Anthere wrote:
>I think that in this case, Foundation holding the US trademark and
>european one will be sufficient.
>Jimbo just told me that the US one was approved and the other underway.
>
>
For clarification, I believe the current situation is that we have
submitted the application to register Wikipedia as a trademark in the
US. The application was filed last month, but I don't believe it is
approved yet, as it still needs to be reviewed by the Patent and
Trademark Office and published to see if anyone objects to registration.
Actual registration can take up to a year or longer. We certainly
consider Wikipedia a trademark, whether registered or not, but I
recommend that people be careful not to claim that it is registered at
this point.
Once we have the initial registration in place, this should help us
expedite other registrations that may be necessary, such as the EU.
Based on international agreements, I believe that once the trademark is
recognized, additional registrations can be backdated to the earliest
registration date.
As far as I know, trademark registration is not necessary in order to
register domain names anywhere. However, it may be helpful in recovering
squatted domain names.
--Michael Snow
This is certainly something that needed clarification, especially regarding current trademark license deals like the one with MandrakeSoft. Thanks God I didn't mention "Wikipedia" was a patented trademark in the draft though I was sur it was ... Anyhow, any kind of trademark license will be clearer and safer with a patented trademark.
villy
> For clarification, I believe the current situation is that we have
> submitted the application to register Wikipedia as a trademark in the
> US. The application was filed last month, but I don't believe it is
> approved yet, as it still needs to be reviewed by the Patent and
> Trademark Office and published to see if anyone objects to registration.
> Actual registration can take up to a year or longer. We certainly
> consider Wikipedia a trademark, whether registered or not, but I
> recommend that people be careful not to claim that it is registered at
> this point.
>
> Once we have the initial registration in place, this should help us
> expedite other registrations that may be necessary, such as the EU.
> Based on international agreements, I believe that once the trademark is
> recognized, additional registrations can be backdated to the earliest
> registration date.
>
> As far as I know, trademark registration is not necessary in order to
> register domain names anywhere. However, it may be helpful in recovering
> squatted domain names.
>
> --Michael Snow
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OVH is now the owner of www.wikipedia.fr
The question is "is it a friendly reservation" or have we just lost our domain name ?
It was still free about a month ago. Look at the date of reservation by Bruckert.
It was only 3 weeks ago.
We were so near creating the association :-(
Less than a month and we could have finally got it :-(((((
Does anyone know OVH and can negociate with them ?
If this was not a friendly reservation and they request a big bunch of dollars to offer it back to us, what do we do ? Bad press ?
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Nous avons perdu www.wikipedia.fr
Quelqu'un connait il OVH et est il possible que cela soit une r�servation "amicale" ?
Sinon, que fait on ?
Anthere
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Jimmy (Jimbo) Wales wrote:
>I just wanted to make sure that this gets the widest possible
>distribution. I'm not sure if announcements have been made in other
>languages, but hopefully this conference will be widely discussed in
>all languages.
>
>It's going to be amazing! Start saving your money now, no one should
>miss it. :-)
>
>
Well, I'll start saving, but on a student's stipend it might be 2007
before I save up enough money to travel to Europe...
[Wonders when we can begin lobbying for Wikimeetup 2006 to be west of
the Atlantic. =]
-Mark
I have read on this list some time ago about a new future version of the
GNU/FDL license. Special modified for the use of this license on Wikipedia.
Is there news about this?
[[w:gebruiker:walter]]
Hi
To help organisers, it would be best that those
interested in participating mention their name here :
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania%3AParticipants
Naturally, this is not "registration", but it will
provide useful information to make decisions upon
accomodation, size of rooms etc...
Please, also mention the cities in which you would
come (in comparison to those you would not - in case
this makes a huge difference :-)), and mostly,
indicate periods preferences.
Thanks for the organisers.
PS : We'll set into place an multilingual information
network asap, but right now errr... let's manage with
bits of boxes and string. Help in all committees is
welcome :-)
anthere
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Hello,
a short report from the meeting on IRC yesterday. After a semi-public
question & answers session about the candidates we discussed the
different opportunities among the committee members.
