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Wikitravel:How to re-use Wikitravel guides
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Wikitravel articles and images are available under a copyleft license. This means you can redistribute and modify them in any medium, as long as you follow a few simple rules.
[edit] About our license
Our license, the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 1.0, requires three main things from people redistributing an article:
You give attribution to the authors of the article.
You make any derivative works available under the same license.
You notify readers and other users of the license.
The following is our interpretation of the license requirements. It is not legal advice.
[edit] Attribution
You can give attribution to the authors according to their real names (preferred) or Wikitravel user names. For users identified with an IP address instead of a user name, you can use "Anonymous" or "Anonymous user of Wikitravel". You don't have to list any name more than once.
Every page on Wikitravel has a credits block at the end of the page; for pages where all the authors names will fit in it, this should be sufficient for attribution. However, when there are too many authors names to fit in that block, you must follow the others link at the end of the block to get the complete set of credits for attribution.
Each Wikitravel article also has an HTML link element of type meta that points to an RDF file with the author names. This may be easier to parse automatically.
[edit] Images
For images, the author history can (only) be found on the corresponding Image: page. Images often have image specific licensing and attribution which differs from the article itself, so you should double check the image file page before redistributing or creating derivative works, to make certain you provide accurate licensing & attribution information.
[edit] ShareAlike
Any redistributed Wikitravel articles or derivative works based on Wikitravel articles must also be licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 1.0. Redistributed images or derivative works based on Wikitravel images must remain under the same license as appears on the individual image page (it is necessary to "click through" the thumbnail to get to individual image pages).
[edit] Notice
You must provide a link to the Attribution-ShareAlike license to notify readers and users of their rights to the article text or image. The URL of the license should be sufficient.
[edit] Practice
These are some practical notes for re-using Wikitravel guides.
wikitravel.org is a service for creating and editing these free guides. We can't support the bandwidth and processing requirements of uses not tuned to this purpose. We prefer not to serve files or articles if they're framed or embedded into other pages.
If you create a Web mirror, it can help if you put a link on Wikitravel:Mirrors.
There is a mailing list for announcements of Wikitravel news. It is a low-volume, moderated list and should only send you mail once a week at most. If you are doing a lot of republishing of Wikitravel content, you should be on this list (but are not required to). Send email to majordomo at wikitravel dot org with "subscribe announcements" as the body of the message.
[edit] Link back
Wikitravel articles are written, edited, and illustrated by readers. Our quality improves when readers can fix factual errors, misspellings, or other make other improvements.
For this reason, we ask that you also link back to the original Wikitravel article, allowing your readers to update it. This is just a request; it's not part of the license requirements. A link back is not a substitute for following the terms of the license.
[edit] XML data feeds
Ideally, it would be possible to obtain XML data dumps of Wikitravel content, to facilitate the reuse of Wikitravel content, in line with the intent of the Attribution-ShareAlike license and the goals of this site. Internet Brands, the company that owns Wikitravel's servers, has expressed the wish to restrict access to XML data dumps and to consider requests for them on an individual basis. To date no one has actually obtained an XML data dump from Internet Brands. Please see Wikitravel:Database dump for more details.
See also: Wikitravel:Mirrors, Non-compliant redistribution
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