Sorry, people, but I would like to read an official statement of the WMF
(committee) what is the reason or rationale behind this policy to accept WM
user groups in countries where you already have a chapter. Does anybody
have a link?
Kind regards
Ziko
Am Sa., 5. Okt. 2019 um 19:16 Uhr schrieb Paulo Santos Perneta <
paulosperneta(a)gmail.com>gt;:
Hi Farhad,
Very interesting, thank you very much for sharing your insight.
The advantages at an organizational level are quite obvious, indeed, and
it's a smart way to deal with those membership limitations.
I'm glad that the WMF & Wikimedia is abandoning the very rigid chapter
model as the preferred one, and is evolving into more flexible and nuanced
options and varieties, such as those confederations.
Best,
Paulo
Фархад Фаткуллин / Farhad Fatkullin <frhd(a)yandex.com> escreveu no dia
sábado, 5/10/2019 à(s) 15:38:
Hi folks,
I can probably comment this, as a member of both Wikimedia Russia and a
Tatar language-specific UG.
On top of participation in Wikimedia Language Diversity initiative on
meta, I am also contemplating and working towards starting a
territory-specific UG for my region + an incubator UG for more
language-specific UG in the languages of Russia.
Wikimedians of Russia seem to see the matreshkas of (1) "global
conference
- regional conference - topic-specific
conferences" & (2) WMF &
affiliates
general meeting - national chapters - UGs"
as natural structures, each
addressing different tasks, having different priorities, whilst
cooperating
in various projects.
* Wikimedia Russia legal requirements (in-person quorum for
decision-making, etc.) doesn't allow us to accept into membership all
members of all our regional, language or topic specific UGs. So our
chapter
is evolving towards a mixed confederation status,
selectively welcoming
some members from various groupings around Russia (which themselves can't
be neither cells nor branches of WMRU).
* SPB is not purely a city, but a one of 85 provinces (read states) of
the
Russian Federation (like my home Republic of
Tatarstan, neighbouring
Republic of Bashkortostan with its Bashkir Wiki-grandmas, or a city of
Moscow).
* Once we will spin out UG MSK, we will complete transforming Wikimedia
Russia into a collective entity for join tasks, working on national-level
advocacy & other projects.
* We currently have 5 existing UGs, have two more filed & at least one
more at the preparation stage - as this is a good way to engage locally
or
topically interested public into Wikimedia
universe.
regards,
farhad
--
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Wikipedia:frhdkazan / Wikidata:Q34036417
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