~ajhalili2006's Personal Wiki:Migration guides/Licensing considerations when moving to Miraheze

Due to differences in the versions of Creative Commons suite of licenses Miraheze and Wikia/Fandom use (might also apply to other wiki hosts too), your community should consider the legal side of content licensing, even before the migration process. While feedback from fellow Miraheze users are being taken and applied to this essay, please treat this as for informational purposes and not a legal advice (Copyright laws across boarders cause me and others legalese headaches, so it’s best to have a US/UK/local attorney available for contact.).

Please be reminded that content under the former license version is still valid, so long as it still exists and reachable within the internet.

Option 1: Request for license change at wiki config level via Phabricator
If you chose to stay within the same CC license version, it is best to communicate with the global sysadmins at Phabricator about the needed changes to the wiki config.

Option 2: Relicensing or dual-licensing
I would not recommend implementing an Contributor License Agreement-styled setup for wikis and other open contribution documentation sites, but it is best to allow the contributors themselves to decide whenever to relicense all of the contributions (excluding media content) under the new license version.

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