On Thu, Oct 2, 2008 at 10:14 AM, David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com wrote:
2008/9/30 Alison Wheeler wikimedia@alisonwheeler.com:
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.
Semi-automatic, possibly like the one spoken of in this blog post:
http://www.promotionalcodes.org.uk/750/wtf-coupon-code-for-wikipedia-i-dont-...
- d.
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Thank you David, I'm still laughing at that.
-Chad
PS, I blogged it too: http://anyonecanedit.org/blog/2008/10/wikipedia-just-got-cheaper-to-use/