Wikipedia:Simple News/EhJJ
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I am EhJJ (talk · contribs), an editor on the Simple English Wikipedia.
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Creative Commons licence changeWikipedia currently uses the GNU Free Document Licence (GFDL) to allow other people to use its content. This licence was picked in 2002 because it was the best one available at that time. Now, Wikipedia wants to licence its material under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike (CC-by-sa) licence, too. Information about the change, including a Questions and Answers section is available on meta at m:Licensing update. Information is available in English as well as many other languages. From April 12 to May 3, the Wikimedia Foundation is asking all users (who had at least 25 edits before March 15) to vote on this proposal. To get to the vote page, go to Special:SecurePoll/vote/1. Impact on Simple English Wikipedia changeOur Wikipedia often uses content from the English Wikipedia as a foundation to writing articles. The GFDL has rules which don't make sense for a Wikipedia and make it (technically) illegal to copy information from the English Wikipedia to here. The new CC-by-sa licence would allow us to copy information from the English Wikipedia, as well as other places that have Creative Commons content, and use it in our Wikipedia. Also, it would make it easier for other people, including schools and charities, to use our articles in different ways (like in print books or CD-ROMS). I encourage everyone to vote on this important issue. EhJJTALK |
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News change In my previous article, I wrote how the WikiMedia Foundation (WMF) was looking for comments about updating the copyright licenses for all of its projects (which includes the Simple English Wikipedia). As many of you have probably seen, the results (meta:Licensing update/Result) have been posted. 17462 eligible votes were cast and 75.8% of those were in support of the new license change. As a result, on June 15, 2009 (or shortly after), all WMF projects (including us) will be dual licensed under the GFDL and CC-BY-SA licenses. Future changeWith the new licence, it should be easier for us to use content from the English Wikipedia. How exactly this will work is probably something that will be figured out first on the English Wikipedia and then we'll need to adapt it to our own project. For that reason, I have blanked Wikipedia talk:Copyrights so that we have room to work together and change the copyright notices and attribution templates for use with the new license. It will also, hopefully, contain a FAQ section to answer some questions about what is permitted or not permitted, once the new license is in effect. So, if you have questions, please post them there! |
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