[WikiEN-l] User Protection Fund

[Ray Saintonge]

Steve Bennett wrote:

>On 6/11/06, Oskar Sigvardsson <oskarsigvardsson at gmail.com> wrote:
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>>How much money are we talking though? As we all know, wikimedia ain't
>>the richest organisation in the world, we are barely scraping by. And
>>a solid legal defense can be very expensive.
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>The legal fees in question would probably simply amount to someone
>going through the paperwork to get a restraining order etc, small time
>stuff.
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>This fund sounds like a nice idea in theory, but it would need a lot
>of scoping first - exactly who is covered, to what extent, at whose
>discretion, for what period of time, etc. You're basically talking
>about Wikipedia becoming an unfunded insurance policy. Perhaps the
>people who are covered by it would have to chip in, say $20 a year or
>so?
>
The serious nutcases don't pay attention to restraining orders..

$20.00 a year would be cheap compared to the cost of private medical 
insurance, which can easily be 100 times that much.

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