[Foundation-l] Wikimedia Pennsylvania

Tue Jul 10 15:21:50 UTC 2007

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Casey Brown wrote:
> Just for the record, we are doing State-based chapters at the request of the
> Chapters Committee.  We had originally wanted a regional committee, but
> ChapComm strongly suggested simply a state organization (and who were we to
> argue? :P).

Hmm, I'd tend to agree with the sentiment that regional / metro-based
chapters make more sense than state chapters, especially if the idea is
to organize local activity. We already have US legal infrastructure in
WMF, and there'll be more benefit in local organizing by keeping groups,
well, local.

Miami and Tallahassee, or Los Angeles and San Francisco, or Philly and
Pittsburgh, don't seem like super-convenient pairings to me.

What's the argument in favor of state-level blocks?

> Interesting point about the name.  However, the two do indeed overlap, in
> many instances including this one.  Our own article even says that the
> internet TLD .pa is used by Panama *and* Pennsylvania jointly, due to the
> overlap in their names.  I really don't think it is worth changing at this
> moment in time.  After all, there may never be a Wikimedia Panama and it is
> just an abbreviation, no official meaning is given.

One sensible thing might be to use subdomains under wikimedia.us:
pa.wikimedia.us, il.wikimedia.us, etc? :)

- -- brion vibber (brion @ wikimedia.org)
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