This is a very interesting strategy for any well developed affiliate. It
allows :
* decentralization, and stronger local groups, now as full fledged
affiliates
* more seats in Berlin and other conferences
* more votes in the ASBS election
* less financial burden over the national chapter, and additional funding
for local activities.
Huge and well established chapters like WMDE could easily set up dozens of
local affiliates, with great advantage.
Paulo
A sexta, 4 de out de 2019, 08:04, Philip Kopetzky <philip.kopetzky(a)gmail.com>
escreveu:
I can only reiterate what Lodewijk said - I'm
trying to find the approach
and goals in the decision to acknowledge user groups that seem to be an
integral part (or from an outside perspective, should be) of the national
chapter. In the past this has been an indicator of personal conflicts
within a chapter or user group and AffCom perpetuating these conflicts by
setting up competing affiliates (the situation in Albania being a recent
example of this).
Best,
Philip
On Fri, 4 Oct 2019 at 06:33, effe iets anders <effeietsanders(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
I would like to note that one of the contacts of
this user group is
Vladimir Medeyko, the director of Wikimedia Russia. I'm assuming
comfortably that this application happened in full coordination with
Wikimedia Russia.
The question about process is still an interesting one though (what is
nowadays the approach of Affcom, and what are the considerations) when a
user group application comes in from a geographic area with an active
affiliate at a 'higher level' (in this case, a country). You could
continue
the comparison with what happens if an
application would come in from
South
of Nevsky (a neighborhood in St. Petersburg).
Lodewijk
On Thu, Oct 3, 2019 at 3:29 PM Paulo Santos Perneta <
paulosperneta(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
> Wikimedia NYC is a very different situation, there is not a national
> chapter in the US, so it's not a cell of anything.
> Just to clarify: Saint Petersburg eventually could not be a cell, but
the
> way it is presented (to promote Wikimedia RU
activities in SP, with
same
Wikimedia
RU people), it's basically a cell.
Paulo
Yuri Astrakhan <yuriastrakhan(a)gmail.com> escreveu no dia quinta,
3/10/2019
> à(s) 23:06:
>
> > What about Wikimedia NYC? (I'm not sure of its organizational
status)
> >
> > On Thu, Oct 3, 2019 at 6:03 PM Paulo Santos Perneta <
> > paulosperneta(a)gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> >
> > > Wales is a whole country complete with it's own language, I don't
> believe
> > > it compares with a city UG.
> > >
> > > Paulo
> > >
> > > Andy Mabbett <andy(a)pigsonthewing.org.uk> escreveu no dia quinta,
> > 3/10/2019
> > > à(s) 22:53:
> > >
> > > > On Thu, 3 Oct 2019 at 20:45, Paulo Santos Perneta
> > > > <paulosperneta(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > Why isn't it a department of Wikimedia Russia, if apparently
it's
> >
> basically
> > > > a cell of Wikimedia Russia?
> > > >
> > > > It's a curious precedent.
> > >
> > > The precedent was already set, in March 2017, by Wikimedia
Community
> >
User Group Wales (c/f Wikimedia UK).
> >
> > --
> > Andy Mabbett
> > @pigsonthewing
> >
http://pigsonthewing.org.uk
> >
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