Guys,
How are chapters of the Wikimedia Foundation created? I hope we Cebuanos could organize one after we have made our Wikipedia active.
bentong
P.S. Thanks in advance. I might not be able to reply promptly to the answers re this message.
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Hi
There are currently three chapters, in Germany, France and Italy. Others are currently under work, for Switzerland, England, Poland, Netherlands...
Most of these chapters take a lot of time and energy. I do not recommand to make one before you have a serious number of participants in your country. It is more important to focus FIRST of all on the project. Chapters are in great part set up to promote the language(s) spoken in the countries and relevant projects. If there is a project with 100 articles, it makes little sense.
Mostly, take your time :-) Starting a language is huge work. Focus on that before everything. Most chapters creation took at least a year.
Good luck
Anthere
Vincent "Bentong" S. Isles a écrit:
Guys,
How are chapters of the Wikimedia Foundation created? I hope we Cebuanos could organize one after we have made our Wikipedia active.
bentong
P.S. Thanks in advance. I might not be able to reply promptly to the answers re this message.
Send instant messages to your online friends http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com
On Thursday, June 23, 2005, at 12:05, Anthere anthere9@yahoo.com wrote:
Other [chpaters] are currently under work, for [..] England
Umm. The United Kingdom, please. :-)
It's bad enough when Americans get the name of the country that set them up wrong, but we'd hope that our European friends and allies with whom we are in economics and social union would at least get it right. ;-)
Yours,
On 23/06/05, James D. Forrester james@jdforrester.org wrote:
On Thursday, June 23, 2005, at 12:05, Anthere anthere9@yahoo.com wrote:
Other [chpaters] are currently under work, for [..] England
Umm. The United Kingdom, please. :-)
It's bad enough when Americans get the name of the country that set them up wrong, but we'd hope that our European friends and allies with whom we are in economics and social union would at least get it right. ;-)
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. Scots law, as we should all remember, exists solely to confuse people at inopportune moments...
(On the other hand, I've just been poking around looking for this, and can't find it anywhere - apologies if I've misremembered)
On Thursday, June 23, 2005, at 15:55, Andrew Gray shimgray@gmail.com wrote:
On 23/06/05, James D. Forrester james@jdforrester.org wrote:
On Thursday, June 23, 2005, at 12:05, Anthere anthere9@yahoo.com wrote:
Other [chpaters] are currently under work, for [..] England
Umm. The United Kingdom, please. :-)
It's bad enough when Americans get the name of the country that set them up wrong, but we'd hope that our European friends and allies with whom we are in economics and social union would at least get it right. ;-)
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.
Scots law, as we should all remember, exists solely to confuse people at inopportune moments...
Fully agree. :-)
(On the other hand, I've just been poking around looking for this, and can't find it anywhere - apologies if I've misremembered)
Yours,
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.
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
On 23/06/05, James D. Forrester james@jdforrester.org wrote:
It's bad enough when Americans get the name of the country that set them up wrong, but we'd hope that our European friends and allies with whom we are in economics and social union would at least get it right. ;-)
Go on, admit it, you've used "Holland" to refer to "the Netherlands" before; and I bet plenty of people still refer to the non-existent nation of "Czechoslovakia" out of habit - to the annoyance of "our European friends and allies" from "Slovakia" and "the Czech Republic"... :p
On 23/06/05, Angela beesley@gmail.com wrote:
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
Hm... "Wikimedia WISE" - I like it! It may not be very obviously descriptive, but it's certainly snappy and neutral...
James D. Forrester a écrit:
On Thursday, June 23, 2005, at 12:05, Anthere anthere9@yahoo.com wrote:
Other [chpaters] are currently under work, for [..] England
Umm. The United Kingdom, please. :-)
Ohoh, apologies ;-)
(I fear we always say Angleterre, not Royaume-Uni... but we talk of the same place hopefully :-))
It's bad enough when Americans get the name of the country that set them up wrong, but we'd hope that our European friends and allies with whom we are in economics and social union would at least get it right. ;-)
Yours,
The country that set them up ?? Economic and social union ???? /me is badly coughing here.
But I am in spirit with you, ô island accross our common channel
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On 6/23/05, Anthere anthere9@yahoo.com wrote:
There are currently three chapters, in Germany, France and Italy. Others are currently under work, for Switzerland, England, Poland, Netherlands...
Has there been any discussion of a United States chapter (or, probably more realistically, U.S. state chapters)?
- --Slowking Man
On 24/06/05, Christopher Larberg christopherlarberg@gmail.com wrote:
Has there been any discussion of a United States chapter (or, probably more realistically, U.S. state chapters)?
There has. See http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/United_States_Wikimedia_Chapter
Angela.
On 6/23/05, Christopher Larberg christopherlarberg@gmail.com wrote:
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On 6/23/05, Anthere anthere9@yahoo.com wrote:
There are currently three chapters, in Germany, France and Italy. Others are currently under work, for Switzerland, England, Poland, Netherlands...
Has there been any discussion of a United States chapter (or, probably more realistically, U.S. state chapters)?
- --Slowking Man
There was also an informal mailing-list set up for interested people; it hasn't seen much discussion yet (and should probably get a proper wikimedia mailing list someday).
SJ
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