[WikiEN-l] Related to Mav's WM? (was: Announcing Wikimedia Foundation)

[Daniel Mayer]

Menchi wrote:
>1) Is this the formalization of the Wikimedia website 
>that Mav has talked about, i.e., to facilitate interwiki 
>image link with a common database? Or is this just 
>a namesake?

So far it is just a Foundation. Adding a central repository for images would 
simply be another Wikimedia project (just like Wikipedia or Wiktionary) that 
would happen to be hosted at the wikimedia.org domain. And it would also be 
neat to have a WikimediaONE login whereby all logins are managed at the 
wikimedia.org domain and logging-in once means you are logged-into each 
Wikimedia project. 

>2) What happened to wikimedia.com? I thought Mav bought 
>that site?

A cyber-squatter bought wikimedia.com last month! I'm really p*ssed. But I do 
own wikimedia.org (which would be the only URL we would use anyway) and will 
transfer ownership to Wikimedia as soon as it is able to accept it. In 
retrospect I should have bought the .com at the same time but I didn't think 
anybody would bother buying the .com domain since I thought cyber-squatting 
died-off with the tech bust. 

Now that we have a corporation with the name "Wikimedia" that does give us a 
leg to stand on if we contested the squatter's ownership. 

Jimbo - we should plan on eventually trademarking Wikipedia, Wiktionary and 
Wikimedia and have those trademarks owned by the Wikimedia Foundation. 

-- Daniel Mayer (aka mav)