[Wikipedia-l] Re: foundation of a German registered association

Fri Jan 23 17:12:24 UTC 2004

>>>>> "A" == Anthere  <anthere8 at yahoo.com> writes:

    A> But how could non english people have any implication in the
    A> current wikimedia foundation ?

This is not an insuperable problem. International organizations have
managed to have branches and subsidiaries in multiple countries with
different languages for many years. Companies, charities, clubs and
networks.

Another good possibility is to form club-style organizations -- user
groups, like a LUGs. Don't use the Wikimedia trademarks, or negotiate
a way to use them from Wikimedia. Don't pretend to have any legal,
financial, or operational responsibility for Wikipedia (just as LUGs
don't pretend to own or maintain Linux).

There's no legal advantage, but the ones you mentioned -- sending
people to conferences, etc. -- would be there.

~ESP

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