[Foundation-l] Wikipedia trademark being used incorrectly

Jens Ropers ropers at ropersonline.com
Fri Nov 19 16:55:34 UTC 2004


On 19 Nov 2004, at 17:37, Daniel Mayer wrote:
> --- Delirium <delirium at hackish.org> wrote:
>> we are not the inventors, owners, or exclusive users of the
>> prefix "wiki".  This leads to a confusing situation where an arbitrary
>> Wiki____ may or may not be a Wikimedia project, and there's no way of
>> knowing without investigating.

>> So you end up with the confusing situation where it's: Wikipedia?  
>> that's us.  Wikitravel?  that's someone else.  Wikibooks?  that's us. 
>>  Wikicities?  that's someone else. (etc.)

> That is easy to fix. Just put "A Wikimedia project" below the logo of 
> each of
> our projects.
>
> -- mav

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