I looked closer at the copyright situation. The copyright footer on the page I quote accurately, but the “create page” dialog has this commentary:
Please note that all contributions to EA Wiki are considered to be released under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported (see EA Wiki:Copyrights for details). If you do not want your writing to be edited mercilessly and redistributed at will, then do not submit it here.
You are also promising us that you wrote this yourself, or copied it from a public domain or similar free resource. Do not submit copyrighted work without permission!
That sounds less equivocal about the permitted licenses, and sounds like I can’t have a CC BY-NC-SA thing there.
Original content is available under the CC-0 licence unless otherwise noted. Logos, taglines, and other non-original content is owned by their respective entities, who may request removal by contacting an administrator.
which seems in contradiction with both the footer and the dialog :/
I’ll find someone I can contact to ask for clarification, and I’ll post again here if I make any progress.
There is no one central person to own the EA Wiki right now. I’m happy to change the license or have someone else change it, since the current license is just the default one from MediaWiki.
I looked closer at the copyright situation. The copyright footer on the page I quote accurately, but the “create page” dialog has this commentary:
That sounds less equivocal about the permitted licenses, and sounds like I can’t have a CC BY-NC-SA thing there.
Meanwhile, that EA Wiki:Copyrights link actually says:
which seems in contradiction with both the footer and the dialog :/
I’ll find someone I can contact to ask for clarification, and I’ll post again here if I make any progress.
There is no one central person to own the EA Wiki right now. I’m happy to change the license or have someone else change it, since the current license is just the default one from MediaWiki.