Mike Godwin wrote: Mike that is a terrific idea: thank you. Reading the other thread I was sympathizing with Mathieu Stumpf's desire to get some basic questions answered. This will help a little; thanks for doing it. What I'd like -- Sue Gardner Executive Director Wikimedia Foundation 415 839 6885 office 415 816 9967 cell Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge. That's our commitment: help us make it a reality! http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Donate

*Will WMF actually move contents to CC-BY-SA only / CC-BY-SA & GFDL? What is already established? What is going to be decided and how? Nemo

* Who/what motivated this switch project ? * Why the CC-by-sa ? * Are MWF and CC Corporation merging ? For fun : * Under which license is this FAQ ? Also, I can help write answer to some question, is there a wiki page where we could work together on this FAQ ?

Mike, Aside from the general "Why?" and "How will this affect <insert usergroup of Wikipedia here, e.g. editors/reusers/...>?", the foremost question in my mind is: Is the Wikimedia Foundation legally allowed to relicense the content created by its editors and other people without their explicit consent? As I understand it (having started paying attention to this part way through the process), the answer is yes, as all editors (including authors of content imported into Wikipedia) agreed to the GFDL, which includes a clause saying that any version of the GFDL can be used, and GFDL v1.3 lets people relicense the content under CC licenses so long as that content was written prior to 2 November 2008. If that is correct (if not please correct me), then other questions would be: "Why CC-BY-SA?", "What about content written after 2 November 2008?", "Who is attribution given to under the BY part of CC-BY-SA?" and "Which version of CC-BY-SA will be chosen, and can this be modified/ updated later?" Thanks, Mike Peel On 5 Nov 2008, at 22:54, Mike Godwin wrote: