Help:Adding open license text to HandWiki
Open license text which is available under a compatible license or in the 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This guide is about importing text that has been previously published with an open license, that is text previously unpublished in Wikimedia projects:
- For adding previously unpublished text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
- 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)[lower-alpha 1]
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 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
- ↑ 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 must be at version 4 or any later version.
