On 29 September 2010 13:09, Lodewijk lodewijk@effeietsanders.org wrote:
That would only be the case if we would have sufficient information to actually make a decision and this would be the actual body making such decision in the first place. Some very important indicators are still missing. We dont know who the group is, what they want to do, what they need, how many they are, whether wikimedians are involved in the first place, what their goals would be, not even to speak about their proposed bylaws.
None of that information has any bearing on whether a disputed territory of this type can have a chapter. The answer will be the same for this group with its plans for a Kosovan as it would be for some other group with some other plans for a Kosovan chapter.
You suggest that only being a chapter is a potential success outcome. Of course that is not the case. Thinking about who you are, where you are, where you want to go, what you want to do and what you need to get there is never wasted, especially since there are many ways that lead to Rome. Even if the conclusion would be that they want to form a chapter, and that would be rejected (highly hypothetical) that effort would be well spent because you could use it to persue your goals in another way. Being a chapter is a tool, not a goal.
I think our goal should be for every region in the world to be covered by a chapter (obviously, that's a case of aiming high with the expectation of falling short). That means Kosovo should be covered by a chapter, either a Kosovan chapter or the Serbian chapter. The latter seems unlikely to actually work in reality, so we are left with the former. Some alternative arrangement in the short- to medium-term might be the best approach, but our long-term goal should be a chapter.