On Mon, Jun 16, 2014 at 11:17 AM, Risker risker.wp@gmail.com wrote:
Not quite sure what you're shouting about, Gerard. The amendment clearly gives individual projects the right to have an alternative to this particular section of the terms of use, and that alternative can be either more strict or less strict.
That's correct. Members of various projects asked for this kind of flexibility in the comment period, and the board agreed that we should add the ability for projects to craft alternatives on a per-project basis to this amendment.
In the absence of a local policy, however, the ToU amendment applies to every project. While this issue is a concern of many on the English Wikipedia, the amendment was not crafted specifically for en:wp; this has been an issue across many language communities. The terms of use (amendments and all) apply to all of our projects.
best, -- phoebe