\o/ Nice!
and I'm wondering how they will sue for importing content that is on free license... On 6 September 2012 10:21, Alice Wiegand <awieg...@wikimedia.org> wrote: > Hi all, > > on behalf of the Board of Trustees I'm glad to announce the following > statement about the travel guide RfC > http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/Travel_Guide : > > > Through the RfC, it is clear our community has reached consensus in > favor of the creation of a travel guide. The Board supports the > community decision to create a dedicated project for the collection of > free multilingual travel resources. We believe there is an enormous > amount of space for multiple wiki-based projects with travel content > and welcome the contributions of community members from around the > world. > We look forward to having a project that can provide additional > content for other travel sites to reuse and benefit from, which we > believe this site will do. > > As a project supported by the Wikimedia Foundation, it will be subject > to the movement vision, mission, and values, as well as the Foundation > Terms of Use and Privacy Policy. However, like all other Wikimedia > projects, the community of contributors is responsible for the > management and creation of the content, policies, rules, and > governance of the new project. The community will be responsible for > organizing the travel guide project, and once they have put all of the > necessary pieces together and provided them to the Foundation staff, > the Wikimedia Foundation will make the necessary technical adjustments > to support the site. We look forward to a new project and appreciate > the community taking the initiative to make this possible. > > As we have reported in a blogpost [1], Internet Brands has filed a > lawsuit against community members, and, in response, Wikimedia > Foundation has filed a complaint against Internet Brands [2]. This > lawsuit by Internet Brands is not going to intimidate the Foundation > or stop the process. > > [1] > http://blog.wikimedia.org/2012/09/05/wikimedia-foundation-seeks-declaratory-relief-in-response-to-legal-threats-from-internet-brands/ > [2] > https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/File:WMF_complaint_for_declaratory_judgement_September_2012.pdf > > Regards, Alice. > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list > Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l > -- Rodrigo Tetsuo Argenton rodrigo.argen...@gmail.com +55 11 97 97 18 884 _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l
