https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=45767
--- Comment #9 from Luis Villa <[email protected]> --- Three big replies/comments, based on this bug and reviews of the wikis I have access to (amusingly, not all the ones listed here :): 1. Using copyright to go after someone for copying material from a confidential wiki would be a bad idea, even if technically legally correct. The right tool for the job is a specific confidentiality policy (e.g., like otrs-wiki). If we're missing confidentiality policies on confidential wikis, let legal know and we can work on fixing that. 2. It is very confusing to have conflicting legal terms; using a CC license for confidential wikis is a great example of this. To avoid this sort of confusion, the default should be some sort of rights-reserved notice on wikis that are intended to be confidential. Could be "CC applies to anything that is not confidential" or could be more restrictive- not clear to me what the best answer is, just something other than straight-up CC. Question to help clear that up: exactly what set of wikis get the default text Max described in comment #3? all Mediawiki installs? all wikis created by WMF ops? all "private" wikis created by WMF ops (for some value of private)? ... ? An answer to that will help me draft a better new default. 3. Max and others in this thread have also pointed out that it isn't clear what license the material was created under. That's a case-by-case problem that'll have to be investigated on a wiki-by-wiki basis; if someone can create separate bugs for each wiki we know about that is (1) supposed to be private and (2) has a CC license in the footer right now, I'd appreciate it and I'll do my best to investigate the history and figure out what is going on. (Realistically, likely our next batch of interns, not me.) Let's leave this bug as being about the overall default for generic private wikis, rather than drilling down into specific historical wiki problems. Thanks... -- You are receiving this mail because: You are on the CC list for the bug. _______________________________________________ Wikibugs-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikibugs-l
