[Foundation-l] Accelerating chapter creation

[Tomasz Ganicz]

2006/9/26, Erik Moeller <erik at wikimedia.org>:
> Wikimedia projects exist in over 100 languages. Many of those
> languages are spoken in countries which do not have chapters yet.
>
> Would it be a worthwhile experiment, for every wiki that is in a
> language without a chapter in the country/countries where it is
> spoken, to put a note in the _registered user_ site notice, such as:
>
>  "If you are interested in starting a Wikimedia Foundation chapter in
>   [country/countries], please go to [page on Meta]"?
>
> The process could be similar to the Wikinews language creation
> process, i.e., there would have to be a minimum number of supporters,
> who might also have to do some grunt work to prove commitment. Then
> they would get their own chapter mailing list.
>
> Unregistered readers would not see this notice.
>
> We might define some preconditions for this:
>
> 1) Single login to make it easier to switch over to Meta
> 2) Logo / trademark agreements fully sorted out with existing chapters
> 3) Best practices document in place
> 4) Dismissable site notice so users won't be permanently annoyed by it.
>
> But in general, do you think it's an idea worth exploring?
>
> --
> Peace & Love,
> Erik
>

The problem is that chapters are rather country oriented than language
oriented. There is one very multiligual chapter (Swiss) and you may
consider UK and Candian chapters as multilingual as well. On the other
hand why not to create chapter in New Zeeland or South Africa? So you
should put that notice on English Wikipedia as well.


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