Offline-l January 2014

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Re: [Offline-l] "appearance of a Wikipedia article" as a WMF trademark
by Samuel Klein 21 Jan '14

21 Jan '14

Section 5.3 seems to cover this as well. There is only a problem if, say, you use a similar logo and similar domain name. https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Trademark_policy#FAQ-fakearticle That said, to the extent that we care about not being confused with mirrors and forks, we should perhaps consider using a well-defined customization of Vector (with some colors and other visual features that are not the same as the default MediaWiki install) on the core WM sites. Then there would be even less of a chance of any confusion; or of any possibly unintended trademark conflict. SJ On Tue, Jan 21, 2014 at 6:13 PM, C. Scott Ananian <cananian(a)wikimedia.org>wrote: > Not having read the policy in depth, I'll say that the firefox project > (for example) handles this situation by reserving trademark rights, > but then granting very liberal automatic licenses to aspects of the > trademark if you meet certain conditions. So one might resolve the > situation with wikipedia by saying that the "appearance of the > article" is trademarked, but that mirrors/offline viewers meeting > certain guidelines (proper attribution? links to the source site?) get > an automatic license to the trademarked appearance. > > I hope that someone who is more knowledgeable about the trademark > policy will tell me if i'm on the right track, or whether some other > means of protecting offline readers is envisioned. > --scott > -- Samuel Klein @metasj w:user:sj +1 617 529 4266

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"appearance of a Wikipedia article" as a WMF trademark
by Federico Leva (Nemo) 21 Jan '14

21 Jan '14

In the draft trademark policy, we learn that «This policy applies to all trademarks of the Wikimedia Foundation. [...] One example is the specific design and appearance of a Wikipedia article, or the Wikipedia main page. The trade dress of any Wikimedia site is also a trademark of the Wikimedia Foundation.» https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Trademark_policy#FAQ-tradedress Has someone got explicit confirmation that this wording can't possibly ever mean that a ZIM/Kiwix dump reproducing "the specific design and appearance of a Wikipedia article" could theoretically be subject to a trademark authorisation? Nemo

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XOWA v1.1.1 released
by gnosygnu 08 Jan '14

08 Jan '14

v1.1.1 is a general release. It also happens to mark one full year of XOWA development (with 50+ releases) The files are available here: http://xowa.sourceforge.net/download.html These are the major changes since the last announcement (v0.11.0): * Offline thumbnails for English Wikipedia: 2013-11-04 and 2013-12-02 update * Offline thumbnails for German, French, and Polish Wikipedia * Offline packages (wikis + thumbnails) for English, German, French and Polish sister wikis. For a full list, see http://xowa.sourceforge.net/image_dbs.html * DynamicPageList improvements for Wikibooks, Wikiversity, Wikinews. * Auto-convert support for Chinese wikis * Search suggest improvement for more accurate results * Faster redlinks * New image cache for thumbnails * Mac OS X 64 bit build * Various minor parser fixes A full list of changes is available at [[Help:Change_log]] inside XOWA As always, any feedback is appreciated. Thanks.

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kiwix beta
by rupert THURNER 03 Jan '14

03 Jan '14

hi, would it be possible to have a second upload to google play store called "kiwix beta" to allow easier testing of new features. advantages: * no relaxing of the android phone security to install an apk from untrusted source * easy state the new features on the play page * automatic update notification to people interested in testing the new version rupert.

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