[Foundation-l] Wikimedia Pennsylvania

[Jimmy Wales]

I agree with the concept of regional/city style chapters in the US.

In Europe, per-country tends to make sense for the following reasons:

1. Countries in Europe are often (though not always, obviously) drawn  
in a way that also matches language borders, and languages are a  
sensible way to break down the Wikimedia community

2. Countries in Europe, despite the ongoing efforts at "common  
market", are still significantly more different from each other on  
legal grounds than US states.

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Perhaps someday, some national chapters in Europe might want to have  
"subchapters" in some sense, for example if Milan and Rome had groups  
meeting regularly and trying to schedule local events separately.   
But that can be for local chapters to decide later on.