Having a shop that is run with low overhead by someone who specializes in handling inventory and shipping, is a very good idea. I've had to do this both in-house and externally at a few organizations and when your shipping volume is as low as the WM Shop's currently is, it doesn't make sense to do it yourself. Economies of scale are tremendous until you reach the stage of having a large storage unit and are shipping thousands of items a day.
On Tue, Mar 22, 2016 at 12:07 PM, John Mark Vandenberg jayvdb@gmail.com wrote:
IIRC, there were several affiliates that were previously running a store, and naturally supporting the most relevant languages of their community. They were effectively shutdown, and localisation lost due to centralisation to the WMF.
Is this true? Please record any actual examples on: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Wikimedia_trademarks
The trademark policy provides a sound basis for this type of use of the trademarks, and could allow affiliates to re-open their own shops.
Yes. As far as I know, any affiliate that wants to run its own shop (for instance, including localized swag if they know inexpensive local manufacturers & want to set up in-country shipping to avoid international shipping fees) should be able to do so with minimal red tape.
SJ