AWOIAF:Copying from Wikipedia
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Content of Wikipedia is copyrighted but released to the public under the GNU Free Documentation License. Copying from Wikipedia is allowed, but there are specific requirements that must be followed.
There is consensus on AWOAIF to follow this!
The exact text is on Wikipedia:Reusing Wikipedia content. In short for AWOIAF it means the following:
- Mention that (part of) the article was copied from Wikipedia
- Release copied articles including changes under GFDL
- Link to the original article
- Provide acces to the transparent copy
The easy way to fullfill the demands above is to use the template Template:EnWP. The template works with 1 or more parameters in which the name of the page(s) copied from wikipedia have to be given.
On this page some (small) parts of wikipedia were used. To recognize it was copied the following was added:
{{EnWP|Wikipedia:Reusing Wikipedia content}}
This results in:
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This page uses content from the English Wikipedia. The original content was at Wikipedia:Reusing Wikipedia content. |
