The board has a policy that it will only accept members once payment has cleared. This means if they pay by cheque, they are approved subject to clearing and only get a vote from when it clears.

All the four members who signed up at the AGM paid in cash, so they were approved immediately.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Michael Bimmler" <mbimmler@gmail.com>
To: wikimediauk-l@lists.wikimedia.org
Sent: Monday, 27 April, 2009 22:24:09 GMT +00:00 GMT Britain, Ireland, Portugal
Subject: Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Fwd: [WikiEN-l] Politician praises Wikipedia

On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 2:21 PM, Thomas Dalton <thomas.dalton@gmail.com> wrote:
>One person joined about 30 seconds
> before!

Out of interest: Did this person then pay the fee in cash before being
approved as a member?

michael


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