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Work in progress, expect frequent changes. Help and feedback is welcome. See discussion page.

This page is under development, but is intended to be an explanation of WikiEducator's approach to and relationship with the public domain.

Adding pages to the public domain

If you would like to start a page that is meant to be in the public domain rather than licensed under WikiEducator's default license, then add it to the Public Domain category by adding this to the bottom of the text:

[[Category:Public Domain]]

Note that you can only do this for a new page. You may not add this category to a page after someone else has contributed to it because their contribution is copyrighted and licensed.

As WikiEducator advances, it's expected that this system will be replaced either by a page template or by a separate namespace.

Dedicating all your contributions to the public domain

If you would like to dedicate all of your WikiEducator contributions to the public domain, then add this to your user page:

{{User pd}}

This will place a cool little box on your user page, and add your page both the the Public Domain category and to the Users whose contributions are dedicated to the public domain category. It will not automatically add the Public Domain category to new pages you create, however, as you might not always want to do that if the goals for that page include participation from those who are not yet liberating all of their contributions.