In addition to exposing Wikipedia to liability, we do the same for those who take from our site and assume the content has no strings attached (except for mere attribution, and share-alike provisions).

If we cannot trust that the content on Wikipedia is free, then neither can our content re-users. Editors who contribute text or images to the encyclopedia under the auspices that it is 'free' content-when it is actually held under someone else's copyright-introduce practical and legal problems for the community. In order to maintain copyright-compatibility, content on Wikipedia that does not share those permissions is severely limited (as in the case of non-free content/fair use), and that content is always explicitly tagged or labeled as such. Copyright violations are a major concern and problem on Wikipedia, as the encyclopedia aims to be free for anyone to use, modify, or sell.

This page is designed to explore how we can leverage the same approach to the issue of copyright. The worst of these are reverted automatically without any human oversight while those that fall into a gray area are queued up for manual review, prioritized by suspiciousness based on a number of factors that have correlated in the past with problematic edits. Wikipedia already uses an rule-based edit filter, a neural network bot (Cluebot), and a variety of semi-automated programs (Stiki, Huggle, Igloo, Lupin) to determine which edits are least likely to be constructive. Machine-assisted approaches have proven successful for a wide variety of problems on Wikipedia most notably including vandalism and spam.

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