On 12/9/05, Tom Cadden thomcadden@yahoo.ie wrote:
Has Wikipedia ever got professional legal advice? A lot of the legal analysis I hear on WP seems to be amateur interpretation of statutes, or comments by people who say they are lawyers but who, because of their anonymous status, may not be, or who may be undergraduate legal students.
Wikimedia does have legal advice. See http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Legal_department for a list of lawyers who are volunteering to help us. All are subscribers to a closed mailing list where foundation legal issues can be discussed, and to which anyone is free to post. See http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Juriwiki_mailing_list for details.
Angela.