[Wikimedia-l] Recovering wikipedia.it: top 1 trademark priority per it.wiki poll

[Florence Devouard]

On 11/13/13 10:01 AM, Federico Leva (Nemo) wrote:
> Hello all (cc Yana, Michelle, Geoff, legal, board).
> In a formal poll[1] proposed by two admins, the it.wiki community has
> decided the following:
>
> «The Italian Wikipedia community considers that, among all the actions
> in defense of its name (as in public image and trademark) pertaining to
> the Wikimedia Foundation, the maximum priority should be given to
> recovering the domain wikipedia.it (and if possible its "sisters") and
> therefore asks WMF to follow one or more of the legal paths suggested by
> the experts to that purpose, using the funds assigned by the WMF board
> for 2013-14.»
> <https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Sondaggi/Recupero_domini_a_nome_Wikipedia>
>
>
> The decision has been taken 132:1:4 which seems to be the largest
> absolute margin ever reached by a poll on it.wiki; the funds in question
> are the "$700K to upgrade the trademark portfolio".[2]
>
> Quick background:
> * the domain wikipedia.it has been registered by a commercial hosting
> provider in 2003; WMIT members and others have been in contact with him
> since 2004 but he never replied;
> * since 2006, the domain displays an ad banner "hosted by Yepa" on top
> (in 2006-9 it also "trapped" the user in it via a frame), of which the
> WMF is aware since 2006-12-14 (and has been reminded several times):
> this makes many users[3] who believe it our official domain think that
> Wikipedia is a for-profit effort.
> WMIT, to serve the community's concerns, has sent an official complaint
> to NIC.it in 2009 but the registration is formally correct (via their ad
> hoc "Wikipedia Italy Association") so only the trademark owner (WMF) can
> proceed with one of the 3 remaining legal tools (including challenging
> procedure and arbitrage), as summarised by a document kindly provided to
> the WMF by .mau., one of the authors of the NIC.it rules.
> The last known concrete action taken by the WMF has been the extension
> of the trademark to Italy in 2007, by Florence (thanks Florence!).
>

De Nada.

(though not alone...)

Flo


> Nemo
>
> [1] The last resort decision-making official tool which on it.wiki
> overrides any decision past and future until revoked by another poll
> with same requirements.
> [2]
> <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_Plan_2013-14#2013-14_Plan_Finances_and_Staffing>
>
> [3] About 43 visits per minute that we were able to count via a
> JavaScript trick by Pietrodn in april 2009.
>
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