[cc to wikien-l, wikipedia-l and foundation-l - this is why the text
on the bottom of each page on en:wp is suddenly a bit longer ... I
shoulda found the MediaWiki message in question a month ago!]
On 08/12/06, florencedevouard <anthere(a)anthere.org> wrote:
David Gerard wrote:
>On 07/12/06, Brad Patrick <bradp.wmf(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>>I want to get your ideas on how we can take
this message forward as part of
>>our PR blitz for the fund drive. As I think back to the Atlantic and New
>>Yorker pieces, and even Mick Brown's piece, "the good ones" -
"charity"
>>wasn't really an emphasis. We have been a "phenomenon" - but not a
>>phenomenal charity.
>The message at the bottom of every page of English
Wikipedia says:
>"Wikipedia(r) is a registered trademark of the Wikimedia Foundation, Inc."
>How about:
>"Wikipedia(r) is a registered trademark of the Wikimedia Foundation,
>Inc., a US-registered 501(c)3 tax-deductible nonprofit charity."
>Or something like that.
You got it right David !
With a link under us-registered 501 :
http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Deductibility_of_donations
This is actually a Mediawiki message, [[MediaWiki:Copyright]] - so
anyone with admin access on a given wiki can change it once we have a
translation.
I've just put the above text (with link) on en:wp since Florence
approves of it. If the wording is not *precisely* legally correct,
could Brad or Danny please correct it promptly!
The text I've placed (a curious mix of wikitext and plain HTML) is:
All text is available under the terms of the <a class='internal'
href="{{localurl:Wikipedia:Text of the GNU Free Documentation
License}}" title="Wikipedia:Text of the GNU Free Documentation
License">GNU Free Documentation License</a>. (See <b><a
class='internal' href="{{localurl:Wikipedia:Copyrights}}"
title="Wikipedia:Copyrights">Copyrights</a></b> for details.)
<br />
Wikipedia® is a registered trademark of the <a
href="http://www.wikimediafoundation.org">Wikimedia Foundation,
Inc.</a>, a US-registered <a class='internal'
href="{{localurl:501(c)}}" title="501(c)(3)">501(c)(3)</a>
<a
href="http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Deductibility_of_donations&q…
<a class='internal' href="{{localurl:Non-profit organization}}"
title="Non-profit organization">nonprofit</a> <a
href="{{localurl:Charitable organization}}" title="Charitable
organization">charity.<br />
Note the links to [[501(c)]], [[Non-profit organization]] and
[[Charitable organization]] as well.
Also, on Foundationwiki, at the bottom, we have
"About Wikimedia Foundation"
Instead, we can change it in "[[About Wikimedia Foundation|Wikimedia
Foundation]] is a us registered blablabla
Wiki admins and translators, please? The essential message is that
this is a charity, not a for-profit company.
- d.