Thanks for the clarification and the insights. This could be a really interesting
organizative model for huge countries, even for countries with more than one chapter but
not a country level one, as happens in the USA.
2019 urr. 5 4:38 PM erabiltzaileak hau idatzi du (Фархад Фаткуллин / Farhad Fatkullin
<frhd(a)yandex.com>)m>):
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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