{"id":1446,"date":"2009-04-18T01:02:31","date_gmt":"2009-04-18T06:02:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/?p=1446"},"modified":"2009-04-18T01:03:48","modified_gmt":"2009-04-18T06:03:48","slug":"voting-for-wikipedias-license","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/archives\/2009\/04\/18\/voting-for-wikipedias-license","title":{"rendered":"Voting for Wikipedia&#8217;s license"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/vox_efx\/3002776434\/\"<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3038\/3002776434_643d076694_m_d.jpg\" align=\"right\" border=\"0\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\"><\/a>I love Wikipedia. They are <a href=\"http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/weblog\/entry\/13967\">trying<\/a> to get Wikipedia moved from the Free Documentation License, to the <a href=\"http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-sa\/3.0\/\">Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike<\/a> license (commonly referred to as CC BY-SA). I&#8217;m a big fan of the Creative Commons, so naturally, I think this is an important item to vote on.<\/p>\n<p>To qualify, you need to have made 25 edits or more, prior to March 15 2009. The vote itself ends May 3 2009, so don&#8217;t procrastinate. If you&#8217;re unsure, read the <a href=\"http:\/\/meta.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/Licensing_update\/Questions_and_Answers\">licensing Q&#038;A<\/a>. But I suggest you vote yes, and let the content be CC BY-SA.<\/p>\n<p><small>Photo by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/vox_efx\/\">vox_efx<\/a>, licensed under the Creative Commons by Attribution license.<\/small><\/p>\n<div class=\"sharedaddy sd-sharing-enabled\"><div class=\"robots-nocontent sd-block sd-social sd-social-icon-text sd-sharing\"><h3 class=\"sd-title\">Share this:<\/h3><div class=\"sd-content\"><ul><li class=\"share-email\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"\" class=\"share-email sd-button share-icon\" href=\"mailto:?subject=%5BShared%20Post%5D%20Voting%20for%20Wikipedia%27s%20license&body=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.bytebot.net%2Fblog%2Farchives%2F2009%2F04%2F18%2Fvoting-for-wikipedias-license&share=email\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to email a link to a friend\" data-email-share-error-title=\"Do you have email set up?\" data-email-share-error-text=\"If you&#039;re having problems sharing via email, you might not have email set up for your browser. 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I've been supporting the use of Creative Commons licensing on many of my works since 2004 (probably earlier, but with 2004 I am firm with the bytebot.net\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;General&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm9.staticflickr.com\/8497\/8334342464_315c6d339c_n.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":541,"url":"http:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/archives\/2007\/05\/01\/photograph-of-melanie-c-in-wikipedia","url_meta":{"origin":1446,"position":1},"title":"Photograph of Melanie C in Wikipedia","date":"1\/5\/2007","format":false,"excerpt":"The other day, I got interesting Flickr mail. It was from a Wikipedia writer, who wanted to use a Flickr image of mine for an article. Whoote! I was pretty excited. One thing I found odd, was that the licensing should only be Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike. You can't have the\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;General&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1232,"url":"http:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/archives\/2008\/12\/15\/house-of-cards","url_meta":{"origin":1446,"position":2},"title":"House of Cards","date":"15\/12\/2008","format":false,"excerpt":"This is a beautiful song. Its on replay through my speakers, a lot recently (you'll know if you follow me on last.fm). That is, the single from Radiohead, titled the House of Cards. 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Anything that comes from Bernama tends to be pro-government.\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;General&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":913,"url":"http:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/archives\/2008\/08\/05\/cleaning-out-my-tabs","url_meta":{"origin":1446,"position":4},"title":"Cleaning out my tabs","date":"5\/8\/2008","format":false,"excerpt":"With my MacBook Air, I aim to have less tabs open... Its got something to do with having 2GB of RAM, maybe. Yebber Maybe I like somewhat ditsy looking girls, but if you've never seen Lunch with Yebber I highly recommend it. Good food within Singapore is the aim. Only\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;General&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":500,"url":"http:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/archives\/2007\/03\/28\/recent-photo-uploads","url_meta":{"origin":1446,"position":5},"title":"Recent photo uploads","date":"28\/3\/2007","format":false,"excerpt":"In this month's PDN, Paul Buckley, vice-president executive art director at Penguin books, states: \"When he's using stock, he tends to go first to Photoeye and Flickr.\" I wonder if they uphold the Creative Commons licensing.I've posted some sets and new photos in general:Sng & Susan's Wedding & Reception in\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;General&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]}],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1446"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1446"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1446\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1448,"href":"http:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1446\/revisions\/1448"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}