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== Citing Wikipedia and using its information ==

I have just discovered the Wikipedia as a source of information. Need to tangibly understand how I can use it's information at my website. I have read articles of Wikipedia Copyrights but still need to get a better feeling of what can and can't be done.

# Can you point me to some live examples of valid references, citing, quoting and excerpts at different websites using Wikipedia materials?
# If web site will include a group of excerpts or atricles from Wikipedia, can we provide one reference on the home page level or it has to be reference with every and each bit of borrowed information?
# If we take a piece of information and then modify it on our site, do we still need to provide some reference?

Thank you very much for expediting my learning curve.
Boris Lifschutz

:For a list of websites using Wikipedia content, see [[Wikipedia:Mirrors and forks]]. We do ask that you follow the example of those in the 'high compliance' category. That should answer question 1; the remaining two I'll leave to those who know better. Best, [[User:Meelar|[[User:Meelar|Meelar]] [[User talk:Meelar|(talk)]]]] 00:45, 2004 Aug 10 (UTC)

:: There's also [[Wikipedia:Citing Wikipedia]], which may be of some help. Also, I believe the [[GFDL]] requires that you provide some attribution to Wikipedia if you take and modify its content. This allows the article's edit history to be preserved. --[[User:Diberri|Diberri]] | [[User talk:Diberri|Talk]] 01:00, Aug 10, 2004 (UTC)