Help:License upgrade
From Wikivoyage General
As from April, 1st, 2009, the standard license on Wikivoyage for all contributions on all wikis has been upgraded to all existing and future versions of the CreativeCommons-Attribution-ShareAlike license. Contributions made before are still sticking to our old standard license, CC-by-sa 1.0. Thus, the license for Wikivoyage as whole must still remain CC-by-sa 1.0. However, a steadily growing number of articles will be available under the enhanced license. When an article is available under CC-by-sa-any, you will find a short note in the footer of this article. This should be the case for all articles created after April, 1st, 2009.
Contents |
[edit] Help upgrading the license of Wikivoyage
Since you are the owner of the copyright of all your contributions, we need your help for upgrading the license of your old contributions.
[edit] Upgrade the license for your contributions to Wikivoyage
- Go on Special:LicenseUpgraders for upgrading the license of your old contributions.
- Navigate to "upgrade my license".
- Check the checkbox in the fieldset labelled with "As user on this wiki"
- Go to the bottom of the page, enter your password and hit the "Upgrade my license" button
- From this moment on, all your old contributions are considered to be released under any version of the CC-by-sa.
Note that you cannot revoke your license upgrade once you have granted it.
[edit] Upgrade the license for your contributions imported from other wikis
Some of our articles had been imported from other wikis. Maybe you have contributed even there. If so, you could help us by upgrading the license for this contributions.
The preferred way is to login to the other wiki and put a license upgrade template on your user page or one of its subpages. The name of this template depends on the wiki, of course. See the list at the end of this section for the templates' names.
Now, again call Special:LicenseUpgraders here on this wiki and do the following steps.
- Navigate to "upgrade my license".
- Check the checkbox in the fieldset labelled with "As user on other wikis"
- Select the name of the wiki in the select field.
- Enter your username you have on the other wiki.
- Enter the name of the page on the other wiki where you have put the license upgrade template. Write the pagename exactly as you would do when setting a link in the wikimarkup language.
- Go to the bottom of the page, enter your password and hit the "Upgrade my license" button
- From this moment on, all your contributions imported from the other wiki are considered to be released under any version of the CC-by-sa.
[edit] Templates to be used for license upgrade on other wikis
- wikitravel.org/de: "Freigabe CC-by-sa-any"
If you know of any new license upgrade template, please let me know. We need to update the server sided configuration in order to make use of it.
[edit] Upgrade the license for your contributions made anonymously from a static IP
This section is probably applicable only for a small number of contributors since most people get a dynamicly changing IP from the ISP whenever they connect to the internet. If you are sure to have made contributions from a static IP that nobody else uses, go ahead.
- Go to Special:LicenseUpgraders
- Navigate to "upgrade my license".
- Check the checkbox in the fieldset labelled with "For static IPs".
- Select the wiki where you have made your contributions.
- Enter the IP or range of IPs. A range can either be written with the number of significant Bits or with a netmask. Both would be valid: "12.34.56.78/24" or "12.34.56.78/255.255.255.0". OK, this looks somewhat unusual. The canonical writing would be "12.34.56.0/24" or "12.34.56.0/255.255.255.0", respectively. Choose any of the above writings.
- Select the time period in which you have been using this IP-
- Check one of the two radio buttons. Note that the 2nd one is expressing your good will rather than having a concrete benefit for us.
- Go to the bottom of the page, enter your password and hit the "Upgrade my license" button
- From this moment on, all your anonymous contributions made in the selected time range in the given IP (range) are considered to be released under any version of the CC-by-sa.
[edit] Help reviewing contributions from other people
There will always remain some articles that can not be upgraded to our new license due to revisions made from sporadic contributors or made anonymously. One single revision with the old license is enough to prevent a license upgrade for the whole article.
However, there a some reasons for ignoring those revisions with respect to license upgrade. These are:
- insufficient level of creativity, e.g. a phrase like "Paris is the capital of France." or adding geographical coordinates.
- the contributions is off topic and has been reverted or overwritten in subsequent edits. This might be, for example, an essay about the kindergarden system in Togo or even simple spam.
As we have about 250,000 revisions on all wikis together, any help is welcome in reviewing page revisions. The overall strategy would be to pre check the number of contributions and the names of the involved contributors. It's not worth to spend even a second for a large article with many contributors. This one will stick to CC-by-sa 1.0 forever. On the othe hand, if you find an article with only few non-upgraded revisions, it's worth to have a closer look.
The page revision reviewer's tool is the special page Special:ReviewForLicUpgrade. When you follow the link, you will see a listing of all pages that could not yet be upgraded. The list is split into chunks of 1,000. You can navigate between "Pages not yet upgraded" and "Upgraded pages". Both listings are quite similar, but the first one has some more columns.
The shorthand column headers mean:
- all: number of revisions not yet upgraded by any of the mechanisms described in the above section Help:License upgrade#Help upgrading the license of Wikivoyage.
- rev: number of revisions not yet reviewed manually.
- conf: number of revisions that have been reviewed by normal users, but that have not yet been confirmed by a sysop.
- auth: number of revisions that definitely require the license upgrade by its author.
Click on any number in column "all" for reviewing the page's revisions. You will see a list of revisions similar to that on the history page for an article. But note the differences: There is a checkbox at the beginning of each line, disabled under some circumstances. Each revision that has been reviewed is marked with the result, the time of reviewing and the user that has reviewed.
In order to review a revision, compare it to the previous and maybe even the next revision of this article. Note that the listing you see may be incomplete as it only lists the revisions that have not been upgraded by its contributor. However, the comparison will always refer to the previous or next revision of the article, which is not necessarily the same as what you see in the listing.
After having reviewed a revision, check the checkbox at the begin of the line. Then select a result from the select field at the end of the listing and hit the "Submit license information" button. You can mark even more than one revision if all of them lead to the same result. Note that you make a legal statement when you hit the "Submit license information" button.
If you are new to Wikivoyage, you are only allowed to mark your own anonymous contributions. Thus, the result only can be "upgrade my own anonymous contribution".
If you already have made some 10th of contributions, you have the so called "autoconfirmed" privileges. This means that you can perform any of the four selectable actions. The other three actions have the following meanings:
- "upgrade: insufficient level of creativity": You have decided that level of creativity of this contribution is below the threshold for claiming a copyright on it.
- "upgrade: irrelevant contribution": You have decided that the contribution is off topic or spam. Its content has been removed completely in the current version of the article.
- "can't upgrade, only author can do": None of the above is true. Only the author her/himself can upgrade the license. Selecting this action is rather a help for other reviewers since they get to know that it is maybe not worth to check other revisions of this article as long as the author has not upgraded.
If you do not have the special "license review" privilege (currently, only sysops have), all your results show up in orange. This means that they do not yet have any effect on the actual license of the article in question. You results still have to be reconfirmed by a sysop, which makes them black in the listing. This is a security issue because once an article is licensed under CC-by-sa-any, there is no way to revoke this enhancement. However, always assume that the sysop does not have the time to review your results as careful as you have done. The main work is to be done by you, not by the confirming sysop.
Finally, if you have the "license review" privilege, be aware that you go a one-way street when confirming the last license upgrade. As soon as you have hit the "Submit license information" button, the articles license is upgraded and can never be revoked. So, take care! At the other hand, as long as there are revisions that prevent a the license upgrade of the article, you still can modify the results for single revisions.
[edit] Bugs, questions and feedback
Contact me on my de: talk page. -- Hansm 16:31, 5 April 2009 (UTC)
