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The following resources appear either to be licensed under the [[GNU Free Documentation License]], or under a license which allows copying under the GFDL, and are therefore available to be used as resources for Wikipedia articles as long as the source is attributed. This list includes images, text and all other media files.

Note that these are ''not'' [[Wikipedia:public domain|public domain]] resources: see [[Wikipedia:Public domain resources]] and [[Wikipedia:Public domain image resources]] for these.

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== General ==
* [http://www.wikipedia.org Wikipedia] - over ten million articles in more than two hundred languages: currently the #1 GFDL corpus access point.
* [http://www.wikinfo.org Wikinfo] - '''except where material is marked as per some other license like [[Creative Commons]] or explicit permission of the copyright holder.'''
* [http://www.metaweb.com The Metaweb]
* Some [[Wikipedia:Sites that use Wikipedia as a source|sites that use Wikipedia as a source]] may have added to our content. Under the GFDL, we can copy this content back to Wikipedia.

== Advertisements ==
* [http://scriptorium.lib.duke.edu/adaccess/browse.html Ad*Access] from [[Duke University]]. (See: explanation about [http://scriptorium.lib.duke.edu/adaccess/copyright.html Fair Use]). 

== Art and Culture ==
* WebMuseum, http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/ : a large art resource. Their [http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/about/license.html license agreement] explicitly allows (under point 7) copying of their articles under the GNU FDL. The photos of the artwork is a little more complicated; see the license for more details.

== Environment==
* [http://www.appropedia.org/Welcome_to_Appropedia Appropedia] - [[Appropriate technology]] wiki
* [http://en.envirowiki.info/Main_Page Envirowiki] - [[environmental]] wiki.
* [http://www.greenlivingpedia.org/Greenlivingpedia Greenlivingpedia] - [[sustainable living]] wiki.

== Government and Politics ==
* The Anarchist FAQ, http://www.oocities.com/CapitolHill/1931/ : Contains much information on [[anarchism]], but be careful as it is advocating a particular viewpoint.
* The Encyclopedia of Marxism and other resources at [http://www.marxists.org/ marxists.org]
** This seems to be only valid for text, not for images, as discussed here: [[Wikipedia_talk:Public_domain_image_resources#marxists.org]]. --[[User:Svencb|Svencb]] 09:41, 11 May 2007 (UTC)
*[http://www.anarchopedia.org/ Anarchopedia]
*Disinfopedia, containing information about organisations influencing public opinion, at [http://www.disinfopedia.org/ disinfopedia.org] Note that many of these articles would violate Wikipedia's [[NPOV]] policy; special care is needed when copying to Wikipedia from this resource.
** When using material from Disinfopedia, you may wish to use the following as an attribution line [http://mail.wikipedia.org/pipermail/wikien-l/2004-May/012870.html]:
:::<nowiki>''{{disinfopedia}}''</nowiki>
* [http://www.infoshop.org/wiki/index.php/Main_Page Infoshop Open Wiki] - [[Infoshop.org]]'s wiki contains many articles about history and politics.

== History ==
* Japanese History Documentation Project at http://www.openhistory.org/jhdp/
* I hereby grant all Wikipedia editors the right to place the material I have written that is linked to from http://www.win.tue.nl/~engels/discovery/pages.html under GNU/FDL for inclusion in Wikipedia. Warning! This does '''not''' extend to any of the articles written by others (recognizable by having DG, GL or RH after the title). Only the work written by me (either having nothing or AE after the title) is usable as such; the others may not be used commercially. [[User:Andre Engels|Andre Engels]] 04:33, 7 Feb 2004 (UTC)
**Use <nowiki>{{Discoverers Web}}</nowiki> to put an attribution line in an incorporated article. -- [[User:TakuyaMurata|Taku]] 05:35, Apr 5, 2005 (UTC)

== Music ==
* [[FreeDB]], http://freedb.org : a database of [[compact disc]] track listings.
* [[Last.fm]], http://last.fm. Artist descriptions are under GFDL.

== Philosophy ==
The [http://www.spaceandmotion.com Philosophy Physics Metaphysics of Space] website has a lot of quotes and images of famous philosophers and scientists from past 2,500 years that are released as GNU FDL.
Also see: http://www.spaceandmotion.com/copyright-copyleft-gnu-free-license.htm 

==Photos==
* [http://www.pointie.com/free_photos Pointie.com - Free high resolution photos for commercial and personal use]
* The [[Pompeii]] and [[Masada]] galleries by Elizabeth E. Thomas and Nathan Srebro have been licensed under the FDL in private agreement with [[User:Eloquence]]. When using photos from these, please especially take care to add an FDL-compliant attribution notice like this: "[http://eli-nati.com Elizabeth Thomas], eli at eli-nati dot com, September 2002"
** [http://gray-duck.com/eli-nati/gallery/pompeii02 Pompeii]
** [http://gray-duck.com/eli-nati/gallery/Masada2002 Masada]
* I snapped [http://leuksman.com/foto/swedish-plants/ some photos of vegetation] while in the wilds of Sweden. If anyone can identify them and would find them useful for illustrating Wikipedia articles, consider them FDL'd. --[[User:Brion VIBBER|Brion]] 05:11, 7 August 2003 (UTC)
* I have just put [http://chris.croome.net/photos/ 10k+ photos] under the FDL so they can be used here, I'm not going to have time to put many up here so if others want to do so please help your self :-) --[[User:ChrisCroome|ChrisCroome]] 16:22, 8 August 2003 (UTC)
* [[User:Dr Adam Carr|Dr Adam Carr]] has agreed to license his [http://www.adam-carr.net/ web site] under the GFDL as long as "the source is credited and sourced". There are quite a few photos of various European historical sites there: http://www.adam-carr.net/pixtableindex.html. He gave permission on my talk page today. [[User:Alex756|Alex756]] 06:06, 29 Setember 2003 (UTC)

