Yellowikis was a MediaWiki website collecting basic information about businesses. This information includes basic contact details such as company name, address, websites, and telephone numbers, as well as internal Yellowiki wikilinks to competitors. Image File history File links Yelwiki. ... Image File history File links Yelwiki. ... MediaWiki is a wiki software package licensed under the GNU General Public License. ... Website - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia /**/ @import /skins-1. ... Wikipedia does not yet have an article with this exact name. ...

Some users also enter a number of codes including a two letter country code as well as a Standard Industrial Classification, International Standard Industry Code and North American Industry Classification System. Some users are also adding geo codes and Skype ids. The Standard Industrial Classification was a United States government system for classifying industries by a four-digit code. ... NAICS, (pronounced nakes) is the North American Industry Classification System. ...

Yellowikis was launched in January 2005. As of February 2006, the Yellowikis main page had been translated into more than 20 different languages. 2006 is a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

Legal issues

A commercial business listing company Yell ^[1] wants the founders of Yellowikis Mr Paul Youlten and Rosa Blaus to shut down the site claiming that Yellowikis is "passing itself off" as being associated with Yell.com and that people will confuse the two organisations. ^[2] This might be considered to be anti-competitive. Yell's claim is given considerable weight by the slogan on Yellowiki's front page that they are "Yellow Pages for the 21st Century" although in their public protestations, Yellowikis claim that they are not trying to create association between themselves and Yellow Pages.^[3] Yell Group plc (LSE: YELL) is a British directory company, which is a constituent of the FTSE 100 Index of leading British quoted companies. ... Anti-competitive practices are business practices that prevent and/or reduce competition in a market. ...

However, a European court has already ruled that the two-word phrase "Yellow Pages", when used within Europe, cannot be considered the property of a single company. This might be seen as a demonstration of poor trademark registration rules, rather than an attempt at "passing off". Since "yellow pages" is a phrase used around the world to differentiate commercial listings from "white pages", non-commercial listings, it is almost universally treated as a genericized trademark that has long since passed into the public domain. In many countries, the Yellow Pages refers to a telephone directory for businesses organized by the category of product or service. ... Passing off is a common law tort which can be used to enforce unregistered trademark rights. ... A genericized trademark (Commonwealth English genericised trade mark), sometimes known as a generic trade mark, generic descriptor or proprietary eponym, is a trademark or brand name which is often used as the colloquial description for a particular type of product or service as a result of widespread popular or cultural...

The domain address currently redirects to http://www.owikis.org.uk/, which states "The trademark dispute between Yell Limited and Paul Youlten concerning the Yellowikis website has been satisfactorily resolved". The resolution apparently involves dropping the word Yell from the domain name, and the color yellow from the logo.

See also

• Yellow pages

In many countries, the Yellow Pages refers to a telephone directory for businesses organized by the category of product or service. ...

Further reading

• "Business Information in Wiki Format", ResearchBuzz, 2005-06-22.
• "Yellowikis", Competia, 2005-07-26.
• A wiki worth watching. totalitarianism today. Retrieved on 2005-10-07.
• S.Tabani. Why I think Yellowikis is a good idea. site spotlight. Retrieved on 2006-01-16.
• Emily Chang's eHub. eHub. Retrieved on 2005-10-09.
• Yellowikis - A Case Study of a Web 2.0 Business, Part 1
• Yellowikis: a Web 2.0 Case Study, Part 2 - Industry Disruption and The Competition
• Yellowikis: Demonstrating Web 2.0 principles
• "New Media: Who are the real winners now we've all gone Wiki-crazy?", The Independent, 2006-06-26. (Pay article)
• Yell threatens to shut down Yellowikis from Wikinews, 2006-07-05

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External links

• www.yellowikis.org

References

1. ^ Yell. Yellowiki. Retrieved on 2006-07-12.
2. ^ Legal threat to wiki listing site. BBC News (Wednesday, 12 July 2006). Retrieved on 2006-07-12.
3. ^ The Yellowikis Community (2006). Response to Yell. Yellowikis. Retrieved on 2006-07-14.