Change the copyright warning for Mediawikiwiki's Help: namespace to CC0
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	AlexisJazz
	Feb 10 2022, 4:25 PM

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Change the copyright warning for Mediawikiwiki's Help: namespace to CC0. This is currently communicated using an editnotice for namespace 12 but it should be done similar to the Data: namespace on Commons.

If a developer feels like this isn't an uncontroversial request let me know and I'll post a notice to https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Project:Village_Pump. Personally I don't see any potential for controversy with this one, but I know how you want to be extra careful sometimes so no hard feelings either way.

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	Subject	Repo	Branch	Lines +/-
	Set special footer licence message for MediaWiki.org re. Help: pages	operations/mediawiki-config	master	+1 -0
	Add special licensing messages for MediaWiki.org to mention Help:'s CC0 status	mediawiki/extensions/WikimediaMessages	master	+28 -2

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Mentioned Here: T137026: Configure Commons CC0 licensing for the Data namespace

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AlexisJazz created this task.Feb 10 2022, 4:25 PM

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Historical reference of when this was done on commonswiki: T137026

Juan90264 subscribed.Feb 10 2022, 10:21 PM

This sounds like a good solution (and much better than relying on just people understanding the page notice), but sadly as with similar such changes we'll need this to go via Legal.

(Technically, we'd want to do this as a change to WikimediaMessages to add a bespoke site copyright footer, like we do for Wikidata, Commons, etc..)

Xaosflux added a project: WMF-Legal.Feb 18 2022, 11:50 PM

As the WMF-Legal project tag was added to this task, some general information to avoid wrong expectations:
Please note that public tasks in Wikimedia Phabricator are in general not a place where to expect feedback from the Legal Team of the Wikimedia Foundation due to the scope of the team and/or nature of legal topics. See the project tag description.
Please see https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Legal for when and how to contact the Legal Team. Thanks!

I dropped Legal a mail as https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/profile/28/ says to do so.

Saw the note in our legal mail (thanks for reaching out that way!). Yes, this has legal approval to change.

In T301483#7733754, @Jrogers-WMF wrote:

Saw the note in our legal mail (thanks for reaching out that way!). Yes, this has legal approval to change.

Thanks @Jrogers-WMF (and thank you @AlexisJazz, great initiative).

Xaosflux moved this task from Backlog to Legal Done on the WMF-Legal board.Feb 23 2022, 11:51 PM

Change 765357 had a related patch set uploaded (by Jforrester; author: Jforrester):

[mediawiki/extensions/WikimediaMessages@master] Add special licensing messages for MediaWiki.org to mention Help:'s CC0 status

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/765357

gerritbot added a project: Patch-For-Review.Feb 24 2022, 12:18 AM

Change 787829 had a related patch set uploaded (by Jforrester; author: Jforrester):

[operations/mediawiki-config@master] Set special footer licence message for MediaWiki.org re. Help: pages

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/787829

Change 765357 merged by jenkins-bot:

[mediawiki/extensions/WikimediaMessages@master] Add special licensing messages for MediaWiki.org to mention Help:'s CC0 status

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/765357

ReleaseTaggerBot added a project: MW-1.39-notes (1.39.0-wmf.10; 2022-05-02).Apr 29 2022, 9:01 PM

Jdforrester-WMF claimed this task.May 9 2022, 1:24 PM

Change 787829 merged by jenkins-bot: