User:Econterms/Glossary for Wiki-DC

Glossary

• 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 -- of WMF; recognizes chapters
• Berlin Agreement refers to the event founding the Chapters Association
• Bootstrapping grant: A grant from WMF to Wiki-DC for starting up
• 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.