Currently, we have (please refer to this article for the definitive
documentatin)
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_UK/Memorandum_of_Association
1. The company's name shall be Wikipersonages (and in this document
it is called the Company ).
2. The Company's registered office is to be situated in England.
3. The Company's ob jects (the Objects ) are:
(a) to enable and assist wider participation in the creation, dissemination
and expansion of information and educational resources covering the
world's knowledge and languages to all persons, everywhere;
(b) to support the development of electronic and other resources required
to support that participation;
(c) to produce, publish and develop, or cause to be produced, published
and developed, alternative versions of such information resources,
whether in printed, electronic, or other forms;
(d) to make use of such information resources for the advancement of
education in all forms of educational activity;
(e) to campaign if necessary against impediments and restrictions to the
above goals, wheresoever enacted, in the United Kingdom or overseas.
I just wondered if the proposed object are too long. Here is an
example of some very succinct "aims and objectives".
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THE THIRD AGE TRUST
Working Name THE UNIVERSITY OF THE THIRD AGE
Website Address
Governing Document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED 6TH OCTOBER 1983
AMENDED 6TH JUNE 1989.
Objects
FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION AND IN PARTICULAR THE EDUCATION OF
MIDDLE AGED AND OLDER PEOPLE WHO ARE NOT IN FULL-TIME GAINFUL
EMPLOYMENT.
Area of Benefit NOT DEFINED
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Just thinking out loud,
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Gordo (aka LoopZilla)
gordon.joly(a)pobox.com