Michael Snow wrote: > I've been assembling my notes from last week's board meeting to pass > along. The first set of items I have to report is business from the > chapters committee. All of these resolutions have been posted on the > foundation website. > > We approved two new chapters, and there's something special about each > of the two. Wikimedia New York City is special because it's the first > one recognized under the new sub-national chapter guidelines. And > Wikimedia UK is special because it's the second version of that chapter. > For the sake of formality - and nobody does formality better than the > British, which has been part of the difficulty - we revoked the > recognition of the first one, which is dissolved or in the process of > dissolving. Anyway, welcome to both of the new chapters! > > Also, two resolutions relating to the chapters committee's membership > and procedures were approved. One recognizes the current members and the > other allows the committee to determine its own membership in the > future. This allows them to keep their work going without waiting for > the board to pass a resolution (the board reserves the ability to > appoint and remove members and will still be informed of changes). > > --Michael Snow
Hello, For the sake of clarity, I'd like to ask that a mean is given to recognize that a sub-chapter is a sub-chapter rather than a chapter. If not in the name that we use within ourselves, at least on meta and internal pages. For now, I guess everyone from the house can guess that it is a subchapter, but when we have 50 chapters and 50 sub-chapters, it may not be so easy to deal with. For example, on meta, Wikimedia NYC is listed as chapters, not subchapters. http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_New_York_City. And the name does not clarify the difference either (it could have been mandatory that names used be of the type Wikimedia + Country + blabla). Beyond this, could it be possible that the difference between a chapter and a sub chapter be published ? I know some guidelines circulated internally, but I do believe it should not only be internal. I went to the resolution authorizing its recognition as a sub-chapter (http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Resolution:Approval_of_Wikimedia_New_York_City) and I found reference to "Wikimedia Foundation: A Framework for Encouraging the Development of Sub-National Chapters", but no idea where to find this document. I thought I could click on the only link provided on the resolution (local chapters), but this one leads to http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Local_chapters, which does not mention sub chapters, nor Wikimedia NYC, nor any framework for blablasubchapters. So, in effect, the resolution does not tell me anything beyond the fact that there seems to be sub-chapters and chapters. If there is a difference, what is it ? Both for external world and for us folks, it is important to understand the relationships existing organisations. Right now, the information is not provided. Could someone from the Foundation fix that and add the necessary information, eg * the text of the framework on wmf site * the link from the resolution to the framework page * an update of the chapter list on wmf site, to add the subchapters category OR the creation of a second list * on meta, subchapters must be categorized as subchapters, not chapters Ant _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
