[Foundation-l] Status of Serbia and Montenegro chapter

Sun Nov 6 23:30:20 UTC 2005

Here are some conclusions according to recent events (questionable
reliability of Wikimedian projects) and to meeting of the part of
members of Initiative for Wikimedia Serbia and Montegro:

1. As the part of Wikimedian community supports hoaxes (i.e.
"Zlatiborian language") we are considered that such cases (not only
related to Serbian/Croatian/Bosnian languages area) can make
completely damage to relevancy of Wikimedia and her projects.

2. We completely understand that Wikimedian projects are not only WMF
Board's projects, but the projects of Wikimedian community. According
to that, we worry that recent events are not isolated cases, but the
important rule in Wikimedian community. Because of that we understand
that our involvement, as organization in the future, in Wikimedian
project assumes that we support such kinds of scientific and social
irresponsibilities. And we are not ready to do that.

3. Only because of the fact that our meeting was just the meeting of
the part of Initiative for WM SCG, we didn't make any decision. As we
would have Founding Assembly in two weeks, as our first meeting with
full number of members from now, we would make decision then.

4. Decisions can be: (1) We would a "full" local chapter (i.e., like
German Chapter is) with the name "Wikimedia Serbia and Montenegro" or
(2) we would not be a "full" local chapter, but only a friendly
organization which can behave like an Wikimedian local chapter (with
different name then "Wikimedia Serbia and Montenegro").