On 5/8/07, GerardM gerard.meijssen@gmail.com wrote:
Anthony, The "Stichting Open Progress" owns the domain "WiktionaryZ". We were told by the Wikimedia Foundation that we could not use the name WiktionaryZ for our project when it sadly became clear that our project would, for now, not be a WMF project. Consequently we had to suffer the pain of renaming / rebranding our project to OmegaWiki. We own the domain and it is still generating traffic ..
Thank you for this info. To clarify something which I had to look up, "Stichting Open Progress is the Dutch not for profit organisation that is the legal organisation behind OmegaWiki."
It apparently is *not* a for-profit enterprise as I had incorrectly assumed.
Anthony
Almost all occurrences of the name WiktionaryZ have been changed to OmegaWiki except for some pointers that indicate that we have a history. This history is ours. It is as unthinkable for the WMF to use the phrase WiktionaryZ as it is indeed our domain.
For Erik there is no conflict of interest as the name WiktionaryZ is no issue at all; we do not use it. On an organisational level, Open Progress and the Wikimedia Foundation are in my opinion sister organisations who work very much together to achieve the same or similar goals. The role that Erik plays in the Stichting Open Progress and the role that Erik plays in the Wikmedia Foundation is known to both organisations. So when there is a potential conflict of interest it is a declared conflict of interest.
The technology and the data of OmegaWiki are respectively Free Software and Open Content. We aim to provide technology and we hope / expect that this functionality we are developing in Open Progress will be used where applicable.
Thanks, Gerard Meijssen Voorzitter Stichting Open Progress
On 5/8/07, Anthony wikilegal@inbox.org wrote:
Erik, according to your page on meta you work for the company OmegaWiki, which owns the domain name wiktionaryz.org. Wouldn't you say that there is a conflict of interest here in your proposal of a plan which would severely dilute or destroy the Wiktionary trademark?
Anthony
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