[Licom-l] Updating site terms

Tue May 26 22:17:30 UTC 2009

2009/5/26 Andrew Leung <andrewcleung at hotmail.com>:
> We can always fully-protect the page to prevent any unintentional changes to
> the terms. But if the developers can develop a way to freeze the page that
> only developers can change (even admins cannot modify it), then that will be
> much better.

That was my first impulse as well, though if admins in a particular
community want to deliberately circumvent a WMF licensing policy, they
will probably find a way to do it anyway: it may be our best and only
option to assume good faith on that level, and just be very explicit
in the language.

> In addition to the url link to the English version, is it possible to
> introduce the line to the end of the terms stating something like "If there
> is discrepancy between the English version and (insert a language) version,
> the English version shall take precedence and prevail."?

I think that's a very good idea. :-)
-- 
Erik Möller
Deputy Director, Wikimedia Foundation

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