Thread:Project:Support desk/MediaWiki acknowledgments in help system

Hello,

My company is integrating MediaWiki 1.16.0 (with MySQL 5.1.51 64-bit and PHP 5.3.3) into one of its products.

From a help perspective, we are thinking of creating a very limited set of topics (we only need a small set) that are fully integrated into our "end user" help system for our overall product. While we will glean important info from the MediaWiki help, we will not copy it verbatim - especially given we only need a very small subset of topics & use a different style guide / information design approach.

Are we required to acknowledge MediaWiki in those help topics in our help system at all?

I have read the important note at the top of this page: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Contents ...which indicates that the help "can be freely copied into fresh wiki installations and/or distributed with MediaWiki software." However, my question is a little different, as we will write a "lighter" and "smaller" version of help topics (that adhere to our own style guide) on an extremely limited subset of features.

Many thanks, Mary