Just a short flashback to what happened - Anthere, Erik and Sandra already know about this, but I don't know if Sue and Cary know - but since they also deal with the fundraiser I would like to inform them as well. Last year Open Progress received a project for the creation of contents for fa.wikipedia. Preparation time was very short, so the only viable way then was to translate articles from en.wikipedia. This was done. There were of course some discussions with the community and in a chat with Anthere, Erik, two of the translators (Kurosh and Reza), Hessam and another wikipedian from fa.wikipedia, Gerard and me we agreed that the articles were uploaded in a special namespace on fa.wikipedia. The articles are there. Now we have the situation that we have a donor who would pay an amount of 10 EUR in donations to the WMF if the community of fa.wikipedia looks at the articles, changes what needs changing, adds three incoming links and three outgoing links (blue links) - for 5 further blue outgoing links 1 EUR per article would be added. We would like to avoid to work with people who are not in wikimedia community here - and if possible also in future. Therefore we believe that this is a way how the community can freely work on articles without feeling that something is imposed from outside (like they felt last time) since it is up to them to decide how these articles are going to be integrated. The thought was that people in Iran cannot donate easily to WMF, but by helping to get these articles right and moving them into the main namespace we have a double effect: the work done was not useless, the articles get integrated into fa.wikipedia and the WMF will get the available money in terms of a donation. We are talking about 147 articles - that is approx. 1470 EUR for the foundation (or 147 EUR more depending on the outgoing links - or better wikilinks that lead to other articles). Eventually in future there could be other contents creation projects from our first donor - what I would like to do at this stage is really try to get into a good co-operation with people from fa.wikipedia who at this very moment probably don't see me in the best light. Well this can change. I hope they will understand that we are for involving them to avoid other ways of doing things and to get the money instead of getting them to translators to the WMF. I wrote first of all Hessam to know his opinion about dealing with it this way: he would communicate the "adapt and move" project to the fa.wikipedia community and then we would see how things go. So... this is the first time me wearing two hats ... Wikimedia Foundation and Open Progress. I know there will be other circumstances where I will need to do this and it is not always easy. I hope this way of dealing with this meet your approval. Hessam: please do not publish for now. I would like to wait two days if there is any opposition or other proposals by anybody who is copied in this mail. Thank you for helping :-) that's really great. For now have a nice evening! Going to get the kids to bed ... Best wishes from Italy, Sabine