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:::Look at the Wikipedia page: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Mirrors_and_forks Wikipeida:Forks and mirrors]. You will find that one of the standards used for "full compliance" for sites that reuse wikipedia content is a local link to the GFDL on every such page, and another is a link backm to the wikipedia article being used. Really it would be better if we put "content released under the GFDL unless otherwise noted" or soemthing of the sort in the footer of thsi site, IMO -- ther is pleanty of room. [[User:Mercy60a|Mercy60a]] 16:20, 11 May 2006 (BST)
 
:::Look at the Wikipedia page: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Mirrors_and_forks Wikipeida:Forks and mirrors]. You will find that one of the standards used for "full compliance" for sites that reuse wikipedia content is a local link to the GFDL on every such page, and another is a link backm to the wikipedia article being used. Really it would be better if we put "content released under the GFDL unless otherwise noted" or soemthing of the sort in the footer of thsi site, IMO -- ther is pleanty of room. [[User:Mercy60a|Mercy60a]] 16:20, 11 May 2006 (BST)
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:::<blockquote>''Wikipedia's license, the GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) requires that any derivative of works from Wikipedia must be released under that same license, must state that it is released under that license, and reproduce a complete copy of the license in all copies of the work, and must acknowledge the main authors (which some claim can be accomplished with a link back to that article on Wikipedia).... The license does not apply to material in the public domain or that is used under fair use.''</blockquote>
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:::(Above quoted from the wikipedia Forks and Mirrors page. [[User:Mercy60a|Mercy60a]] 17:01, 11 May 2006 (BST)

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Usage

{{wikipedia | page_name}}

where 'page_name' is the page on wikipedia the content was taken from. Spaces in the original page title will need to be replaced by underscores, and there must not be a space between the pipe symbol (|) and the article name.

Display example

{{wikipedia|Janet_Hardy}} on our page about her produces

This article on Janet Hardy incorporates text from Wikipedia

Neccessity

I've added this template as I've found a number of pages have taken content from wikipedia without citing it as the source. Although all text on wikipedia is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, that license requires that attribution (credit) is given wherever it appears. This template provides that in an easy way. --VampWillow 11:22, 14 Jun 2005 (BST)

Discussion

Should this template also include mention of the GFDL? I know Wipipedia:About already states that the whole site was under GFDL, but from Wikipedia's section on copyrights I got the impression that sites using Wikipedia material were supposed to indicate GFDL on every page. (Wikipedia acknowledges GFDL in the footer of every page, this site does not.) But IP law makes my head spin, and I could well be mistaken. --Calair 07:50, 21 February 2006 (GMT)
It is my impression that the GFDL need not be mentioned specifically. (Last time I was involved in a discussion on Wikipedia, it was revealed that the GFDL does not entirely cover every page, anyway!) I don't think sites which reproduce the Wikipedia entirely bother mentioning the GFDL on every page but if they do, then perhaps we should look into it.
Look at the Wikipedia page: Wikipeida:Forks and mirrors. You will find that one of the standards used for "full compliance" for sites that reuse wikipedia content is a local link to the GFDL on every such page, and another is a link backm to the wikipedia article being used. Really it would be better if we put "content released under the GFDL unless otherwise noted" or soemthing of the sort in the footer of thsi site, IMO -- ther is pleanty of room. Mercy60a 16:20, 11 May 2006 (BST)
Wikipedia's license, the GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) requires that any derivative of works from Wikipedia must be released under that same license, must state that it is released under that license, and reproduce a complete copy of the license in all copies of the work, and must acknowledge the main authors (which some claim can be accomplished with a link back to that article on Wikipedia).... The license does not apply to material in the public domain or that is used under fair use.
(Above quoted from the wikipedia Forks and Mirrors page. Mercy60a 17:01, 11 May 2006 (BST)
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