[Foundation-l] Optional advertisement on wikipedia

[Delirium]

Gregory Maxwell wrote:
> I'd guess the open questions would be:
>
> 1) How would this impact the charitable non-profit status of WMF?
>   

The general rule is that a non-profit organization should have at least 
one-third of its annual income come from a combination of: governmental 
donations, donations from other public charities, and small (less than 
2% of total income each) donations from the general public and private 
charities (large donations can still have the first 2% counted).  If 
that all adds up to less than 1/3, things get considerably more complicated.

Whether advertising income would cause a problem depends on how much we 
expect to get, and how much in large donations from private individuals 
and charities we typically get.

-Mark