Legality of copying information from a Wikia? [closed]

Posted by Sergio Tapia on Programmers See other posts from Programmers or by Sergio Tapia
Published on 2012-04-15T20:38:04Z Indexed on 2012/04/15 23:44 UTC
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I'm making a website that will act as a compendium for a video game.

I noticed that a page from Wikia has a ton of useful content such as background stories and trivia for many of the "entities" in the game.

According to their site:

The text on Wikia sites is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike License 3.0 (Unported) (CC-BY-SA).

I'm not a lawyer; so what is the legality of copying and pasting the information written there collaboratively by the hivemind, into my website? If needed I would not be opposed to pasting the content and providing a source link at the end of each paragraph.

Can I paste the content into my site?

Thanks for the help!

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