Crossed to Wikimedia-l, see Deryck's e-mail below. On Wed, May 29, 2013 at 11:53 AM, Deryck Chan <[email protected]> wrote: > Dear Wikimania community, > > There are currently two discussions on Meta which will have a fundamental > impact on the technical logistics of all future Wikimania bids. > > As many of you would know, working documents of Wikimania bids, such as > letters of support and venue information, are conventionally uploaded to > Meta locally because they don't come with a Commons-compatible free licence. > However, currently there's no explicit "exemption doctrine policy" on Meta, > so two discussions are ongoing, with the aim of deleting all > Wikimania-related non-free files which have been uploaded in the past > years[1], and to ban future uploads of non-free media to Meta including > Wikimedia events' working documents[2]. > > [1] > http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Meta:Requests_for_deletion#All_files_in_Category:Unfree_Wikimania_bid_media_files > [2] > http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Meta:Babel#Restrict_or_abolish_local_file_uploading_to_Meta-Wiki > > Since this would mean future Wikimania bids may not include copies of > third-party working documents on Meta, these proposals will change the > logistics of Wikimania bids completely. I therefore urge all of you to > scrutinise the proposed changes and comment as appropriate. > > Deryck > WM2013 local team > > PS. To those of you who also run chapters: the proposed changes will mean > that chapter financial statements may not be uploaded to / will be deleted > from WMF-hosted wikis since they're have an implicit no-derivative > requirement. > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimania-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimania-l >
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