User:Alexis Jazz/Everipedia
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Everipedia is a wikiclone without notability requirements.[1] They fail to attribute content from Wikipedia and Commons properly. George Ho tried sending them a DMCA notice for his work. They didn't take action.
Attribution[edit]
Text[edit]
Everipedia attribution for text in 2017:
In 2018 they realized this wasn't enough:
Interestingly, sources can be voted on.
Image and video[edit]
If you click the image where it originally appears in the article, it's just a deeplink to the image file (not page) on upload.wikimedia.org. So no attribution there.
"Attribution" in the image gallery below the article:
If you click the tiny blue info icon it takes you to the file page on Wikimedia Commons. Bit of a pixel hunt..
Attribution in the references:
Hidden in a long list of references we also find this. This actually doesn't attribute anything.
Discussions[edit]
- w:en:Wikipedia:Village pump (miscellaneous)/Archive 57#Issue about Everipedia's contents brought from Wikipedia
- Commons:Village pump/Copyright/Archive/2018/02#Everipedia using multimedia content from this project
- w:en:Wikipedia:Village pump (policy)/Archive 141#Everipedia
References[edit]
- ↑ Really, none at all. Everipedia article about a former version of this essay. Everipedia (2018).