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
>
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Samuel Klein @metasj w:user:sj +1 617 529 4266
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
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.
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.