[Licom-l] Sitenotice for readers?

[Anonymous Dissident]

It sounds logical. There would be stakeholders in the new licensing update
who are not editors, and they should be informed. Sitenotice seems the most
effective way of accomplishing this.
Josh. ('Anonymous Dissident')

On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 8:22 AM, Robert Rohde <rarohde at gmail.com> wrote:

> Right now the licensing results notice is being shown to editors.
>
> Now that the WMF has committed itself to adopting CC-BY-SA, I'm
> wondering if we should be showing this announcement to readers in
> addition to editors?  The press coverage of the announcement has been
> very sparse (copyright issues are too esoteric for the mainstream
> press, I guess), but at the same time we do want to get news of this
> change out to the larger world of reusers and copyleft content
> creators.  In particular, having some lead time before the GFDL
> relicensing deadline would be nice.
>
> The most brute force method at WMF's disposal is to announce this news
> to all readers through a global sitenotice.  That would get the news
> out there to the larger non-editor community, though presumably there
> are also many readers who are unlikely to care.
>
> I'm wondering how other people would feel about such a step?
>
> -Robert Rohde
>
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