Wikinews would like to change the default license to CC-BY-4.0 on January 30, 2025. At the same time a few Wikinewses need another license (as specified below).
The change was discussed on the RfC on Meta: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/Update_standard_license_for_Wikinews
There were also votes/discussions on every Wikinews (including those in Incubator).
There are links to all the 60+ discussions listed on Meta. I hope I do not have to add them all here :-)
@matmarex can you perhaps check if this request will require any other edits in the WikimediaMessages etc. like on T383338: Check/fix/cleanup licenses on Wikinewses january 2025?
When the standard license is changed to CC-BY-4.0 perhaps you would prefer to remove the lines for the Wikinewses that have that license set directly. For example per T381421: Change default license on en.wikinews, pl.wikinews and he.wikinews to cc-by-4.0 on December 16, 2024.
Summary of changes
- change default from 2.5 to 4.0
- add exception for de and ru to make sure they keep 2.5
- change fa and sv to CC-BY-SA-4.0
- remove lines that will be redundant (en, he, nl, pl, pt and ro)
Changes in 'wgRightsUrl'
From: 'wikinews' => 'https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.5/',
To: 'wikinews' => 'https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/',
Add:
'dewikinews' => 'https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.5/',
'fawikinews' => 'https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/',
'ruwikinews' => 'https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.5/',
'svwikinews' => 'https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/',
Remove (if you wish to keep code short):
'enwikinews' => 'https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/',
'hewikinews' => 'https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/',
'nlwikinews' => 'https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/',
'plwikinews' => 'https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/',
'ptwikinews' => 'https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/',
'rowikinews' => 'https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/',
Changes in 'wgRightsText'
From: 'wikinews' => 'Creative Commons Attribution 2.5',
To: 'wikinews' => 'Creative Commons Attribution 4.0',
Add:
'dewikinews' => 'Creative Commons Attribution 2.5',
'fawikinews' => 'Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0',
'ruwikinews' => 'Creative Commons Attribution 2.5',
'svwikinews' => 'Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0',
Remove (if you wish to keep code short):
'enwikinews' => 'Creative Commons Attribution 4.0',
'hewikinews' => 'Creative Commons Attribution 4.0',
'nlwikinews' => 'Creative Commons Attribution 4.0',
'plwikinews' => 'Creative Commons Attribution 4.0',
'ptwikinews' => 'Creative Commons Attribution 4.0',
'rowikinews' => 'Creative Commons Attribution 4.0',