[Foundation-l] Wiki[p/m]edia

[WJhonson at aol.com]

In a message dated 12/10/2010 6:52:05 AM Pacific Standard Time, 
zvandijk at googlemail.com writes:


> It is difficult to say how many people refuse to donate to Wikimedia
> because they want to donate to Wikipedia. People should know that you
> can't donate to a website itself but only to the institution behind
> it. You also can't sue "Ebay the website", only "Ebay the company". >>
> 

However like all fund-accounting, you can donate to a fund set-aside 
exclusively for items related to WikiPedia, and not for any other WikiMedia 
activity.

I would be very surprised if a non-profit were not using fund accounting as 
their accounting system.

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