In Turkish I translated it but also wrote the original name in parenthesis only one tıme where ıt fırst appears. Like:<br>Wikimedia Vakfı (Wikimedia Foundation)<br>then<br>"Wikimedia Vakfı" on rest of the text.<br>
<br>Dbl2010<br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 12/30/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Mohamed Ibrahim</b> <<a href="mailto:mido.architect@gmail.com">mido.architect@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
In Arabic we do translate as well --> مؤسسة ويكيميديا<br>however, some people transliterate it into Arabic --> ويكيميديا فونداشين<br>but the main way used on Meta right now or on WMF site is the first<br>check [[Foundation (charity)]] [1] entry on Wikipedia, I can see WMF is defined as a foundation not a company.
<br><br><div style="margin-left: 40px;"><span>A foundation is a type of philanthropic or charitable organization set up by individuals or institutions as a legal entity (a corporation or trust) with the purpose of distributing grants to support causes in line with the goals of the foundation or as a charitable entity that receives grants in order to support a specific activity or activities of charitable purpose.
<span style="text-decoration: underline;"> Wikimedia Foundation, Inc., parent organization of Wikipedia, is an example of the latter.</span></span><br><span></span></div><br>1.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foundation_(charity)
<div><span class="e" id="q_10fd42bd637356f7_1"><br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 12/30/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Pedro Sanchez</b> <<a href="mailto:pdsanchez@gmail.com" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">
pdsanchez@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
On 12/30/06, habj <<a href="mailto:sweetadelaide@gmail.com" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">sweetadelaide@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>> Different languages translate real names to varying degree. Do you
<br>> translate the name "Wikimedia Foundation" to your individual
<br>> languages, or do you leave it as it is?<br>><br>> For a start, I did translate "Foundation" to "Stiftelsen" ("Wikimedia<br>> Foundation" => "stiftelsen Wikimedia"). I took Wikimedia for the name,
<br>> and "foundation" as a description. Then I was told that WMF<br>> technically actually is not a foundation, but a non-commercial<br>> company. If the WMF actually is not a foundation it seems misleading
<br>> to translate the word "Foundation", and anyhow translations of true<br>> names is a troublesome business. Currently I most of the time<br>> abbreviate it "WMF", which seems smoother than writing "Wikimedia
<br>> Foundation" over and over in Swedish text.<br>><br>> Has this been discussed anywhere? Has the Board, or anyone else,<br>> voiced opinions?<br>><br>> /HB<br>> _______________________________________________
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