# Use of Wikipedia Sentences

**URL:** <https://discourse.mozilla.org/t/use-of-wikipedia-sentences/134544>\
**Category:** Common Voice\
**Tags:** sentence-collection\
**Created:** [August 5, 2024, 6:45am UTC](https://discourse.mozilla.org/t/use-of-wikipedia-sentences/134544 "2024-08-05T06:45:01Z")\
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**Author:** ![bozden](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex001/user_avatar/discourse.mozilla.org/bozden/32/51381_2.png) [@bozden](https://discourse.mozilla.org/u/bozden)\
**Post date:** [August 5, 2024, 9:32am UTC](https://discourse.mozilla.org/t/use-of-wikipedia-sentences/134544/2 "2024-08-05T09:32:20Z")

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Hey @sawyer_sawyer, a recent related answer is here:

> [@Bulk sentences submission from Wikipedia](https://discourse.mozilla.org/t/bulk-sentences-submission-from-wikipedia/134428/2):
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> Hey @Gweltaz_DG, welcome. I’m another volunteer here, who did use Wikipedia sources a year before, so I’ll try to help. Wikipedia is not CC0, but AFAIK there is a “fair-use” protocol between Mozilla Foundation (?) and Wikipedia Foundation for using a subset of sentences for being used in Common Voice. The rule is: max 3 RANDOM sentences per article. To enforce this, there is [cv-sentence-extractor](https://github.com/common-voice/cv-sentence-extractor) repo, which does it automatically. You set the rules, it is run my the maintainer and imported by …

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