On Wed, Feb 8, 2017 at 5:49 PM, Gerard Meijssen
<gerard.meijssen(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On 8 February 2017 at 17:41, Milos Rancic
<millosh(a)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.