i'm considering the option of changing the license on a wiki, if possible, as an effort to get away from fandom by preventing new and updated content from being put on the fandom wiki. is this feasible? and if so, how do i go about it? are there better options? are there any drawbacks?
#what's the full process of changing the license of a wiki's content? and is it a good idea?
woeful frigate
viral pawn
You need permission from anyone whose made an edit before to change the license of existing contributions
wise forge
every single person?
Yep. Everyone who has made nontrivial changes need to be on board.
With that said if your wiki uses CC BY-SA 4.0 it is already difficult to port changes back to Fandom which still uses CC BY-SA 3.0. 3.0 and 4.0 are one way compatible.
woeful frigate
oh ok
woeful frigate
would i be able to relicense images that were posted to fandom and moved to the miraheze wiki, and then claim that fandom doesn't have the rights to use them?
wise forge
would i be able to relicense images that were posted to fandom and moved to the ...
If you have made adaptations to the original image and license the new image under CC BY-SA 4.0, then it would be harder for the Fandom wiki to use the adapted version, but they still can.
I strongly recommend learning more about the CC license if you want to rely on it.
woeful frigate
alright
wooden yacht
If you have made adaptations to the original image and license the new image und...
Legally, they can't use the adapted version, as long as it is changed to 4.0, since Fandom is under CC BY-SA 3.0
CC licenses aren't backwards compatible
wise forge
Legally, they can't use the adapted version, as long as it is changed to 4.0, si...
You can always add a notice on the page that says "this page is licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0". And images in particular can be licensed separately from articles.
Maybe I'll finish https://meta.miraheze.org/wiki/User:PetraMagna/CC some day. Probably need to run it through T&S for some screening though.
wooden yacht