That is a great news, as it was an annoyance to a lot of long time contributors and some logo authors. I will start the replacement process.

 

Jarek T.

(user:jarekt)

 

From: commons-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org [mailto:commons-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Yana Welinder
Sent: Monday, October 27, 2014 1:51 PM
To: commons-l@lists.wikimedia.org
Subject: [Commons-l] Re-licensing Wikimedia logos on Commons to CC BY-SA 3.0

 

Hi folks,

 

I'm happy to announce that we are re-licensing the Wikimedia logos on Commons to CC BY-SA 3.0: https://blog.wikimedia.org/2014/10/24/wikimedia-logos-have-been-freed/

 

I would really appreciate your help with replacing the {{Copyright by Wikimedia}}[1] templates on the logos with the {{Wikimedia trademark}}[2] and {{cc-by-sa-3.0}}[3] templates. But we don't want to replace templates on the MediaWiki[4] and the Community[5] logos, which were originally released under free licenses.

 

There are also some pages on Commons, like this one[6], that may need to be updated based on the re-licensed logos.

 

Thanks,

Yana

 

[1] https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Template:Copyright_by_Wikimedia

[2] https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Template:Wikimedia_trademark

[3] https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Template:Cc-by-sa-3.0

[4] https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:MediaWiki.svg

[5] https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikimedia_Community_Logo.svg

[6] https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Licensing

 

 

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Wikimedia Foundation
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