[Foundation-l] New wiki creation moratorium

Sun Apr 13 20:19:13 UTC 2008


foundation-l-request at lists.wikimedia.org wrote:
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> Date: Sun, 13 Apr 2008 21:15:46 +0400
> From: "A.M.D.F." <amdf00 at gmail.com>
> Subject: [Foundation-l] New wiki creation moratorium
> To: foundation-l at lists.wikimedia.org
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> Hello.
>
> Brion Vibber, the Foundation's Chief Technical Officer said that 
> "Currently, no new wikis will be created until GFDL 1.3 is released.".
>
> Hungarian Wikinews, Erzya and Extremaduran and Gan Wikipedia, and 
> Japanese Wikiversity are approved projects currently waiting creation.
>
> These projects had waited for a month, before Brion said about a 
> moratorium. It is unknown, when GFDL 1.3 will be released, few weeks or 
> maybe few months?
>
> I think that license changing is completely unrelated to the process of 
>   creating new wiki projects.
>
> Why new wikis will not be created? Many people are waiting.
>
> Links:
>
> http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Requests_for_new_languages (see "approved")
> https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13264 (Opened: 2008-03-06)
>
>   
These are good questions. In my opinion it would seem very unfair for 
these projects to be affected by such a 'rule', if one exists. I am not 
sure why licenses would be an issue. As for wikinews, I thought the 
content was CC-by? What would that have to do with the GFDL? I cannot 
speak for the Wikipedias as they do use GFDL.

Jason Safoutin (DragonFire1024)