On 9/30/08, Alison Wheeler wikimedia@alisonwheeler.com wrote:
A quick check (try http://consumerreportingusa.org/ by itself) shows that the site is using the pagename requested *eg. 'wikipedia.htm') to generate which company it wants punters to think is recruiting.
In terms of trademark abuse it would be interesting (but ultimately pointless) to find out. There is 'automated processing' going on as they convert the URL into part of the text, but given that the user is - effectively - entering that name (or whatever other) then they could try to argue that it wasn't them that chose to use 'wikipedia' but the user, with them just re-formatting whatever the user had written.
Not true.
If I change "wikipedia.htm" to "google.htm" or "myspace.htm" or "youtube.htm" (or any other obscenely popular site I can think of) I get a 404.
This might not prove that there was a conscious decision to exploit the name "wikipedia" but as a logical conclusion it becomes exceedingly likely.
A more convoluted and less plausible explanation would be that an automated process generated a short list based on criteria (unknown to us) which "wikipedia" happens to fulfill.
Possibly litigation-proof but not razor-proof.
—C.W.