[Wikimedia-l] It's time to reclaim the community logo

2013-09-21 Thread Tomasz W. Kozlowski
Hello community, this is to inform you that in response to the trademarking of the Wikimedia community logo[1], created in 2006 by Artur “WarX” Fijałkowski, which was discussed on this mailing list[2] as well as on Meta[3] back in March, a small group of community members—Artur, myself,

[Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] It's time to reclaim the community logo

2013-09-21 Thread Tomasz W. Kozlowski
Hello community, this is to inform you that in response to the trademarking of the Wikimedia community logo[1], created in 2006 by Artur “WarX” Fijałkowski, which was discussed on this mailing list[2] as well as on Meta[3] back in March, a small group of community members—Artur, myself,

Re: [Wikimedia-l] It's time to reclaim the community logo

2013-09-21 Thread Lodewijk
I'm very sorry to see that it had to come to this (imho) radical step. I however can agree with your analysis - I have always felt very uncomfortable since I found out (after the fact of course) that the legal department had made the decision to register this as a trademark. This went against the

[Wikimedia-l] Fwd: Pitch In! Oral History transcription pilot

2013-09-21 Thread Craig Franklin
Hi All, Folk interested in Wikisource and/or libraries might be interested in this update from an interesting project being run with WMAU at the moment. Cheers, Craig Franklin -- Forwarded message -- From: John Vandenberg jay...@gmail.com Date: 21 September 2013 20:09 Subject:

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Commons-l] Fwd: It's time to reclaim the community logo

2013-09-21 Thread Maarten Dammers
Good luck guys. It's a shame that it has come this far, I hope this is the wake up call for the WMF that this wasn't the smartest thing to do. Maarten Op 21-9-2013 12:18, Federico Leva (Nemo) schreef: FYI Nemo P.s.: P.s.: You can check whether the WMF protects the logo of your project by

Re: [Wikimedia-l] It's time to reclaim the community logo

2013-09-21 Thread MZMcBride
Tomasz W. Kozlowski wrote: We also want to note that this is in no way a legal action against the Foundation, but a simple notice of opposition against the registration of the logo in the European Union. Hi. Thanks for writing this up. I have a few questions. Was the logo trademarked only in

Re: [Wikimedia-l] It's time to reclaim the community logo

2013-09-21 Thread Yana Welinder
Hi all, We have posted our response to this on the trademark policy discussion page and with a request to hold off opposition. We welcome your comments there:

Re: [Wikimedia-l] It's time to reclaim the community logo

2013-09-21 Thread Federico Leva (Nemo)
Yana Welinder, 21/09/2013 21:12: Hi all, We have posted our response to this on the trademark policy discussion page and with a request to hold off opposition. We welcome your comments there:

Re: [Wikimedia-l] It's time to reclaim the community logo

2013-09-21 Thread Nathan
Doesn't it seem a little unnecessarily confusing to have the same discussion copied, piece by piece, on to two separate talk pages? ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: