[Foundation-l] A kind of organisation for transnational Wikipedias

Fri Feb 13 12:17:01 UTC 2009

2009/2/13 Ziko van Dijk <zvandijk at googlemail.com>:
> Hello,
>
> There are some language versions of Wikipedia who have no relation to a
> chapter or cannot create a chapter, or where a chapter would not be
> suitable. Examples:
> - nation-less languages such as Latin, Esperanto
> - diaspora languages or Wikipedia communities, such as Kurdish, Swahili
>
> Sometimes it would be useful to have a kind of organisation for these
> language editions, not chapters, but something else, for PR purposes,
> contacts with language institutions etc.

Chapters handle stuff like that on a country level, the WMF handles
stuff like that on a project level. Does that not work? Members of
project communities can handle PR and contact relevant bodies
perfectly well without needing to be a legally recognised entity (they
can get help from the WMF where necessary).