[sldev] To all Wikipedia (and Wikia) contributors

[Gordon Wendt]

Cool, I haven't been an active contributor to Wikipedia in years but some of
the templates would be amazingly useful on the SL Wiki.  That being said I
don't think this is less of a deal for moving code over and more for
content, I'm not sure templates could ever really be considered protected by
the copyright as the article content was, that's arguable but it'll be nice
for it to be clearly allowed soon.  The general assumption and one that I've
made is that this will pass by a supermajority (in WP parlence that's
85%-90% if I remember correctly).

-G.W.

On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 7:33 PM, Zai Lynch <
I_really_needed_a_new_mailbox at gmx.de> wrote:

> This is copy/paste of a statement I just wrote at the Editing Discussion<https://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Project:Editing_Discussion>of our SL Wiki:
>
> Just a short heads-up that the Wikimedia foundation is currently having a
> vote amongst all registered users with more than 25 edits before mid March
> 2009, which is aimed to double license all Wikimedia content under GFDL and
> CC-BY-SA 3.0.
>
> This means we might soon be able to incorporate content from Wikipedia into
> this Wiki (e.g. templates, icons, ...). In case you got an account at any
> WikiMedia wiki which is allowed to vote, please consider to do so. Voting
> will end on May 3rd 2009. All infos about the update can be found at
> http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Licensing_update. To vote, just log in with
> your account. The link is displayed for any logged in user at the top of any
> page (e.g. English Wikipedia:
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:SecurePoll/vote/1 ).
>
> On a similar note:
>
>    - Please consider voting at WEB-910<https://jira.secondlife.com/browse/WEB-910>
>    [c] <http://www.sljirastats.com/WEB-910> for free use of KB<https://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/KB>content in the wiki.
>    - Please consider to double license your SL wiki contributions (e.g.
>    with Template:Re-license_contributions<https://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Template:Re-license_contributions>).
>
>
> *Libre knowledge! <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libre_knowledge>*
>
> Greetz, <https://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Image:Zai_signature.png> *Lynch<https://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/User:Zai_Lynch>
> * (talk <https://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/User_talk:Zai_Lynch>|contribs<https://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Special:Contributions/Zai_Lynch>
> ) 23:18, 20 April 2009 (UTC)
>
> P.S.: In case Wikimedia succeedes with this, it might be worth trying to
> ask http://secondlife.wikia.com contributors to do the same. It's also
> GFDL content and therefor has the same loop hole. Would be especially great
> for History of Second Life<https://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/History_of_Second_Life>related articles. --<https://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Image:Zai_signature.png>
> *Lynch <https://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/User:Zai_Lynch>* (talk<https://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/User_talk:Zai_Lynch>
> |contribs<https://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Special:Contributions/Zai_Lynch>
> ) 23:27, 20 April 2009 (UTC)
>
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