On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 11:05 PM, Erik Moeller <erik(a)wikimedia.org> wrote: Could you please look at the footer of hu.wikinews.org ; if it is a misunderstanding, I would be really glad, but on the other hand all the older contributions would have to be sorted out (I believe the hu.wikinews started in the incubator, which if I recall correctly is under GFDL; than once set up it went to this strange construction of GFDL+; and now it should go back to CC-BY if what you say is right). Alternatively , if the newer contributions could be under the CC-BY license (as the reusability of old news and some parts of the interface or templates is not really a must; the newer articles could be under the correct license without interfering with the older ones). Thanks, Bence Damokos

On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 11:20 PM, Erik Moeller <erik(a)wikimedia.org> wrote: Thank you, I will bring up the issue with the community. Could you, or someone on the list make a recommendation, what would be the ideal licence (e.g. CC-BY 2.5; 3.0; 2.5 and later; CC-BY-SA) to keep compatibility with the other Wikinewses and to have a desirable license that can be promoted for adoption by other news outlets to allow cooperation. Best regards, Bence

I believe everything is in the MediaWiki namespace these days. The notice on edit pages is MediaWiki:Copyrightwarning and MediaWiki:Copyrightwarning2. The notice at the bottom of each page is MediaWiki:Copyright.

Hi, I would like to give a little update on the licencing status of the Hungarian Wikinews as it has come up before on this list. As some of you may know by following this mailing list that the Hungarian Wikinews was set up -- probably by accident -- with the "WMF licensing resolution for new wikis" licence (GFDL with the possibility of switching to CC-BY-SA 3.0). Although the error was noticed, the small wikinews community at the time opted to accept the situation as-is. Following the licence update voting, someone has updated the licence of the Hungarian Wikinews to CC-BY 2.5 a couple of weeks ago (in the server configurations, most probably), in effect retroactively relicensing the GFDL content to CC-BY 2.5. This event, and the deadlines set in GFDL 1.3 has prompted the community to resolve the licensing issue by a vote[1] on the future copyright status of the Hungarian Wikinews, with the result that the project should swich to CC BY 3.0 on August 1st. The content created before August 1 will in theory remain under the GFDL (or the CC BY SA 3.0 if the WMF decides to switch) under the above mentioned licensing resolution for new wikis. I will create a bugzilla request but I hope that some dev might be reading this list and updates the necessary server settings to reflect these results faster than I learn to navigate Bugzilla. :) Thank you, Bence Damokos [1] http://hu.wikinews.org/wiki/Wikih%C3%ADrek:Kocsmafal_(javaslatok)#D.C3.B6nt…