On 06/03/06, Caroline Ford caroline@secretlondon.me.uk wrote:
I think there is loads of potential with wikibooks. National curriculum topics, community language instruction, sports/health/fitness instruction. The British girl guiding wiki or the Manchester United wiki are possibilities.
That's a fantastic idea!!
I presume we don't want to stop people donating directly to the foundation - or do we? Is ours ring fenced for UK work? (This will depend upon the mems&arts).
That is the idea. We get some tens of thousands of pounds sterling donated directly to the WMF, taxably; we think it's safe to assume that's almost entirely from people in the UK, who could reasonably be expected to give even more tax-exempt or Gift Aid.
(I say "some tens of thousands" without being quite sure of the total. But http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Fund_drives/2005/Q4/Day_21 lists that one day's GBP donations as about 1/10 of one day's USD donations.)
Money that comes into WMUK can not be used on: * stuff outside the UK, until we're *very* sure we can make specific grants or whatever. (We are working on the assumption that we're surrounded by people watching us like hawks and looking for an opportunity to wreck our charity status and fuck us up, because we are ;-) * servers, because of the UK's unspeakably awful libel laws.
We have ideas of what to spend it on, but I'm looking for the ones that make a good marketable story.
- d.