[Foundation-l] Chapters

Tue Aug 9 15:29:32 UTC 2011

Indeed, chapters have no jurisdiction over the content of the projects
whatsoever - and they dont want that either. I dont think any chapter would
be crazy enough to actually draft such a resolution in any binding tone.

It is true however that many chapters do important work for the local
projects, and serve their local needs in the sense of activities, press
contacts and fundraising in a more effective way (less culturally
challanging, more sensitive to what works locally and better in touch with
other activities and situations). Not all chapters do this in the same
extent, and not all do it similarly good. But that is the idea of a chapter
- it is not a fanclub organizing beer events only to have fun.

Best regards,
Lodewijk

2011/8/9 Yaroslav M. Blanter <putevod at mccme.ru>

> On Tue, 9 Aug 2011 10:11:49 -0500, Birgitte_sb at yahoo.com wrote:
> >> And just to add to the argument, the projects are divided by language,
> >> and
> >> not by jurisdiction. Whereas in many cases it may be unimportant (for
> >> instance, we can safely assume that most of the activbities of the
> >> Swedish
> >> chapter are more related to Swedish-language projects, and if there is
> >> any
> >> chapter which "caters" to Swedisg-language projects it is the Swedish
> >> chapter), this is not correct for most of the major languages (English,
> >> French, German, Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch, Russian ...)
> >>
> >>
> >
> > You are quite right about the limitations of chapters. However, I don't
> > see how these limiting factors are addressed by instead dealing with WMF
> > directly.  I think this is an example of "perfect being the enemy of
> good
> > enough".
> >
> > BirgitteSB
>
> Well, to give an example, I am perfectly fine with the recent WMF
> resolution on BLP and I am willing to comply. However, if such a resolution
> were issued by one of the chapters (for this matter it is irrelevant which
> chapter would do it) I would not feel myself in any way obliged to comply
> with such a resolution. No chapter has any jurisdiction over the Russian
> Wikipedia to which I used to contribute and over English Wikipedia to which
> I contribute now.
>
> Cheers
> Yaroslav
>
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