And just
to add to the argument, the projects are divided by language,
and
not by jurisdiction. Whereas in many cases it may be unimportant (for
instance, we can safely assume that most of the activbities of the
Swedish
chapter are more related to Swedish-language projects, and if there is
any
chapter which "caters" to Swedisg-language projects it is the Swedish
chapter), this is not correct for most of the major languages (English,
French, German, Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch, Russian ...)
You are quite right about the limitations of chapters. However, I don't
see how these limiting factors are addressed by instead dealing with WMF
directly. I think this is an example of "perfect being the enemy of
Well, to give an example, I am perfectly fine with the recent WMF
resolution on BLP and I am willing to comply. However, if such a resolution
were issued by one of the chapters (for this matter it is irrelevant which
chapter would do it) I would not feel myself in any way obliged to comply
with such a resolution. No chapter has any jurisdiction over the Russian
Wikipedia to which I used to contribute and over English Wikipedia to which
I contribute now.
Cheers
Yaroslav
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