[Foundation-l] Schools Wikipedia & GFDL - no direct credit to authors?

[Thomas Dalton]

2008/10/24 David Gerard <dgerard at gmail.com>:
> 2008/10/24 Thomas Dalton <thomas.dalton at gmail.com>:
>> 2008/10/24 David Goodman <dgoodmanny at gmail.com>:
>
>>> Since according to themselves  this project i" in coordination with
>>> the Wikimedia Foundation",giving David Derard as the foundation
>>> contact, does that mean that the WMF approves officially of such
>>> general copyright statements?
>
>> The WMF doesn't own the content, so what the WMF does and doesn't
>> approve of doesn't really matter legally.
>
>
> And I don't work for the Foundation.

No, but you do represent the foundation as an official press contact.
That it's not a paid position doesn't make a lot of difference.