2008/8/28 Thomas Dalton thomas.dalton@gmail.com:
I'll give you the URL anyway so that you can explain to me where I am going wrong in my interpretation of it:
http://www.charitycommission.gov.uk/supportingcharities/cwi.asp#9
That seems pretty clear to me. You have no control over what the WMF does with the money, so it giving money to them would not count as charitable.
The WMF has in the past accepted conditional donations.
You can spend the money on things for the WMF (new servers, for instance, which I believe the German chapter has done),
For various reasons hosting servers in the UK is probably not a good idea. There are however no shortages of wikipedia benefiting projects that could be carried out in the UK with some level of funding. One of the side effects of the UK's history is we have a number of surprisingly encyclopedic museums and archives.
This is all highly academic at this time and I suggest we stick to focusing on the AGM.