RationalWiki talk:Transitioning to CC-BY-SA

Users list

 * Template:GFDL-self, pages using the template
 * The following users have pictures with this template:


 * User:Linus
 * User:LArron
 * User:SusanG
 * User:Gauss
 * User:Π
 * User:Sprocket J Cogswell
 * User:Nx - two images from the MW commons, please update C terms.
 * User:Irrationalatheist
 * User:Sterile
 * User:Genghis Khant
 * User:Publius
 * User:Armondikov
 * User:Nutty Roux


 * Template:GFDL, pages using the template
 * The following users have pictures with this template:


 * User:Linus
 * User:Tmtoulouse
 * User:Human Someone else fixed the book cover.
 * User:SusanG
 * User:Fox
 * User:Redback
 * User:Toast
 * User:ListenerX
 * User:Terry Sita - one file, File:Easy cheese.jpg, from here, probably easy to switch. Or delete.
 * User:Ipatrol
 * User:Π
 * User:Nx cleared, I think
 * User:Stunteddwarf
 * User:TheEgyptian
 * User:Arthropleura - I don't see any, am I doing it wrong, or did someone already clean up? (Yes, someone did.)
 * User:Corry
 * User:Armondikov

PROTIP: (replace my username with yours of course) Nx 02:22, 7 July 2009 (UTC)

AMATEURTIP

 * Copy and paste this (from the edit window) into anywhere and preview to see:

createdby = Anonymous User namespace = File uses = Template:GFDL createdby = Anonymous User namespace = File uses = Template:GFDL-self

Better yet, do what I think people are doing and sub the above user names for "Nx" into the following code:

createdby = Nx namespace = File uses = Template:GFDL createdby = Nx namespace = File uses = Template:GFDL-self

Asking users if they consent to re-license images
Is this necessary? I thought the entire GFDL 1.3/CC-BY-SA 3.0 transition process was made so as to remove this requirement. 23:30, 6 July 2009 (UTC)
 * Hell if I know. I'm just doing what the screen tells me to.   23:31, 6 July 2009 (UTC)
 * If an editor specifically released content under a GFDL license then we don't have the right to re-license it. From what I can tell no one has released edits under a specific license but many pictures/images have been. Just as if a user uploads a pictures and releases it public domain or CC-BY-SA we can't go in and relicense it as a site. tmtoulouse 23:33, 6 July 2009 (UTC)
 * So how do we get from our name appearing above to specific images we GFDLd? 23:36, 6 July 2009 (UTC)
 * The GFDL template says "1.2 or any higher version," which means we can switch anything licensed with that template to CC-BY-SA. 01:47, 7 July 2009 (UTC)
 * But we as a site do not hold the copyright to "move" the images into CC-BY-SA that right stays with the originator of the image. Hence why permssion should be granted by the users. tmtoulouse 02:04, 7 July 2009 (UTC)
 * Can someone answer Human's question. That is, what do we do? Sterile 02:09, 7 July 2009 (UTC)
 * The code just under AMATEURTIP above. Basically, it's a code that will look up any images posted by the user that holds the GFDL or GFDL-self templates. I've just done it for mine and it's coming up with "missing" which I assume means that there's no more things that I've put up that are liscenced so I can strike out my name from the above list. 19:35, 9 July 2009 (UTC)
 * I believe that is correct, yes. Later I guess we'll need to run it without specifying a user?  And perhaps even search the image namespace for the text "gfdl" for places where people just typed it (or did someone make sure every image was templated?)?  21:17, 9 July 2009 (UTC)

MediaWiki:Copyrightwarning and MediaWiki:Copyrightwarning2 + others
The former needs no changing, it uses the the license in localsettings (btw, that still says GFDL1.2...). As for the latter I don't know where it is used, but again it links to Project:Copyrights (probably), so no need to change it. I've created a cc-by-sa-3.0 template from the cc-by-sa-1.0 one and added it to Mediawiki:Licenses. Nx 01:48, 7 July 2009 (UTC)
 * I went through a while ago and changed, I think, everything that could be changed (i.e., everything except the parameter in LocalSettings.php) to GFDL 1.3. 01:49, 7 July 2009 (UTC)
 * Speaking of licenses, the drop down at "upload file" could use a dozen or so more better things added? I only wish I knew how, and remembered what those options should be...  02:09, 7 July 2009 (UTC)
 * And can that drop-down be set up better, ie, to explain what the licenses mean? Please?  02:15, 7 July 2009 (UTC)

Replacement for "GFDL-self"
I thought we should have a specific replacement for the "GFDL-self" template, so I have added a new template, Template:Cc-by-sa-3.0-self, for this purpose. It is presently just a duplicate of the Cc-by-sa-3.0 template. 03:25, 7 July 2009 (UTC)
 * What's wrong with using the standard template? I don't really know what the difference between Template:GFDL-self and Template:GFDL is, does the different wording change any of the terms? Anyway, I'd prefer not to have another set of licenses (we'd need Cc-by-3.0-self, and then possibly the other versions too, which would make the dropdown huge) Nx 10:47, 7 July 2009 (UTC)
 * On second thought Nx 11:30, 7 July 2009 (UTC)