foundation-l-request@lists.wikimedia.org wrote:
Message: 4 Date: Sun, 13 Apr 2008 21:15:46 +0400 From: "A.M.D.F." amdf00@gmail.com Subject: [Foundation-l] New wiki creation moratorium To: foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Message-ID: 48023FC2.4050909@gmail.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=KOI8-R; format=flowed
Hello.
Brion Vibber, the Foundation's Chief Technical Officer said that "Currently, no new wikis will be created until GFDL 1.3 is released.".
Hungarian Wikinews, Erzya and Extremaduran and Gan Wikipedia, and Japanese Wikiversity are approved projects currently waiting creation.
These projects had waited for a month, before Brion said about a moratorium. It is unknown, when GFDL 1.3 will be released, few weeks or maybe few months?
I think that license changing is completely unrelated to the process of creating new wiki projects.
Why new wikis will not be created? Many people are waiting.
Links:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Requests_for_new_languages (see "approved") https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13264 (Opened: 2008-03-06)
These are good questions. In my opinion it would seem very unfair for these projects to be affected by such a 'rule', if one exists. I am not sure why licenses would be an issue. As for wikinews, I thought the content was CC-by? What would that have to do with the GFDL? I cannot speak for the Wikipedias as they do use GFDL.
Jason Safoutin (DragonFire1024)
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