Re: MediaWiki next steps
On Tue, Jul 22, 2025 at 03:19:01PM +0100, Jonathan Dowland wrote:
> On Tue Jul 22, 2025 at 2:37 PM BST, Andrew Sayers wrote:
> > CC0 seems like a good way to discourage people from uploading anything
> > they feel precious about, without prejudicing the final decision.
> > Anyone that objects to CC0ing their work can just use Lorem ipsum.
>
> I really can't see why changing to CC0 (from CC-BY-SA, as it is now) would
> make any appreciable difference to whether people are likely to try and
> contribute.
Sorry, I wasn't clear - the original "Content licensing" message included the
option of using CC0 permanently, and my understanding is that it's awkward to
convert *to* CC0 but trivial to convert *from* it, so this would avoid any
possible hassle there. Not that people should be putting anything on the wiki
that matters, but better safe than sorry.
And this might be showing my inexperience, but should the general licensing
question go to debian-legal?
>
> We'd more likely influence that by prominent warning banners somewhere on
> the UI.
That's a good idea either way. The standard solution seems to be to edit
https://wiki2025.debian.org/wiki/MediaWiki:Sitenotice
(the text will then appear at the top of every page)
I've just added myself to the wiki, and I can edit the main page but not that
one. That's fine, but it's my excuse for asking someone else to do it :)
>
> > Guaranteeing a reset before going beta also makes it easier to
> > experiment. For example, creating and deleting pages to try out the
> > moderation process.
>
> We could decide to guarantee a reset without also forcing CC0.
In that case, can the site notice link to a roadmap? Something that spells out
how alpha content may need to be rewritten from scratch in the event of license
weirdness?
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