On Tue, Apr 30, 2013 at 1:12 AM, Florence Devouard anthere9@yahoo.comwrote:
What happens to the idea according to which the funds belong to the Wikimedia mouvement rather than to Wikimedia Foundation ?
I think this exact point is often overlooked. I actually have a fairly trivial way to look at the whole thing.
I think that people want to(, and) donate to Wikipedia. Wikipedia doesn't properly exist. So they donate to the people hosting the content of Wikipedia, and which cleverly entitled itself as the only entity capable to use the sitenotice for fundraising. As the sistenotice is probably the most visible place in the web (beside Google search page and Facebook blue bar), it was enough to get 90% (or maybe more) of donations from Wikipedia users. The WMF said that they deserved that right and took it. Every other WM entity was then to ask permission to them.
The problem, to me, is that we are not and they are not Wikipedia. So either everyone (asking community) has the right to use the sitenotice or neither of us.
Aubrey