[WikiEN-l] Does WP have legal advice?

Fri Dec 9 23:55:35 UTC 2005

On 12/9/05, Tom Cadden <thomcadden at yahoo.ie> wrote:
> Has Wikipedia ever got professional legal advice?
> A lot of the legal analysis I hear on WP seems to
> be amateur interpretation of statutes, or comments
> by people who say they are lawyers but who,
> because of their anonymous status, may not be,
> or who may be undergraduate legal students.

Wikimedia does have legal advice. See
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Legal_department for a list of lawyers
who are volunteering to help us. All are subscribers to a closed
mailing list where foundation legal issues can be discussed, and to
which anyone is free to post. See
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Juriwiki_mailing_list for details.

Angela.