Fréttir af umsókn Wikimedia Ísland. Sjá áframsend skilaboð.
- Svavar Kjarrval
-------- Original Message -------- Dear Svavar,
Hope you are doing well.
I would like to update you on the status of Wikimedia Island's application as a chapter. As you may know, the Affiliations Committee has forwarded a recommendation to the Wikimedia Foundation's Board of Trustees to approve Wikimedia Iceland as a chapter. The Board has final authority in these matters.
The Board has, however, decided not to act on our recommendation, and instead has decided to announce on Wednesday that going forward it would only approve chapters after they have been active as a user group for a minimum period of two years. Unfortunately, the Board has decided that this decision should apply to all on-going applications including that of Wikimedia Iceland.
What this means is that while we continue to fully believe in you and the potential an Icelandic chapter would have in furthering the mission, we cannot contradict the Board's decision. We are ready to recognize your group as a Wikimedia User Group immediately and provide you continued support for your work.
We share the frustration this decision is causing, and hope that you will still continue working towards furthering the Wikimedia mission. Please discuss this within your group, and let us know if you would be open to being recognized as a Wikimedia user group for now (you would need to adapt your name slightly to Wikimedians of Iceland Community User Group, or similar[1])
Once again, I am sorry for the distress this is causing.
Best regards, Bence Damokos Chair, Affiliations Committee
[1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Step-by-step_user_group_creation_guide#Namin...
Er þetta ekki alveg ásættanlegt? Við vorum búin að átta okkur á því að líklega myndum við ekki komast lengra en að fá viðurkenningu sem user group. Stoppar það okkur nokkuð af við að koma fram sem félag í forsvari fyrir wikimedia á íslandi? Eða að minstakosti wíkípedia á íslandi?
kv Bragi
2013/12/30 Svavar Kjarrval svavar@kjarrval.is
Fréttir af umsókn Wikimedia Ísland. Sjá áframsend skilaboð.
- Svavar Kjarrval
-------- Original Message -------- Dear Svavar,
Hope you are doing well.
I would like to update you on the status of Wikimedia Island's application as a chapter. As you may know, the Affiliations Committee has forwarded a recommendation to the Wikimedia Foundation's Board of Trustees to approve Wikimedia Iceland as a chapter. The Board has final authority in these matters.
The Board has, however, decided not to act on our recommendation, and instead has decided to announce on Wednesday that going forward it would only approve chapters after they have been active as a user group for a minimum period of two years. Unfortunately, the Board has decided that this decision should apply to all on-going applications including that of Wikimedia Iceland.
What this means is that while we continue to fully believe in you and the potential an Icelandic chapter would have in furthering the mission, we cannot contradict the Board's decision. We are ready to recognize your group as a Wikimedia User Group immediately and provide you continued support for your work.
We share the frustration this decision is causing, and hope that you will still continue working towards furthering the Wikimedia mission. Please discuss this within your group, and let us know if you would be open to being recognized as a Wikimedia user group for now (you would need to adapt your name slightly to Wikimedians of Iceland Community User Group, or similar[1])
Once again, I am sorry for the distress this is causing.
Best regards, Bence Damokos Chair, Affiliations Committee
[1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Step-by-step_user_group_creation_guide#Namin...
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Kosningin á Wikimedia Ísland síðunni bendir til þess að fólk sé tilbúið til þess að fá stöðu user group, í það minnsta um sinn. Er ekki með í kollinum á mér námkvæmlega hverju við myndum missa af næstu 2 árin en það þýðir lítið að kvarta yfir því, enda eiginlega ekkert sem hægt er að gera í því. Tökum bara því sem býðst og sækjum um að fá viðurkenningu sem chapter að tveim árum liðnum.
- Svavar Kjarrval
On 30/12/13 16:44, Bragi Halldorsson wrote:
Er þetta ekki alveg ásættanlegt? Við vorum búin að átta okkur á því að líklega myndum við ekki komast lengra en að fá viðurkenningu sem user group. Stoppar það okkur nokkuð af við að koma fram sem félag í forsvari fyrir wikimedia á íslandi? Eða að minstakosti wíkípedia á íslandi?
kv Bragi
2013/12/30 Svavar Kjarrval <svavar@kjarrval.is mailto:svavar@kjarrval.is>
Fréttir af umsókn Wikimedia Ísland. Sjá áframsend skilaboð. - Svavar Kjarrval -------- Original Message -------- Dear Svavar, Hope you are doing well. I would like to update you on the status of Wikimedia Island's application as a chapter. As you may know, the Affiliations Committee has forwarded a recommendation to the Wikimedia Foundation's Board of Trustees to approve Wikimedia Iceland as a chapter. The Board has final authority in these matters. The Board has, however, decided not to act on our recommendation, and instead has decided to announce on Wednesday that going forward it would only approve chapters after they have been active as a user group for a minimum period of two years. Unfortunately, the Board has decided that this decision should apply to all on-going applications including that of Wikimedia Iceland. What this means is that while we continue to fully believe in you and the potential an Icelandic chapter would have in furthering the mission, we cannot contradict the Board's decision. We are ready to recognize your group as a Wikimedia User Group immediately and provide you continued support for your work. We share the frustration this decision is causing, and hope that you will still continue working towards furthering the Wikimedia mission. Please discuss this within your group, and let us know if you would be open to being recognized as a Wikimedia user group for now (you would need to adapt your name slightly to Wikimedians of Iceland Community User Group, or similar[1]) Once again, I am sorry for the distress this is causing. Best regards, Bence Damokos Chair, Affiliations Committee [1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Step-by-step_user_group_creation_guide#Naming_of_user_groups _______________________________________________ WikiIS-l mailing list WikiIS-l@lists.wikimedia.org <mailto:WikiIS-l@lists.wikimedia.org> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikiis-l
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