Hi everyone,

This announcement is to confirm that the Wikimedia Terms of Use[1] have been updated effective June 7. This follows the end of the spring consultation[2] held between February and April, and approvals recorded by the Executive Director and General Counsel[3] per the delegation of policy-making authority from the Foundation Board of Trustees.[4]

As part of this update, we are also happy to announce that the project license has been upgraded to CC BY-SA 4.0[5]! Technical work has already started on this change. 

I’d like to extend one last thank you to everyone who participated in the conversation to help us complete this update to serve the community and the projects going forward!

Best,

Jacob

[1]: https://foundation.wikimedia.org/wiki/Policy:Terms_of_Use

[2]: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_Legal_department/2023_ToU_updates

[3]: https://foundation.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Policy_talk:Terms_of_Use&diff=prev&oldid=260916 and https://foundation.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Policy_talk:Terms_of_Use&diff=prev&oldid=261297 

[4]https://foundation.wikimedia.org/wiki/Resolution:Delegation_of_policy-making_authority 

[5] https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

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Jacob Rogers

Associate General Counsel

Wikimedia Foundation

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