**Request Status:** New Request
**Request Type:** project support request
**Related OKRs:**
**Request Title:** Creative Commons 4.0
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- **Request Description:** We'll need one of these options:
- MUST HAVE: to update the footer page of each Wikipedia with new footer text (replacing "Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License 3.0; additional terms may apply.").
- BETTER: It would be helpful if the changes to each footer could go live at (roughly) the same time.
- BEST: It would be helpful to have the changes go live at the same time AND at a pre-scheduled time (that coincides with when the content dump is made).
- **Indicate Priority Level:**
- **Main Requestors:** Legal
- **Ideal Delivery Date:** January 2023
- **Stakeholders:**
== Plan
[ ] Add CC BY-SA 4.0 to the license shortener code in WikimediaMessages https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/c/912335
[ ] Change the wgRightsUrl / wgRightsText config in beta labs https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/c/operations/mediawiki-config/+/912417
[ ] Test in beta labs: license footers on mobile website should show 4.0
[ ] Prepare a patch that updates the i18n messages in WikimediaMessages from 3.0 to 4.0
[ ] Prepare a patch that changes the wgRightsUrl / wgRightsText config in production
[ ] Stage both of these patches on an mwdebug server and test there (this only affects wikis that do not have local overrides of the license messages, so it should be tested on those wikis)
[ ] Merge, backport and deploy the WikimediaMessages and config patches
[ ] (Somehow?) edit all local overrides of license messages on all wikis to change 3.0 to 4.0