The current practice, in my experience, is maximum red tape. Pine On Mar 22, 2016 10:52, "Sam Klein" <[email protected]> wrote:
> Having a shop that is run with low overhead by someone who specializes in > handling inventory and shipping, is a very good idea. I've had to do this > both in-house and externally at a few organizations and when your shipping > volume is as low as the WM Shop's currently is, it doesn't make sense to do > it yourself. Economies of scale are tremendous until you reach the stage > of having a large storage unit and are shipping thousands of items a day. > > On Tue, Mar 22, 2016 at 12:07 PM, John Mark Vandenberg <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > > > IIRC, there were several affiliates that were previously running a > > store, and naturally supporting the most relevant languages of their > > community. They were effectively shutdown, and localisation lost due > > to centralisation to the WMF. > > > Is this true? Please record any actual examples on: > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Wikimedia_trademarks > > > > The trademark policy provides a sound basis for this type of use of the > > trademarks, and could allow > > affiliates to re-open their own shops. > > > > Yes. As far as I know, any affiliate that wants to run its own shop (for > instance, including localized swag if they know inexpensive local > manufacturers & want to set up in-country shipping to avoid international > shipping fees) should be able to do so with minimal red tape. > > SJ > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines > New messages to: [email protected] > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > <mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe> _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines New messages to: [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe>
