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Many Wikimedians take on key support roles that help ensure that the community’s projects run smoothly and effectively. The Wikimedia Foundation -- under the lead of the Finance Department and the Legal and Community Advocacy Department -- is proposing the Legal Fees Assistance Program. This program is intended to help find qualified lawyers or pay for the legal defense fees of eligible users in specified support roles<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Legal_and_Community_Advocacy/Legal_Fees_Assistance_Program#Eligibility>. The assistance would be available in the unlikely event those users were ever named in a legal complaint as a defendant because of their support roles on any Wikimedia project. The program would apply to all projects and languages. We have started a request for comment<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Request_for_comment/Legal_Fees_Assistance_Program>to see what the community thinks of this proposed initiative, and we would like those who are interested to look at the proposed program itself<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Legal_and_Community_Advocacy/Legal_Fees_Assistance_Program>and let us know your thoughts. If you have further questions, we have prepared an FAQ<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Legal_and_Community_Advocacy/Legal_Fees_Assistance_Program/FAQ>, and we will be available to discuss via the talk pages. Many thanks, Geoff <https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/User:Gbrigham> Geoff Brigham General Counsel Wikimedia Foundation Garfield <https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/User:Gbyrd> Garfield Byrd Chief of Finance and Administration Wikimedia Foundation
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