https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=34531

Mark Holmquist <[email protected]> changed:

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--- Comment #9 from Mark Holmquist <[email protected]> 2012-05-29 
21:53:46 UTC ---
Hi!

I'd like to come back and revisit this problem. First, there is an option to
include a Copyright Tag in your file upload, under "This file is not my own
work" > "Another reason not mentioned above", so this isn't technically a valid
bug.

Furthermore, while PD-old appears to be a popular choice by the Public Domain
people, CC-BY-SA-3.0 has nearly 3 million files. CC-BY-3.0 has 600K, too. The
other versions of those licenses have still more.

While it makes sense to have the copyright tags available (and indeed, I just
patched UW to allow them for your own work), it's a matter of configuration and
administrative decision to make one choice easy and certain other ones slightly
more difficult. The UW developers don't really have any say as to what licenses
are the defaults.

I'll keep this around if someone else wants to comment, but it seems like a
resolved problem to me....

Maybe try filing a bug under Wikimedia > Site configuration, if you're adamant
that the Commons admins should include pd-old-70 in the default license
choices. Let them know that the relevant config file (UploadWizard.config.php)
needs to have 'pd-old-70' added to the 'licenses' array, with the relevant
options, and then add the same to the 'licensesThirdPart' array under
'licensesGroups'. All of those should be straightforward. They'll also need to
add an i18n message for the license explanation, at least.

Those of you on the CC list, sorry for the long email!

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