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Policy for use of this Wiki
About this Wiki
This wiki is designed for collaboration among LWI members and for Committee postings. The majority of the content of this wiki is user-created and, unless stated otherwise, the LWI Board can not vouch for its accuracy.
Authorized Users
All LWI members may set up an account to access and use the LWI Wiki. Individuals who are not members of the LWI are not authorized users of this Wiki, with exceptions only to be made by LWI Board resolution.
User Guidelines
The LWI Wiki is an online repository of information for members of the Legal Writing Institute. All Authorized Users may create pages and post Committee-related content within the Wiki. At this time, content that is not related to LWI Committee work is not allowed.
As a condition of use of the LWI Wiki, every Authorized User agrees:
1. To use the Wiki in a manner consistent with the objectives of the LWI Wiki project. All uses inconsistent with these objectives are considered to be inappropriate use and may jeopardize further authorization.
2. To use all copyrighted information, such as text and images, retrieved from the LWI Wiki in conformance with applicable copyright and other laws. Copied material used legally must be properly attributed in conformance with applicable legal and professional standards.
3. To respect the privacy of other Authorized Users. For example, Authorized Users shall not intentionally seek information on, obtain copies of, or modify files, posted items, or passwords belonging to other Authorized Users unless explicitly authorized to do so by those Authorized Users.
4. To use the LWI Wiki in accordance with applicable local, state and federal law.
Authorized Users may not:
• Provide access codes to any non-Authorized User.
• Make unauthorized use of another Authorized User’s account.
• Breech or disclose confidential information of another Authorized User.
• Introduce, create or propagate computer viruses, worms, Trojan Horses, or any other malicious code.
• Engage in activities that harass, degrade, intimidate, demean, slander, defame, interfere with or threaten others.
• Violate any local, state or federal law.
Oversight
The LWI Website committee will act as the “WikiGnome” for this wiki. A WikiGnome performs small edits on a wiki to continually improve its overall quality. The WikiGnome’s functions include cosmetic editing, adding or fixing links for navigability, improving the flow and clarity of content to improve the readability of the Wiki. The LWI Board asks that any user who finds inaccurate, illegal, or otherwise inappropriate material on the Wiki notify the chair of the LWI Website committee as soon as possible. The LWI Board reserves the right to remove unsuitable content at any time.
Disclaimer
The Legal Writing Institute provides the content on the LWI Wiki “as is” without any representations or warranties of any kind, express or implied, including but not limited to the content’s accuracy, fitness for any particular purpose, title, or non-infringement of third-party rights. You use content found on the LWI Wiki at your own risk.
None of the contributors, LWI Board members, LWI committee members, administrators, or anyone else connected with the LWI Wiki in any way whatsoever can be, or are, responsible for: 1) the appearance of any inaccurate or libelous information, or 2) for your use of the information contained in or linked from these web pages.
The LWI Board reserves the right to change the policies, information, requirements and procedures announced in this policy at any time. Changes shall be effective and binding immediately. All Authorized Users shall be deemed to have accepted and to be bound by any change in policies, information, requirements or procedures if such Authorized User uses the LWI Wiki resources at any time following such change.
