I'm confident to see soon a Wikimedia Medicine as the model for some
other thematic organizations, and I am curious how it will evolve.
Maybe I will never understand what is a "foundation" in the US. In the
Netherlands or Germany, we distinguish between an association (with
members) and a foundation (without members, only the board members).
In the US, it seems, both can be a "foundation" and decide wether to
allow members or not.
Kind regards
Ziko
PS: I did not invent the abbreviation "thorg", and I only learned
later that "thorg" exists in the Marvel and WoW universes. :-)
2012/12/29 James Heilman <jmh649(a)gmail.com>om>:
Hum yes. We wanted Wikimedia Medicine, than where not
able to get
permission to us Wikimedia so changed it to Wiki Medicine, NY state did not
like Medicine (and if we wanted to use it we needed permission from some
medical board) so abbreviated that as well giving us Wiki Med. NY state
added the Foundation Inc. bit.
The hope is to one day operate under the name Wikimedia Medicine. Hopefully
with a bit of paper work this can be achieved.
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James Heilman
MD, CCFP-EM, Wikipedian
The Wikipedia Open Textbook of Medicine
www.opentextbookofmedicine.com
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