On 4/19/07, Slim Virgin <slimvirgin(a)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