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
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