Help:Adding open-license text to Wikipedia

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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This guide is about importing text that has been previously published with an open license, that is text previously unpublished in Wikimedia projects: ''Reminder: if you are being paid to add text to Wikipedia please state this and list the articles you've contributed to on your user page. For more information please see Paid-contribution disclosure''
 * For adding previously unpublished text, see Help:Editing
 * For adding text previously published in Wikipedia, see Copying within Wikipedia
 * For adding text previously published in a Wikimedia sister project, see Help:Import
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Accepted licenses
Wikipedia accepts text available under these licenses. Acceptable licenses include:

Licenses not accepted
Among the licenses not acceptable for text in Wikipedia are:


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Finding open license text to add to Wikipedia
There are many open access sources covering a wide range of subjects which are catalogued by the The Wikipedia Library including:

There are also Wikiprojects working on the reuse of free content on Wikipedia and the adoption of Open Access:
 * Wikiproject United Nations
 * Wikiproject Open Access

Which sources work well?

The best open access text to add to Wikipedia include:
 * Literature reviews or surveys
 * Encyclopedic or tertiary source materials
 * Reports which survey or summarize known information about a topic or field

Try to avoid works which:
 * Are secondary sources, or sections within sources which focus on the author's analysis or conclusions.
 * Focuses on novel or unusual opinions about a topic; remember Wikipedia is about focusing on established, shared knowledge about topics.
 * Principally focus on persuasion or argumentation; thought sections of the work may appear neutral in tone, Wikimedia tries to include balance as well as neutrality and sources focused on persuasion frequently omit contrary perspectives.
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Measuring reach
Tools are available to measure the number of page views Wikipedia 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 Wikipedia 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).

A larger number of articles
To measure page views of all articles using text from a source use the Massviews Analysis Tool:
 * 1) Open the Massviews Analysis Tool.
 * 2) Chose the Dates you would like to measure.
 * 3) Change the Source to Search.
 * 4) Set the site to en.wikipedia.org.
 * 5) Depending on whether you want results from one source or multiple sources:
 * 6) One source: In the search field add hastemplate:"Free-content attribution" insource:"NAMEOFSOURCE" (including the quote marks), replacing NAMEOFSOURCE with the source you are searching for. E.g. if you would like to measure the page views of articles that reuse text from UNESCO enter hastemplate:"Free-content attribution" insource:"unesco.org" which will return this result.
 * 7) Multiple sources: In the search field add hastemplate:"Free-content_attribution"_insource:/SOURCE1|SOURCE2|SOURCE3/ (including the quote marks), replacing SOURCE1, SOURCE2 and SOURCE3 with the sources you would like to search for. You may search for as many sources as you want, simply continue to separate each query with a | symbol. The only limitations are that the SOURCE cannot include a / symbol (searching for web addresses can be done by finding a unique part of the URL and searching for that) and the queries are limited to 300 characters. For example if you would like to measure the page views of articles that reuse text from a series of UNESCO PDFs (using only name of the PDF rather than the whole URL) enter hastemplate:"Free-content_attribution" insource:/244756e.pdf|232555e.pdf/ which will return this result.
 * 8) Click Submit, to receive your results, you should receive a page that looks like this example showing text used on English languages Wikipedia from UNESCO.
 * 9) The data can be viewed as either a list or a chart and can be downloaded as either a csv or json file, you can also create a permalink (permanent link) to easily access the results again. If you want to set up a URL to a query that will always return results for the past 30 days, simply select last month in the date selection options.
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Share your content on Wikipedia
Wikipedia is one of the most visited websites in the world and receives over 15 billion page views per month. If you would like to make text or any other content available on Wikipedia you can learn how to license and label your work (website, publication etc.) on the Creative Commons website here, the licenses Wikipedia accepts are listed above.

To help people learn about text you have made available under an open license, you can contact a Wikiproject that works on that subject or your local Wikimedia organisation. They will help to get it reused. If you have a specific article in mind that could use the text you can write on the article talk page. To contact a Wikiproject or writing on an article talk page:
 * 1) Create an account
 * 2) Select the relevant article. Click on a talk page. (located at the top of any Wikipedia article)
 * 3) Click New Section
 * 4) Write a message to give details about the text, then provide a link to the web address where it may be found.

Tools are available to measure reuse and reach of your content and are described above.
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