Policy talk:Terms of Use

• To discuss these Terms of Use and possible changes, please see this Talk page on Meta Wiki.
• For a short summation of differences between the previous Terms of Use and the new policy that came into effect on May 25, 2012, please see New Terms of use.
• For discussion about the paid contributions amendment of 2014, see here.

Ported over

At this point, the following translations are complete and have been ported over:

• de
• en
• es
• fi
• fr
• it
• ja
• nl
• pl
• pt
• ru

There are others that are very close to complete (like Korean) but are not quite there. --Maggie Dennis (talk) 16:11, 19 April 2012 (UTC)

There are several summaries that have been copied over that lack accompanying ToU: Terms of use-Summary/ar, Terms of use-Summary/be-tarask, Terms of use-Summary/bg, Terms of use-Summary/eo, Terms_of_use-Summary/fa, Terms_of_use-Summary/gl, Terms_of_use-Summary/ko, Terms_of_use-Summary/mk. --Maggie Dennis (talk) 16:28, 19 April 2012 (UTC)

www.robertbray@company.com Bubbabray33 (talk) 13:12, 4 January 2022 (UTC)

Future language fixes

The following pages currently exist as redirects to this page in order to keep local language links functional. The Terms of Use have not yet been translated into these languages. When translations to this language are prepared, the redirects will need to be altered accordingly. --Maggie Dennis (talk) 12:20, 25 May 2012 (UTC)

Language	Language destination	Redirect that should be pointed to it
Belarusian (Taraškievica orthography)	Terms of Use/be-tarask	Умовы выкарыстаньня
Bulgarian	Terms of Use/bg	Условия за ползване
Greek	Terms of Use/el	Όροι Χρήσης
Hebrew	Terms of Use/he	תנאי שימוש
Croatian	Terms of Use/hr	Uvjeti uporabe
Korean	Terms of Use/ko	이용 규약
Norwegian Bokmal	Terms of Use/nb	Vilkår, Vilkårene
Ukrainian	Terms of Use/uk	Умови використання
Chinese (simplified)	Terms of Use/zh-hans	使用条款
Chinese (traditional Han)	Terms of Use/zh-hk	使用條款

• I would like to help on Chinese translation (zh-tw), where should I start? --Ted H.T. Chien (talk) 01:42, 21 November 2017 (UTC)

Add "summary" in the summary box header

As pointed out on Meta, the header of the summary box should read "Terms of Use summary", to make it clear that the box's contents are not the entire terms of use. While there are two smaller-type sentences that suggest that same fact, this suggestion seems clear and appropriate. SJ + 09:22, 21 February 2014 (UTC)

Missing entries in collapsed section overview on mobile

In the mobile view of this page on smartphones, the sections "13. Disputes and Jurisdiction", "14. Disclaimers", and "15. Limitation on Liability" are missing in the list of collapsed sections, because of the highlight div surrounding them. (They appear fine in the TOC.) This appears to be caused by phab:T60541. Regards, Tbayer (talk) 09:49, 18 December 2015 (UTC)

Addition of text to section 4

Per this RfC on meta I plan to add the following text after:

"a statement in the edit summary accompanying any paid contributions."

"In addition we require those involved with paid editing on Wikipedia to link on their user page to all other active accounts through which they advertise paid Wikipedia editing business. These links may be removed a week after the advertisement for paid Wikipedia editing has been taken down."

To the Q and A I plan to add:

"Required linking to accounts involved with advertising paid editing"

"Claims on Wikipedia that a user has failed to provide a link without solid evidence is considered harassment and is potentially sanctionable. The requirement to link to other sites were these advertisements exist is primarily to be used to address impersonations of Wikipedians in good standing outside of Wikipedia."

JHeilman (WMF) (talk) 00:32, 17 January 2018 (UTC)

Reasons for the 2018 Terms of Use

Hello, dear collegues! Can the Foundation adopted a new Terms of Use (Attn: The Foundation's General Counsel)?:

• Current version:

• New draft (since 2018?):

CC-BY-SA-3.0 is oldest (since 2012) license for text. «When/if the plan to update our license to 4.0 happens, then it will be fine» (User:Crow). Russian OTRS team working with CC-BY-SA-4.0 for text since 2014 year. Innovative news sites working too on CC-BY-SA 4.0 int, ex: https://klops.ru/ , etc. I will be glad to your new WMF document (Terms of Use). Best Regards, — Niklitov (talk) 15:10, 14 October 2018 (UTC)