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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 missionhttps://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Mission_statement[1]. At the same time, they also need to preserve the trademarks that represent the hard work of the community.

An introductory statement posted herehttp://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Trademark_practices_discussion[2] is meant to launch this discussion and to invite you to share your ideas on the talk pagehttp://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Trademark_practices_discussion[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 Usehttp://blog.wikimedia.org/2011/12/31/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

Geoff Brigham http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Geoffbrigham

General Counsel

Yana Welinder https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/User:YWelinder_(WMF)

Legal Counsel

Wikimedia Foundation

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[1] https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Mission_statement **

[2] http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Trademark_practices_discussion **

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[3] http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Trademark_practices_discussion * *

[4] http://blog.wikimedia.org/2011/12/31/terms-of-use/ **

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