Tim McCormack wrote: While this list is significantly under-utilized, I do believe that it serves an explicit purpose otherwise not dealt with elsewhere in the Wikimedia Community: Working the the creation and development of Wikimedia "chapters" within the USA There was some significant development in terms of a "Wikimedia Pennsylvania" chapter, and some other similar local and state-level chapters. Considering how effective some of the chapters have become in Europe, it is unfortunate that U.S. chapters aren't nearly so well developed even if for purely social reasons. I have been "lurking" on here for some time, and for the most part spam isn't really a huge problem. In fact, the bandwidth is so low that I don't mind the discussions on here... as compared to Foundation-l that I've been tempted on several occasions to dump just because I can only read about 10% (and going down) of the posts on that mailing list even when I'm trying. Perhaps only 1%. That isn't the case with this mailing list. This said, I don't want to see this list turn into a spam trap. -- Robert Horning

I'm interested in hearing the details. Is there a Meta page associated with these happenings or a chapters wiki? --John Reaves On Feb 19, 2008 3:50 PM, Austin Hair <adhair(a)gmail.com> wrote:

On Feb 18, 2008 10:18 PM, Tim McCormack <cortex(a)brainonfire.net> wrote: Don't give up yet. The Wikimedia Australia mailing list was created in March 2006, almost 2 years ago. It was a slow start, but we finally submitted our documents to chapcom for approval of our chapter this month. I've no doubt the US chapters will get there soon, despite limited activity on this list. Angela