I opened devtools here and this is what I could gather, bywiki.com seems to be a very thin layer over wikimedia itself. The first calls are to bywiki domain (and seem to be actually cached from wikimedia servers with some extra added code, including added advertisement with a bidvertiser script).
Many js scripts make calls directly to wikimedia servers, including scripts to check for session validity and sessions from other projects. While it does not seem malicious, I don't trust due to the lack of an explanation and trademark violation issues. Their ips seem to be globally blocked, the calls to edit will be seem from wikimedia servers as coming from them and are (all the times I tested, blocked). Chico Venancio 2017-10-05 13:41 GMT-03:00 James Heilman <jmh...@gmail.com>: > To add to my prior comments, while bywiki.com is very well put > together there are trademark issues that need to be addressed. Plus > the log-in setup could confuse Wikipedians into giving away their user > name and password. I will pass this along to legal and hopefully we > can get the site to address these issues. > > James > > On Thu, Oct 5, 2017 at 10:28 AM, James Heilman <jmh...@gmail.com> wrote: > > It is a beautifully done copy of Wikipedia. The history tab, talk > > pages, and user pages all work and thus appropriate attribution is > > present. The content is up to date. My IP is blocked so not sure how > > well editing works. > > > > This mirror gives me greater concern https://everipedia.org/ in that > > they do not provide attribution to the authors of the content. > > > > James > > > > On Thu, Oct 5, 2017 at 7:05 AM, Andy Mabbett <a...@pigsonthewing.org.uk> > wrote: > >> On 5 October 2017 at 12:34, Swapnil Karambelkar <swapnil....@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> > >>> copy of Hindi > >>> wikipedia also using WMF logos,etc.it seems to be violating the > >>> norms,please comment and look into the matter . > >>> > >>> https://hi.bywiki.com > >> > >> Not just hi.Wikipedia - see, for example, https://en.bywiki.com/wiki/ > Main_Page > >> > >> bywiki.com is registered to Chengdu West Dimension Digital Technology > >> Co., Ltd. with a contact address in China: > >> > >> https://www.whois.com/whois/bywiki.com > >> > >> This may be a mirror site intended to bypass censorship, but in any > >> case is a matter for the Wikimedia foundation. > >> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/ > wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.org/ > wiki/Wikimedia-l > >> New messages to: Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > >> Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe> > > > > > > > > -- > > James Heilman > > MD, CCFP-EM, Wikipedian > > > > -- > James Heilman > MD, CCFP-EM, Wikipedian > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/ > wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.org/ > wiki/Wikimedia-l > New messages to: Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe> > _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l New messages to: Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe>
