[Foundation-l] A chapters-related question

[Delphine Ménard]

On Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 16:18, Thomas Dalton<thomas.dalton at gmail.com> wrote:
> 2009/7/9 Delphine Ménard <notafishz at gmail.com>:
>> The issue here is that, in the Catalan case for example, the effort is
>> already beyond just a "working group". You have a group of people who
>> are more than mature to have their own organisation and make it
>> succesful. What they lack is "legitimity" under the Wikimedia banner
>> in order to talk to potential donors who would support their efforts
>> if they only had "the name".
>
> I think a formal "Association of Catalan Wikimedians", recognised by
> the WMF as an "affiliated organisation" and with something quite
> similar to the chapters agreement would work well. Calling it a
> chapter will cause problems, since it overlaps with other chapters,
> but it can be much the same thing just with a different name.

Yes, keeping in mind that the most important thing here is, in my
opinion, close collaboration with the chapters that are "touched" by
this organisation. In cases like this, I am not sure that the
Wikimedia Foundation is the best partner. In any case, the
WMFoundation definitely should not be the "only" partner and
recognition should also come from the chapters potentially involved.

Delphine
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