Plagiarism of Wikipedia is the taking of content from Wikipedia and republishing it without proper attribution and perhaps in violation of copyright or the terms of the Wikimedia platform's Creative Commons license. This internal working page compiles notes and reports on plagiarism of Wikipedia.
Reporting
Many people and organizations exploit Wikipedia by plagiarizing its content. This might be illegal. It is unethical. It is also very sad.
There is currently no well-established place in Wikimedia projects to report instances of plagiarism of Wikipedia or Wikimedia content.
However if you come across such copying then there is a process for helping editors in the future make a more informed choice before proposing the deletion of a Wikipedia article under the mistaken belief that the content of the article contains text that is the copyright of a third party. See: WP:BACKWARDSCOPY and the documentation contained in the {{backwardscopy}} template.
Miscellaneous reports
We have no process for taking any action in response to reports.
- report, and private WP:OTRS ticket:2019091210006376
Background
- Similar pages
Wikipedia articles covering this and similar topics
- Plagiarism
- Plagiarism from Wikipedia - this page contains citations to third party media
- Commercial use of Wikimedia projects
- Wikipedia:Plagiarism - Wikipedia's internal guideline on plagiarism focused on responding to plagiarized content in Wikipedia
- Wikipedia:Reusing Wikipedia content
- Wikipedia:Citing Wikipedia - A guide for citing content in Wikipedia and thereby preventing plagiarism
- Wikipedia:Attribution - general information on "attribution"
- Wikipedia:Copying within Wikipedia - a guide for copying free text
- Wikipedia:Mirrors and forks
- Wikipedia:Copyright problems - this large forum is mostly for problems internal to Wikipedia, not external reuse, but a task to be done is review the long archives and link the relevant conversations here to there
- wiki community conversation
- Wikipedia talk:Plagiarism#Plagiarism of Wikipedia - 2017, 2019 - no identified collection like this page
- User:Tony1, 11 June 2012, Springer's misappropriation of Wikimedia content "the tip of the iceberg", Wikipedia:The Signpost.
- van der Stelt, Wim (12 June 2012). "Statement from Springer concerning Springer Images". springer.com (in German).
- Doc James (25 February 2015). "Text from Wikipedia good enough for Oxford University Press to claim as own". The Signpost.
- Knibbs, Kate (17 August 2015). "Oxford University Press Plagiarized Wikipedia, Now Who the Hell Should I Believe?". Gizmodo.
- Eddie891 (1 March 2019). "Facebook and poetry". The Signpost. Wikipedia.
Reports
The template {{backwardscopy}} has a category of the talk pages on which instances of it resides:
There is a Wikimedia Commons category used to report plagiarism of Commons files: