On 12/5/06, Earle Martin wikipedia@downlode.org wrote:
On 05/12/06, Jim Schuler jim62sch@gmail.com wrote:
On 12/5/06, Earle Martin wikipedia@downlode.org wrote:
As far as I am aware, neither Wikipedia nor the Wikimedia Foundation are the United States.
Are you speaking "virtually" as in "it's on the 'net", or
physically?" Last
I saw, Wiki was a Private Foundation und the Internal Revenue Code of
the
US, filing its tax forms (990's) from Florida.
If you read my statement more carefully, you will notice that I did not say "are *in* the United States".
(ObOldTimerGrouch: "Wiki" has long been the proper name of the WikiWikiWeb, not Wikipedia.)
-- Earle Martin http://downlode.org/ http://purl.org/net/earlemartin/
My bad, I mentally inserted the "in". You're correct in that respect -- Wikipedia is *not* the US. However, by filing its tax returns from Florida, it is subject to the laws of the US, although for internet policies, any other country can place its own restrictions/regulations on Wikipedia as a "virtual" entity.
I guess all of us non-old-timers (under two years or so?) are guilty then -- pretty much all of us refer to it as Wiki.