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Your suggestions are already reflected in the existing Wikimedia Foundation TOU: https://foundation.wikimedia.org/wiki/Terms_of_Use/en https://foundation.wikime
by ignoranceprior 7y ago
Your suggestions are already reflected in the existing Wikimedia Foundation TOU: https://foundation.wikimedia.org/wiki/Terms_of_Use/en https://foundation.wikimedia.org/wiki/Terms_of_Use/en
1) It already prohibits paid editing without disclosure. (ctrl-F "Paid contributions without disclosure" in link above)
2) Wikimedia projects require that almost all content be licensed under a free license (ctrl-F "Licensing of Content" in link above). Specifically, text is usually dual licensed under CC BY-SA and GFDL. Wikimedia Commons allows images under any free license. (https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Licensing https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Licensing)
Exceptions are allowed for fair use content, which needs explicit justification and may only be used sparingly (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Non-free_content_criteria https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Non-free_content_cri... for the English Wikipedia's rules, https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Non-free_content https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Non-free_content for other WMF wikis).
- mjevans 7y agoIn that case shouldn't the headlines be about charges related to unauthorized access of a computer system?