Withdraw fandom_pl: Fandom ToU bars scraping and AI training

#57
by ppuzio - opened
Fabryka AI org

Withdraws fandom_pl (all 12 wikis) from main. It was never released (release: None) and is not in the v0.2.5 tag or the README totals. This supersedes the audit's earlier "drop 6 wikis, sample 4" action.

Reason

  1. The Fandom Terms of Use, revision 2025-12-19 (Wayback capture of 2026-09-05), bar three things without express written permission: scraping and automated access, bypassing robot-exclusion headers, and using content to train an ML/AI system. The AI clause is new in this revision and has no carve-out. Whether it overrides the CC BY-SA grant is unresolved.
  2. The pages were fetched live from each wiki's MediaWiki API on 2026-10-02, after that revision. The builder has no robots.txt handling.
  3. In 40-document audit samples, these wikis carry third-party text under the CC BY-SA label:
    • dragonage 22/40 and elderscrolls 17/40: game text.
    • wiedzmin 11/40: CD PROJEKT RED bars text and data mining.
    • naruto: lyrics pages.
    • pokemon: Bulbapedia translations; Bulbapedia is CC BY-NC-SA 2.5.
    • creepypasta: translations of stories with mostly untraced origins.

References: artifacts/rights_audit_2026-10/reports/wikis_ugc.md L12-31 and reports/citations/fandom.md.

What this PR removes

  • data/fandom_pl/: 50,653 documents / 45,790,009 tokens, plus the attribution and decisions sidecars, card and NOTICE.
  • The src/sources.py entry. No legal-note stub is kept, because nothing was released.
  • src/build_fandom_pl.py, src/test_build_fandom_pl.py, src/fandom_requirements.txt and artifacts/fandom_pl_ontology_manifest.json. A re-add would need Fandom's written permission and a different acquisition path; git history keeps the builder.

Docs and records

  • README: no change. fandom_pl was never in its tables or totals.
  • CHANGELOG: new "Removed from main" entry. It sits above the HPLT entry, so it doesn't conflict with Hub PR 56's entry, which goes below HPLT.
  • artifacts/source_findings.md: entry appended.

Checks

  • python3 -m pytest from the repo root: 264 passed on a clean tree.
  • render_sample.py: not applicable, since this is a removal with no shard to sample.
  • python3 src/verify_paper_claims.py --tex ../polish-dynaword-v2/main.tex fails with LookupError: no table with \label{tab:s04-wersje} in the .tex. This is a known tooling gap (polish-dynaword-v2 #61). fandom_pl is not in the paper.

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ppuzio changed pull request status to open
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