effe iets anders wrote:
Today there was a question in the Dutch Pub about
whether a certain
website would be allowed to use the wikipedia logo. I don't want to go
into details, not do I want an answer now, but I just wanted to check
it on the official Logo Policy of the WMF.
I searched on the for me most logical place, [[m:logo]], and found,
after a lot of searching and help through IRC, these urls:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Logo_and_trademark_policy
http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Wikimedia_visual_identity_guidelines
The second is policy, and deals a lot on *how* to use the logo. Was
nice, but not for the questions i needed an answer on. I needed to
know *when* a company, foundation, community, person is allowed to use
the logo. The first appeared not to be official policy. It was usefull
in principle, but I couldn't direct people to there, as it wasn't
official. (can't check because of db-down when it was last changed)
To my best knowledge, there is already quite some time a trademark
committee (since february 2006?), of whom I thikn they could be taking
care of this.
Hello Effe.
They could have, but actually did not.
Is there a reason why this policy is waiting this
long? Is the
foundation currently working on this, is there already a resolution
waiting maybe even? Is the Trademark committee indeed responsible and
working on this issue? I don't want the proposal to be half-good, but
I want the discussion going on, and get a good result as soon as it is
possible. I hope this is something that hase not disappeared from your
thoughts yet.
There is infortunately no resolution cooking as of today. We listed the
issue as one of the topic to discuss at the board retreat.
If you have ideas or a "draft" of concept to provide to help us proceed,
it will be welcome.
Greetz, Lodewijk
Cheers
ant