"Tim Starling" tstarling@wikimedia.org wrote in message news:f09l81$h9l$1@sea.gmane.org...
Mark Clements wrote:
Just to clarify, all new documentation regarding MediaWiki should be
added
to mediawiki.org NOT meta.wikimedia.org.
There are still a lot of old pages on meta that are waiting to be transwikid, and these should still be edited on meta (rather than duplicating content) but any new pages should be created at mw.org.
Someone decided that most of mediawiki.org should be public domain instead of GFDL, thereby making any large scale movement of text from meta
impossible.
Actually, that statement is completely untrue.
Most of mw.org is GFDL. The only part of mw.org that is PD is the set of help pages that is being built in order to (ultimately) create a downloadable 'help' namespace so that new wiki admins will be able to easily have full user help available on their wiki in their own language without having to laboriously copy and adapt pages from Wikipedia (or wherever) or write them themselves. The equivalent pages on meta cannot be transferred, however all other MW documentation on meta can (and will) be transwikid to mw.org, retaining its GFDL status. This includes information about extensions, DB layout, code structure, development/design docs, release notes, sysadmin manual, developers manual, etc. etc.
Please see [[mw:Project:Copyrights]] for more info.
- Mark Clements (HappyDog)