While the WMF accepts bitcoin this claim is definitely concerning
"the Wikimedia Foundation reinforces its leading status by widely integrating blockchain technology on its platform"
Have cc'ed Chuck from legal regarding potential trademark issues.
James
On Fri, Apr 27, 2018 at 8:23 AM, Devouard (gmail) fdevouard@gmail.com wrote:
Definitly confusing.
See also this : https://blog.request.network/r equest-network-project-update-april-27th-2018-partnership- with-wikimedia-woocommerce-plugin-c598372e9b58
Florence
Le 27/04/2018 à 15:49, geni a écrit :
According to their twitter feed they have announced a partnership with something called the "Request Network" for cryptocurrency donations. Also this article here
https://www.wikimedia.fr/2018/04/27/wikimedia-france-annonce -partenariat-fondation-request-network-accepter-donations- crypto-monnaies/
Ok. I don't approve but I'm not french so not its not an area where I can reasonably expect anyone to pay any attention to my opinions.
What concerns me is that they have retweeted something claiming the partnership is with the wikimedia foundation rather than just wikimedia france:
https://twitter.com/wikimedia_fr?lang=en
Is some form of clarification possible?
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