2011/5/10 Kirill Lokshin kirill.lokshin@gmail.com:
The Foundation will help out as it's able, I'm sure; but it has never taken legal responsibility for funding/organizing/etc. the previous Wikimania conferences, and is quite unlikely to do so now, for a variety of legal and financial reasons.
Ok, I didn't know that the Wikimedia Foundation hasn't assumed legal responsibility for previous Wikimania conferences. It seems odd to me, given that Wikimania is the premier event for the foundation. But if that is really the case, it makes perfect sense why there was this rush to incorporate as a non-profit.
//Ed