[Foundation-l] Re: 501(c)(3) status granted to Wikimedia Foundation

Sun Apr 17 18:39:21 UTC 2005

This is a great new in any cases.

Anyway, the things to do are now

* put the announcement on WMF main page (done by Angela)

* on the donation pages (done in some pages, but not all languages yet, 
example 
http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Fundraising_%28Fran%C3%A7ais%29/D%C3%A9duction_des_dons)

* mention it in Quarto (will do)

* decide how this will be handled. I do not remember if it was discussed 
yet... but will we provide the paper to the donator,

- by electronic mean. Such as a pdf... is it legal ?

- or by snail mail ? In this later case, that means forms must allow to 
gather address. Someone should take care of all the paperworks (who ?).

In short, how do we plan to handle this technically speaking ? What is 
possible to do with the previous ones ? There is mention that this is 
retroactive. Can we do something for the grants or big donations we had ?

Ant

Daniel Mayer a écrit:
> --- Jimmy Wales <jwales at wikia.com> wrote:
> 
>>Hooray! Finally!
>>
>>The effective date of the exemption is June 20, 2003 (our founding 
>>date), so this is fully retroactive.
> 
> 
> Spread the word. Time to email every one of our thousands of donors in the U.S.
> Too bad we didn't know about this until *after* tax day. :(
> 
> -- mav
> 
> 
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