Lord Voldemort wrote:

On 6/3/06, Jimmy Wales jwales@wikia.com wrote:

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I agree that the Wikimedia Foundation can have no position on such an issue. We are neutral, politically.

Well, the more recent of the bills, H.R.5417, is a bi-partisan bill. So it's not 'really' that huge of a "political" issue.

What's relevant, from a nonprofit organization's point of view, is not whether the bill is "bipartisan". Merely the fact that it's a bill proposed in a legislature makes it political, in the sense that it would potentially involve the Foundation in political lobbying. Any such involvement would have to be done carefully and in a limited fashion to preserve nonprofit status. Probably not based on generalized philosophical sympathies, but focused on issues that are specifically relevant to our mission.

--Michael Snow