[Foundation-l] Wikimedia CH formally established

[valdelli at bluemail.ch]

Yes, Wikimedia CH is formally established.

I'm happy and I'm also curious to check its evolution. Wikimedia CH, at moment,
is the only multi-linguistic Wikimedia (I hope don't make a mistake) and
I would follow its evolution and to verify if this difference could be a
"plus" and not a division (I hope passionately).

Wikipedia is based, following its nature, on division by languages. Surely
there are users who offer their contributes to different wikipedias, but
in any case any wikipedia is a different community with different rules,
different goals, different outlook. Wikimedia CH is trying to harmonize its
three culture (or four or five including alemmanisch and rumantsch), this
is a challenge. In the first meeting we used four languages to communicate
(german, english, french and italian), the Olten's "BahnhofBuffet" seemed
to be the "BabelBuffet", but the most important thing is that there was a
communication.

I hope for the future :) ...in any case we started pursuing this aim having
at least a member for each three main languages in the board.

Best Regards

Ilario Valdelli
http://www.wikimedia.ch


>-- Messaggio originale --
>Date: Sun, 14 May 2006 21:13:11 +0200
>From: "Michael Bimmler" <mbimmler at gmail.com>
>To: "Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List" <foundation-l at wikimedia.org>,
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>Subject: [Foundation-l] Wikimedia CH formally established
>Reply-To: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List <foundation-l at wikimedia.org>
>
>
>Hello,
>This (May 14th) afternoon, Wikimedia CH has been officially
>established at a meeting with 12 people present at Olten. The legally
>binding record of the Founding Assembly will follow but I'll already
>enclose some information:
>
>The board of Wikimedia CH:
>
>As president:
>
>Ilario Valdelli (president, representative of Ticino)
>
>As members:
>
>Frédéric Schutz (representative of Romandie)
>Robin Schwab
>Christian Seidl
>Rupert Thurner
>Jürg Wolf
>Michael Bimmler (secretary/members affairs)
>
>The board will formally distribute the ressorts at it's first meeting.
>
>As auditors (not part of the board):
>Jürg Studer
>Patrick Kenel
>
>Ad hoc elected Press speaker
>For german-speaking part of Switzerland: Nando Stöcklin
>For french-speaking part of Switzerland (Romandie): Frédéric Schütz
>For italian-speaking part of Switzerland: Ilario Valdelli
>
>Official contact adress:
>Wikimedia CH
>8008 Zürich
>info at wikimedia dot ch
>www.wikimedia.ch
>
>A press release will be distributed tomorrow.
>
>Wikimedia CH's first event will be Swiss Wikipedia Day 2006 in Zürich
>(ETH Zürich), more information is to follow.
>
>-- 
>Regards
>Michael Bimmler
>
>Wikimedia CH - Verein zur Förderung Freien Wissens
>Wikimedia CH - Association for the advancement of free knowledge
>www.wikimedia.ch
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