Change 202926 had a related patch set uploaded (by Kaldari):
Removing ® from mobile wordmark

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/202926

Did this get Legal signoff in the end? Just double-checking since that's not documented in this card.

No, still waiting on sign-off from legal.

In T95007#1191972, @Deskana wrote:

Did this get Legal signoff in the end? Just double-checking since that's not documented in this card.

Thanks for flagging. Yana has provided advice via email.

Looks like legal isn't budging. The best we can get is removing the ® from the header, but not the footer, which would require having two separate configuration variables (which would be rather confusing for 3rd party users). I'm going to put this card back in Needs Analysis for now.

@kaldari: Most 3rd party users (it's not based on some data, just a feeling) doesn't use any trademark or anything in the name, so maybe we can use the actual config var for header and footer and introduce a new one, which defaults to the value of the old one (or null) and use it only, if it is set in LocalSettings.php? :)

Here's my latest idea... No trademark in the header. The trademark in the footer will be a text trademark symbol controlled by the $wgMFTrademarkSitename global variable. The potential variable values will be:

• false/null - no trademark symbol
• registered - ®
• unregistered - ™
• true (for backwards compat) - ™

Change 207318 had a related patch set uploaded (by Kaldari):
Improve trademark code in MobileFrontend

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/207318

Change 207318 merged by jenkins-bot:
Improve trademark code in MobileFrontend

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/207318

Change 202926 merged by jenkins-bot:
Removing redundant ® from mobile wordmark

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/202926

We are currently displaying the (R) on office.wikimedia.org, which is incorrect.

It would be better for office.wikimedia.org to display

Wikimedia® Office

rather than

Wikimedia Office®

Since I doubt anyone using Office Wiki is likely to infringe our trademarks, it should probably just be set to $wgMFTrademarkSitename = false. The ® isn't legally required. It's just a way to argue that we enforce our trademarks if we have to take someone to court.

Do you know where that config file is?

Change 320865 had a related patch set uploaded (by Kaldari):
Removing registered trademark symbol from footer of Office Wiki

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/320865

Change 320865 had a related patch set uploaded (by Kaldari):
Removing registered trademark symbol from footer of Office Wiki

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/320865

Change 320865 merged by jenkins-bot:
Removing registered trademark symbol from footer of Office Wiki

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/320865

Mentioned in SAL (#wikimedia-operations) [2016-11-11T00:18:22Z] <catrope@tin> Synchronized wmf-config/InitialiseSettings.php: Remove registered trademark symbol from officewiki footer (T95007) (duration: 00m 48s)