[Foundation-l] A kind of organisation for transnational Wikipedias

[Ting Chen]

Ziko van Dijk wrote:
> Hello,
>
> There are some language versions of Wikipedia who have no relation to a
> chapter or cannot create a chapter, or where a chapter would not be
> suitable. Examples:
> - nation-less languages such as Latin, Esperanto
> - diaspora languages or Wikipedia communities, such as Kurdish, Swahili
>
> Sometimes it would be useful to have a kind of organisation for these
> language editions, not chapters, but something else, for PR purposes,
> contacts with language institutions etc.
>
> Kind regard
> Ziko
>
>   
Hello Ziko,

I am very sympathetic with your idea. In principle the WMF welcome any 
form of community organizations that would help us to promote our 
mission and our ideals. These organizations must not be officially 
recognized as chapters, but we still consider them as a very important 
part of the whole project. I think that this is not only my personal 
oppinion  but the oppinion of the foundation and of the board.

So, this said. I would say, go ahead and create such organizations. Even 
though these organization are no chapters, they would still get support 
from the foundation if the foundation can afford it and consider the 
actions of the organization is in line with our mission.

Ting