Re: [Foundation-l] Licensing update: Final steps

2009-06-13 Thread Gordon Joly
At 20:05 -0700 12/6/09, Erik Moeller wrote: >2009/6/12 Unionhawk : >> Look, this should all be really simple... Just get the developers to > > change the footer(s) and any admin copy the legal code of the creative >> commons license into the current page... How many Wikipedians does it >> take

Re: [Foundation-l] Licensing update: Final steps

2009-06-12 Thread Erik Moeller
2009/6/12 Unionhawk : > Look, this should all be really simple... Just get the developers to > change the footer(s) and any admin copy the legal code of the creative > commons license into the current page... How many Wikipedians does it > take to change the licensing? More than one to do it corre

Re: [Foundation-l] Licensing update: Final steps

2009-06-12 Thread Unionhawk
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Look, this should all be really simple... Just get the developers to change the footer(s) and any admin copy the legal code of the creative commons license into the current page... How many Wikipedians does it take to change the licensing? - --Unionha

Re: [Foundation-l] Licensing update: Final steps

2009-06-12 Thread Erik Moeller
2009/6/10 geni : > Well the Terms for edit screen is unacceptably long Some of this was helpful, thanks. I've responded on the talk page and made some further edits. http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Licensing_update/Implementation -- Erik Möller Deputy Director, Wikimedia Foundation Support Fre

Re: [Foundation-l] Licensing update: Final steps

2009-06-11 Thread geni
2009/6/11 Jim Redmond : > On Thu, Jun 11, 2009 at 15:59, geni wrote: > >> Not really. In the current notice the footnote stuff isn't technically >> required. It's mostly there to provide something to point to if people >> start trying to use the more annoying features of the GFDL. To the >> averag

Re: [Foundation-l] Licensing update: Final steps

2009-06-11 Thread Jim Redmond
On Thu, Jun 11, 2009 at 15:59, geni wrote: > Not really. In the current notice the footnote stuff isn't technically > required. It's mostly there to provide something to point to if people > start trying to use the more annoying features of the GFDL. To the > average editor who wouldn't think of

Re: [Foundation-l] Licensing update: Final steps

2009-06-11 Thread geni
2009/6/11 Jim Redmond : > On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 19:26, geni wrote: > >> The current English wikipedia copyright terms are "You irrevocably >> agree to release your contributions under the GFDL" which clocks in at >> ten words. There are another 13 words of editing guidance. > > > The current ter

Re: [Foundation-l] Licensing update: Final steps

2009-06-11 Thread Jim Redmond
On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 19:26, geni wrote: > The current English wikipedia copyright terms are "You irrevocably > agree to release your contributions under the GFDL" which clocks in at > ten words. There are another 13 words of editing guidance. The current terms are brief, yes, but only becaus

Re: [Foundation-l] Licensing update: Final steps

2009-06-11 Thread geni
2009/6/11 Thomas Dalton : > 2009/6/11 geni : >> The current English wikipedia copyright terms are "You irrevocably >> agree to release your contributions under the GFDL" which clocks in at >> ten words. There are another 13 words of editing guidance. >> >> Your version clocks in at 112 words or a 3

Re: [Foundation-l] Licensing update: Final steps

2009-06-11 Thread Thomas Dalton
2009/6/11 geni : > The current English wikipedia copyright terms are "You irrevocably > agree to release your contributions under the GFDL" which clocks in at > ten words. There are another 13 words of editing guidance. > > Your version clocks in at 112 words or a 380% increase. When dealing > with

Re: [Foundation-l] Licensing update: Final steps

2009-06-10 Thread geni
2009/6/9 Erik Moeller : > All, > > after some internal discussion with the licensing update committee, > I'm proposing the following final site terms to be implemented on all > Wikimedia projects that currently use GFDL as their primary content > license, as well as the relevant multimedia template

[Foundation-l] Licensing update: Final steps

2009-06-09 Thread Erik Moeller
All, after some internal discussion with the licensing update committee, I'm proposing the following final site terms to be implemented on all Wikimedia projects that currently use GFDL as their primary content license, as well as the relevant multimedia templates: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/