Does Wikipedia have a terms of use policy? The policy on Wikipedia looks like if the are term of use rules that Wikipdians that have to follow.
On 7/13/07, Jet jet123.jet123@gmail.com wrote:
Does Wikipedia have a terms of use policy? The policy on Wikipedia looks like if the are term of use rules that Wikipdians that have to follow.
Anyone can *use* Wikipedia under the GFDL. Editing on the website is subject to operational needs, conduct policies, etc, but is in principle open to all. However the aim of allowing editing is *not at all* to provide any kind of service to the person editing, but to enable him to perform a service to the website and, through that, the wider community of users of Wikipedia content. If somebody's edits don't provide such a service, Wikimedia obviously doesn't have to accept them. It really isn't Myspace or Facebook.
On 7/14/07, Jet jet123.jet123@gmail.com wrote:
Does Wikipedia have a terms of use policy? The policy on Wikipedia looks like if the are term of use rules that Wikipdians that have to follow.
The content is covered by the "GNU Free Documentation License", which covers most of the issues usually dealt with in terms of use page.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GFDL
For obligations in order to use the Foundations servers, the "terms of editing" on the English Wikipedia are summarised nicely here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Five_pillars
-- John