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Certain activities, whether legal or illegal, may be harmful to other users and violate our rules, and some activities may also subject you to liability. Therefore, for your own protection and for that of other users, you may not engage in such activities on our sites. These activities include:
: Harassing and Abusing Others Engaging in harassment, threats, stalking, spamming, or vandalism; and
: Transmitting chain mail, junk mail, or spam to other users.
Violating the Privacy of Others Infringing the privacy rights of others under the laws of the United States of America or other applicable laws (which may include the laws where you live or where you view or edit content);
: Soliciting personally identifiable information for purposes of harassment, exploitation, violation of privacy, or any promotional or commercial purpose not explicitly approved by the Wikimedia Foundation; and
: Soliciting personally identifiable information from anyone under the age of 18 for an illegal purpose or violating any applicable law regarding the health or well-being of minors.
: Engaging in False Statements, Impersonation, or Fraud Intentionally or knowingly posting content that constitutes libel or defamation;
: With the intent to deceive, posting content that is false or inaccurate;
Attempting to impersonate another user or individual, misrepresenting your affiliation with any individual or entity, or using the username of another user with the intent to deceive; and
: Engaging in fraud.
Committing Infringement Infringing copyrights, trademarks, patents, or other proprietary rights under applicable law.
: Misusing Our Services for Other Illegal Purposes Posting child pornography or any other content that violates applicable law concerning child pornography;
: Posting or trafficking in obscene material that is unlawful under applicable law; and
: Using the services in a manner that is inconsistent with applicable law.
Engaging in Disruptive and Illegal Misuse of Facilities Posting or distributing content that contains any viruses, malware, worms, Trojan horses, malicious code, or other device that could harm our technical infrastructure or system or that of our users;
: Engaging in automated uses of the site that are abusive or disruptive of the services and have not been approved by the Wikimedia community;
: Disrupting the services by placing an undue burden on a Project website or the networks or servers connected with a Project website;
: Disrupting the services by inundating any of the Project websites with communications or other traffic that suggests no serious intent to use the Project website for its stated purpose;
: Knowingly accessing, tampering with, or using any of our non-public areas in our computer systems without authorization; and
: Probing, scanning, or testing the vulnerability of any of our technical systems or networks unless all the following conditions are met:
: such actions do not unduly abuse or disrupt our technical systems or networks;
such actions are not for personal gain (except for credit for your work);
you report any vulnerabilities to MediaWiki developers (or fix it yourself); and you do not undertake such actions with malicious or destructive intent.
you do not undertake such actions with malicious or destructive intent.
We reserve the right to exercise our enforcement discretion with respect to the above terms.
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