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«He who receives an idea from me,
receives instruction himself without lessening mine;
as he who lights his taper at mine,
receives light without darkening me.»
Thomas Jefferson, Letter to Isaac McPherson
Epistemowikia
Epistemowikia is more than a wiki encyclopedia, it is the Free/Libre & Open Hyperencyclopedia, and alive. It is a collaborative project, about Free/Libre & Open hyperknowledge (FLOHK). It was born at the University of Extremadura (UEx) and it is located at CALA, the Free/Libre & Open Campus, currently hosted by the Online Campus of the UEx, from which it also receives an invaluable support. Epistemowikia is a project of collective inteligence, useful sharing and knowledge communal creation, in which everybody is invited to participate.
By a FLOK work we mean any piece of knowledge published in accordance to licenses or multi-licenses, such as the most of those recognized by the Free Software Foundation (FSF), Open Source Initiative (OSI), Creative Commons, etc. We call them FLOK licenses. The minimum necessary standard for a license to be a FLOK license means that under a non-profit framework people should copy, distribute, display, and perform one original work, in any form or by any means, all over the world and without any time limit. Some FLOK licenses allow people to use the work also for commercial purposes and/or to make derivative works. In this last case, the distribution of the resulting work under a license identical to the one under which the original work was published, is demanded by some licenses (e.g. copyleft and share alike licenses). Public Domain and "Suidad" (his/herfulness) are also FLOK licenses.
FLOK licenses' scope and effects are always subject to copyright legislations currently in force. In particular no FLOK license may impair or restrict the author's moral rights. We do not consider as FLOK licenses those ones which restrict the former necessary minimum standard or other of the reference principles to some environment or geographic or political zone.
Epistemowikia is NOT Wikipedia
Before publishing your work at Epistemowikia, please consider the different projects of the Wikimedia Foundation and its publishing conditions. For instance, imagine that you wish to publish an encyclopedic article under the terms of the GNU FDL license; in such case, notice that you should also publish it at Wikipedia (Copyrights, Copyright_FAQ, GFDL_FAQ, Multi-licensing). Nevertheless, Epistemowikia can be the place you are looking for, because:
  • their main interest fields are: Free Art, Free Thinking, Activism, Free Science and Technology, Free Software, Any other Free/Libre & Open Knowledge
  • you can publish your works under the terms of any FLOK license (that is, any license that under a non-profit framework people should copy, distribute, display, and perform one original work, in any form or by any means, all over the world and without any time limit), known or not; you can also multilicense your work under the terms of several of them
  • you can choose between the Neutral Point of View (NPOV) and the Sympathetic Point of View (SPOV), so subjectivity is allowed: you can publish essays, novels, tales, poems... You can also publish (argued) opinion articles. You can also contribute with new points of view about published topics (talk pages allow public debate)
  • you can sign your works
  • you can published works that do not allow any modification (it is sufficient that you publish your work under a license that do not allow derivative works)
  • according to Spanish Law (Derecho de cita), you can include fragments of works (writings, audio, audiovisual) belonging to other people; you can also include isolated figurative plastic or photographic works, if these works have been already published and the purpose of their inclusion is their analysis, comment or critical judgement
  • you can publish definitions of topics, expressions and modisms; Epistemowikia is also a dictionary
  • you can publish thematic pages with long webgraphies: Epistemowikia is also a web directory
  • you can create and modify pages that refer to yourself, puedes crear y modificar páginas que se refieran a tí; you can write about you and about projects that you belong to; it is sufficient that you write about their relevance and social value (please notice that you can also do this at your user page)
  • as it is said at the Epistemowikia's descriptive page, the liberality defended by Epistemowikia makes that the missions of its librarians are mainly to assist users and to optimize published content cataloguing

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Author rights notice

Please, take into account that each of your contributions to Epistemowikia is published under the terms of the FLOK license you have chosen for it. If you do not wish other people to copy and circulate your work, then do not publish it here. If you do not wish other people to modify or translate your work, you can choose one FLOK license through which to keep those rights as your own. If you do not wish other people to commercially exploit your work, you can choose a FLOK license to keep that right. When publishing your work with us you give us your warrant that you are the sole author of the work and that such work is published under the terms of a FLOK license that grants, at least, its free copy, non-commercial distribution, non-commercial public broadcasting, and the putting of it to a non-commercial interactive use. Your must also be aware of the fact that in the case a work does not show any information on author rights, then you should assume that all of them are reserved rights. Currently most web pages are not free/libre & open pages. When creating derivative works from free/libre and open works, them you need consider the conditions imposed by the FLOK license under which such work was originally published.

Use works published under the terms of an FLOK license only!


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