At the same time, Wiki is not a trademarked term and the term "Foundation" is a pretty usual one as well (in particular if it is indeed a Foundation...).

On 12/29/12 6:05 PM, Kirill Lokshin wrote:

Samuel Klein wrote: > It seems guaranteed to cause confusion. > > "Wiki Med" strikes me as the second most confusing possible name for an > associated group. > The most confusing would be a multimedia / news organization named "Wiki > Media". > I hope the medical group will change its name officially and

Second most confusing? I guess you missed the wikitech-l thread about a possible "MediaWiki Foundation."

[snip] > Yes, what the world needs is another horribly confusingly named

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Hi, I think the thematic organizations are good for the movement. Could the naming of the affiliated thematic organizations be primary based on the Wikipedia Portal namespaces (from all the Wikipedia's in different languages)? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Portals With this "logic" the Wiki Med could be "Wikimedia Health". - Teemu On 28.12.2012, at 19.29, "Ziko van Dijk" <vandijk@wmnederland.nl<mailto:vandijk@wmnederland.nl>> wrote: Dear James, My sincere congratulations for this important step, and I am really very happy with a Wikimedia Medicine. But the name "Wiki Med Foundation" - I find the choice for that name just strange (I saw the discussion on Meta too late). "Wikimedia Health", by the way, would be as great as "Wikimedia Medicine". I understood that there problems in the State of New York to use "medicine" in the title. So, "Wiki Health" could have been an alternative until recognition from the AffCom. Kind regards Ziko 2012/12/29 James Heilman <jmh649@gmail.com<mailto:jmh649@gmail.com>>: Yes so Wiki Med Foundation Inc incorporated Dec 19, 2012 and we had our first official board meeting Dec 26, 2012. We have had expressed interest from 57 people from more than a dozen countries with a large group of interested members from India. Our 9 board members are from 7 different countries. Our first official event is being held January 7-11th at the University of California San Francisco in collaboration with Wikimedia Canada. We have been invited by the college of medicine to give a half dozen lectures on Wikipedia and Medicine and a few editing sessions where students and staff can try their hand at editing themselves. This is in preparation for an elective for 3rd and 4th year medical students which will resolve around contribution to Wikimedia projects hopefully to launch in the spring. Of course we are a new corporation, however our membership is composed of people who have extensive experience within the Wikimedia movement. Once we have had a chance to prove ourselves over the next 6 month we will re approach the aff com / Wikimedia movement to determine if an official association is desired. Currently as stated by Bence we are not officially associated. -- James Heilman MD, CCFP-EM, Wikipedian The Wikipedia Open Textbook of Medicine www.opentextbookofmedicine.com<http://www.opentextbookofmedicine.com> _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org<mailto:Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org> Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l -- ----------------------------------------------------------- Vereniging Wikimedia Nederland dr. Ziko van Dijk, voorzitter http://wmnederland.nl/ Wikimedia Nederland Postbus 167 3500 AD Utrecht ----------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org<mailto:Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org> Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l

On 29.12.2012, at 9.35, &quot;Birgitte_sb(a)yahoo.com&quot; &lt;Birgitte_sb(a)yahoo.com&gt; wrote: OK. I am sure in the US the World *Health* Organization is also seen by many as "scammy quacky bullshit that wants to pretend it is medicine for the $$$". :-) In other places the WHO is the international organization that is concerned with public *health*. -Teemu