[Wikimedia-l] Board vote on narrowing focus

[Federico Leva (Nemo)]

Samuel Klein, 02/11/2012 16:01:
>> * Institutional support for the GLAM related activities in the US (until
>> the US Federation is fully functional, if ever)
>>
>
> I agree there is room for a global GLAM support for regions that don't have
> local [chapter] organization.  Why do you feel this is a special problem
> for the US, compared to other archive-rich parts of the world - given the
> two regional chapters and numerous present and past Wikipedians in
> residence?

The problem is always the same, i.e. that the WMF acts as WM-USA while a 
chapter is missing, rather than being truly global.
Random (unfair?) recent example: WLM-USA uses the allegedly global 
"Wikimedia blog" 
<https://blog.wikimedia.org/2012/10/31/wiki-loves-monuments-us-top-ten-photos-announced/> 
unlike all the other national editions.
But perhaps Lodewijk meant something else.

Nemo