Licensing update/Timeline

Rough timeline to vote upon and possibly implement license update. Dates are rough.

The licensing update has been executed.
The results are available here. Please be aware that pages need to be updated to reflect the result and that some information may be obsolete. In the meantime, viewing the LU timeline might be helpful. Help with translations is of continuing appreciation.

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Licensing update

• Main page
• Questions and Answers
• Oppositional arguments
• License comparison

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• Committee
• Timeline
• Translation

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• Results
• Implementation
• Outreach
• Project Transitions

Date	Event
March 22, 2009	All relevant wiki pages finalized CentralNotice text published for translation Voting software and authentication setup begins
March 23, 2009	Translation effort of key pages and CentralNotice begins
April 7, 2009	Translations finalized, voting software and authentication software completed
April 12, 2009	Vote begins and is announced via CentralNotice
May 3, 2009	Vote is closed and votes are tallied
May 16, 2009	Result is shared by the license update committee with the Board of Trustees
May 21, 2009	The license update committee announces the results publicly
May 21, 2009	Resolution passed by Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees

Date	Event
Start of June, 2009	Any final revisions to the proposed terms are posted for comment. An initial proposal for procedures to deal with external content is released. A strategy for updating templates on affected media files is announced.
Late June, 2009	After any final modifications, site-wide copyright statements and terms of use are updated on all English language wikis. Translation guidelines are issued and translations are begun for all non-English wikis. Affected media files are migrated as per above.