy Wikipedia content it is becoming less and less > useful. > > For some time i used to fight this problem by adding > "-site:wikipedia.org-site: > wapedia.mobi -site:miniwiki.org" etc. to my search queries, but i hit a > wall: Google limits the search string to 32 words, and today there are > many > more than 32 sites that clone Wikipedia, so this trick is also becoming > useless. > > I know that some Wikipedias customized Special:Search, adding other > search > engines except Wikipedias built-in one. I tried to see whether any > Wikipedia > added an ability to search using Google (or Bing, or Yahoo, or any other > search engine) excluding Wikipedia clones. Does anyone know whether it's > possible to build such a thing? And maybe it already exists and i didn't > search well enough? > > -- > Amir Elisha Aharoni · ×Ö¸×Ö´×ר ×Ö±×Ö´×ש×ָע > ×Ö·×ֲר×Ö¹× Ö´× > http://aharoni.wordpress.com > "We're living in pieces, > I want to live in peace." - T. Moore > _______________________________________________ > foundation-l mailing list > foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l > _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
