On 6/23/05, Angela beesley@gmail.com wrote:
I could be wrong, but I vaguely recall reading something that "England only" (or probably England-and-Wales) was being looked at, as it potentially simplified matters from a legal standpoint.
Yeah, the current Plan is to incorporate under England-and-Wales law, but we'll be for the whole of the UK.
UK is the working name for the chapter at the moment, though this does unfortunately exclude Ireland, which might not be large enough to get its own chapter yet, so I think there is still room for changes to be made to incorporate them.
This was discussed at http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_UK. The suggestion of using "WISE" (Wales, Ireland, Scotland, England) was made at http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Wikimedia_UK
Angela.
I think it would be nice to incorporate Ireland into this chapter, but obviously the name and the legal framework will be the problem. I'd still like to see the efforts to focus on smaller languages be extended to Irish Gaelic, which is in big trouble as a spoken language. It'd be really nice to see pan-British Isles collaboration on scholarship and general education in smaller languages, learning lessons from the resounding success in Wales, for example. Even though there's now a dedicated TV channel in Irish and it's a compulsory subject throughout school, there's a big need to promote its actual use and make it a community-based initiative. This, you understand, is coming from someone who suffers from non-Irish-speaking-Irishperson guilt, so I'd be happy to help out with this.
Cormac / Cormaggio