---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Strainu strainu10@gmail.com Date: Tue, Dec 9, 2008 at 4:45 PM Subject: Donating/offering domain wikipedia.ro for use To: foundation-l-owner@lists.wikimedia.org

Hi,

I'm ro:Utilizator:Strainu. I would like to forward here an email sent on wikitech-l by a colleague, as I think it's more appropriate to post it here.

Short background: the ro.wp community obtained use of the wikipedia.ro domain and we were discussing the options about what to do with it. The original messages can be seen at:

http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2008-November/040285.html (and the following)

http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2008-December/040554.html (the message below)

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In that context, I have a couple of questions for the list:

1. Can we use the Wikipedia trademark in the absence of a local chapter?

We'd obviously abide by the same principles as Wikipedia (no ads, Wikipedia-centric content, collaborative management by the ro.wiki community), but I don't want to risk the odd legal trouble over such a minor issue.

2. Is there any framework available for collaborative development that

we can use? We could probably open a Sourceforge project, but I'd rather keep things in house if possible (and I have no intention of setting up repositories and interfaces for this purpose on my own).

Thank you, Gutza

Best Regards, Strainu