[Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia Travel Guide: Board statement

[Florence Devouard]

To be fair, it's nice to see that they recognize their community has a 
value :)

Flo

On 9/6/12 4:40 PM, Rodrigo Tetsuo Argenton wrote:
> \o/
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> Nice!
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> and I'm wondering how they will sue for importing content that is on free
> license...
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> On 6 September 2012 10:21, Alice Wiegand <awiegand-AeOJrEpdGNeGglJvpFV4uA at public.gmane.org> wrote:
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>> Hi all,
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>> on behalf of the Board of Trustees I'm glad to announce the following
>> statement about the travel guide RfC
>> http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/Travel_Guide :
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>> Through the RfC, it is clear our community has reached consensus in
>> favor of the creation of a travel guide. The Board supports the
>> community decision to create a dedicated project for the collection of
>> free multilingual travel resources. We believe there is an enormous
>> amount of space for multiple wiki-based projects with travel content
>> and welcome the contributions of community members from around the
>> world.
>> We look forward to having a project that can provide additional
>> content for other travel sites to reuse and benefit from, which we
>> believe this site will do.
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>> As a project supported by the Wikimedia Foundation, it will be subject
>> to the movement vision, mission, and values, as well as the Foundation
>> Terms of Use and Privacy Policy. However, like all other Wikimedia
>> projects, the community of contributors is responsible for the
>> management and creation of the content, policies, rules, and
>> governance of the new project. The community will be responsible for
>> organizing the travel guide project, and once they have put all of the
>> necessary pieces together and provided them to the Foundation staff,
>> the Wikimedia Foundation will make the necessary technical adjustments
>> to support the site. We look forward to a new project and appreciate
>> the community taking the initiative to make this possible.
>>
>> As we have reported in a blogpost [1], Internet Brands has filed a
>> lawsuit against community members, and, in response, Wikimedia
>> Foundation has filed a complaint against Internet Brands [2]. This
>> lawsuit by Internet Brands is not going to intimidate the Foundation
>> or stop the process.
>>
>> [1]
>> http://blog.wikimedia.org/2012/09/05/wikimedia-foundation-seeks-declaratory-relief-in-response-to-legal-threats-from-internet-brands/
>> [2]
>> https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/File:WMF_complaint_for_declaratory_judgement_September_2012.pdf
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>> Regards, Alice.
>>
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