You can see the questions AffCom put to us, and my replies, here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:GLAM/US/Consortium#AffCom_quest…
The term of the recognition is the last question in the list, and Bence
(CCed) commented that "(default is a renewable one year term; I expect in
your case it would also be "1 year")". I just accepted that suggestion and
didn't go dig any deeper into the implications or other options, because it
didn't seem like a big deal. It is similar to the standard chapter
agreement language: <
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Chapter_Agreements/2007_template#9._Duration…gt;.
Note that user groups are not typically incorporated and do not need
bylaws, but there may still be other reasons (trademark usage and activity
level, for example) for having a periodic review. If you are curious about
why AffCom does that, though, they seem fairly responsive to questions.
Dominic
On 26 June 2013 13:15, Jeremy Baron <jeremy(a)tuxmachine.com> wrote:
On Wed, Jun 26, 2013 at 5:08 PM, Sven Manguard
<svenmanguard(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
Pardon my ignorance, but is the one-year term a
standard now for
Wikimedia
entities, or is this a special case?
It strikes me as rather strange.
My assumption was that it was an organization still in a very early
stage and that it would be reevaluated after it developed more. e.g.
maybe it's not incorporated yet and it would be reevaluated after
incorporation.
But maybe I misunderstand how the process works in general or maybe
this particular case is special in some way.
Anyway, agreed, great news.
-Jeremy
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