On 13 July 2011 01:32, Alec Conroy alecmconroy@gmail.com wrote:
Prompted by discussions in another thread, I ask a related question--
;1-- A roadmap towards affiliation
How should a currently-unaffiliated project go about becoming 'part of' Wikimedia?
One easy step they could take would be to simply say, on their website, "This site considers itself to be part of the Wikimedia Movement". (alternate text welcome )
That would be a trademark violation. We should protect our trademarks. We don't want them associated with just any project. The Foundation, or its delegate, needs to approve any affiliations. Letting anyone call themselves part of the movement could cause us significant harm since an affiliation doesn't just say that the project supports us, but that we support the project. We don't want people claiming we support them unless we actually do.