[Wikimedia-l] Fwd: [Wikimania-l] Proposed prohibition of local uploads and deletion of non-free-licence working documents of Wikimedia events

[Deryck Chan]

Following this discussion up, I've proposed an exemption doctrine policy
for Meta: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Exemption_doctrine_policy

On 29 May 2013 17:24, Nathan <nawrich at gmail.com> wrote:

> Crossed to Wikimedia-l, see Deryck's e-mail below.
>
> On Wed, May 29, 2013 at 11:53 AM, Deryck Chan <deryckchan at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > Dear Wikimania community,
> >
> > There are currently two discussions on Meta which will have a fundamental
> > impact on the technical logistics of all future Wikimania bids.
> >
> > As many of you would know, working documents of Wikimania bids, such as
> > letters of support and venue information, are conventionally uploaded to
> > Meta locally because they don't come with a Commons-compatible free
> licence.
> > However, currently there's no explicit "exemption doctrine policy" on
> Meta,
> > so two discussions are ongoing, with the aim of deleting all
> > Wikimania-related non-free files which have been uploaded in the past
> > years[1], and to ban future uploads of non-free media to Meta including
> > Wikimedia events' working documents[2].
> >
> > [1]
> >
> http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Meta:Requests_for_deletion#All_files_in_Category:Unfree_Wikimania_bid_media_files
> > [2]
> >
> http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Meta:Babel#Restrict_or_abolish_local_file_uploading_to_Meta-Wiki
> >
> > Since this would mean future Wikimania bids may not include copies of
> > third-party working documents on Meta, these proposals will change the
> > logistics of Wikimania bids completely. I therefore urge all of you to
> > scrutinise the proposed changes and comment as appropriate.
> >
> > Deryck
> > WM2013 local team
> >
> > PS. To those of you who also run chapters: the proposed changes will mean
> > that chapter financial statements may not be uploaded to / will be
> deleted
> > from WMF-hosted wikis since they're have an implicit no-derivative
> > requirement.
> >
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