If you re-publish articles youwrote on wikiHow onto another site, does the re-published article have to be sourced to wikiHow?
Lojjik
2
yup just follow http://www.wikihow.com/wikiHow:Attribution
when you submit it to wikiHow it becomes wikiHow property under the CC license (also, moved to Help Using wikiHow) Edit: I wasn’t sure whether you were referring to an article that’s already been edited by others
or not.
While You, the author will retain copyrights to Your content, by posting on wikiHow You grant us certain rights, which among other things allow us to sub-license content You post under a Creative Commons License. As the author / copyright holder, You are free to use Your content in any manner You choose. You will not be restricted by the terms of this license for the content that You create. ( http://www.wikihow.com/wikiHow:Terms-of-Use
) That means that if you are the onlysignificant author of an article, then you can do whatever you want with it, sell it as an ebook without even mentioning wikiHow at all if you want. If other authors have improved on your work, or if your work was based on theirs, then they must be given attribution.
What if you wrote an article and someone came along a couple minutes later and edited it. If you use the original (and unedited) version elsewhere does the second editor still need attribution?
Oliver
5
No, they do not, because you are distributing your original content, to which you retain all rights.
Okay, thanks for the help, @SudoKing
, @KingPeter
, @Catspjs01
, @Krystle
!
