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Licensing update/Timeline

The licensing update has been executed.
The results are available here. Please be aware that pages need to be updated to reflect the result and that some information may be obsolete. In the meantime, viewing the LU timeline might be helpful. Help with web app is of continuing appreciation.



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Licensing update

Rough timeline to vote upon and possibly implement web. Dates are rough.

DateEvent
March 22, 2009All relevant wiki pages finalized

CentralNotice text published for translation
Voting software and authentication setup begins

March 23, 2009Translation effort of key pages and CentralNotice begins
April 7, 2009Translations finalized, voting software and authentication software completed
April 12, 2009Vote begins and is announced via CentralNotice
May 3, 2009Vote is closed and votes are tallied
May 16, 2009Result is shared by the license update committee with the Board of Trustees
May 21, 2009The license update committee announces the results publicly
May 21, 2009Resolution passed by Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees
DateEvent
Start of June, 2009Any final revisions to the proposed terms are posted for comment. An initial proposal for procedures to deal with external content is released. A strategy for updating templates on affected media files is announced.
Late June, 2009After any final modifications, site-wide copyright statements and terms of use are updated on all English language wikis. Translation guidelines are issued and translations are begun for all non-English wikis. Affected media files are migrated as per above.

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