I love it. 0 users, 10 articles, much copyviolation and trademark abuse. ( 0 Benutzer; 10 Artikel; viele Urheberrechts- und Markenrechts(?)verletzungen )
At least they're good enough to list their names and contact details on the main page: http://www.wikimania.co.uk/wiki/index.php?title=Hauptseite
"Willkommen in der Wikimania!
Die Wikimania ist keine freie Enzyklopädie. Jeder eingeladene User kann mit seinem Wissen beitragen und die Artikel direkt im Browser bearbeiten. Seit November 2005 haben wir 10 Artikel in deutscher Sprache verfasst. Gute Autoren sind immer willkommen – die ersten Schritte sind ganz einfach! ...Weitere Informationen zur Wikimania"
http://www.wikimania.co.uk/wiki/index.php?title=Wikimania:%C3%9Cber_Wikimani... http://www.wikimania.co.uk/wiki/index.php?title=Spezial:Recentchanges
If the term isn't being pursued for protection yet, it should be... should this have gone to info-de instead?
++SJ
I'm no German expert, but doesn't "keine" mean not or negative? Thus stating "the Wikipedia is not a free encyclopedia"? Or am I missing something? The rest (of the text) seems pretty kosher. Is the problem that they're stealing our copyright, or what's the problem? Why not contact them about perhaps using MediaWiki software, and registering a .de instead of .co.uk domain? I'd gladly write it, aber mein Deutsch ist krank, (User de-1),and such.
On 12/1/05, SJ 2.718281828@gmail.com wrote:
I love it. 0 users, 10 articles, much copyviolation and trademark abuse. ( 0 Benutzer; 10 Artikel; viele Urheberrechts- und Markenrechts(?)verletzungen )
At least they're good enough to list their names and contact details on the main page: http://www.wikimania.co.uk/wiki/index.php?title=Hauptseite
"Willkommen in der Wikimania!
Die Wikimania ist keine freie Enzyklopädie. Jeder eingeladene User kann mit seinem Wissen beitragen und die Artikel direkt im Browser bearbeiten. Seit November 2005 haben wir 10 Artikel in deutscher Sprache verfasst. Gute Autoren sind immer willkommen – die ersten Schritte sind ganz einfach! ...Weitere Informationen zur Wikimania"
http://www.wikimania.co.uk/wiki/index.php?title=Wikimania:%C3%9Cber_Wikimani... http://www.wikimania.co.uk/wiki/index.php?title=Spezial:Recentchanges
If the term isn't being pursued for protection yet, it should be... should this have gone to info-de instead?
++SJ
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mysekurity wrote:
I'm no German expert, but doesn't "keine" mean not or negative?
That text is no longer on the page.
contact them about perhaps using MediaWiki software
They're already using MediaWiki 1.5.1. They're trying to build a special-interest encyclopedia of large companies, which currently consists of exactly 3 pages, main page included.
Part of their logo, however, is a distorted version of the Wikipedia logo, which I believe is not kosher; whoever contacts them to request they change their logo should also press them to change the name of the project.
Ivan Krstic wrote:
That text is no longer on the page.
Actually, nevermind. I was looking at the wrong page. Yes, that sentence means "the Wikimania is not a free encyclopedia", which I assume is a typo.
Gotcha.
That text is no longer on the page.
I was referring to what SJ sent in the e-mail, rather than what was on the page. I guess this isn't the best thing for them to be doing, but what should we do? I think we might want to contact the German higher-ups as SJ suggested. Why don't we have domain ownership of wikipedia.co.uk or wikipedia.de? (our biggest languages, I'd guess). Oh well, thanks for responding.
On 12/1/05, Ivan Krstic krstic@fas.harvard.edu wrote:
mysekurity wrote:
I'm no German expert, but doesn't "keine" mean not or negative?
That text is no longer on the page.
contact them about perhaps using MediaWiki software
They're already using MediaWiki 1.5.1. They're trying to build a special-interest encyclopedia of large companies, which currently consists of exactly 3 pages, main page included.
