Manual:Copyright/en

The copyright on a MediaWiki wiki is set at installation and can be adjusted by setting $1 and $2, and adapting the sitewide copyright notice located at $3.

The copyright notice can be completely eliminated from the footer by ensuring $1 and $2 are empty or not defined in $3.

MediaWiki itself is provided under the GNU General Public License.

Options
Presently, the options available at installation are:


 * No license metadata
 * Creative Commons
 * Attribution
 * Attribution-ShareAlike
 * Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike
 * GFDL
 * version 1.2
 * version 1.3 (since MediaWiki 1.14)
 * public domain (since MediaWiki 1.14)

Related system messages

 * MediaWiki:Copyright