Hi all,
In the Legal and Community Advocacy team, we would like to open a community discussion about our trademark policy and practices. In our view, they can be clarified, and we want to hear your thoughts on updating them in a way that reflects the values of the community. Our trademark policy and practices should facilitate the broadest possible uses of the Wikimedia trademarks to further our mission [1]. At the same time, they also need to preserve the trademarks that represent the hard work of the community.
An introductory statement posted here [2] is meant to launch this discussion and to invite you to share your ideas on the talk page [3] as to how you would like us to approach this question. If we may ask, please repost the statement widely on our projects and translate it into multiple languages, http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Trademark_practices_discussion [2], so that as many as possible can participate in the discussion.
Based on your comments, we intend to draft a new trademark policy and share it with you for your input, as we did with the Terms of Use [4]. We expect this process to take several months as we hear different points of view and work together to prepare a potential new policy. Our hope is that this could be the most collaborative, creative, and international drafting of a trademark policy to date.
As always, we are grateful for your help and wisdom.
Geoff & Yana
General Counsel
Legal Counsel
Wikimedia Foundation