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Release the WordPress theme "BeTheme" of www.wikimedia.it on WMF GitLab
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Considered that the CEO of our service provider has confirmed the free license of his company work and that WordPress themes are released under the GNU GPL license, it'd be nice to have the zip of the wikimedia.it WordPress theme in a public place (as a Wikina file?) or anyway in a place where it's available at least to the members.

About this, see T269780 about distributing the source code of our edits.

In short, it would be nice to publish BeTheme here:

https://gitlab.wikimedia.org/repos/wikimedia-it/website/betheme-wmit

Bonus point: a big warning to make the original author more happy (probably), telling that obviously accessing this theme does not bring any commercial assistance and that we share that just to have no risk of violating the GNU GPL.

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valerio.bozzolan renamed this task from Release the Wikimedia Italy website theme! to Release the WordPress theme of www.wikimedia.it.Feb 8 2021, 8:38 AM

BeTheme is not free, it's a legacy which the previous webmaster (Web Elettronica) bought from https://themes.muffingroup.com/ . In the 2020-06-30 meeting with NP it was agreed to replace the theme with a freely licensed one.

The new WMIT supplier can and should at any rate share/distribute under a free license whatever additions or modifications they made.

BeTheme is not free, it's a legacy which the previous webmaster (Web Elettronica) bought from https://themes.muffingroup.com/

BeTheme is part of Envato. Usually their themes are covered by the GNU GPL v2. We can contact them quickly with an Envato purchase code. Who could have it?

How is the current theme even named?

How is the current theme even named?

/var/www/wmi/wordpress/wp-content/themes/wmi
valerio.bozzolan renamed this task from Release the WordPress theme of www.wikimedia.it to Release the WordPress theme of www.wikimedia.it on WMF GitLab.Apr 4 2022, 12:21 PM
valerio.bozzolan lowered the priority of this task from Medium to Low.Jul 26 2022, 12:59 PM
valerio.bozzolan set the point value for this task to 2.
valerio.bozzolan renamed this task from Release the WordPress theme of www.wikimedia.it on WMF GitLab to Release the WordPress theme "BeTheme" of www.wikimedia.it on WMF GitLab.Jun 25 2023, 9:09 AM

I agree with you both on ethical and legal point of view.

But from a technical one it has no sense redistribute the WMI theme:

  1. It is not a good code, both in backend and front-end
  2. It is very custom theme, with heavy dependences form thirth party plugins
  3. A big part of the front-end is made using the three installed editors: Guttenberg (default one), Elementor, BeBuilder (the BE editor)
  4. Another big part of the front-end is made using the BE configurations

When I had to rewrite it, as quick as possible, due to some secutity e stability issues, I had to move all existing templates and styles in the new one to do not breake all the existing contents.

Sincerly its not a good work to be proud of.