[Foundation-l] New wiki creation moratorium

[Mark Williamson]

Okay, but this doesn't explain the idea behind not creating them.

Content would still need to be relicensed. Are you folks under the
idea that not having their own real Wiki will inhibit creation of more
content that will need to be relicensed? Why not just lock all Wikis
until then?

Mark

On 14/04/2008, Erik Moeller <erik at wikimedia.org> wrote:
> On 4/13/08, Mark Williamson <node.ue at gmail.com> wrote:
>  >  But then, I haven't seen FDL 1.3... and guess what, it's confidential!
>  >  This is starting to feel like the government here... everything is
>  >  secret. Whatever happened to transparency?
>
>
> We can impose transparency on ourselves, but respecting the
>  confidentiality requirements of others is just that: respect. When
>  faced with the draft GFDL 1.3 text, we had two options:
>
>  - We could either dual-license all new wikis under CC-BY-SA to avoid
>  problems later, without providing much of an explanation;
>  - We could postpone wiki-creation until the new license is released.
>
>  We chose the latter option, because we'd much rather discuss any
>  substantial changes to wiki licensing openly, with the full text of
>  the license visible to the community. So, this decision was in fact
>  made in the interest of a transparent process.
>
>  (And yes, we did take the current Incubator situation into account
>  when reviewing the text of the license.)
>
> --
>  Erik Möller
>  Deputy Director, Wikimedia Foundation
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