--- Michael Snow <wikipedia(a)earthlink.net> wrote:
In an article on
Slyck.com (
http://www.slyck.com/news.php?story=609 ),
the author improperly refers to infoAnarchy as a
"Wikipedia". The
relevant excerpt reads:
InfoAnarchy.org has been involved with the P2P
community for a
considerable amount of time - about the same as
Zeropaid and Slyck.
impressive amount of
original content written by owner Erik M�ller.
One
of its major
accomplishments is an extensive Wikipedia
<http://www.infoanarchy.org/wiki/index.php/Main_Page>
containing a
wealth of P2P and file-sharing information.
Members of the site
maintain the Wikipedia. All
InfoAnarchy.org needs
is more frequent
news updates to make this a leading P2P news
site.
I've already sent an email to Slyck in a public
relations capacity, so
we don't need to flood them with more. However, I
think it would be
helpful if Erik would also contact them, since he
runs infoAnarchy, to
help make sure this kind of confusion doesn't get
perpetuated. Because
Wikipedia is easily the largest and most
recognizable wiki, we need to
be vigilant against people misusing the Wikipedia
name if we intend to
protect our trademarks.
--Michael Snow
Is there any good reason why we don't place a trade
mark symbol (or registered trade mark, if appropriate)
next to the word "Wikipedia" at the top of each page?
Or somewhere? I know the symbol is not needed for the
word to be a trademark, but I think the symbol would
help reinforce to various parties that the word is
indeed a trademark.
Seems like a simple step. Can't see that it would
hurt.
-Rich Holton
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