Hello all (cc Yana, Michelle, Geoff, legal, board). In a formal poll[1] proposed by two admins, the it.wiki community has decided the following:
«The Italian Wikipedia community considers that, among all the actions in defense of its name (as in public image and trademark) pertaining to the Wikimedia Foundation, the maximum priority should be given to recovering the domain wikipedia.it (and if possible its "sisters") and therefore asks WMF to follow one or more of the legal paths suggested by the experts to that purpose, using the funds assigned by the WMF board for 2013-14.» https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Sondaggi/Recupero_domini_a_nome_Wikipedia
The decision has been taken 132:1:4 which seems to be the largest absolute margin ever reached by a poll on it.wiki; the funds in question are the "$700K to upgrade the trademark portfolio".[2]
Quick background: * the domain wikipedia.it has been registered by a commercial hosting provider in 2003; WMIT members and others have been in contact with him since 2004 but he never replied; * since 2006, the domain displays an ad banner "hosted by Yepa" on top (in 2006-9 it also "trapped" the user in it via a frame), of which the WMF is aware since 2006-12-14 (and has been reminded several times): this makes many users[3] who believe it our official domain think that Wikipedia is a for-profit effort. WMIT, to serve the community's concerns, has sent an official complaint to NIC.it in 2009 but the registration is formally correct (via their ad hoc "Wikipedia Italy Association") so only the trademark owner (WMF) can proceed with one of the 3 remaining legal tools (including challenging procedure and arbitrage), as summarised by a document kindly provided to the WMF by .mau., one of the authors of the NIC.it rules. The last known concrete action taken by the WMF has been the extension of the trademark to Italy in 2007, by Florence (thanks Florence!).
Nemo
[1] The last resort decision-making official tool which on it.wiki overrides any decision past and future until revoked by another poll with same requirements. [2] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_Plan_2013-14#2013-14_Plan_Finances_and_Staffing [3] About 43 visits per minute that we were able to count via a JavaScript trick by Pietrodn in april 2009.
On 11/13/13 10:01 AM, Federico Leva (Nemo) wrote:
Hello all (cc Yana, Michelle, Geoff, legal, board). In a formal poll[1] proposed by two admins, the it.wiki community has decided the following:
«The Italian Wikipedia community considers that, among all the actions in defense of its name (as in public image and trademark) pertaining to the Wikimedia Foundation, the maximum priority should be given to recovering the domain wikipedia.it (and if possible its "sisters") and therefore asks WMF to follow one or more of the legal paths suggested by the experts to that purpose, using the funds assigned by the WMF board for 2013-14.» https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Sondaggi/Recupero_domini_a_nome_Wikipedia
The decision has been taken 132:1:4 which seems to be the largest absolute margin ever reached by a poll on it.wiki; the funds in question are the "$700K to upgrade the trademark portfolio".[2]
Quick background:
- the domain wikipedia.it has been registered by a commercial hosting
provider in 2003; WMIT members and others have been in contact with him since 2004 but he never replied;
- since 2006, the domain displays an ad banner "hosted by Yepa" on top
(in 2006-9 it also "trapped" the user in it via a frame), of which the WMF is aware since 2006-12-14 (and has been reminded several times): this makes many users[3] who believe it our official domain think that Wikipedia is a for-profit effort. WMIT, to serve the community's concerns, has sent an official complaint to NIC.it in 2009 but the registration is formally correct (via their ad hoc "Wikipedia Italy Association") so only the trademark owner (WMF) can proceed with one of the 3 remaining legal tools (including challenging procedure and arbitrage), as summarised by a document kindly provided to the WMF by .mau., one of the authors of the NIC.it rules. The last known concrete action taken by the WMF has been the extension of the trademark to Italy in 2007, by Florence (thanks Florence!).
De Nada.
(though not alone...)
Flo
Nemo
[1] The last resort decision-making official tool which on it.wiki overrides any decision past and future until revoked by another poll with same requirements. [2] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_Plan_2013-14#2013-14_Plan_Finances_and_Staffing
[3] About 43 visits per minute that we were able to count via a JavaScript trick by Pietrodn in april 2009.
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