As far as my research goes &quot;Wikimedia Foundation (Inc.)&quot; is the name of the organisation. So I leave it untouched.<br><br>Because of need of the declension in Czech language, I use kind of pleonasm -- nadace Wikimedia Foundation (nadace = &quot;foundation&quot;).
<br><br>--<br>Zirland<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 12/30/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">habj</b> &lt;<a href="mailto:sweetadelaide@gmail.com">sweetadelaide@gmail.com</a>&gt; wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Different languages translate real names to varying degree. Do you<br>translate the name &quot;Wikimedia Foundation&quot; to your individual<br>languages, or do you leave it as it is?<br><br>For a start, I did translate &quot;Foundation&quot; to &quot;Stiftelsen&quot; (&quot;Wikimedia
<br>Foundation&quot; =&gt; &quot;stiftelsen Wikimedia&quot;). I took Wikimedia for the name,<br>and &quot;foundation&quot; 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 &quot;Foundation&quot;, and anyhow translations of true<br>names is a troublesome business. Currently I most of the time<br>
abbreviate it &quot;WMF&quot;, which seems smoother than writing &quot;Wikimedia<br>Foundation&quot; over and over in Swedish text.<br><br>Has this been discussed anywhere? Has the Board, or anyone else,<br>voiced opinions?
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