Hi Jens,
No we will not put ads. It is for academic purposes only.

bilal


On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 3:33 PM, Jens Frank <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 02:41:14PM -0500, Bilal Abdul Kader wrote:
> > Greetings,
> > I have been searching online for the possibility of using the name
> wikipedia
> > to name a server but I could not find information about this anywhere.
> >
> > Basically, we are duplicating the enwiki locally at Concordia and
> searching
> > whether we are allowed to use wikipedia.concordia.ca for the server.
> >
> > Is this allowed?
> > Is there any policy on the usage of the name?
>
> Wikipedia is a registered trademark of the Wikimedia Foundation. In
> general this means that you can't use the word wikipedia to name your
> website.
>
> IANAL.
>
> Something else, why do you want to set up a Wikipedia mirror? Most people
> do it in order to sell ads, but I can't imagine that Concordia University
> is trying to earn money with ads.
>
> Regards,
>
> jens
>
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