+Viswapraba, if we works under one umbrella instead of creating  thousand &quot;user group&quot;, we can flourish better way!  Although WMI chapter &amp; users group , both are necessary !  But I can say that users group may be die after inactive of main initiator  , WMI chapter will not.<div><br></div><div>Regards,</div><div>Jayanta Nath</div><div>President</div><div>Wikimedia India Chapter<br><div><br></div><div><br>On Tuesday, September 9, 2014, Arun Ganesh &lt;<a href="mailto:arun.planemad@gmail.com">arun.planemad@gmail.com</a>&gt; wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><span><p dir="ltr"><br>
&gt; Do I need permission from the chapter to start a Wikipedia editors club in my neighbourhood?</p>
</span><p dir="ltr">To answer just this simple, technical question: no, there is no restriction, and any group is welcome to seek recognition independently of the chapter, and does not need its permission.</p>
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<p dir="ltr"><a href="https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Step-by-step_user_group_creation_guide" target="_blank">https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Step-by-step_user_group_creation_guide</a></p></blockquote><div>Thanks Asaf, that was helpful.</div><div> </div></div><div><br></div>-- <br>
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