[Foundation-l] Wikipedia trade mark misuse

[David Gerard]

On 13 June 2010 17:22, Pedro Sanchez <pdsanchez at gmail.com> wrote:

> In other words, the use of "wiki" predates wikipedia (wikipedia gets
> its name since it was a encyclopedia using the wiki system)


(speaking only personally) The consistent WMF position has been that
"Wikipedia" is a proper name and a trademark - but "wiki" is a generic
word for "user-editable website" and anyone can use it.

So if they call it "wiki-" something, even if it's an encyclopedia,
that's fine, but if they call it "Wikipedia" or appear to be
associated with Wikipedia or WMF in a way they aren't, the Foundation
would probably ask them nicely to stop doing that.


- d.