Message I sent to ChapCom for your information:

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From: Andrew Turvey raturvey@yahoo.co.uk To: chaptercommittee-l@wikimedia.org Cc: WMUK board@wikimedia.org.uk Sent: Tuesday, 28 October, 2008 23:50:16 Subject: Re: Wikimedia UK v2 (proposed) - Constitution

Dear Chapters Committee,

Further to my email of 16th, Andrew Whitworth came to our meeting on 21st and fed back two queries regarding our proposed Memorandum and Articles of Association (M&A) regarding the role of the General Meeting and the appointment of auditors.

I have added some explanatory notes at http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_UK_v2.0/AoA#General_meetings and http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_UK_v2.0/AoA#Notice_of_General_Meeti... which I hope will be enough to explain the situation.

Since then we met again on Monday when we formed the company using our draft M&A and this will be sent to Companies House for registration later this week once the documents have been officially sworn.

Please let me know if you have any further queries or if there is anything else we can do to encourage a positive recommendation to the Foundation. If you decide you do want any changes to be made to the Memorandum and Articles we will still be able to do this after the formation has completed by passing an amendment.

Look forward to hearing from you soon,

Andrew Turvey Secretary Wikimedia UK (proposed)

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From: Andrew Turvey To: chaptercommittee-l@wikimedia.org Cc: wikimediauk-l@lists.wikimedia.org; WMUK Sent: Thursday, 16 October, 2008 2:00:57 Subject: Wikimedia UK v2 (proposed) - Constitution

Dear Chapters Committee,

I am writing on behalf of the UK Wikimedian community which is currently

working

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to establish a new chapter for the United Kingdom.

Over the past two months, we have been working through the steps to establish this new chapter. Starting in late August, we publicised our initiative throughout the UK wikimedian community and invited other wikimedians to get involved. We held an election of an interim Board in September, and their

first

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task was to draw up a constitution.

After extensive consultation with the community and discussion among the Board

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members, we approved our draft constitution on Monday and would like to submit

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it to you now for your comments and approval in accordance with the "Step by step chapter creation guide".

We have decided that the most appropriate legal structure for our chapter

would

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be a "Company Limited by Guarantee". We have based our constitution (termed

the

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"Memorandum of Association" and the "Articles of Association") on the Model documents issued by the UK Charity Commission. The main revisions we have made

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to these is to shift the general balance of powers between the Directors and

the

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members towards the members and to allow for electronic communications and meetings.

Our draft constitution can be found here:

http://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikimedia_UK_v2.0/MoA&oldid=...

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and

http://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikimedia_UK_v2.0/AoA&oldid=...

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The text of the constitution is shown in Bold text with additional explanatory

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notes in Italic. Note that the Italic notes do not form part of the constitution. Revisions to the Model documents are highlighted by underlining additional text and striking through the deleted text.

Please let us know if you have any queries regarding these and otherwise we

look

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forward to hearing from you once you have had a chance to consider these.

Yours faithfully,

Andrew Turvey Secretary Wikimedia UK v2 (proposed)

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