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WMF Trademark Abuse notification Meta-Wiki form errors due to no valid email (recipient account is globally locked)
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Description

Wikimedia Trademark policy informs people that they can use this Contact Form to report Wikimedia Trademark violations.

As can be seen at the current configuration in rOMWC Wikimedia - MediaWiki Config; the recipient is set to use the account User:WMF Trademark Abuse but that account is currently globally locked (which disables email) so nobody can use the licenseabuse form linked in the Governance wiki.

Error message:

This user has not specified a valid email address.

Two options are possible:

  1. Remove the Form from Meta and the links to it in the Governance wiki, leaving only the legal-tm-vio email address to report infringements, or
  2. Change the recipient of the Special:Contact page from WMF Trademark Abuse to other WMF account with a valid email, so the form is active again; or
  3. Re-enable WMF Trademark Abuse and adjust its email address to a valid one.

I guess this is for WMF-Legal to decide, so tagging them here.

Thanks.

Update 2020-12-15

Given T269781#6693399, form configuration should probably be removed and run a fetch, retrieve and delete operation for Special:Contact/licenseabuse.

Event Timeline

As the WMF-Legal project tag was added to this task, some general information to avoid wrong expectations:
Please note that public tasks in Wikimedia Phabricator are in general not a place where to expect feedback from the Legal Team of the Wikimedia Foundation due to the scope of the team and/or nature of legal topics. See the project tag description.
Please see https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Legal for when and how to contact the Legal Team. Thanks!

In T269781#6679990, @Herald wrote:

As the WMF-Legal project tag was added to this task, some general information to avoid wrong expectations:
Please note that public tasks in Wikimedia Phabricator are in general not a place where to expect feedback from the Legal Team of the Wikimedia Foundation due to the scope of the team and/or nature of legal topics. See the project tag description.
Please see https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Legal for when and how to contact the Legal Team. Thanks!

I know I'm replying to Herald ({H373}) but nonetheless this is to confirm that I was aware of the above, and that I've pointed this task to them already using the appropriate channels. Thanks.

As I assume no one can easily access that account, see below for the currently associated email (posting publicly, as the contact address for such purposes is public anyway):

[urbanecm@mwmaint1002 ~]$ getemail.sh WMF_Trademark_Abuse
legal-tm-vio@wikimedia.org
[urbanecm@mwmaint1002 ~]$

According to https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_Legal_department, that's still the correct email address to use, unless that page is also outdated of course.

Thanks for bringing this to our attention! We'd like to remove the form and just have the legal-tm-vio@wikimedia.org address as the point of contact for reporting infringements. Many thanks!

Thanks for bringing this to our attention! We'd like to remove the form and just have the legal-tm-vio@wikimedia.org address as the point of contact for reporting infringements. Many thanks!

Okay. In that case, could you remove it from https://foundation.wikimedia.org/wiki/Trademark_policy#trademark-violation to remove the link? Thanks!

Thanks @RStallman-legalteam.

@Urbanecm I have an account on foundationwiki so I can do it myself if no one else beats me to do it.

I assume it'd be better if WMF legal did that themselves, to "certify" the decision :-).

I did it anyway before seeing your message (diff) and linked to T269781#6693399 in the summary so it should be enough proof. The form was non-functioning anyway so this removes lack of certitude.

Change 649862 had a related patch set uploaded (by Urbanecm; owner: Urbanecm):
[operations/mediawiki-config@master] MetaContactPages: Remove licenseabuse contact page

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/649862

Change 649862 merged by jenkins-bot:
[operations/mediawiki-config@master] MetaContactPages: Remove licenseabuse contact page

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/649862

Mentioned in SAL (#wikimedia-operations) [2020-12-16T12:21:27Z] <urbanecm@deploy1001> Synchronized wmf-config/MetaContactPages.php: 0c651a6adc2d07b4163fba47109a5070884e7f54: MetaContactPages: Remove licenseabuse contact page (T269781) (duration: 01m 03s)

Urbanecm claimed this task.

Contact form removed.