I know that WMC would have a much wider scope than the one website; I have a lot of other ideas about future projects we may want to do in addition to a wikisource, but that idea is useful for giving our statement of intent the specificity that the government requires.
Presumably the name "Wikisource" is copyrighted, so it would make sense for the WMF to not let us use it until we became the official Canadian chapter, just to make sure we follow their rules when using it. Even if that's the case, it isn't a big obstacle; getting chapter status will be easier than getting incorporated. -Jeffery Nichols (Arctic.gnome)
On 26-Jul-09, at 7:39 PM, Ray Saintonge wrote:
Jeffery Nichols wrote:
I just realized that we have to become a chapter before Wikimedia will actually let us use the name "Wikisource" (though we don't have to get incorporated first).
Not necessarily.
So I guess now that we have a general idea of what Wikisource Canada will look like, we can use that information to finish the bylaws and then register with the WMF.
We are trying to set up a Wikimedia chapter, not a Wikisource chapter. In due course, maintaining a Canadian Wikisource is not the only thing that WMC could be doing; it's only the one that can be most easily identified.
The bylaws have been almost done for a long time now, and I'm sorry that I'm taking so long finishing them. Hopefully we'll be able to make them presentable before people go to Wikimania in August.
Most of the principal issues are indeed settled, though I think we could still do considerable work on specific wording.
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