fun with domain name registration

[Darren Dirt]

http://en.wikiderpia.org/wiki/Wikipedia

[Thorin]

What the hell?  On the one hand it looks like a prank site, on the other hand it's very well done.  Or maybe the language is just set to herp-a-derp?

[Mr. Analog]

I tried doing a WHOIS lookup to see who registered the domain but the .org WHOIS is a piece of junk

Get yer @%&# together .org!

[Darren Dirt]

 

What the hell?  On the one hand it looks like a prank site, on the other hand it's very well done.  Or maybe the language is just set to herp-a-derp?

Not a language setting, it is a separate site. (Click "Random Page" and you can see it includes the entire encyclopedia's contents!)


Looks to me like simply some funny Canucks think they're funny

open both of these pages in 2 different tabs and then flip back and forth; you can see it's VERY different info...
http://whois.domaintools.com/wikiderpia.org
http://whois.domaintools.com/wikipedia.org



What's actually funny is I now want to learn how it works, my initial guess was probably just a simple HTTP-GET with some replacing of the occasional "-ed" word; search search search aha: https://github.com/filefrog/wikiderpia?files=1

>>> key code here <<<



PS: I found this via normal search engine results, I clicked a link thinking it was the legit Wikipedia article ... not noticing the slightly-off domain name

[Mr. Analog]

There is a Media Wiki API that allows you to export docs from Wikipedia and parse it yourself, likely that is how they are doing it.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Export

[Darren Dirt]

Actually they're just using a Perl framework:

http://perldancer.org/

Look at the "key code" I linked above. Simple as can be!

[Mr. Analog]

They use the Perl Dancer framework to scrape content from Wikipedia with a HTTPGET and then modify the content, which may be a violation of Wikipedia's ToS and Copyright Infringement

On one hand I'm not surprised because scraping is dead simple but on the other hand surprised because of the potential legal trubble

[Darren Dirt]

They use the Perl Dancer framework to scrape content from Wikipedia with a HTTPGET and then modify the content, which may be a violation of Wikipedia's ToS and Copyright Infringement

On one hand I'm not surprised because scraping is dead simple but on the other hand surprised because of the potential legal trubble

Maybe it's protected use as satire or something?

[Mr. Analog]

Fair Use is so loosely defined legally most sites that accept content, including Wikipedia itself, try to avoid the problem altogether.

This is why some FAs and ITN items don't have images on Wikipedia's main page, even though the article may include some.