Update UploadWizard's "1925" messages for so-old-they're-PD-in-the-US to 1926, now that it's 2021
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	Koavf
	Jan 11 2021, 11:34 PM

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I am posting here per this discussion.

The problem is that pages such as https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:UploadWizard read "The copyright has definitely expired in the USA" because it was "First published in the United States before 1925" but the American public domain now starts in 1926. Steps to reproduce are to upload anything onto Commons. A suggested solution is to include a dynamic JavaScript-based date that is today's date minus 95 years, rounded up (e.g. 2021-11-18 minus 95 years would be 1926-11-18 but we would round up to 1926-01-01).

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	Subject	Repo	Branch	Lines +/-
	i18n: Change US Public Domain year from 1925 to 1926, now we're in 2021	mediawiki/extensions/UploadWizard	master	+2 -2

Customize query in gerrit

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Mentioned In: T354127: Update UploadWizard's "1928" messages for so-old-they're-PD-in-the-US to 1929, now that it's 2024
T326045: Update UploadWizard's "1927" messages for so-old-they're-PD-in-the-US to 1928, now that it's 2023
T298406: Update UploadWizard's "1926" messages for so-old-they're-PD-in-the-US to 1927, now that it's 2022
T271968: Upload wizard should automatically update public domain year in mwe-upwiz-license-pd-old-70-1923 and mwe-upwiz-license-pd-us

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Koavf created this task.Jan 11 2021, 11:34 PM

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Yeah, as I said on the Village Pump, a dynamically-generated date wouldn't be appropriate for a legal text; this should always go through human review.

(Also, this is in server-side code, not JS.)

I'll re-purpose this to "update for 2021".

Last year's change was https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/plugins/gitiles/mediawiki/extensions/UploadWizard/+/5c3d0e80b99983f33a582ebcbba3603c47b48d4f%5E%21/#F0

Jdforrester-WMF renamed this task from Some dates on Commons are static and manually hard-coded instead of dynamically-generated to Update UploadWizard's "1925" messages for so-old-they're-PD-in-the-US to 1926, now that it's 2021.Jan 11 2021, 11:44 PM

Jdforrester-WMF added a project: UploadWizard.

Change 655530 had a related patch set uploaded (by Jforrester; owner: Jforrester):
[mediawiki/extensions/UploadWizard@master] i18n: Change US Public Domain year from 1925 to 1926, now we're in 2021

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/655530

gerritbot added a project: Patch-For-Review.Jan 11 2021, 11:48 PM

Change 655530 merged by jenkins-bot:
[mediawiki/extensions/UploadWizard@master] i18n: Change US Public Domain year from 1925 to 1926, now we're in 2021

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/655530

OK, this is done, and will roll out to Commons on Wednesday.

ReleaseTaggerBot added a project: MW-1.36-notes (1.36.0-wmf.26; 2021-01-12).Jan 12 2021, 1:00 AM

Maintenance_bot removed a project: Patch-For-Review.Jan 12 2021, 1:10 AM

bd808 mentioned this in T271968: Upload wizard should automatically update public domain year in mwe-upwiz-license-pd-old-70-1923 and mwe-upwiz-license-pd-us.Jan 13 2021, 6:51 PM

Do I need to remake this ticket every December 31 or will it auto-update? I'm willing to make a calendar reminder for myself.

Oh, and thanks, J!

In T271766#6746743, @Koavf wrote:

Do I need to remake this ticket every December 31 or will it auto-update? I'm willing to make a calendar reminder for myself.

It won't auto-update, no; if you could remind us if we forget next year that'd be great, but hopefully I'll remember. (He says…)