[Foundation-l] Wikipedia trademark being used incorrectly

Fri Nov 19 16:37:23 UTC 2004

--- Delirium <delirium at hackish.org> wrote:
> Well, I do think Wikimedia has picked a rather poor naming scheme in 
> terms of enforcing a unique brand, although I'm not sure what to best do 
> about it.  The scheme is essentially Wiki____, where the ____ is the 
> project-specific name, but that's a completely generic naming scheme, 

No more generic than 'The New York Times.' 'New York' is generic, and 'Times'
is one of several generic names for newspapers. Yet put together it is a very
enforceable trademark. 

> because we are not the inventors, owners, or exclusive users of the 
> prefix "wiki".  This leads to a confusing situation where an arbitrary 
> Wiki____ may or may not be a Wikimedia project, and there's no way of 
> knowing without investigating.

That is easy to fix. Just put "A Wikimedia project" below the logo of each of
our projects. 

-- mav

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