2011/3/2 Samuel Klein meta.sj@gmail.com
A few comments: <snip> lots of interesting points </snip>
<nowiki>*</nowiki> A possible model would be for chapters in the region where these partners operate to offer the possibility to donate a
percentage
of the money to support these groups' activities --what would obviously
need
fundraising agreements between chapters and partner organizations. For instance, people donating to WM Irak from Irak could have the option to state that they want a percentage of their donation to support the
efforts
of a partner organization focused on promoting Kurdish language
contents,
should such an organization and WM Irak exist.
That is possible. Or there could be a great political and social disagreement between a non-Kurdish "WM Iraq" and a "Kurdish Wikimedian Organization", and they could refuse to share resources (even if they had a nominal cooperation agreement to share information).
I am not sure if this is what you are suggesting, but to be totally clear: I do not think that we should as a movement accept donations to be "not spent on/in XXX" or accept that we have organizations in our movement that are on bad terms together. To accept an organization just for non-kurdish Iraq is going in a very very dangerous direction because it gives off a signal that we treat it as a seperate country - which is a political standpoint I would not like Wikimedia to take. That is independent of my personal opinion on the matter, which is irrelevant here, but rather a general idea that Wikimedia should be neutral on such political issues. The same goes for an "ethnic Serbians chapter" etc - I would personally also not accept that as a non-chapter association. But lets have this discussion on a real public forum and let others participate!
So basically I think we should be moving forward - we have this draft now, and I might not agree on every detail but it is most important that we get it out there.
Best,
Lodewijk