Dear all,
I wanted to update you on behalf of the Affiliations Committee that we are now considering the application of a proposed thematic organisation active in the field of Medicine.
You can see the proposal at: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Medicine
We would like to invite you to participate in the discussions, express your interest to join the organisation and inform your home communities about this proposal.
We will be monitoring the talk page at http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Wikimedia_Medicine to see if there is any new information that might influence the recognition process. If you have any related information you would like to share with the committee privately, please write to affcom@lists.wikimedia.org.
---- A bit of background: Wikimedia thematic organisations are a new type of movement organisation, that are similar to chapters in supporting the Wikimedia mission through their activities in the real world, but instead of focusing on a given country, they focus on a given topic or theme. For more information please see: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Thematic_Organizations.
It is the plan of the Affiliations Committee to send out announcements of new thematic organisation applications roughly in the middle of the recognition process to allow the wider community to express any concerns they might have and to be able to join the organisation when it is founded. This is done in the hope that it will help new organisations reach critical mass earlier and that the wider community is informed about emerging entities in the movement. For more information on AffCom, see: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Affiliations_Committee
Best regards, Bence (Chair, Affiliations Committee)
Thanks for the notice.
Bence Damokos, 14/10/2012 19:07:
A bit of background: Wikimedia thematic organisations are a new type of movement organisation, that are similar to chapters in supporting the Wikimedia mission through their activities in the real world, but instead of focusing on a given country, they focus on a given topic or theme. For more information please see: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Thematic_Organizations
I know what thematic organisations are, I've read [[Wikimedia Medicine]] and skimmed its talk and bylaws, I know what they've been doing and what they want to do etc., but I'm still very confused. This is some sort of meta-WikiProject, so, in short: will it be written clearly somewhere that it won't have any control or power to establish guidelines over Wikimedia projects, and so on? (Just like chapters do.)
Nemo
Hi Nemo,
Hopefully people involved in the project are subscribed here and will react, as well and provide a clear definition of their aims.
There are two sides to this coin: the should and the will: a thematic organisation should not have any control or power over the projects; it is a different question whether the organisation itself adopts policies and behaviors that could be seen as interfering into the internals of the project or actively avoids such behavior.
See also the specific discussions on this question at: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Wikimedia_Medicine#Other http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Wikimedia_Medicine#Liability http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Iridescent#arbitrary_break_2 (and above)
Best regards, Bence
On Sun, Oct 14, 2012 at 9:57 PM, Federico Leva (Nemo) nemowiki@gmail.comwrote:
Thanks for the notice.
Bence Damokos, 14/10/2012 19:07:
A bit of background:
Wikimedia thematic organisations are a new type of movement organisation, that are similar to chapters in supporting the Wikimedia mission through their activities in the real world, but instead of focusing on a given country, they focus on a given topic or theme. For more information please see: http://meta.wikimedia.org/**wiki/Wikimedia_Thematic_**Organizationshttp://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Thematic_Organizations
I know what thematic organisations are, I've read [[Wikimedia Medicine]] and skimmed its talk and bylaws, I know what they've been doing and what they want to do etc., but I'm still very confused. This is some sort of meta-WikiProject, so, in short: will it be written clearly somewhere that it won't have any control or power to establish guidelines over Wikimedia projects, and so on? (Just like chapters do.)
Nemo
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Bence Damokos, 14/10/2012 22:05:
See also the specific discussions on this question at: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Wikimedia_Medicine#Other http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Wikimedia_Medicine#Liability http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Iridescent#arbitrary_break_2 (and above)
Thank you. This point should surely be more developed, especially as they write things like «develops guidelines on best practices for [...] how the Wikipedia community ought to respond when it gets requests for medical advice». However, I'm not that interested in this particular case and its edge discussions, I'd like the rule to be clarified in general, as it was with chapters since the beginning (or at least since the third chapter, WMIT, in 2005; I don't remember WMDE and WMFR original bylaws that well).
Nemo
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