Legal talk:Legal Fees Assistance Program: Difference between revisions
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The page says: "if those funds are ever exhausted, a decision will be made by WMF whether to renew the program". And if not, will at least the already granted assistance be brought to completion or could this imply interruption of assistance? This is very important to note, changing lawyer in the middle of a trial is probably not fun. --[[User:Nemo_bis|Nemo]] 07:56, 1 September 2012 (UTC) |
The page says: "if those funds are ever exhausted, a decision will be made by WMF whether to renew the program". And if not, will at least the already granted assistance be brought to completion or could this imply interruption of assistance? This is very important to note, changing lawyer in the middle of a trial is probably not fun. --[[User:Nemo_bis|Nemo]] 07:56, 1 September 2012 (UTC) |
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:I don't think WMF can give an openended commitment. I think the statement above is appropriate. For a case which is expected to exhaust the fund I would expect the grantee and their legal team to discuss this ahead of time with the WMF and for the WMF to take appropriate action - say to launch an appeal for donations and consider renewing the program the before the funds run out so everyone has adequate notice. [[User:Filceolaire|Filceolaire]] ([[User talk:Filceolaire|talk]]) 21:12, 2 September 2012 (UTC) |
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Revision as of 21:12, 2 September 2012
Writing
I have to say that this is one of the best-written WMF pages I've ever seen. Tony (talk) 12:05, 31 August 2012 (UTC)
- If you mean typographically, there are a lot of uppercase vs. lowercase inconsistencies. ;-) Just kidding, Nemo 07:56, 1 September 2012 (UTC)
Termination
The page says: "if those funds are ever exhausted, a decision will be made by WMF whether to renew the program". And if not, will at least the already granted assistance be brought to completion or could this imply interruption of assistance? This is very important to note, changing lawyer in the middle of a trial is probably not fun. --Nemo 07:56, 1 September 2012 (UTC)
- I don't think WMF can give an openended commitment. I think the statement above is appropriate. For a case which is expected to exhaust the fund I would expect the grantee and their legal team to discuss this ahead of time with the WMF and for the WMF to take appropriate action - say to launch an appeal for donations and consider renewing the program the before the funds run out so everyone has adequate notice. Filceolaire (talk) 21:12, 2 September 2012 (UTC)
RFC
I want to be sure people are able to find the RFC: Request for comment/Legal Fees Assistance Program --Maggie Dennis (WMF) (talk) 12:36, 1 September 2012 (UTC)
Transparency
Will there be a public log of who receives aid from this program and why they're receiving aid? This is probably something donors to Wikimedia would want to know about. --Michaeldsuarez (talk) 17:40, 2 September 2012 (UTC)