We've got a wiki for our church running on Mediawiki, so the default site-wide copyright notice is the GFDL.
We want to replace that so that we can protect our stuff, and more importantly some of the people who's details might be posted.
First off, what's the procedure for doing this?
Second, what's the effect this has on stuff which has already been added? There was an **understanding** that we would be adding a proper copyright notice when we gotta round tuit, but does the fact that the stuff has already been added with a GFDL notice in effect make trouble for us?
Phil Boswell wrote:
We've got a wiki for our church running on Mediawiki, so the default site-wide copyright notice is the GFDL.
No GFDL notice is shown unless: a) You selected the GFDL explicitly during setup b) You're running a pretty old version from before this was generalized c) You're running one of the localizations which is badly out of date d) You imported pages including localization info from a Wikimedia web site that has these notices embedded, in which case it probably does apply.
If you're running an old version, upgrade to the current 1.4 release.
If you're running an old localization, go to Special:Allmessages, find the offending message, and remove it.
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Phil Boswell wrote:
We've got a wiki for our church running on Mediawiki, so the default site-wide copyright notice is the GFDL.
No GFDL notice is shown unless: a) You selected the GFDL explicitly during setup b) You're running a pretty old version from before this was generalized c) You're running one of the localizations which is badly out of date d) You imported pages including localization info from a Wikimedia web site that has these notices embedded, in which case it probably does apply.
If you're running an old version, upgrade to the current 1.4 release.
If you're running an old localization, go to Special:Allmessages, find the offending message, and remove it.
We're running version 1.3.9 which I guess answers your question: I will contact the guy who owns the hosting machine and ask him to upgrade. I'm assuming that the upgrade process has pretty much all the bugs knocked out of it by now?
We've got [[MediaWiki:Copyrightwarning]] which I could fix myself: which new ones should we be expecting with version 1.4?
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