Can I use some of the help content from the meta site

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RichWilkie asked if it’s permissible to reuse help content from the Discourse Meta site—like the “Discourse New User Guide”—on his new community, giving full credit to authors. pfaffman believed the answer was “yes” but couldn’t confirm it via the ToS or FAQ, expecting @hawk to clarify. Rich followed up asking how to best copy the content to his discourse.org-hosted instance. JammyDodger pointed to a tip in the guide itself: visit the “raw” version of the topic (e.g., https://meta.discourse.org/raw/96331), copy the text, paste it into a new topic on the new site, and manually upload any images. The raw URL trick works for any post. osioke confirmed the permissibility and asked if Rich succeeded. Rich replied that the method worked wonderfully and thanked everyone RichWilkie.

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Hi all,

I’m starting a new community and want to use some of the “how to” docs and help content that is available on the discourse site to pre-populate some of the things that people will definitely ask about. I’m thinking of things like the “Discourse New User Guide” and a few of the other great docs.

I’m perfectly happy tagging them and giving full credit to their authors but I’m hoping people won’t need to leave the new community to go and get their info direct from the discourse site.

Also, assuming (I know I should never ‘ass u me’) that I can legally use some of the content, what is the easiest way to get it copied to the new site?

All help is certainly appreciated.

Thanks
Rich

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I think that the answer is “yes”, but I was not able to confirm that in what seemed like a reasonable amount of time by looking at Terms of Service - Discourse Meta and Guidelines - Discourse Meta. I expect that @hawk will weigh in soon.

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Thanks, Jay.

Assuming you are correct and I can use some of the content, what is the best way to copy it to my site? I am on a discourse.org hosted instance.

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The Discourse New User Guide has this tip at the end on how to copy it to your site:

(and you can use the ‘raw’ version of an address for any post :+1:)

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Yup yup! Jay is very correct :slightly_smiling_face:

Where you able to make the copy?

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Yes, this worked wonderfully. Thanks very much.