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@gmail.com:
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.
-- James Heilman MD, CCFP-EM, Wikipedian
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