After an initial reference implementation in the English Wikipedia and
some bottom-up implementations in a number of projects, the licensing
update to the Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License as the
primary text license, with GFDL as a secondary license with
limitations, has now been implemented in all previously GFDL-licensed
Wikimedia Foundation projects.
Wiki communities can now customize these texts further in accordance
with the implementation guidelines issued by the Wikimedia Foundation
at:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Licensing_update/Implementation
Importantly, this allows Wikimedia wiki communities to create their
own copy of the terms of use, with specific limitations on or
guidelines for attribution of externally imported CC-BY-SA content,
more detailed explanations for re-users, etc. The implementation
guidelines do allow significant flexibility, but we're hoping to
ensure baseline consistency across projects and languages, so please
do not deviate significantly from the guidelines. (If you feel the
guidelines are flawed, feel free to comment on the talk page on meta.)
If the messages have not been translated into your language yet, it is
appreciated to do this work through <translatewiki.net> so that it
doesn't have to be redundantly done for each Wikimedia project in that
language. As translatewiki.net translators know, localization changes
from there are rolled out regularly alongside normal code updates.
Thanks to our good friends there for helping with the process so far,
and thanks to all the translators.
The relevant user interface texts are MediaWiki system messages and
can be viewed and edited through the MediaWiki: namespace. They are:
[[MediaWiki:Wikimedia-copyright]] for the site footer
[[MediaWiki:Wikimedia-copyrightwarning]] for the editing page, above
the save/preview buttons
[[MediaWiki:Wikimedia-editpage-tos-summary]] for the editing page,
below the save/preview buttons.
For the more technical users, these changes were introduced to
MediaWiki in the following code revision:
<http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:Code/MediaWiki/52361>. They
live in the WikimediaMessages extension, which is only used by
Wikimedia Foundation wikis. These messages override standard system
messages, [[MediaWiki:Copyright]] and [[MediaWiki:Copyrightwarning]].
[[MediaWiki:Edittools]] has sometimes been used to move this type of
licensing information below the buttons/summary; the newly introduced
[[MediaWiki:Wikimedia-editpage-tos-summary]] is meant to reflect this
need while allowing us to consistently update/review these messages.
Finally, a note on trademark recognition. Some projects have a little
trademark notice in the footers, others don't. This notice isn't
required (but helpful); we're working on standardized trademark usage
guidelines, and we'll probably add a link to the site footer to these
once they're finalized.
I'll be checking the wikis, and particularly [[m:Talk:Licensing
update]] and [[m:Talk:Licensing update/Implementation]] for comments,
but please let me know if there are any immediate issues.
Thanks,
Erik
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Erik Möller
Deputy Director, Wikimedia Foundation
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Today I opened translation requests for Terms of Uses. Terms of Use will be
linked from *every* wiki, so This translation is one of the most important
thing. we need your help.
You can translate in
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Translation_requests/WMF/Terms_of_Use
Thank you.
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김우진
Woojin Kim
Hello all,
the new CC-BY-SA site terms for Wikimedia wikis are ready to be
translated through the WikimediaMessages extension:
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:Code/MediaWiki/52361
The messages are wikimedia-copyright, wikimedia-copyrightwarning, and
wikimedia-editpage-tos-summary.I've contacted Siebrand and Gerard from
TranslateWiki and we hope they can be made available through the
translatewiki.net interface soon.
We anticipate pushing these to Wikimedia wikis as early as Monday,
June 29, if at all possible. At that time, all eligible wikis will
show the new message; English messages will be shown if no translation
is available by then.
These are very important legal messages, so to the extent that you can
double-check the translations, please do so. They need to be
translated literally, and the terms of use URL needs to point to the
Wikimedia Foundation copy. If you don't feel confident to translate
them, please leave the English version in place for now. Note that
these messages _only_ apply to Wikimedia sites; they won't be shown in
any other MediaWiki installation.
Further background at:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Licensing_update/Implementation
Thanks for all help! :-)
Erik
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Erik Möller
Deputy Director, Wikimedia Foundation
Support Free Knowledge: http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Donate
Where can i find the steps required to translate an article from one
language to another? I want to translate an article from Greek to English
but I cannot find any infomation about how to do that.
Or just send me the steps in detail.
Thanks
All,
after some internal discussion with the licensing update committee,
I'm proposing the following final site terms to be implemented on all
Wikimedia projects that currently use GFDL as their primary content
license, as well as the relevant multimedia templates:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Licensing_update/Implementation
Please note that these aren't quite yet ready for translation yet
(hence labeled draft). Please provide feedback here or on the talk
page, ideally by Thursday night UTC so we can move the process forward
on Friday.
In terms of implementing these changes, I suggest the following:
1) That the relevant site configuration variables are updated on June 15;
2) That, additionally, a central "Terms of use" page is created on
wikimediafoundation.org to house the "terms of use" above, which can
be replaced with a localized version whenever one is created;
3) That the relevant MediaWiki-messages are force-updated on all
projects to the English version above, or any translations already
created by June 15;
4) That the revised MediaWiki-messages are also translated through
translatewiki.net and hence additional translations will be rolled out
through normal i18n upgrades.
Regarding 3) and 4), this may best be achieved by creating new
MediaWiki messages. I would appreciate the advice of our translation
and tech team on this, and of course on the entire proposed process.
(I realize that there's not nearly enough time for any number of
translations, but we have a fixed deadline of beginning the roll-out
of this change by June 15.)
For multimedia, the licensing committee and the Wikimedia Commons
community are still discussing the best update strategy, but it will
probably involve a bot updating the existing templates. We're also
hoping to run a CentralNotice to explain the process to the
communities so that people can help to fix up pages and policies.
Thanks for any help in moving this forward,
Erik
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Erik Möller
Deputy Director, Wikimedia Foundation
Support Free Knowledge: http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Donate
Dear list members,
MediaWiki 1.15.0 is expected to be released early next week (currently
MediaWiki 1.15 rc1 is available for download). This means that there is
little time left to complete the translations for this release. All willing
to contribute to the MediaWiki localisation are urged to join the
localisation effort at translatewiki.net. Below you will find a few helpful
links. Your help is very much appreciated.
I will be updating the 1.15 branch Sunday evening (GMT) for the last time
before the 1.15.0 release.
Kind regards,
Siebrand Mazeland
Translatewiki.net staff
* Translation statistics (updated daily):
http://translatewiki.net/wiki/Translating:Group_statistics
* 1.15 untranslated messages (pick your language from the "Language"
dropdown and press "Fetch"):
http://translatewiki.net/w/i.php?title=Special:Translate&group=core-1.15
* Test MediaWiki 1.15 rc1:
http://download.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.15/mediawiki-1.15.0rc1.tar.gz