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1. steelb+(OP)[view] [source] 2022-10-12 09:23:08
Related, Guy Macon's Wikipedia has Cancer (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Guy_Macon/Wikipedia_has_C...)
replies(2): >>akolbe+H3 >>Silver+T6
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2. akolbe+H3[view] [source] 2022-10-12 10:05:50
>>steelb+(OP)
Also related, in the Signpost, Wikipedia's community newspaper:

Special report: "Wikipedia's independence" or "Wikimedia's pile of dosh"?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2...

Opinion: The Wikimedia Endowment – a lack of transparency

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2...

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3. mschus+x5[view] [source] [discussion] 2022-10-12 10:25:43
>>akolbe+H3
Looks like dealing with IRS bureaucracy is the reason why the endowment is not a separate legal entity yet [1].

[1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Endowment/Updates/...

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4. akolbe+T5[view] [source] [discussion] 2022-10-12 10:29:17
>>mschus+x5
Correct, the application is pending. However, the application was made years later than originally promised. Over the past six-and-a-half years, the endowment has accumulated over $100 million, with not a single audited financial statement ever published.
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5. Silver+T6[view] [source] 2022-10-12 10:39:46
>>steelb+(OP)
wouldn't it be possible to just make a copy and so remove the cancer completely?
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6. mschus+g8[view] [source] [discussion] 2022-10-12 10:50:38
>>akolbe+T5
Is that necessary (or even legally possible) as long as Tides itself passes its financial audits and files appropriate documentation?

(Note, I don't have any stakes in that debate, besides occasionally uploading drone photography to Commons)

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