On Fri, May 2, 2008 at 6:19 AM, <daniwo59(a)aol.com> wrote:
One thing I am curious about: after the US, Japanese
is the most prominent
Wikipedia project. According to Alexa, it accounts for some 9 percent of
traffic (in comparision, German is 6.4 percent), and it is the fifth-largest
wikiproject by # of articles. Does anyone know if there is a discussion taking
place among the Japanese about forming a chapter and having some voice in
Foundation governance?
Meta has a page for [[m:Wikimedia Japan]]. But its discussion is
rather disgusting. But the page seems to be dead months ago. On the
other hand, some of active Ja admins I've met showed their dislike to
increase legal risk upon themselves or the local organization, hard
prospect of getting tax-exempts (legally possible but only less than
25 orgs got this privilege since the law had been made), and some
active members are disinterest, since they prefer to keep their
anonymity and wouldn't like to get involved to the local chapter
board, which means their names and addresses will be documented and
available nationwide.
Danny
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