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Here you will find information on how to use [[:mw:Main Page|MediaWiki software]], copy content from the Wikimedia Foundation's [[projects]], donate your own copyrighted content, or report unlicensed use of your information.
Here you will find information on how to use [[:mw:Main Page|MediaWiki software]], copy content from the Wikimedia Foundation's [[projects]], donate your own copyrighted content, or report unlicensed use of your information.


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Revision as of 18:06, 11 April 2014

Template:Help intro frame top Template:Answers tabs |style="padding: 2em;" | The Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. is a nonprofit charitable organization dedicated to encouraging the growth, development and distribution of free, multilingual, educational content, and to providing the full content of these wiki-based projects to the public free of charge.

Here you will find information on how to use MediaWiki software, copy content from the Wikimedia Foundation's projects, donate your own copyrighted content, or report unlicensed use of your information.

If you would like to use our software for you own wiki or projects

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If you would like permission to use one of our logos or wordmarks

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If you would like permission to use content from our sites other than Wikimedia logos or wordmarks

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If you would like to mirror or copy some or all of our projects
Note: If you are interested in using only a small amount of content from one or more of our projects, see LINKLINKLINKLINK TO PRIOR ANSWER.

Since sharing information is a key part of our mission, we welcome and try to facilitate the spread of our content. You are, of course, welcome to link to our website in the traditional sense that you inform your readers of its existence and offer them the option to visit our website for further information. However, we do not support live mirroring (remote loading or hotlinking) of our websites. Given our unique copyright situation, it is actually better for you to host a text dump of earlier versions or locally hosted copies of our articles. See w:Wikipedia:MIRROR#Remote loading. For downloadable dumps of Wikipedia article database, see w:Wikipedia:Database download. You may also be interested in mw:API.

If you would like to donate copyrighted content to our projects

Thank you for your interest in donating content to our projects!

In accordance with our Terms of Use, our projects are able to accept previously published content that is compatibly licensed with the project to which you wish to add it. (See, specifically, section 7, "Licensing of Content").

The volunteer community who create and curate the bulk of the content on our projects have crafted processes for facilitating such donations. Recommended steps on the English Wikipedia can be found at Wikipedia:Donating copyrighted materials. Several other language Wikipedias have pages describing the process; you can see the list of languages in which it is available and access those by clicking "languages" in the left toolbar. Specific information on donating images and other media files can be found at Commons:Email templates. If you have any questions on donating copyrighted content not answered at those pages, you may wish to consult the web-based "help desk" on Commons or use the "Help" link in the left toolbar to locate a help forum on the project to which you wish to donate. You can also write to permission@wikimedia.org.

If you would like to report misused copyrighted content hosted on our projects

The Wikimedia Foundation wants to ensure that the content that we host can be re-used by other users without fear of liability and that it is not infringing the proprietary rights of others. In fairness to our users, as well as to other creators and copyright holders, our policy is to respond to notices of alleged infringement that comply with the formalities of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA). Pursuant to the DMCA, we will terminate, in appropriate circumstances, users and account holders of our system and network who are repeat infringers.

If you are the owner of content that is being improperly used on one of the Projects without your permission, you may request that the content be removed under the DMCA. To make such a request, please email us at legal@wikimedia.org or snail mail our designated agent at this address.

Alternatively, you may make a request to our community, which often handles copyright issues faster and more effectively than prescribed under the DMCA. In that case, you can post a notice explaining your copyright concerns. For a non-exhaustive and non-authoritative list of the relevant processes for the different Project editions, look here. Before filing a DMCA claim, you also have the option of sending an email to the community at info@wikimedia.org.