WikiVet English:Terms of Service

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Content

WikiVet authors, reviewers, editors, and publisher have made extensive efforts to ensure that all information is accurate at the time of publication. However, all content on WikiVet is created and is editable by registered users. Whilst we endeavour to maintain the accuracy of all content, no responsibility can be taken by WikiVet, or any of its contributors or reviewers for any incorrect content or any damages caused as a result of incorrect information.

In addition to this, constant changes in information resulting from continuing research and clinical experience, reasonable differences in opinions among authorities, unique aspects of individual clinical situations, and the possibility of human error in preparing such an extensive text require that the reader exercise individual judgment when making a clinical decision and, if necessary, consult and compare information from other sources. In particular, the reader is advised to check the product information currently provided by the manufacturer of any drug products before prescribing or administering it, especially if the drug is unfamiliar or is used infrequently.

Contributions

If you wish to contribute to WikiVet content or make changes to existing content, please do so responsibly and having fully researched any contributions. Ensure that any media added to the site adheres to any copyright restrictions and is fully acknowledged as per these restrictions.

Content Licences

All users contributing to Wikimedia projects are required to grant broad permissions to the general public to re-distribute and re-use their contributions freely, as long as the use is attributed and the same freedom to re-use and re-distribute applies to any derivative works. Therefore, for any text you hold the copyright to, by submitting it, you agree to license it under the Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 License. For compatibility reasons, you are also required to license it under the GNU Free Documentation License (unversioned, with no invariant sections, front-cover texts, or back-cover texts). Re-users can choose the license(s) they wish to comply with. Please note that these licenses do allow commercial uses of your contributions, as long as such uses are compliant with the terms.

As an author, you agree to be attributed in any of the following fashions:

Through a hyperlink (where possible) or URL to the article or articles you contributed to
Through a hyperlink (where possible) or URL to an alternative, stable online copy which is freely accessible, which conforms with the license, and which provides credit to the authors in a manner equivalent to the credit given on this website

or

Through a list of all authors. (Any list of authors may be filtered to exclude very small or irrelevant contributions

Importing text

You can re-use content from Wikimedia projects freely, with the exception of content that is used under "fair use" exemptions, or similar exemptions of copyright law. Please follow the guidelines below:

Re-use of text:

Attribution: To re-distribute a text page in any form, provide credit to the authors either by including a) a hyperlink (where possible) or URL to the page or pages you are re-using, b) a hyperlink (where possible) or URL to an alternative, stable online copy which is freely accessible, which conforms with the license, and which provides credit to the authors in a manner equivalent to the credit given on this website, or c) a list of all authors. (Any list of authors may be filtered to exclude very small or irrelevant contributions.) This applies to text developed by the Wikimedia community. Text from external sources may attach additional attribution requirements to the work, which we will strive to indicate clearly to you. For example, a page may have a banner or other notation indicating that some or all of its content was originally published somewhere else. Where such notations are visible in the page itself, they should generally be preserved by re-users.
Copyleft/Share Alike: If you make modifications or additions to the page you re-use, you must license them under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike License 3.0 or later.
Indicate changes: If you make modifications or additions, you must indicate in a reasonable fashion that the original work has been modified. If you are re-using the page in a wiki, for example, indicating this in the page history is sufficient.
Licensing notice: Each copy or modified version that you distribute must include a licensing notice stating that the work is released under CC-BY-SA and either a) a hyperlink or URL to the text of the license or b) a copy of the license. For this purpose, a suitable URL is: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/
For further information, please refer to the legal code of the CC-BY-SA License.

Additional availability of text under the GNU Free Documentation License:

For compatibility reasons, any page which does not incorporate text that is exclusively available under CC-BY-SA or a CC-BY-SA-compatible license is also available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License. In order to determine whether a page is available under the GFDL, review the page footer, page history, and discussion page for attribution of single-licensed content that is not GFDL-compatible. All text published before June 15th, 2009 was released under the GFDL, and you may also use the page history to retrieve content published before that date to ensure GFDL compatibility.

Re-use of non-text media:

Where not otherwise noted, non-text media files are available under various free culture licenses. Please view the media description page for details about the license of any specific media file.

User Information

Use of Information

Information gathered during the registration process is used to help validate requests and allows for a greater understanding of the WikiVet community
Contact information supplied will only be used:
- If the user has opted into WikiVet updates
- Users in some instances be contacted if there is pertinent information regarding access to the site or regarding their user account
Some information is used on the user pages (see below) but can be freely removed/modified by the user
At any time users can request to have their accounts deactivated and their personal information removed

User Pages (Automatic Population)

Unless the user opts out, on account creation a user page will be created automatically be populated with limited information from your registration form. This aims to enhance the WikiVet community and is encouraged, especially for contributors, but is not required for participation on the site. Users that opt out will ahve their page popualte with a blank template which they may complete if they wish.

This information can be deleted, added to and updated at any point by the user
- There is no requirement to provide information on the wiki
Information automatically included varies:
- For veterinarians and veterinary students: Full name, veterinary school & graduation year
  - If indicated during application users will be added to their schools graduate list
- For veterinary nurses and student nurses: Full name, place of training & year of qualifying
- For other non-vets: Full name & job title
Advice on how to update, add or remove content from these pages is made easily available
- Via the help pages or directly from the user's page