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Every person who edits WikiChristian sees this notice on the edit page:
 
Every person who edits WikiChristian sees this notice on the edit page:
  
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: Please note that general contributions to WikiChristian are considered to be released under Creative Commons Attribution ShareAlike License 3.0 Generic (CC-BY-SA) (see [[Project:Copyrights]] for details) and may be edited by any user. For special personal works that you do not wish to be edited, please see [[Project:Page Layout#Opinion Articles]]. Any work submitted may be redistributed at will.
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: By submitting any and all text you are promising that you either wrote it yourself or copied from a [[Public domain|public domain]] or similar free resource. '''DO NOT SUBMIT COPYRIGHTED WORK WITHOUT PERMISSION!'''
  
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:Please note that all contributions to WikiChristian are considered to be released under the GNU Free Documentation License (see [[WikiChristian:Copyrights]] for details). If you don't want your writing to be edited mercilessly and redistributed at will, then don't submit it here.
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== About Creative Commons ==
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:You are also promising us that you wrote this yourself, or copied it from a public domain or similar free resource. '''DO NOT SUBMIT COPYRIGHTED WORK WITHOUT PERMISSION!'''
 
  
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This is basically the default MediaWiki copyright notice.  
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For a license summary see [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0 Creative Commons license CC-BY-SA-3.0]
  
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Full copy of Creative Commons license see [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/legalcode Creative Commons license CC-BY-SA-3.0 legalcode]
  
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{{returnto}} [[Christianity]] -> [[Christian literature, art, music and media]] -> [[Christianity and the Internet]] -> [[Christian wikis]] -> [[Project:About|WikiChristian]]
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What ''should'' this notice say?
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[[Category:WikiChristian]]
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Some wiki mention
 
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: "Please cite your sources so others can check your work.".
 
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: "By submitting your work you promise you wrote it yourself, or copied it from public domain resources — this does not include most web pages."
 
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== about the GNU FDL ==
 
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There are many other websites and wiki that have excellent explanations of the GNU FDL. Rather than write yet another mediocre description, I'll try to summarize with a few links.
 
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* The official version of the GNU FDL is at http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/fdl.html .
 
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* The terms of the FDL apparently require a copy of it in every work covered by it. Since WikiChristian is covered by it, it has a local copy (at [[GNU FDL]]).
 
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* There is a [http://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Simple_English_GFDL simplified "translation" of the GNU FDL].
 
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* An [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_FDL article at Wikipedia discusses the GNU FDL, its pros and cons, and a few alternatives.].
 
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Latest revision as of 06:08, 19 July 2009

Every person who edits WikiChristian sees this notice on the edit page:

Please note that general contributions to WikiChristian are considered to be released under Creative Commons Attribution ShareAlike License 3.0 Generic (CC-BY-SA) (see Project:Copyrights for details) and may be edited by any user. For special personal works that you do not wish to be edited, please see Project:Page Layout#Opinion Articles. Any work submitted may be redistributed at will.
By submitting any and all text you are promising that you either wrote it yourself or copied from a public domain or similar free resource. DO NOT SUBMIT COPYRIGHTED WORK WITHOUT PERMISSION!

About Creative Commons

For a license summary see Creative Commons license CC-BY-SA-3.0

Full copy of Creative Commons license see Creative Commons license CC-BY-SA-3.0 legalcode


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