It sounds logical. There would be stakeholders in the new licensing update who are not editors, and they should be informed. Sitenotice seems the most effective way of accomplishing this.<div><br></div><div>Josh. ('Anonymous Dissident')</div>
<div><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 8:22 AM, Robert Rohde <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:rarohde@gmail.com">rarohde@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
Right now the licensing results notice is being shown to editors.<br>
<br>
Now that the WMF has committed itself to adopting CC-BY-SA, I'm<br>
wondering if we should be showing this announcement to readers in<br>
addition to editors? The press coverage of the announcement has been<br>
very sparse (copyright issues are too esoteric for the mainstream<br>
press, I guess), but at the same time we do want to get news of this<br>
change out to the larger world of reusers and copyleft content<br>
creators. In particular, having some lead time before the GFDL<br>
relicensing deadline would be nice.<br>
<br>
The most brute force method at WMF's disposal is to announce this news<br>
to all readers through a global sitenotice. That would get the news<br>
out there to the larger non-editor community, though presumably there<br>
are also many readers who are unlikely to care.<br>
<br>
I'm wondering how other people would feel about such a step?<br>
<br>
-Robert Rohde<br>
<br>
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