Manual:Copyright/en

The copyright on a MediaWiki wiki is set at installation and can be adjusted by setting and, and adapting the sitewide copyright notice located at MediaWiki:Copyright.

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

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