[Foundation-l] Fwd: Wikimedia Pennsylvania

[THURNER rupert]

in irc, url's, mailing-list you use "pa", like "de", "pl", "fr". everything
is iso country code, but "pa" should not be? imo this is bad practice. not
many people outside the us is aware what pa means, and this is 95% of the
worlds population.

is there any possibility to vote for "leave iso country codes for countries"
or "do not discriminate poors in advance"?

as there seems to be some misunderstanding about "why do chapters exist":
in europe it was mostly a legal thing, for tax exemption, bank transfers,
but also to "have a phone number which might be called". and especially in
germany this is used heavily. btw, germany is three times california and
four times texas, florida, ny. france two times texas  ... as its not trees
who are calling but people ;)

rupert.

On 7/12/07, Casey Brown <cbrown1023 at comcast.net> wrote:
>
> Can you explain what you mean?  How did we block your country code and
> this
> is not that confusing to international users.
>
> Casey Brown
> Cbrown1023
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto: foundation-l-bounces at lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of THURNER
> rupert
> Sent: Wednesday, July 11, 2007 6:01 PM
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> Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] Wikimedia Pennsylvania
>
> could you explain the reasoning behind blocking panamas iso country code
> "pa" and confusing international people? see
> http://www.bcpl.net/~j1m5path/isocodes.html .
>
> rupert.
>
>
>
> On 7/10/07, Andrew Whitworth <wknight8111 at hotmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > I'm cross-posting this message to both the foundation-l and the
> > now-defunct
> > wikimediaus-l lists. Many people here may already be aware of the new
> > Wikimedia Pennsylvania chapter that is in active development, either
> from
> > the various pages that have sprung up on meta from it, from our blog on
> > the
> > planet, or from word of mouth.
> >
> > For those who are not aware, We are working to create a local chapter
> for
> > the Pennsylvania area. It will be the first state chapter, and possibly
> > the
> > first north american chapter (unless the canadian chapter can get
> rolling
> > before we do). Our chapter is going to be focused primarily on a
> > grass-roots
> > community outreach effort, in an attempt to drum up both new
> contributors
> > and new content consumers. Some of the people we would like to target
> > initially are public school systems (including the
> financially-distressed
> > Philadelphia area school district, which could benefit significantly
> from
> > a
> > free textbook alternative), universities, and community organizations.
> We
> > would also like to do some fundraising, but the extent to which we have
> > organized fundraisers is yet to be determined.
> >
> > We are instituting an open membership policy: No membership fees, and no
> > residential requirements on membership. Due to the community-oriented
> > mission of the chapter people from distant areas may have a difficulty
> > participating, but we do not intend to disenfranchise anybody because of
> > their geographical location. We are hoping that this policy will help to
> > get
> > many people involved, will help other state chapters get started, and
> will
> > serve as an organizational model for future state chapters.
> >
> > We have created a new mailinglist for the chapter at wikimediapa-l. We
> > have
> > an irc chatroom on freenode (#Wikimedia-pa), and a homepage on meta:
> > [[meta:Wikimedia Philadelphia]]. People who are interested in more
> > information can turn to any of these sources. We will be submitting the
> > first draft of our bylaws to the chapters committee soon (hopefully in a
>
> > week or two) and are already looking at the paperwork to become 503(c)
> > (although that step will be saved for the future when we see how well
> the
> > chapter is working out).
> >
> > --Andrew Whitworth
> >
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