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

[Nathan]

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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