There's been much ado lately at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)/Simplify_the_edit_window regarding the visual edit form (index.php?action=edit) including particular legal language (specifically licensing information and site terms of use).
However, it occurs to me that the main entry point of the Wikimedia/MediaWiki API (https://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php) does not include most of this legal text. I'm not sure this is a problem (i.e., a legitimate bug), but it seems like a discrepancy that should be examined.
It's possible to retrieve a wiki's "rights info" by calling https://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&meta=siteinfo&siprop=rightsinfo. This seems orthogonal to the main issue at-hand, though: nowhere on the API entry point page does it state explicitly that edits (or other write [or even read, I suppose] actions) are subject to the relevant and associated terms of use and licensing.
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