[Foundation-l] New wiki creation moratorium

[Gerard Meijssen]

Hoi,
Why not just take all Wikimedia Foundation projects off line ? Really let us
have a sense of proportion. It is bad enough for the new projects not being
created.
Thanks,
     Gerard

On Mon, Apr 14, 2008 at 10:50 AM, Mark Williamson <node.ue at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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