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* '''501(c)(3)''' -- a category of tax exemption administered by the IRS -- tax deductibility for donors, both individual and business ; need to tweak application to IRS and add some specific language about disbursing $ |
* '''501(c)(3)''' -- a category of tax exemption administered by the IRS -- tax deductibility for donors, both individual and business ; need to tweak application to IRS and add some specific language about disbursing $ |
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| + | * '''[https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Affiliations_Committee Affiliations committee]''' -- The Affiliations Committee (formerly the '''Chapters Committee''') is a Wikimedia community committee entrusted with advising the WMF Board of Trustees on the approval of new affiliates: chapters, thematic organisations and user groups. |
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* '''[https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Chapters_Association/Berlin_Agreement Berlin Agreement]''' refers to the event founding the [https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Chapters_Association Chapters Association] |
* '''[https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Chapters_Association/Berlin_Agreement Berlin Agreement]''' refers to the event founding the [https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Chapters_Association Chapters Association] |
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* '''Bootstrapping grant''': A [http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:WM_US-DC/Bootstrapping_grant grant from WMF to Wiki-DC for starting up] |
* '''Bootstrapping grant''': A [http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:WM_US-DC/Bootstrapping_grant grant from WMF to Wiki-DC for starting up] |
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Revision as of 19:56, 16 March 2013
- 501(c)(3) -- a category of tax exemption administered by the IRS -- tax deductibility for donors, both individual and business ; need to tweak application to IRS and add some specific language about disbursing $
- Affiliations committee -- The Affiliations Committee (formerly the Chapters Committee) is a Wikimedia community committee entrusted with advising the WMF Board of Trustees on the approval of new affiliates: chapters, thematic organisations and user groups.
- Berlin Agreement refers to the event founding the Chapters Association
- Bootstrapping grant: A grant from WMF to Wiki-DC for starting up
- Campus Ambassador -- usually a student at a university conducting Wikimedia outreach at that university
- Chapter reports: Wikimedia chapters file reports here; we can compare them.
- Chapters Association -- association of Wikimedia Chapters acting independently of the Foundation
- the Corporation: that means this organization: Wiki Society of Washington, DC Inc., aka Wikimedia-DC
- Dashboard: Active Board documents are often listed here: Internal:Dashboard
- Events grant: Wiki-DC received a Events 2012 grant from WMF
- FDC = Funds Dissemination Committee at Wikimedia Foundation
- the Foundation = WMF = the Wikimedia Foundation
- GAC = Grant Advisory Committee of WMF
- Gibraltar issue -- an event and subsequent critique of another chapter's activity in which a local-QR-code project was structured in a way that could produce profit for somebody
- GLAM bootcamp: A conference idea for Wiki-DC to sponsor ; Dominic has suggested it
- Night Owls -- a possible cosponsor for things: http://nightowls.dcacm.org/
- Saylor Foundation: a not-for-profit organization named for MicroStrategy founder; develops open textbook/educ materials; sponsored Wikimania 2012 as per thisWikimania 2012 press release
- Thematic chapters -- prospectively, non-geographic chapters like Wikimedia Education, Wikimedia Catalan, Wikimedia LGBT, Wikimedia Medicine; like meta-WikiProjects
- Wikichievements is a pilot project to assign ranks and give physical awards for editing articles, analogous to barnstars. Wikimedia Serbia and Wikimedia NYC and Wikimedia DC are supporting it. (written thus: WM RS, WM NYC, and WM DC)
- Wiki Loves Monuments
- Wiki-Loves-Monuments grant ; Wiki-DC also a Wiki Loves Monuments USA 2012 grant
- Wikipedian in Residence -- a job or intern role at a non-WMF organization; examples are at Consumer Reports, past/potential example at NARA.
- WikiSalon -- our own chapter's name for a occasional/regular meetup at our office to which any potential or actual or member Wikipedian can come; might have refreshments
- WikiSym -- an academic conference each fall, held so far in North America and Europe.