Congratulations Nepal team!
On Thu, May 30, 2013 at 11:37 PM, Ivan Martínez <galaver(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Welcome to board, friends.
I know it has not been easy for Ganesh and to the Nepal team.
Congrats!
2013/5/30 Tonmoy Khan <tonmoy.du(a)gmail.com>
Congratulations to Nepali Wikimedians!!
Ali Haidar Khan (Tonmoy)
Wikimedia Bangladesh
On May 30, 2013 11:12 PM, "Deryck Chan" <deryckchan(a)wikimedia.hk> wrote:
> Congratulations Ganesh and the Nepal team! Are there plans to move on
and
transition to an incorporated Wikimedia chapter?
Deryck
On 30 May 2013 17:32, Bence Damokos <bdamokos(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> I am happy to inform you that the Affiliations Committee has approved
the
> > recognition of a Wikimedia User Group today: Wikimedians of Nepal.
> >
> > Please join me in welcoming this new group into the fold of Wikimedia
> > entities, and let's celebrate their success and hard work as
Wikipedia
>
turns eleven in Nepal!
>
> == Wikimedians of Nepal ==
>
> Wikimedians of Nepal <http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Nepal
> is a
> > group of enthusiastic Nepali Wikimedians working towards developing
and
> > promoting Wikimedia projects in Nepal.
They've been actively working
to
> help
expand the community, launch projects in more languages of Nepal
and
> promote and support the existing ones.
>
> The group is working towards chapterhood, and have a good chance of
> attaining that status this year. Granting them user group recognition
> allows the movement to express its appreciation for their hard work
even
> while they are working on the bureaucratic
aspects of meeting the
> requirements of chapterhood. The timing is fortuitous in that the
group
is
> going to mark the 11th anniversary of Wikipedia in a Nepali language
on 3
June,
next Monday.
Ganesh, the group's interim president has been invited to this year's
Milan
conference, where he gave a comprehensive
overview of the group's
history,
> its projects (including a successful 'wikiwomen" programme) and its
> ambitions. The slides are at:
>
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/45/WMNepal_WMC_2013.pdf
The Affiliations Committee's
recognition<
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Affiliations_Committee/Resolutions/Wikimedia…
> > >is
> > valid until 28 May 2014, or until they are recognized as a chapter.
> >
> >
> > == Wikimedia User Groups ==
> >
> > Wikimedia User Groups are one of the three new types of affiliations
> > created last year to empower volunteers wanting to conduct offline
work
> and
> > provide them recognition from the Wikimedia movement.
> >
> > User group status is meant to be an easy form of affiliation, where
the
> > main requirements are an agreed goal,
plans for offline work, at
least
> > three people participating and a public
wiki page with all the
relevant
>
information).
>
> Under the movement roles
> recommendations<
>
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_affiliation_models/User_Groups>
> > , user groups are to be recognized in a quick and easy process
directly
> by
> > the Affiliations Committee, for a fixed, renewable time-period and
they
> are
> > to enjoy limited trademark use and simplified access to grants.
> >
> >
> >
> > Best regards,
> > Bence Damokos
> > Chair, Affiliatons Committee
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