Tony Sidaway wrote:
On 4/19/07, Slim Virgin slimvirgin@gmail.com wrote:
Lots of people believe that if they're threatened with violence or a lawsuit while carrying out work on behalf of Wikipedia, they can look to the Foundation for help.
Until today it had never occurred to me that some people might believe this. It's my failing that I didn't realise this, because it *does* make sense of a lot of people's actions on Wikipedia, which have seemed somewhat irresponsible to me--not least in their apparently wilful exposure of Wikimedia to potential third party liability.
I think the additional boilerplate makes sense too. It won't scare away every libeler, but it will clarify the situation for some who think that others will bear the consequences of bad actions.
Stan