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<img alt="" height="1" width="1" />Charity Commission approves promoting [b]Wikipedia as a charitable purpose[/b]
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Wikimedia UK, the UK membership organisation which supports Wikipedia, has set a precedent by gaining charitable status in the UK under the new charitable purpose of promoting “open content” such as Wikipedia. Until now, the promotion of open access to ...

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thekohser
It's interesting how this publisher is apparently declining to publish any comments that speak negatively of the Wikimedia Foundation. Anybody else want to give it a try?

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I guess it's offensive or libelous to point out the WMF's Form 990 data on program services expenditures?
thekohser
Just received this e-mail:

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And, my comment is now published, three days after the initial buzz on this story has faded:

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Gregory Kohs
CEO
Wikipedia Review
7 Nov 2011

Because the Wikimedia Foundation spends only 46 cents of every revenue dollar on the program services it is chartered to uphold, I cannot think of a worse avenue of charitable "expansion" than this Wikimedia UK puppet organization. More and more waste and overhead seems to be annual mantra at the Wikimedia Foundation, but it never sinks in among the gullible donating public.
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