[Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] Request for your thoughts on updating the Wikimedia trademark policy and practices

[Geoff Brigham]

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Hi all,


In the Legal and Community Advocacy team, we would like to open a community
discussion about our trademark policy and practices.  In our view, they can
be clarified, and we want to hear your thoughts on updating them in a way
that reflects the values of the community. Our trademark policy and
practices should facilitate the broadest possible uses of the Wikimedia
trademarks to further our
mission<https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Mission_statement>[1].
At the same time, they also need to preserve the trademarks that
represent the hard work of the community.

An introductory statement posted
here<http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Trademark_practices_discussion>[2]
is meant to launch this discussion and to invite you to share your
ideas on the talk
page<http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Trademark_practices_discussion>[3]
as to how you would like us to approach this question. If we may ask,
please repost the statement widely on our projects and translate it into
multiple languages,
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Trademark_practices_discussion [2], so that
as many as possible can participate in the discussion.


Based on your comments, we intend to draft a new trademark policy and share
it with you for your input, as we did with the Terms of
Use<http://blog.wikimedia.org/2011/12/31/terms-of-use/>[4]. We expect
this process to take several months as we hear different
points of view and work together to prepare a potential new policy. Our
hope is that this could be the most collaborative, creative, and
international drafting of a trademark policy to date.

As always, we are grateful for your help and wisdom.

Geoff & Yana


Geoff Brigham <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Geoffbrigham>

General Counsel


Yana Welinder <https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/User:YWelinder_(WMF)>

Legal Counsel

Wikimedia Foundation

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[1]  https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Mission_statement
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[2] http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Trademark_practices_discussion
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[3] http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Trademark_practices_discussion
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[4] http://blog.wikimedia.org/2011/12/31/terms-of-use/
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