Hoi, Why not just take all Wikimedia Foundation projects off line ? Really let us have a sense of proportion. It is bad enough for the new projects not being created. Thanks, Gerard
On Mon, Apr 14, 2008 at 10:50 AM, Mark Williamson node.ue@gmail.com wrote:
Okay, but this doesn't explain the idea behind not creating them.
Content would still need to be relicensed. Are you folks under the idea that not having their own real Wiki will inhibit creation of more content that will need to be relicensed? Why not just lock all Wikis until then?
Mark
On 14/04/2008, Erik Moeller erik@wikimedia.org wrote:
On 4/13/08, Mark Williamson node.ue@gmail.com wrote:
But then, I haven't seen FDL 1.3... and guess what, it's
confidential!
This is starting to feel like the government here... everything is secret. Whatever happened to transparency?
We can impose transparency on ourselves, but respecting the confidentiality requirements of others is just that: respect. When faced with the draft GFDL 1.3 text, we had two options:
- We could either dual-license all new wikis under CC-BY-SA to avoid
problems later, without providing much of an explanation;
- We could postpone wiki-creation until the new license is released.
We chose the latter option, because we'd much rather discuss any substantial changes to wiki licensing openly, with the full text of the license visible to the community. So, this decision was in fact made in the interest of a transparent process.
(And yes, we did take the current Incubator situation into account when reviewing the text of the license.)
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