From: Sabine Cretella <scretella@wikimedia.org>

Date: September 27, 2007 12:49:03 AM GMT+03:30

To: anthere@wikimedia.org

Cc: Erik Moeller <erik@wikimedia.org>,  Sandra Ordonez <sordonez@wikimedia.org>, Sue Gardner <sgardner@wikimedia.org>, Cary Bass <cbass@wikimedia.org>,  Hessam Armandeh <armandeh@gmail.com>, Gerard Meijssen <gerard.meijssen@openprogress.org>

Subject: Re: fa.wikipedia and me wearing two hats this time

Hi Anthere,

Let's see if I get it right this time

I guess my question was not clear... Let me say it differently.

What will the donor get in exchange of giving the money ? Will he name the articles he wants improved ? Will he have a say on the final articles ? Will he get a link to a certain website as a "thank you" ?

In short, what does he gain from the deal ? How much control does he have ?

If the donor wants to be publicly mentionned, how will that happen ?

If I understand well, you are not waiting anything from WMF ? Simply informing us ? Right ?

The donor will get the already translated articles in the main namespace with the links like indicated. The list of articles + links to them can be found here:

http://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%88%DB%8C%DA%A9%DB%8C%E2%80%8C%D9%BE%D8%AF%DB%8C%D8%A7:%D9%BE%D8%B1%D9%88%DA%98%D9%87%D9%94_%D9%85%D8%AA%D8%B1%D8%AC%D9%85%D8%A7%D9%86

The only thing to be checked is that the articles are moved + present the links as requested. Of course we are aware of the fact that the articles are going to be edited by the community and therefore eventually changed, but that is what happens to every Wikipedia article, so that is fine.

He will not be mentioned, he will not get any link. The donor does not want to be publicly mentioned.

As to control: the control about the articles remains with fa.wikipedia - that is only natural since any Wikipedia works this way - there cannot be any control by a single person and the donor knows this.

And yes, we are only informing you in order to not create problems.

Does this help?

Thanks and have a great evening!

Cheers, Sabine