View source for Help:Adding open license text to HandWiki

Open license text which is available under a compatible license or in the [[Social:Public domain|public domain]] can be used to improve existing HandWiki articles and create new ones.

==Scope of this guide==

This guide is about importing text that has been previously published with an open license, that is text previously unpublished in Wikimedia projects:
* For adding previously unpublished text
* For adding text previously published in HandWiki, see HandWiki:Copying within HandWiki
* For adding text previously published in a Wikimedia sister project, see Help:Import

''Reminder: if you are being paid to add text to HandWiki please state this and list the articles you've contributed to on your user page. For more information please see HandWiki:Paid-contribution disclosure''

== Which licenses does HandWiki accept? ==

===Accepted licenses===

HandWiki accepts text available under these licenses. Acceptable license is 

[[File:CC-BY-SA icon.svg|alt=CC-BY-SA|100px]] - [[Creative Commons license#Types of licenses|CC BY-SA]] versions 1.0, 2.0, 2.5, 3.0, but '''not''' version 4.0 (but it is accepted for images, audio and video){{efn|name= a}}

Text added to HandWiki under an incompatible license is a copyright violation.


Tools are available to measure the number of page views HandWiki articles receive that use text from a range of external sources e.g. a website, a section of a website, a specific URL or a publication:

====A small number of articles==== 

To measure the page views for a small number of HandWiki pages where it is known text from a source has been used simply use the [https://pageviews.toolforge.org/ Pageviews tool] and enter the names of the articles into the '''Pages''' field (you can click on the '''x''' next to the name of an article to remove it from the graph).

==Notes==

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{{efn|name = a |CC BY-SA version 4.0 '''is''' acceptable for images, video, audio, 3-D files, and other non-text media; these should normally be uploaded to [[Wikimedia Commons]].  HandWiki doesn't accept 4.0 text because CC-BY-SA 4.0's terms state that the Share Alike part [https://creativecommons.org/share-your-work/licensing-considerations/compatible-licenses must be at version 4 or any later version].}}
}}

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