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I'm trying to host a wiki website which is similar to Wikipedia: all contents licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License. Besides putting a footnote at each page to explicitly declare the license, what and where should I put the legal language to inform that every contributor must contribute under this same license (and if they do contribute, they automatically agree with it)?

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    Does the software require those who edit be logged in using an account? Can you control the account creation process?
    – Jason Aller
    Commented Aug 29, 2015 at 23:06
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    @JasonAller Yes, they must log in. But the registration is public.
    – xuhdev
    Commented Aug 29, 2015 at 23:49
  • @JasonAller I think you mean to acknowledge users about it when they create the accounts. But I don't understand why the standard MediaWiki does not provide such a feature to add an acknowledgement when creating the accounts. Also, Wikipedia itself does not use this way. These really make me confused.
    – xuhdev
    Commented Aug 30, 2015 at 7:21
  • If you edit something in Wikipedia, it says near the textarea: "Work submitted to Wikipedia can be edited, used, and redistributed—by anyone—subject to certain terms and conditions."
    – unor
    Commented Aug 30, 2015 at 23:36

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At the bottom of every edit screen on Wikipedia, above the "save page" button, it says:

By clicking the "Save page" button, you agree to the Terms of Use and you irrevocably agree to release your contribution under the CC BY-SA 3.0 License and the GFDL with the understanding that a hyperlink or URL is sufficient for CC BY-SA 3.0 attribution.

If you are asking for technical details on how to show that on a MediaWiki installation, that question could probably be better asked at another site. Regardless, on a standard MediaWiki installation, that text may be found and modified at the [[MediaWiki:Copyrightwarning2]] (sometimes [[MediaWiki:Copyrightwarning]]) page of the wiki.

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  • Also, you would do good by setting $wgRightsPage $wgRightsUrl $wgRightsText
    – Ángel
    Commented Sep 23, 2015 at 21:31

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