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Change default license on en.wikinews, pl.wikinews and he.wikinews to cc-by-4.0 on December 16, 2024
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English Wikinews would like to change the license to cc-by-4.0 on December 16, 2024 (as far as I can tell its a change of 'wgRightsUrl' and 'wgRightsText' but I trust you know best).

Local discussion:

(For pl.wikinews and he.wikinews see new comments)

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MGA73 renamed this task from Change default license on en.wikinews to cc-by-4.0 on December 16, 2024 to Change default license on en.wikinews and pl.wikinews to cc-by-4.0 on December 16, 2024.Thu, Dec 5, 5:47 AM
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As info a similar change was made at https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T372730

Under 'wgRightsUrl' we need:

'enwikinews' => 'https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/',
'plwikinews' => 'https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/',

Under 'wgRightsText' we need:

'enwikinews' => 'Creative Commons Attribution 4.0',
'plwikinews' => 'Creative Commons Attribution 4.0',

Etc. if more languages are added.

@Lolekek you helped fix ar.wikinews. Any chance you can also help with this?

Change #1101867 had a related patch set uploaded (by أنون; author: أنون):

[operations/mediawiki-config@master] [enwikinews] & [plwikinews]: Upgrade license to CC BY 4.0

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/1101867

@MGA73 I will look into this. It should be deployed on Dec 16th I assume?

Hi @MGA73, Preferably do a general task and notify all wikinews communities.

Hi @Gerges I have notified all communities per https://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Wikinews:2024_Copyright_license_upgrade/other-Wikinews and have since May/June 2024 tried to get a response from all communities.

We have discussed if it is possible to suggest a change on all projects per https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Requesting_wiki_configuration_changes and use "the rule" that "In the case of a very small and low-activity community, it should be enough to show that you have tried to gain consensus, and that you have given an opportunity for objections." and request a change if the community does not respond.

So if you have any advice on how to do it I would really appriciate any help.

Sorry to ask but hewikinews would also like to change to CC-BY-4.0 per...

Is it easy to update the patch to include that or is it better to make a new request?

Patch has been modified.

supposed to be due today, i think it is not completed yet -- why not? what is the next step please?

No, it's supposed to be due tomorrow (at least in my timezone)

This task is a config change deployment and those generally are only done at the three daily backport windows: https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Backport_windows / https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Deployments

I assume someone is planning to schedule it for deployment in one of those tomorrow.

This is scheduled for deployment in the Monday UTC morning backport window (in about one hour).

Change #1101867 merged by jenkins-bot:

[operations/mediawiki-config@master] [enwikinews] & [hewikinews] & [plwikinews]: Upgrade license to CC BY 4.0

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/1101867

Mentioned in SAL (#wikimedia-operations) [2024-12-16T08:08:33Z] <hashar@deploy2002> Started scap sync-world: Backport for [[gerrit:1101867|[enwikinews] & [hewikinews] & [plwikinews]: Upgrade license to CC BY 4.0 (T381421)]]

Mentioned in SAL (#wikimedia-operations) [2024-12-16T08:21:45Z] <hashar@deploy2002> hashar, anwon: Backport for [[gerrit:1101867|[enwikinews] & [hewikinews] & [plwikinews]: Upgrade license to CC BY 4.0 (T381421)]] synced to the testservers (https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mwdebug)

Mentioned in SAL (#wikimedia-operations) [2024-12-16T08:32:24Z] <hashar@deploy2002> Finished scap sync-world: Backport for [[gerrit:1101867|[enwikinews] & [hewikinews] & [plwikinews]: Upgrade license to CC BY 4.0 (T381421)]] (duration: 23m 51s)

DreamRimmer renamed this task from Change default license on en.wikinews and pl.wikinews to cc-by-4.0 on December 16, 2024 to Change default license on en.wikinews, pl.wikinews and he.wikinews to cc-by-4.0 on December 16, 2024.Mon, Dec 16, 12:28 PM
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Sorry, I mistakenly assigned it to myself. I did not work on it.