Answer by Ángel for Can you host a version of Wikipedia on your own domain...
Yes, it can be done legally. Although creating a mirror is not that simple nowadays, as the complexity of the pages increased through the years (images, wikidata, LUA…). You would also need to keep...
View ArticleAnswer by David Siegel for Can you host a version of Wikipedia on your own...
Wikipedia does not make any attempt to stop people creating and placing online copies of Wikipedia, or parts of it. Indeed it encourages people to do so. Not only does the CC-BY-SA 3.0 license...
View ArticleAnswer by Some random Wikipedian for Can you host a version of Wikipedia on...
As well as forks, there are also "mirrors". These are like forks, but update regularly to match changes in Wikipedia, so don't end up becoming nothing but a one-off snapshot of the site. Again, nothing...
View ArticleAnswer by PMF for Can you host a version of Wikipedia on your own domain and...
"they end up ranking higher than Wikipedia itself on Google". That's a highly unlikely scenario, unless you could somehow convince all current users of Wikipedia that switching to a paid page is better...
View ArticleAnswer by Someone for Can you host a version of Wikipedia on your own domain...
It's allowed by the Creative Commons Attribution -ShareAlike license, and intentionally so. The Wikimedia Foundation wants things like this to be possible; that is part of the goal of open content....
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I am reading through these notes, trying to piece together a picture of what the rules/laws are regarding Wikipedia...
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