[Foundation-l] getting hired to work on Wikipedia? Make that a "website processing specialist"

Mon Sep 29 20:17:01 UTC 2008

> Not spam per se. More a fairly standard if reasonably well done
> working from home training scam. Not a vast amount we can do about it.
> They are probably breaking some kind of trading standard laws but well
> if those kind of laws were enforced online there would be far fewer
> pyramid schemes.

The WMF has "Wikipedia" trademarked, doesn't it? It looks like a cut
and dried case of trademark infringement to me. Whether it's worth
doing anything about isn't up to me, but I reckon something could be
done if it was wanted. (If memory serves, you have to actively defend
trademarks or risk losing them, although I'm not sure if that applies
to this kind of infringement - they aren't calling an encyclopaedia
"Wikipedia" so it's not making the name generic.)