The most simple answer is: this is the nature of Wikimedia.
Same as: Wikidata was requested in 2005, in use since 2012. And so many things you can name which took multiple years.
But I think this is the nature of Wikimedia. Not in rush to compete with other parties for the first place, not in the ratrace, but walking behind on a steady distance without rushing and having a stable development of the Wikimedia movement.
Romaine
2014-10-29 0:14 GMT+01:00 Robert Rohde rarohde@gmail.com:
Yay!
I'm pretty sure there is a Jimbo quote somewhere about how the Wikimedia logos would never ever be made free, and for once I am glad that he was wrong. Or maybe it was Mike Godwin. Doesn't really matter who said it, except to say that this seems like a remarkable turn around compared to the situation in the past.
Though I am curious why it took more than 9 years to get around to this. (9 years is the oldest discussion complaining about unfree WMF logos that I could dig up in less than 10 minutes of searching.)
As a practical matter it doesn't seem like any thing has changed from an external legal perspective. Is it simply that the people running the WMF today happen to feel more comfortable applying copyleft to the logos than the people running the Foundation did several years ago?
-Robert
On Tue, Oct 28, 2014 at 2:21 PM, Romaine Wiki romaine.wiki@gmail.com wrote:
Done!
Thanks! Romaine
2014-10-28 21:05 GMT+01:00 Yana Welinder ywelinder@wikimedia.org:
Good point. That line can now be deleted from the trademark template.
On Tue, Oct 28, 2014 at 7:40 AM, Romaine Wiki romaine.wiki@gmail.com wrote:
Practical question: The template: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Template:Wikimedia_trademark contains a line: (Consider using {{Copyright by Wikimedia <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Template:Copyright_by_Wikimedia
}}
instead)
Should that line be removed from the Wikimedia trademark template? (including all translations)
Romaine
2014-10-28 10:36 GMT+01:00 Ting Chen wing.philopp@gmx.de:
Really cool, great work. Thank you very much.
Greetings Ting
Am 10/27/2014 um 06:51 PM schrieb Yana Welinder:
Hi folks,
I'm happy to announce that we are re-licensing the Wikimedia logos
on
Commons to CC BY-SA 3.0:
https://blog.wikimedia.org/2014/10/24/wikimedia-logos-have-been-freed/
I would really appreciate your help with replacing the {{Copyright
by
Wikimedia}} <
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Template:Copyright_by_Wikimedia
[1]
templates on the logos with the {{Wikimedia trademark}} <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Template:Wikimedia_trademark
[2]
and
{{cc-by-sa-3.0}} https://commons.wikimedia. org/wiki/Template:Cc-by-sa-3.0[3] templates. But we don't want to replace templates on the MediaWiki https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:MediaWiki.svg[4] and the Community <
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikimedia_Community_Logo.svg
[5]
logos, which were originally released under free licenses.
There are also some pages on Commons, like this one https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Licensing[6], that
may
need
to be updated based on the re-licensed logos.
Thanks,
Yana
[1]
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Template:Copyright_by_Wikimedia
[2]
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Template:Wikimedia_trademark
[3] https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Template:Cc-by-sa-3.0
[4] https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:MediaWiki.svg
[5]
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikimedia_Community_Logo.svg
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