[Foundation-l] Re: Wikimedia and Politics

Sat Nov 27 14:29:17 UTC 2004

Michael Snow <wikipedia at ...> writes:

> In either case, the effort needed for the Wikimedia Foundation to get 
> involved in any substantial kind of political activity would add 
> considerable complexity to financial and accounting matters. I'm not 
> sure if our financial procedures are in a state to support this kind of 
> change, although certainly they need to get there, regardless of how 
> politically active we become. However, the Foundation's mission as I 
> understand it is education and the dissemination of information, and I 
> think any political activity should be incidental to that mission.
> 
> --Michael Snow

Thank you Michael for all these details.

I suppose that any decision in the sense of changing the goals of the 
Foundation itself and the tax category it belongs to in the USA would probably 
impact the goals and very likely the tax categories of all the local 
associations as well.

Perhaps can Aurevilly tell us more about this the possible legal implications 
he can think of ?

Anthere