Hi all,

It is my pleasure to draw your attention to the resolution adopted by the Affiliations Committee yesterday [1] that recognizes the GLAM Wiki U.S. Consortium[2] as the fifth Wikimedia User Group.

The GLAM-Wiki US Consortium will bring together cultural organizations, Wikipedians, Wikimedia chapters, and individuals in an independent community of practice devoted to supporting the GLAM-Wikimedia initiative in the United States

Wikimedia User Groups[3] are one of the three new types of affiliations created last year to empower volunteers wanting to conduct offline work. User group status is meant to be an easy form of affiliation, where the main requirements are an agreed goal, plans for offline work and a history of projects, and at least three people participating, as well as a public wiki page with all the relevant information.

Please join me in welcoming the Consortium to the Wikimedia affiliate family, and go ahead and sign up to be a member if you would like to participate in its work.

Best regards. Bence Damokos, Affiliations Committee

[1] http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Affiliations_Committee/Resolutions/GLAM-Wiki_... [2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:GLAM/US/Consortium [3] http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_User_Groups