Hello,
camelia boban <camelia.boban(a)gmail.com> escreveu no dia terça, 12/02/2019
à(s) 11:18:
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In line with the philosophy of the inclusion of the movement, AffCom has
acted as it always does when it receives affiliation requests: it assesses
the territorial overlap and the declared purpose of the requests with
others affiliates present in the territory, contacting the already
recognized affiliates to hear from them about any concerns, using the
experience and knowledge on the territory of each of its members.
I suppose this was not in effect back in 2015, when Wiki Education Brazil
was approved, as neither the existing affiliate in Brazil - UG Wikimedia
in Brazil -, nor Wikimedia Portugal, have been consulted about it, even
when it totally overlapped with the territory of the existing affiliate in
Brazil, and was announced by AffCom as having a Lusophone target, therefore
interfering in Portugal as well. Furthermore, at the date it was approved,
Wiki Education Brazil was already in open conflict with the existing
affiliate in Brazil, which makes the approval decision by AffCom absolutely
incomprehensible.
Actually, I really fail to understand why the candidatures to AffCom
continue allowed to be proposed in absolute secrecy, leaving any problems
caused by their approvals to be dealt with by the community after the
problem is already installed. Does not seem a very clever way of acting.
Best,
Paulo - DarwIn
Wikimedia Portugal