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== Licensing of Wiki content ==

The Wikipedia project underwent a licensing update in 2008/2009 from GFDL to dual-licensing scheme including the non-compatible CC-BY-SA. In 2016, I'm noticing that there are some quirks in the software that I'm still investigating, so I've got notes here. Basically, I want to simply figure out whether there are any issues to implementors / site Administrators. When setting up a fresh install of MediaWiki, or upgrading a previous installation, is there anything to do with regard to the licensing templates or interface messages?

The Wikipedia project underwent a licensing update in 2008/2009 from GFDL to dual-licensing scheme including the non-compatible CC-BY-SA. In 2016, I'm noticing that there are some quirks in the software that I'm still investigating, so I've got notes here. Basically, I want to simply figure out whether there are any issues to implementors / site Administrators. '''When setting up a fresh install of MediaWiki; or upgrading a previous installation; is there anything to do with regard to the licensing templates or interface messages so that [[Special:Upload]] "just works"?''' One oddity that I found was that there were a bunch of "self-published" options available in the licensing dropdown, however they rely on a template named 'self' which was not present in this wiki. It is not a trivial exercise to export/import the template from mediawiki.org nor wikipedia.com. Because of the complex nature of these licensing templates, it is not possible to "copy" the template text.

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 == Licensing of Wiki content ==
-The Wikipedia project underwent a licensing update in 2008/2009 from GFDL to dual-licensing scheme including the non-compatible CC-BY-SA.  In 2016, I'm noticing that there are some quirks in the software that I'm still investigating, so I've got notes here.  Basically, I want to simply figure out whether there are any issues to implementors / site Administrators. When setting up a fresh install of MediaWiki, or upgrading a previous installation, is there anything to do with regard to the licensing templates or interface messages?
+The Wikipedia project underwent a licensing update in 2008/2009 from GFDL to dual-licensing scheme including the non-compatible CC-BY-SA.  In 2016, I'm noticing that there are some quirks in the software that I'm still investigating, so I've got notes here.  Basically, I want to simply figure out whether there are any issues to implementors / site Administrators. '''When setting up a fresh install of MediaWiki; or upgrading a previous installation; is there anything to do with regard to the licensing templates or interface messages so that [[Special:Upload]] "just works"?''' One oddity that I found was that there were a bunch of "self-published" options available in the licensing dropdown, however they rely on a template named 'self' which was not present in this wiki.  It is not a trivial exercise to export/import the template from mediawiki.org nor wikipedia.com.  Because of the complex nature of these licensing templates, it is not possible to "copy" the template text.
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