It became we clear that we need detailed plans as a basis for the final
decision, but to save the participants unnecessary work, we decided to
narrow down the list to three candidates which appeared the most
promising to us: Dublin, Frankfurt and Rotterdam.
It was hard (and very sad :-(, for my part) to sort out the Eastern
European cities, main reasons for this decision were that there are not
enough local people to help and the difficult travel situation for
people from overseas even when the offers looked very beautiful.
The final city will be chosen in two weeks from now.
The rest of the meeting was about organization in general: we'll divide
the work up in different teams. Below is the first draft with the fields
and the people who volunteered for each job. If you'd like to help in a
certain field, please contact these people:
* conference program (Angela)
* sponsorships (Jimbo)
* finances (Oscar)
* PR (N.N.)
* social activities (Danny)
* information in the projects (Anthere)
* website & registration (Brion)
* technics (local)
greetings,
elian
Okay i have just gone through all the last bajllion emails from this
list in the last couple of days when i should have been editing
[[victor chang]], but never mind.
firstly, re: wikinews, it will be released under GFDL yes? which means
that if CNN or BBC or ABC or NZBC or the guardian or even slashdot or
a blog wanted to reproduce our wikinews article, then they would have
to also reproduce the entire GFDL license (or did i read the GDFL
incorrectly), which may well be twice as long as the news article. Has
anyone else thought of this problem and come up with any solutions.
Other than this my position on wikinews is not active support, but
certainly close interest.
secondly, What the hell is the difference between wikicommons and
wikisource? They both seem to me to be depositories for pd/gfdl
primary sources.
thirdly, who's bright idea was it to make a user in wikipedia not a
user in wiktionary, metawiki, etc. (and vice versa), is it too late to
make every user a cross-wiki user, or are there already cross-overs
(for example a [[user:jondoe]] in wiktionary and a different user but
with the name [[user:jondoe]] in wikibooks?
fourthly, yes parenthisis are wonderful things. (perhaps this is in
reply to en.wikpedia list, i cant remember)
fifthly, what would wikiverstiy offer that wikibooks doesnt? i fail to
see how a wiki is capable of producing anything that a university
offers other than text books (and class notes ect.). How is it going
to be able to do dems and pracs, and class discussions?
I really want to like the idea of wikiversity, but I'm gonna need some
clarifying before ill do that.
sixthly, there is no sixthly.
paz e amor,
the bellman.
Hello,
Just for information: There are currently two german grant applications
underway for wikiversity, one from a Berlin university and one from an
institution in Stuttgart. The Berlin proposal was drafted on Meta-wiki
(http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikiversit%C3%A4tSkizze2). Not sure if
we really get them, though.
greetings,
elian
I thank you Erik for this clearer proposal.
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikinews
I have two comments to make with regards to it.
"A Wikinews project in a language will be started under two conditions: a) that the language is accepted as one of the Wikimedia project languages, b) that there is at least one person who expresses an interest in working on that language edition."
I wish that this requirement is modified.
One person interested is not enough if only for one single reason : if only one person is editor, he will also have to be the one person making all policies, and the one doing the validation and publication. There will be no feedback and no control. No discussion either.
This is not a wiki, but a blog.
This mean that any pov pusher can ask for a wikinews, announced himself big chief, and go wild.
So, I would like that this requirement is a bit changed, so as to increase the number of minimal interested people. Note that if 5 people are found, and only 1 contribute, we find ourselves in the same situation.
And this is doubly dangerous, as the articles will be protected after a while.
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The second point has to do with liability. If an article contains an error, but may not be corrected after a week, we will be liable.
And this time, we wont be able to say "there is a incorrect statement ? Please, do correct it".
Putting a correction in an attached page wont do it either. Because other sites will use our content, and they are not likely to bother go check error corrections mentionned in another page. This type of "correction" work well in paper journal. It just is not okay online.
Anthere
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