Hi everyone,

This week's ArchCom Office Hour[1] is going to be about a long-neglected item: giving credit where credit's due in the CREDITS file (Jon Robson's T139300 proposal[2]). Jon and I spoke about it earlier today; he's not sure he can be there, and this is a meeting where I would have hoped to have done more prep, but I'm hoping we can at least come to a better collective understanding for the people at the meeting.

The reason why this isn't as easy as it looks on the surface is because the COPYING file notes: "MediaWiki contributors, including those listed in the CREDITS file, hold the copyright to this work."

The fact that I hadn't gotten around to consulting our Legal department made me very, very tempted to call off the meeting this week. But I think maybe instead it'll be the "what does the wikitech-l community want RobLa to go ask Legal about" meeting. :-) Let's figure out what our viable options are.

I took the liberty of taking the prose in T139300, and adapting it to wiki page[3]. We can conceivably use this as a space to figure out what we want the policy page to say.

Our meeting is the same time as always (Wednesday 21 UTC, 14 PDT, 23 CEST) and place (#wikimedia-office).

Rob

p.s. Obligatory reminder about ArchComStatus page[4]

[1]: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/E316 [2]: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T139300 [3]: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/CREDITS [4]: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/ArchComStatus