While I do agree that national chapters should focus first on their own local affairs, especially for up-and-coming chapters like ours, I think there can be common ground for all of us to stand on, and then from there we can build a common framework from which a Wikimedia Asia can be built. Pan-Asian initiatives for organizations like Wikimedia are very rare, sometimes even unheard of, but they are certainly not impossible to do.
If there are organizations willing to sponsor pan-Asian Wikimedia initiatives which involve all the Asian chapters (HK, TW, PH, ID, IL and IN), then I wouldn't hesitate as long as we all know what they're doing and they know what we're supposed to do. Even a common collaboration agreement signed between the representatives of all six chapters, with other
future chapters acceding if they wish, can be the framework for which we devise common initiatives which can be deserving of multinational funding and sponsorship from organizations and entities willing to do so.
Josh
JAMES JOSHUA G. LIM
Block I1, AB Political Science
Class of 2013, Ateneo de Manila University
Quezon City, Metro Manila, Philippines
President (2010-2013), Wikimedia Philippines
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From: Liam Wyatt <liamwyatt@gmail.com>
To: Asian Wikimedia Chapters coordination <wikimedia-asia-chapters@lists.wikimedia.org>
Sent: Thu, May 6, 2010 4:44:37 PM
Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-asia-chapters] Call for your participation of Finding
Sponsorship
Can I suggest that we as individual chapters "learn to crawl before we try to walk"? Talking about getting pan-European sponsorship for someting, especially when we don't even know what that that thing is, is going to be very difficult... Why don't we look at what the European chapters are doing:
They have lots of common laws and common companies and common projects they could be doing because of the European Union. But they are *first* growing themselves within their own countries and *second*, when there are several chapters that are big/professional, they will look at some kind of pan-European project. I think that if we actually started to approach external organisations now asking for money that would only make it harder for individual chapters to get funding. Continent-wide sponsorship will happen - but can we please wait until we are each professional enough to get national fundraising done properly.
-Liam [[witty lama]]
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On 6 May 2010 05:38, Morgan Chan
<morgand536@wikimedia.hk> wrote:
Anyway, before we start our Asian project based cooperation, we need some money to kick start, and it is what the first sponsorship for. I think if we can find a long-term partner for Wikimedia Asia, to support everything at the moment, it would be very good. Of course, we need to think about what advantages we can offer to them.
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Morgan Chan
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