[Foundation-l] New wiki creation moratorium

Luiz Augusto lugusto at gmail.com
Sun Apr 13 19:19:48 UTC 2008


oddly I've found this message in my Spam label from Gmail and not at
http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/foundation-l/2008-April/thread.html

On Sun, Apr 13, 2008 at 2:15 PM, A.M.D.F. <amdf00 at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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)
>
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