Re: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Chapters_Association/Resolutions/Pu...
Dear Wikimedians and Chapter enthusiasts,
This weekend I am planning to put forward the above drafted resolution for the WCA Council on the location for legal registration. (Closing date Sunday 11 November as voting opens on Monday.)
There have been only a few proposals discussed for location, and I and the other Council Members would welcome wider engagement on proposed locations. Please see the above resolution page and its discussion page for more information.
If you are disappointed not to see a location you think would be ideal, please raise a question on the resolution talk page on the :meta wiki, or directly approach and discuss the proposal with a Council Member (see the list at http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Chapters_Association/Membership) as locations should be "sponsored" by at least one Council Member; they do not have to be part of the chapter in the location country.
There is not much time to add a proposal, however the process is relatively simple: 1. Ensure one or more Council Members will "sponsor" the location. 2. Address the questions listed for locations in the resolution in a page on :meta with some simple answers.
If you are having trouble contacting a friendly Council Member, please contact me personally and I'll try to help out.
If you would like to review the proposals for locations and raise questions or suggest improvements, that would be great too. :-)
Cheers, Fae -- Ashley Van Haeften (Fae) FaeWCA@gmail.com Wikimedia Chapters Association Chair http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WCA Guide to email tags: http://j.mp/mfae
Thanks Fae I'm glad to see this being announced. More time for feedback after doing so would have been nice but I'm sure that's not possible all of the time.
On an incredibly picky Wikipedian side note: What are you meaning by the ':meta' notation? It seems "like" interwiki links but the colon is in the wrong location (a wikilink would obviously be meta:, m: or wikt: etc ). They were just a bit confusing to me, I may be missing something :).
James
On Fri, Nov 9, 2012 at 11:11 AM, Fae faewca@gmail.com wrote:
Re: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Chapters_Association/Resolutions/Pu...
Dear Wikimedians and Chapter enthusiasts,
This weekend I am planning to put forward the above drafted resolution for the WCA Council on the location for legal registration. (Closing date Sunday 11 November as voting opens on Monday.)
There have been only a few proposals discussed for location, and I and the other Council Members would welcome wider engagement on proposed locations. Please see the above resolution page and its discussion page for more information.
If you are disappointed not to see a location you think would be ideal, please raise a question on the resolution talk page on the :meta wiki, or directly approach and discuss the proposal with a Council Member (see the list at <http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Chapters_Association/Membership
)
as locations should be "sponsored" by at least one Council Member; they do not have to be part of the chapter in the location country.
There is not much time to add a proposal, however the process is relatively simple:
- Ensure one or more Council Members will "sponsor" the location.
- Address the questions listed for locations in the resolution in a
page on :meta with some simple answers.
If you are having trouble contacting a friendly Council Member, please contact me personally and I'll try to help out.
If you would like to review the proposals for locations and raise questions or suggest improvements, that would be great too. :-)
Cheers, Fae -- Ashley Van Haeften (Fae) FaeWCA@gmail.com Wikimedia Chapters Association Chair http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WCA Guide to email tags: http://j.mp/mfae
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[off topic] On 10 November 2012 01:02, James Alexander jamesofur@gmail.com wrote: ...
On an incredibly picky Wikipedian side note: What are you meaning by the ':meta' notation? It seems "like" interwiki links but the colon is in the wrong location (a wikilink would obviously be meta:, m: or wikt: etc ). They were just a bit confusing to me, I may be missing something :).
I tend to use this as my convention in emails as "word:" may be confused for being the start of some sort of list but ":word" would not be and if I use "wmuk:" I might mean the UK chapter but by ":wmuk" I always mean the UK chapter wiki. On wiki I often stick a colon in front of a link as I am used to this being the convention to link to images rather than embedding them. If left in by accident, the colon does not hurt any interwiki link as I believe it is always parsed out. For example [[m:Main page]], [[:m:Main page]] and [[::m:Main page]] all go to the same place.
Cheers, Fae
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