On Fri, Nov 28, 2008 at 6:40 AM, Thomas Dalton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 2008/11/27 David Gerard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> 2008/11/27 Thomas Dalton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> >>>> "Wikipedia is a charity" ? >> >>> People always say "non-profit" when describing WMF, is it a charity? >>> The two terms are different. (In the UK, the WMF would probably be >>> considered charitable, I don't know what the requirements are in the >>> US.) >> >> >> The bottom of every page on en:wp says it's a charity! >> >> (I put that text there, after precise phrasing was worked out on the >> comcom list. If it's wrong we should change it ...) > > And, in fact, wikimediafoundation.org says "nonprofit charitable > organization". I don't know why people generally say "non-profit" > instead of "charity", then - charity would be more precise and would > probably be better perceived.
I'm afraid I disagree with you here. Non-profit vs for-profit is a distinction in taxation and precise. Charity vs not being charity may 1) no legal distinction in some cases and 2) Wikimedia Foundation could be no charity in some definition of non-US jurisdiction (and at worse it may be taken as deceitful). I am for adding "charitable" etc. but against replacing "charity" etc. with "non-profit". > _______________________________________________ > foundation-l mailing list > [email protected] > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l > -- KIZU Naoko http://d.hatena.ne.jp/Britty (in Japanese) Quote of the Day (English): http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/WQ:QOTD _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
