--- Delirium <delirium(a)hackish.org> wrote:
Well, I do think Wikimedia has picked a rather poor
naming scheme in
terms of enforcing a unique brand, although I'm not sure what to best do
about it. The scheme is essentially Wiki____, where the ____ is the
project-specific name, but that's a completely generic naming scheme,
No more generic than 'The New York Times.' 'New York' is generic, and
'Times'
is one of several generic names for newspapers. Yet put together it is a very
enforceable trademark.
because we are not the inventors, owners, or exclusive
users of the
prefix "wiki". This leads to a confusing situation where an arbitrary
Wiki____ may or may not be a Wikimedia project, and there's no way of
knowing without investigating.
That is easy to fix. Just put "A Wikimedia project" below the logo of each of
our projects.
-- mav
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