On 6/19/06, Michael Snow wikipedia@earthlink.net wrote:
As a general matter, I don't think such uses need to receive clearance on a Foundation level, although I hope that if anyone anticipates conflicts with our planned uses, they would let us know so we can resolve that.
If I recall correctly, at the previous occasion of this January, the global sitenotice which had come in English at that time didn't affect the wiki which has locally used their own sitenotice at that time (Now I'm thinking jawikinews). Is my remembrance wrong? Or there will be no similar conflict any more?
Site notices should not be overused, so I do think silent periods are important.
Some projects including En Wikinews or Ja, continue to utilise sitenotice less or more one year, but on both projects I haven't heard a major dispute about that. (They serve visitors only a few of links to some pages and not so heavily remarkable).