: This gives me an incentive to get the damn gallery finished :)  [[User:Dr Adam Carr|Adam]] 06:22, 29 September 2003 (UTC)
* http://www.openhistory.org/pics - Pictures of Japan. See what links here of [[pictures section of OpenHistory]] for photos imported to Wikipedia.
* http://fam-tille.de/freizeit.html - Andreas Tille has images of places in [[France]], [[Italy]], [[Norway]], [[Great Britain]], [[Austria]] and [[Iceland]] as well as images of the [[Harz]] mountain range and of [[Germany]] in  general, he can be contacted for larger versions.

== Religion ==
=== Christianity ===
* [http://creationwiki.org/Main_Page Creation Wiki]
* [http://en.orthodoxwiki.org/Main_Page OrthodoxWiki] Eastern Christianity - also licensed under Creative Commons.

== Roleplaying ==
* [http://www.freeroleplay.org Free Roleplaying Game Community] (or FRPGC) is a resource listing pen-and-paper [[roleplaying games]] published under the GFDL or compatible licenses. It also works to publish its own RPG material under the GFDL.

== Science and Technology ==
* Stephen J. Ramsay's dissertation, "Algorithmic Criticism" at http://busa.village.virginia.edu/algocrit/diss/diss.html
===Computers===
* [http://www.public-domain-photos.com Large collection of valuable free stock photos]
* [http://www.ibiblio.org/obp/thinkCS/ How to Think Like a Computer Scientist] is an introductory programming textbook using a choice of C++, Python, Java or Logo.
* [http://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/pgubook/ Programming from the Ground Up] is an introductory programming textbook that uses x86 assembler and linux as its platform.
* Dorando game emulator database, http://dorando.emuverse.com/ : website and information are covered by GFDL.
* [[Free Online Dictionary of Computing]], http://www.foldoc.org/ : has been relicensed under the GFDL at our request. A copy of the e-mail granting permission can be found [[Wikipedia:Foldoc license|here]].
* Introduction to Computer Programming, http://www.isd197.org/sibley/cs/icp/
* Linux Systems Administrators Guide,  http://people.debian.org/~bagpuss/sag/
* See [[Wikipedia:History of computing/Permission]] -- http://www.ox.compsoc.net/~swhite/history.html
* [http://www.mono-project.com/Main_Page Mono Project] - [[Mono (software)|Mono]]'s official homepage.
* [[MonoDevelop]]'s official homepage - http://www.monodevelop.com
* Overview of the [[GNOME]] Platform - http://developer.gnome.org/doc/guides/platform-overview/platform-overview.html
* [[OpenSUSE]]'s [http://en.opensuse.org homepage].

===Physics===
* [http://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/einstein/works/1910s/relative/ Relativity: The Special and General Theory] by Albert Einstein

===Psychology===
* [http://www.wikisocion.org/en Wikisocion: The Free Socionics Encyclopedia], a collaborative project

===Vedic Astrology and Vastu===
* [http://www.planet9.co, dedicated wiki on both subjects.

== Travel ==
* [http://www.sydneyclimbing.com/ "Sun, Surf and Sandstone], A Rockclimber's Guide to Sydney"

== Sports and Recreation ==
* [http://www.ultipedia.org Ultipedia.org Ultipedia.org], a wiki dedicated to capturing knowledge and culture surrounding [[Ultimate (sport)]]

== Unclassified ==
* The Association for Progressive Communications' "Participating With Safety; A series of briefings on information security and online safety for civil society organisations" at http://secdocs.net/manual/lp-sec/.
* The owner of [http://worldcoingallery.com/ World Coin Gallery] grants us full permission to use any coin images from his webpages. These images can be used for articles about coins. But some of the coins are commemorative and can be used for other things, such as [[Luis Frois]]. See [[User:Kingturtle/World Coin Gallery]] for more information and details
* [http://naturalhealthperspective.com/gnu-dictionary/ Dictionary on Alernative Medicine]
* [http://www.jwa.org/feminism/?id=JWA011 Jewish Women's Association]
* [http://www.jwa.org/feminism/?id=JWA009 Jewish Women's Association]

== Search Engines ==
* [http://www.picfindr.com PicFindr.com] - A free image search engine includes some GFDL images.  You cannot restrict search to only GFDL, however.

== See also ==
* [[Wikipedia:List of GFDL content on the Internet]]

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