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Yell threatens to shut down Yellowikis

05-Jul-2006

From Wikinews comes this story:

Yell, the worlds biggest yellow pages publisher, today threatened to shut down Yellowikis, the wiki based yellow pages directory.

Yell accused Yellowikis co-founders Paul Youlten and Rosa Blaus (his 15 year-old daughter) of "misrepresentation", "passing off" and suggested that using the name Yellowikis could "constitute an 'instrument of fraud'."

Yell is demanding that Paul and Rosa close down the website, transfer the domain names to Yell and agree to pay damages to Yell for loss of profits. Yell made $2.4bn in 2005, whereas Yellowikis had a loss of $500. The $500 was used to print T-shirts promoting Yellowikis at the Wikimania conference in Frankfurt.

Paul Youlten said: "This threat from Yell to shut us down looks like a sign of desperation. The whole yellow pages industry is in crisis. Use of the paper directories is collapsing as people get broadband Internet connections in their homes. Small and medium sized businesses are beginning to notice that their customers are ringing them up and saying 'I found you on Google' and not 'I found you in the yellow pages'."

Rosa Blaus said: "Maybe they are a bit jealous of Yellowikis because we allow companies to add videos, skype IDs, email addresses, instant messaging, in as many categories and languages as they like for free."

Rosa Blaus suggested to her father that they set up Yellowikis after she noticed small businesses were deleted from Wikipedia for not being "encyclopaedic".

Yellowikis has been growing at 8.7% month-on-month and has 494 editors and about 5,000 articles listed.

The threat of legal action came after an article published in The Independent newspaper mentioned Yellowikis.

Description

Yellowikis is a business directory, aiming to be like Yellow Pages, Dun and Bradstreet and Hoovers all rolled into one - but in an open, freely editable wiki format, for both companies and users. Global, multilingual and a lot more ecologically friendly!

The site launched in January 2005 and the directory is still quite empty. Add your favourite companies to it!

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Yellowikis est un répertoire d'entreprises, visant à devenir comme les Yellow Pages, Dun and Bradstreet et Hoovers tout en un - mais sur un format ouvert, librement éditable ala wiki tant pour les sociétés que les utilisateurs. Global, multilingue et beaucoup plus amical sur le plan écologique !

Le site s'est lancé en janvier 2005 et le répertoire est encore tout à fait vide. Ajoutez-y vos sociétés favorites !

Additional categories

• French
• Arabic
• Czech
• Danish
• German
• Spanish
• Italian
• Hungarian
• Dutch
• Japanese
• Polish
• Portuguese
• Roman
• Russian
• Finnish
• Swedish
• Thai
• Ukrainian
• Chinese
• Chinese Traditional

see also: Wikipedia:Yellowikis