On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 11:28 PM, Gwern Branwen <[email protected]> wrote:
> http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/04/27/wikipedia_charity_not/ > > "Wiki-fiddling isn't a charitable activity, according to the UK tax > man. Revenue and Customs is denying tax privileges that go with > charity status to Wikimedia UK, or Wiki UK Limited, as it's officially > registered." > > Worth noting also is the quiet little redefinition - something isn't > charitable activity unless it can get tax breaks. The exact quote from "the UK tax man", which you include later in your email, is "The production of an encyclopaedia is not the charitable advancement of education..." The "quiet little redefinition" took place by us Americans. Not that there's anything wrong with that. We Americans managed to fix a lot of strange things about the English language, such as their spelling of "encyclopaedia". _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
