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Can I use images from Wikipedia on my website?
You can use (free) images from Wikipedia on your own site, or anywhere you like. You can use images that are freely-licensed images, provided you comply with the individual image’s license terms. You can use them on any appropriate page on Wikipedia.
Who owns the content on Wikipedia?
Wikimedia Foundation
Wikipedia
| The logo of Wikipedia, a globe featuring glyphs from various writing systems | |
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| Owner | Wikimedia Foundation |
| Created by | Jimmy Wales Larry Sanger |
| URL | wikipedia.org |
Can you use the contents of Wikipedia on your website?
Yes, sure you can use contents of Wikipedia but with a proper credits at end of the source you’ve used. Giving credits and link of original website of an image which you’ve searched in Google is also a good habit, so as to avoid copyright issues.
Is it possible to reuse content from Wikipedia?
e There are many reusers of Wikipedia’s content, and more are welcome. If you want to use Wikipedia’s text materials in your own books/articles/web sites or other publications, you can generally do so, but you must comply with one of the licenses that Wikipedia’s text is licensed under. Many of the media files on Wikipedia are also reusable.
Are there any copyright issues with using Wikipedia?
There will be no copyright issues from Wikipedia (still check out the disclaimers given on the site). But if you ask me, then I would say that you need to rewrite the content present on the Wikipedia.
What kind of license do I need to use Wikipedia content?
Wikipedia’s text content, in a nutshell, can be used under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike license (CC-BY-SA); unless otherwise indicated, it can also be used under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License. The global terms of use dictate the ways content from Wikimedia sites can be properly…