Thomas Dalton wrote:
No WMF is a service provider. Publisher is the author.
I emailed the FSF about Wikipedia's compliance with the GFDL (short answer: he couldn't see any real problem, although it wasn't a lawyer I was talking to) and the person the replied considered WMF to be the publisher, and I agree with him. Just because they claim to be just a host doesn't make it so.
You should correct that misconception wherever you find it. There are important legal considerations and issues surrounding the Foundation's liability if they are deemed a publisher.
The Foundation publishes very little; it is the *contributors* who use servers and resources provided by the Foundation who publish. You don't hold a company who offers free blog space responsible as a publisher, and the Foundation relies on the same provisions to protect them from being sued.
Brian McNeil