Part of their logo, however, is a distorted version of the Wikipedia logo, which I believe is not kosher; whoever contacts them to request they change their logo should also press them to change the name of the project.
-- Ivan Krstic krstic@fas.harvard.edu | 0x147C722D _______________________________________________ Wikimania-l mailing list Wikimania-l@Wikipedia.org http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimania-l
(recieved your message just after I sent mine). Okay, but still, how to go about doing this?
On 12/1/05, mysekurity mysekurity@gmail.com wrote:
Gotcha.
That text is no longer on the page.
I was referring to what SJ sent in the e-mail, rather than what was on the page. I guess this isn't the best thing for them to be doing, but what should we do? I think we might want to contact the German higher-ups as SJ suggested. Why don't we have domain ownership of wikipedia.co.uk or wikipedia.de? (our biggest languages, I'd guess). Oh well, thanks for responding.
On 12/1/05, Ivan Krstic krstic@fas.harvard.edu wrote:
mysekurity wrote:
I'm no German expert, but doesn't "keine" mean not or negative?
That text is no longer on the page.
contact them about perhaps using MediaWiki software
They're already using MediaWiki 1.5.1. They're trying to build a special-interest encyclopedia of large companies, which currently consists of exactly 3 pages, main page included.
Part of their logo, however, is a distorted version of the Wikipedia logo, which I believe is not kosher; whoever contacts them to request they change their logo should also press them to change the name of the project.
-- Ivan Krstic < krstic@fas.harvard.edu> | 0x147C722D _______________________________________________ Wikimania-l mailing list Wikimania-l@Wikipedia.org http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimania-l
mysekurity wrote:
Why don't we have domain ownership of wikipedia.co.uk or wikipedia.de?
We do have ownership over both domains, and they redirect to the proper subdomains on wikipedia.org. Please notice that the domain in question here is wikimania.co.uk.
Yeah sorry. Like Ivan, I noticed after I sent my message. I can understand why we have the wikipedia.de domains and not the wikimania, but is this a copyvio? I assume we have the legal right to remove it, correct?
On 12/1/05, Ivan Krstic krstic@fas.harvard.edu wrote:
mysekurity wrote:
Why don't we have domain ownership of wikipedia.co.uk or wikipedia.de?
We do have ownership over both domains, and they redirect to the proper subdomains on wikipedia.org. Please notice that the domain in question here is wikimania.co.uk.
-- Ivan Krstic krstic@fas.harvard.edu | 0x147C722D _______________________________________________ Wikimania-l mailing list Wikimania-l@Wikipedia.org http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimania-l
As for the German part of that company I cannot find an "Impressum" so there website is against German law and they could be also cited for that. (Is that the right expression?)
This indeed harms Wikipedia as it uses the Wikimania name - isn't that name protected? if not: you will not be able to do too much about it I suppose...
Ciao, Sabine
SJ wrote:
I love it. 0 users, 10 articles, much copyviolation and trademark abuse. ( 0 Benutzer; 10 Artikel; viele Urheberrechts- und Markenrechts(?)verletzungen )
At least they're good enough to list their names and contact details on the main page: http://www.wikimania.co.uk/wiki/index.php?title=Hauptseite
"Willkommen in der Wikimania!
Die Wikimania ist keine freie Enzyklopädie. Jeder eingeladene User kann mit seinem Wissen beitragen und die Artikel direkt im Browser bearbeiten. Seit November 2005 haben wir 10 Artikel in deutscher Sprache verfasst. Gute Autoren sind immer willkommen – die ersten Schritte sind ganz einfach! ...Weitere Informationen zur Wikimania"
http://www.wikimania.co.uk/wiki/index.php?title=Wikimania:%C3%9Cber_Wikimani... http://www.wikimania.co.uk/wiki/index.php?title=Spezial:Recentchanges
If the term isn't being pursued for protection yet, it should be... should this have gone to info-de instead?
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