[Foundation-l] Wikimedia Foundation logo policy

[Anthere]

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