[Foundation-l] New wiki creation

[Jesse Martin (Pathoschild)]

Erik Moeller <erik at wikimedia.org> wrote:
> All the clause requires is that contributors commit to licensing their
> edits under CC-BY-SA in the event that the existing wiki content
> can be safely migrated, which in part depends on the FDL 1.3.

This is difficult. For example, the Extremaduran Wikipedia test
project has been edited by 34 users, some of which are inactive.
<http://tools.wikimedia.de/~pathoschild/ls-testanalysis/?prefix=wp/ext>

If we cannot contact any of these users (or they refuse to relicense),
the only choice I see is between purging all subsequent versions of
articles they edited, or waiting for FDL 1.3 with its migration
clause. It's a choice between a messy time-intensive migration, or a
probably lengthy wait.

If possible, it would be much better to leave the content under their
current licensing. This would allow us to create the wikis
immediately, and migrate them to a hypothetical dual-licensing on
equal grounds with other wikis. Approved wikis today have more content
than many of our existing domains.

-- 
Yours cordially,
Jesse Plamondon-Willard (Pathoschild)