[Foundation-l] Wikipedia trademark being used incorrectly

Michael Snow wikipedia at earthlink.net
Thu Nov 18 04:27:58 UTC 2004


In an article on Slyck.com ( http://www.slyck.com/news.php?story=609 ), 
the author improperly refers to infoAnarchy as a "Wikipedia". The 
relevant excerpt reads:

> InfoAnarchy.org has been involved with the P2P community for a 
> considerable amount of time - about the same as Zeropaid and Slyck. 
> Like P2Pnet.net, InfoAnarchy.org contains an impressive amount of 
> original content written by owner Erik Möller. One of its major 
> accomplishments is an extensive Wikipedia 
> <http://www.infoanarchy.org/wiki/index.php/Main_Page> containing a 
> wealth of P2P and file-sharing information. Members of the site 
> maintain the Wikipedia. All InfoAnarchy.org needs is more frequent 
> news updates to make this a leading P2P news site.

I've already sent an email to Slyck in a public relations capacity, so 
we don't need to flood them with more. However, I think it would be 
helpful if Erik would also contact them, since he runs infoAnarchy, to 
help make sure this kind of confusion doesn't get perpetuated. Because 
Wikipedia is easily the largest and most recognizable wiki, we need to 
be vigilant against people misusing the Wikipedia name if we intend to 
protect our trademarks.

--Michael Snow



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