Using WikiPedia Content

[spyder_tek]

I've seen several people using content on their pages from WikiPedia, and was wondering if this is allowed?

If it is indeed legal to do so, can you modify this content?

Thanks!

[victor]

wikipedia is down right now.

When they come back, check out their licensing conditions. It's all explained in great detail.

[arrowman]

Yes and yes, but there are conditions.

This is explained very thoroughly on their site.

[cooldoug]

The license Wikipedia uses grants free access to our content in the same sense as free software is licensed freely. This principle is known as copyleft. That is to say, Wikipedia content can be copied, modified, and redistributed so long as the new version grants the same freedoms to others and acknowledges the authors of the Wikipedia article used (a direct link back to the article satisfies our author credit requirement). Wikipedia articles therefore will remain free forever and can be used by anybody subject to certain restrictions, most of which serve to ensure that freedom.

This is from their site^^