George Boeree | Fwd: [Ticket#2006050710006827] Use of wikipedia symbol

Begin forwarded message:

> From: "Wikimedia Foundation" <board@w...>
> Date: May 9, 2006 5:54:26 AM EDT
> To: "George Boeree" <cgboer@s...>
> Subject: Re: [Ticket#2006050710006827] Use of wikipedia symbol
>
> Dear George Boeree,
>
> Thank you for your mail.
>
> George Boeree <cgboer@s...> wrote:
>
>> Hello!
>>
>> The Lingua Franca Nova group is working towards an application for a
>> wikipedia in our constructed language by developing an independent
>> wiki to demonstrate our intent.  We would like to use a symbol that
>> incorporates the letter-globe wikipedia symbol (see below) and are
>> asking your permission to do so.


>
> I am afraid the use of the Wikipedia logo is not possible in these
> conditions.
> Wikipedia is a registered trademark of the Wikimedia Foundation,
> Inc. and used
> solely on the projects operated by the Foundation.
>
> The Wikipedia Logo is copyrighted by the Foundation and we only
> exceptionally
> allow its use for purely informational ppurposes (newspaper
> articles etc.).
>
> I nevertheless thank you for taking the time to ask, many people do
> not even
> bother to do so. I wish you great success in your project and hope
> you come up
> with a nice different  logo that will represent you better than the
> Wikipedia
> Logo would.
>
> Yours sincerely,
>
> Delphine Ménard
>
> --
> Wikimedia Foundation
> http://wikimediafoundation.org/
>
[Non-text portions of this message have been removed]