http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/found...rch/040440.html

http://www.sloan.org/main.shtml
http://www.sloan.org/programs/Universal_Access.shtml

Are they worth suing yet?

Grant coordinated by Jesse H. Ausubel and/or Doron Weber.

If Wikimedia Foundation's tax-exempt status is in doubt by next year, it may never see most of that money. There's a good possibility that its status will be questionable by then, due to the Foundation's failure to meet the public support test. That's primarily because of the donations arranged by Roger McNamee and accepted by the Foundation.

If Wikimedia fails to meet the public support test, then the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation's $1 million per year for the next three years could at some point fail to meet the requirement of a "qualified distribution" for the Sloan Foundation. If that's the case, Sloan Foundation most likely won't cough up the money, since it would be more costly to them than usual, in terms of its own IRS status. "The Foundation is generally limited to supporting tax-exempt organizations."

Even if they do cough it up, a sum like that will spell trouble over the succeeding four years, as that's the time period over which the public support test for the Wikimedia Foundation is averaged.

The bottom line is that the Wikimedia Foundation is under increasing pressure to broaden its donation base, the more it accepts huge donations such as this one.

Total disgrace to sully the name of Alfred Pritchard Sloan,

Where will Wales spend it? That'd b'interesting!

Sloan Foundation hang its head with shame!

That would be the same Erik that gave the Zoophilia article to the world.



http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=...46&oldid=845413

He has also contributed to the revolting article about the man with the gaping anus:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goatse.cx

Which is possibly the worst article in Wikipedia, if that is conceivable.

The problem about suing the Wikipedia Foundation is,
that when you win the law-suit, they won't have the
money to pay you. All they can do then is give Wikipedia
to you, so you become the new chief executive and owner
of Wikipedia.

Then everyone reads about your success on the
newspapers, they ring up their lawyers, and
bang, everyone ends up suing you.

Spare me that fate.

Damn. I was hoping that it would be financial issues that would sink Wikipedia. That would be much more efficient than waiting for the community to truly become unmanageable on any level.