I have four questions/requests: 1) Can you produce a list of all new mediawiki messages related to the change? Also, a list of old messages and their old content is also needed, to help us maintain a certain level of wording consistancy. 2) I have been translating word-by-word from English and found it hard to explain some points. Especially was the idea that Wikipedian's contributions are published as CC-BY-SA *and *as GFDL, while contributions from "outside" people can be CC-BY-SA only. Why am I (a wikipedian) required to publish my work in both licenses but my non-wikipedian friend isn't? If we are a CC-BY-SA site as presented at the pottom of every en.wiki page, why bother with GFDL licensing? It's too confusing. 3) More importantly, I get the impression that each community can add/change their licensing. Can he.wiki decide that all contributions from this day and onwards will be published as CC-BY-SA only? 4) What is the licensing of pre-June 15th 2009 revisions (which are accessible through the history page)? Are they GFDL *and *CC-BY-SA now?
Thanks, Yoni 2009/6/30 Erik Moeller <[email protected]> > After an initial reference implementation in the English Wikipedia and > some bottom-up implementations in a number of projects, the licensing > update to the Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License as the > primary text license, with GFDL as a secondary license with > limitations, has now been implemented in all previously GFDL-licensed > Wikimedia Foundation projects. > > Wiki communities can now customize these texts further in accordance > with the implementation guidelines issued by the Wikimedia Foundation > at: > > http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Licensing_update/Implementation > > Importantly, this allows Wikimedia wiki communities to create their > own copy of the terms of use, with specific limitations on or > guidelines for attribution of externally imported CC-BY-SA content, > more detailed explanations for re-users, etc. The implementation > guidelines do allow significant flexibility, but we're hoping to > ensure baseline consistency across projects and languages, so please > do not deviate significantly from the guidelines. (If you feel the > guidelines are flawed, feel free to comment on the talk page on meta.) > > If the messages have not been translated into your language yet, it is > appreciated to do this work through <translatewiki.net> so that it > doesn't have to be redundantly done for each Wikimedia project in that > language. As translatewiki.net translators know, localization changes > from there are rolled out regularly alongside normal code updates. > Thanks to our good friends there for helping with the process so far, > and thanks to all the translators. > > The relevant user interface texts are MediaWiki system messages and > can be viewed and edited through the MediaWiki: namespace. They are: > > [[MediaWiki:Wikimedia-copyright]] for the site footer > [[MediaWiki:Wikimedia-copyrightwarning]] for the editing page, above > the save/preview buttons > [[MediaWiki:Wikimedia-editpage-tos-summary]] for the editing page, > below the save/preview buttons. > > For the more technical users, these changes were introduced to > MediaWiki in the following code revision: > <http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:Code/MediaWiki/52361>. They > live in the WikimediaMessages extension, which is only used by > Wikimedia Foundation wikis. These messages override standard system > messages, [[MediaWiki:Copyright]] and [[MediaWiki:Copyrightwarning]]. > [[MediaWiki:Edittools]] has sometimes been used to move this type of > licensing information below the buttons/summary; the newly introduced > [[MediaWiki:Wikimedia-editpage-tos-summary]] is meant to reflect this > need while allowing us to consistently update/review these messages. > > Finally, a note on trademark recognition. Some projects have a little > trademark notice in the footers, others don't. This notice isn't > required (but helpful); we're working on standardized trademark usage > guidelines, and we'll probably add a link to the site footer to these > once they're finalized. > > I'll be checking the wikis, and particularly [[m:Talk:Licensing > update]] and [[m:Talk:Licensing update/Implementation]] for comments, > but please let me know if there are any immediate issues. > > Thanks, > Erik > -- > Erik Möller > Deputy Director, Wikimedia Foundation > > Support Free Knowledge: http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Donate > > _______________________________________________ > foundation-l mailing list > [email protected] > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l > _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
