In <s>details</s> footnotes lies Satan, as always ;-):
Geoff Brigham, 27/09/2013 00:44:
[6] Board approval is probably necessary since we registered the logo in light of a Board resolution. After the Community logo was adopted as the official Meta logo, it was added to the list of Wikimedia logos in September 2008. In April 2009, the Board of Trustees adopted a resolution<https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Resolution:Trademark_statement>directing WMF staff “to register and protect the Wikimedia marks.” The Board can provide clarification whether we should or should not register the Community mark based on the results of the community consultation.
Yes, the Board can and should clarify that, however you don't *need* a board resolution to abandon this (unsolicited) trademark registration. Otherwise, you would have two severe paradoxes. 1) I don't know what's the WMF "rank of sources of law", but I'm rather sure that an edit to some wiki page is not superior to a resolution and can't alter its content, so it can't be integral part of a resolution which doesn't explicitly quote it. 2) If you need a resolution for /not/ registering the community logo, do you have a resolution for 2a) NOT recovering hundreds of well known squatted domains (sometimes highly disruptive), 2b) NOT registering Wikimedia Commons, Wikiquote, Wikibooks, Wikispecies, ...?
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