On Fri, 20 Jun 2003, Jimmy Wales wrote:
[Could people please make unofficial translations of this for posting on *.wikipedia.org wikipedias?]
I'm pleased to announce the existence of the Wikimedia Foundation, Inc., a nonprofit corporation organized under the laws of Florida, United States. I am transferring to this new corporation the assets that follow:
Great news! Thanks, Jimbo.
Two thoughts you may want to add to your TODO list:
1. Once the merchant bank account is set up for the corporation, you may want to set up a PayPal account for donations over the Internet. (I'm not pushing PayPal per se -- I believe there are other companies that do the same thing, & may waive the handling fees for the tax deduction.)
2. If you continue to subsidize Wikipedia by paying for bandwidth & co-lo fees (I don't know where the servers are located), you may be able to deduct these costs too.
Just offering my input, Geoff