On Tue, May 6, 2008 at 5:08 PM, Casey Brown cbrown1023.ml@gmail.com wrote:
On Tue, May 6, 2008 at 4:37 PM, Henning Schlottmann
h.schlottmann@gmx.net wrote:
If NYC is the frontrunner, then have them set up /the/ national chapter for the United States. I don't understand why anyone would want to have several incorporated chapters in the USA. One should be enough. All local or regional activities can happen under that umbrella.
It's not that easy. Pennsylvania/Philadelphia were actually the first ones interested in becoming a "chapter" and now we have Washington, D.C. that is interested in creating a chapter as well.
Moreover, the PA folks have indicated that they're interested in forming an organization whether the WMF is going to go along with them or not. So if you don't allow a Wikimedia Pennsylvania, or you try to micromanage Wikimedia Pennsylvania from some other location, you'll wind up with a "Wikis in PA". To quote wknight8111, "We were going to call it "Wikimedia Pennsylvania" or whatever, but if we can't use that name we will call it something else".