I would like to comment on something RamMan said on
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Ram-Man#Spambot.
He said
The reason not to make this an official solicitation is because this is a group project
and the multi-licensing drive does not represent the desires of every Wikipedian. It also
does not strictly have ''anything'' to do with official Wikipedia policy,
as the status of Wikipedia will remain unchanged and intact. Now my [[User talk:Jimbo
Wales|proposal]] to Jimbo is something that would affect Wikipedia policy and
''would'' be a good candidate for an official solicitation, if it was
accepted. Whether or not it is "official", however, is irrelevant in this
context because a solicitation would still need to occur to get explicit permission.
Multi-licensing is inherently a private issue, not one that Wikipedia needs to be delving
its hands into. -- RM
I am troubled by this comment very much, doubly when I perfectly know some users want to
change our license.
If you wanted this drive not to affect Wikipedia policy and not to sound official, and to
be simply a relicensing of your geographical pages, you should have asked only editors who
edited those articles, and you should have asked them to only relicense the geographical
articles. As soon as you begin to ask people to relicense ALL their contributions, then it
becomes official and it affects all of us and all projects.
I am sure you would agree that it would be damned stupid that the english wikipedia is
under one license while all other wikipedias be under another license, because in becoming
compatible with wikitravel, you would cause our projects to become non compatible with one
another. So, in effect, this is a global issue and you are trying to force all projects to
follow what you started, without even involving them. I think this is just incorrect
toward other projects.
Even though dual licensing could be a good decision one day, this should be a global
discussion.
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