On Wed, Feb 8, 2017 at 5:49 PM, Gerard Meijssen gerard.meijssen@gmail.com wrote:
On 8 February 2017 at 17:41, Milos Rancic millosh@gmail.com wrote:
One addition which I missed while writing the proposal: "If particular organization is not WMF, a Wikimedia chapter, a Wikimedia thematic organization, a Wikimedia user group or any other Affiliations committee approved organization, it has to make rational efforts to coordinate its Wikimedia-related activities with relevant Wikimedia organizations operating on particular territory."
First, I haven't worded that strongly in the sense "it has to coordinate", but "it has to make rational efforts to coordinate".
For example, I do expect minimum coordination of activities with an established Wikimedia chapter. At least in the PR sense, if not in the sense of coordination of editathons.
However, "rational efforts" assume that particular chapter, thematic organization or user group could have its own issues and not being able to contribute. In such situations, particular organization should at least contact a Wikimedia organization and give us report why it's not reasonable to coordinate activities with that Wikimedia organization. For example, a chapter or user group covering the whole country may be without anyone in particular part of that, relatively large country.
Language committee rules should not be an excuse for avoiding contact and cooperation with a local Wikimedia organization.