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Longewiki is an online open-content collaborative encyclopedia about longevity; that is, a voluntary association of individuals and groups working to develop a common resource of human knowledge. The structure of the project allows anyone with an Internet connection to alter its content. Please be advised that nothing found here has necessarily been reviewed by people with the expertise required to provide you with complete, accurate, or reliable information. | Longewiki is an online open-content collaborative encyclopedia about longevity; that is, a voluntary association of individuals and groups working to develop a common resource of human knowledge. The structure of the project allows anyone with an Internet connection to alter its content. Please be advised that nothing found here has necessarily been reviewed by people with the expertise required to provide you with complete, accurate, or reliable information. | ||
That is not to say that you will not find valuable and accurate information in Longewiki; much of the time you will. However, | That is not to say that you will not find valuable and accurate information in Longewiki; much of the time you will. However, '''Longewiki cannot guarantee the validity of the information found here.''' The content of any given article may recently have been changed, vandalized, or altered by someone whose opinion does not correspond with the state of knowledge in the relevant fields. | ||
== No formal peer review == | == No formal peer review == | ||
Our active community of editors uses tools such as the [[Special:RecentChanges]] and [[Special:NewPages]] feeds to monitor new and changing content. However, Longewiki is not uniformly peer reviewed; while readers may correct errors or engage in casual [[Wikipedia:Peer review|peer review]], they have no legal duty to do so and thus all information read here is without any implied warranty of fitness for any purpose or use whatsoever. Even articles that have been vetted by informal peer review or [[Wikipedia:Featured articles|featured article]] processes may later have been edited inappropriately, just before you view them. | Our active community of editors uses tools such as the [[Special:RecentChanges]] and [[Special:NewPages]] feeds to monitor new and changing content. However, Longewiki is not uniformly peer reviewed; while readers may correct errors or engage in casual [[Wikipedia:Peer review|peer review]], they have no legal duty to do so and thus all information read here is without any implied warranty of fitness for any purpose or use whatsoever. Even articles that have been vetted by informal peer review or [[Wikipedia:Featured articles|featured article]] processes may later have been edited inappropriately, just before you view them. | ||
'''None of the contributors, sponsors, administrators, or anyone else connected with Longewiki in any way whatsoever can be responsible for the appearance of any inaccurate or libelous information or for your use of the information contained in or linked from these web pages.''' | |||
== No contract; limited license == | == No contract; limited license == | ||
Please make sure that you understand that the information provided here is being provided freely, and that no kind of agreement or contract is created between you and the owners or users of this site, the owners of the servers upon which it is housed, the individual Longewiki contributors, any project administrators, sysops, or anyone else who is in | Please make sure that you understand that the information provided here is being provided freely, and that no kind of agreement or contract is created between you and the owners or users of this site, the owners of the servers upon which it is housed, the individual Longewiki contributors, any project administrators, sysops, or anyone else who is in ''any way connected'' with this project or sister projects subject to your claims against them directly. You are being granted a limited license to copy anything from this site; it does not create or imply any contractual or extracontractual liability on the part of Longewiki or any of its agents, members, organizers, or other users. | ||
There is | There is '''no agreement or understanding between you and Longewiki''' regarding your use or modification of this information beyond the [[Wikipedia:Text of Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License|Creative Commons Attribution-Sharealike 3.0 Unported License]] (CC-BY-SA) and the [[Wikipedia:Text of the GNU Free Documentation License|GNU Free Documentation License]] (GFDL); neither is anyone at Longewiki responsible should someone change, edit, modify, or remove any information that you may post on Longewiki or any of its associated projects. | ||
== Trademarks == | == Trademarks == | ||
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== Personality rights == | == Personality rights == | ||
Longewiki contains material which may portray an identifiable person who is alive or recently-deceased. The use of images of living or recently-deceased individuals is, in some jurisdictions, restricted by laws pertaining to [[personality rights]], independent from their copyright status. Before using these types of content, please ensure that you have the right to use it under the laws which apply in the circumstances of your intended use. | Longewiki contains material which may portray an identifiable person who is alive or recently-deceased. The use of images of living or recently-deceased individuals is, in some jurisdictions, restricted by laws pertaining to [[personality rights]], independent from their copyright status. Before using these types of content, please ensure that you have the right to use it under the laws which apply in the circumstances of your intended use. ''You are solely responsible for ensuring that you do not infringe someone else's personality rights.'' | ||
== Jurisdiction and legality of content == | == Jurisdiction and legality of content == | ||