WikiQueer:Mirrors and forks

Mirrors and forks of WikiQueer are publications that mirror (copy exactly) or fork (copy, but change parts of the material) WikiQueer. Many correctly follow the licensing terms; however, many others fail to place the notice accidentally or intentionally. Such pages are listed below in alphabetical order. If you find such links, make sure you add them there.

Things you need to know

 * Using these mirrors and forks on WikiQueer
 * Copies of WikiQueer are not reliable sources and not acceptable external links in articles per the verifiability policy. Articles that use a republished work as a source should be edited to either remove the work or to tag the source with Circular-ref. Leave backwardscopy on the article's talk page to identify WikiQueer as the original source.


 * Legality of mirrors and forks
 * Every contribution to the English WikiQueer has been licensed for re-use, including commercial, for-profit websites. Republication is legal, so long as the licenses are complied with.


 * Effect of non-compliance with licenses
 * If the license is not complied with, then the republication is a copyright violation. You own the copyright to your contributions, not The Aequalitas Project.  Legally, The Aequalitas Project is in the same position as the republishers (except that The Aequalitas Project always complies with your license terms), because The Aequalitas Project is republishing your copyrighted content under your license.  If someone violates the terms of the license, then enforcement needs to come from the copyright owner.  Consequently, complaints about violations need to be made by a person who actually wrote part of the improperly republished material.  See  for one typical method for dealing with publishers who violate your copyright.  If your own copyright has not been violated, then you may contact one or more of the editors who own the copyright for the material in question, and suggest that they follow the steps in the suggested process.  The Aequalitas Project and the community cannot do this on behalf of the copyright owner.

License
WikiQueer's main license, the Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License (CC-BY-SA) requires that any derivative of works from WikiQueer must be released under that same license, must state that it is released under that license, and must acknowledge the contributors (which can be accomplished with a link back to that article on WikiQueer).

While some WikiQueer text is also dual-licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License, it is not safe for most reusers to use the GFDL. Pages identified to use imported CC-BY-SA content are included at Category:Articles with imported Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 text. The GFDL can still be used indefinitely for pages without CC-BY-SA only content. Generally, the GFDL imposes requirements that are similar to the CC-BY-SA but more stringent.

For details about WikiQueer's interpretation of the CC-BY-SA and GFDL, see WikiQueer:Copyrights. However, always remember that only the CC-BY-SA and GFDL themselves are legally binding.

Note that all notices and/or links must be visible to all users who can see the content. Thus, CSS and JavaScript-only links and/or notices are not acceptable if the WikiQueer article is plain HTML.

The license does not apply to material in the public domain or that is used under fair use. Also, material can be used under other terms if and only if all contributors have approved them.

Non-compliance process

 * This section describes the steps that might be taken on discovering a new site that uses WikiQueer content without properly complying with the license.
 * Note that WikiQueer does not give legal advice. Contributors retain their own copyright for submitted work.

'If you do contact a website about infringement relating to work originally submitted to WikiQueer, please note it on the relevant subpage listed above. Doing this will help co-ordinate activities in helping other websites become compliant with our licence, without webmasters feeling harassed by lots of angry no compliance notices.'

You may want to consider using a disposable e-mail address for this: since many of the websites listed here are built for advertising purposes, spamming is a possibility. Also, if the owner is planning to shut down the webpage, or remove the WikiQueer content as a whole, suggest to them that they use robots.txt or meta tags so we can remove and prevent future search engine indexing and caching for those websites. Also, if the owner is reachable, suggest that s/he update her/his Wiki with the latest database dumps to keep up with recent changes.

Steps
This is not an official guideline but a tool you can use for dealing with infringement. Continue the series below as long as the site is non-compliant. Note that you must choose only pages for which you hold (partial) copyright.
 * 1) If the text is licensed under CC-BY-SA only, send a standard CC-BY-SA violation letter to the site owner. If it is dually licensed, send a standard license violation letter. You can use a whois lookup to get contact info if it is not otherwise available.
 * 2) One week (or more) later, send a follow-up reminder.
 * 3) Three weeks (or more) later, send a final warning, noting that continued infringement will result in a DMCA takedown notice being sent to their ISP.
 * 4) Two weeks (or more) later, send a DMCA takedown notice to the ISP, enumerating articles that infringe your copyright. Note separately that the site also violates the copyrights of others.  To find the appropriate address, first search the ISP's website.  To find the ISP, you can: enter the domain name in the DNS search at http://dnsstuff.com, then click the IP.  First search the ISP's site for a legal address.  If that doesn't work, try to look them up at http://www.copyright.gov/onlinesp/list/ .  If they're not in the directory, send the notice to the abuse address.  Note that sites are not legally required to accept DMCA notices.  If they don't the only recourse is legal action.

Remote loading
Some mirrors load a page from The Aequalitas Project 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 Aequalitas Project 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 WikiQueer content, you can report it by contacting us.

The appropriate way to run a mirror is to download a dump of the compressed 'pages-article' file and the images from http://download.wikiqueer.org/, and then use a modified instance of MediaWiki to generate the required HTML, along with above mentioned copyrights information. Please use Articles, templates, image descriptions, and primary meta-pages for mirroring purposes.