[Foundation-l] Wikimedia Pennsylvania

[Daniel Mayer]

--- Robert Horning <robert_horning at netzero.net> wrote:
> Which ultimately means that we don't need a U.S. chapter of the WMF.... 
> since the WMF provides that legal organization.  This is one of many 
> reasons why there is no Wikimedia-USA right now, and why it keeps 
> getting shot down each time it gets tried.

The WMF is not a membership organization and it will not nor should not be directly involved in
organizing activities that would tend to make it a publisher of content. Therefore, organizing
local activities aimed at generating content for the projects is such a thing that the WMF should
not be in the business of. Certifying the identity of a person who has been approved of by the
Wikinews community to be accredited is also something the foundation should not be involved in.
The foundation has certain ISP protections that would be jeopardized if it did. 

Having a multitude of parallel bureaucracies in the same nation is needlessly duplicative when a
single national chapter (who aims to be everything the foundation isn't or can't be) could
accomplish the same thing. Having metro clubs as its functional units solves the issue of acting
local.   

The foundation is a GLOBAL organisation which simply happens to be in the U.S. I don't think it
should be acting half global and half U.S. chapter. 

-- mav


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