We in Belgium received a mail with a question if we want to work together
with a blockchain organisation. For us to develop that it is too much work,
and we suggested them to contact WMF to develop a system we could easily
adopt ourselves.
It can be interesting to use blockchain technology in our movement for
transparency purposes.
Romaine
Op vrijdag 27 april 2018 heeft Victoria Coleman <vcoleman(a)wikimedia.org>
het volgende geschreven:
Yes, the platform claim is far from accurate.
Best regards,
Victoria
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On Apr 27, 2018, at 7:27 AM, James Heilman
<jmh649(a)gmail.com> wrote:
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(a)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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