[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@anthere.org wrote:
David Gerard wrote:
On 07/12/06, Brad Patrick bradp.wmf@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">tax-deductible</a> <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.
Slight problem I encountered, adding that HTML/wikimarkup un-modified to the [[MediaWiki:Copyright]] message makes a few broken links. (at least it did on Wikiversity) To do the same thing on any wiki, you have to swap some of the {{loaclurl}}s with http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/, so that the Wikipedia articles will still link, rather than pointing to articles on your project which don't exist. Cheers -- Michael Billington
On 02/01/07, Michael Billington michael.billington@gmail.com wrote:
Slight problem I encountered, adding that HTML/wikimarkup un-modified to the [[MediaWiki:Copyright]] message makes a few broken links. (at least it did on Wikiversity) To do the same thing on any wiki, you have to swap some of the {{loaclurl}}s with http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/, so that the Wikipedia articles will still link, rather than pointing to articles on your project which don't exist. Cheers -- Michael Billington
Ah yes. Whoops! Please note!
(I must say, changing a message on every single page of the site that generates over half our hits gave me a certain amount of ... trepidation.)
If your wiki's language isn't English, of course, you probably want the links to "non-profit" and "charity" to be to those articles in the wiki's own language.
- d.
On 02/01/07, David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com wrote:
(I must say, changing a message on every single page of the site that generates over half our hits gave me a certain amount of ... trepidation.)
Particularly when I made an HTML error:
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=MediaWiki:Copyright&diff=97952...
*ahem*
- d.
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