Ziko: Yes, it is about the major Russian city. And one of its listed contacts is the longstanding president of Wikimedia Russia itself.
Philip: this is not an example of a large country being "split up", since Wikimedia Russia is still around, and was not broken up. It is also not the first user group operating within Russia, nor even the first group with a geographic remit.[1]
A.
[1] e.g. https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Don_Wikimedians_User_Group
On Thu, Oct 3, 2019 at 10:34 PM Ziko van Dijk zvandijk@gmail.com wrote:
Hello Philip,
I was asking the same question - isn't there already a Wikimedia Rossiya - but I guess this is the User Group of Saint Petersburg in Florida (USA), not Sankt Peterburg in Russia. Oh wait... this IS about the city in Russia! https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedians_of_Saint_Petersburg_User_Group
Kind regards Ziko
Am Do., 3. Okt. 2019 um 16:15 Uhr schrieb Philip Kopetzky < philip.kopetzky@gmail.com>:
Hi Kirill,
so it seems like geographically large countries are being split up into different user groups - do you think that this is a viable model for the future or just happened because of certain circumstances within the
Russian
community? Would your template allow a User Group from Rome, Paris,
Munich
or Sydney for example?
Best, Philip
On Thu, 3 Oct 2019 at 12:20, Kirill Lokshin kirill.lokshin@gmail.com wrote:
Hi everyone!
I'm very happy to announce that the Affiliations Committee has
recognized
[1] the Wikimedians of Saint Petersburg User Group [2] as a Wikimedia
User
Group. The group aims to unite Wikimedians living in St. Petersburg, to support the development of content on topics related to St. Petersburg across different Wikimedia projects, to promote the Wikimedia projects
and
movement in St. Petersburg, and to build partnerships between the
Wikimedia
community and cultural, scientific, educational, and media institutions
in
St. Petersburg.
Please join me in congratulating the members of this new user group!
Regards, Kirill Lokshin Chair, Affiliations Committee
[1]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Affiliations_Committee/Resolutions/Recogniti...
[2]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedians_of_Saint_Petersburg_User_Group
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