Licensing vote results announced, resolution passed
License update, Google Translate, GLAM conference, Paid editing
15 June 2009
Licensing vote results announced, resolution passed
25 May 2009
Licensing vote begins
13 April 2009
Community weighs license update
30 March 2009
License update, Commons cartoons, films milestone, and more
16 March 2009
News and notes: Elections, licensing update, and more
8 February 2009
GFDL 1.3 released, will allow Wikimedia migration to Creative Commons license
17 November 2008
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The results of the site-wide licensing vote were announced on May 21st, by Robert Rohde on the Foundation-l mailing list and on Meta. The results were as follows:
| "Yes, I am in favor of this change" | 13242 | 75.8% |
| "No, I am opposed to this change" | 1829 | 10.5% |
| "I do not have an opinion on this change" | 2391 | 13.7% |
| Total votes cast and certified | 17462 | |
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If "no opinion" votes are not included, the Yes/No percentage becomes 87.9%/12.1% (15071 votes).[1]
The Wikimedia-wide vote, which was advertised on all projects, was conducted between April 12 and May 3, 2009. The vote was managed by volunteers associated with the licensing update committee and conducted on servers controlled by the independent non-profit SPI. The standards for voting was making at least 25 edits to any Wikimedia project prior to March 15, 2009.