On 6/23/05, Angela <beesley(a)gmail.com> wrote:
I could be wrong, but I vaguely recall reading
something that "England
only" (or probably England-and-Wales) was being looked at, as it
potentially simplified matters from a legal standpoint.
Yeah, the current Plan is to incorporate under England-and-Wales law, but
we'll be for the whole of the UK.
UK is the working name for the chapter at the moment, though this does
unfortunately exclude Ireland, which might not be large enough to get
its own chapter yet, so I think there is still room for changes to be
made to incorporate them.
This was discussed at <http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_UK>.
The suggestion of using "WISE" (Wales, Ireland, Scotland, England) was
made at
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Wikimedia_UK
Angela.
I think it would be nice to incorporate Ireland into this chapter, but
obviously the name and the legal framework will be the problem. I'd
still like to see the efforts to focus on smaller languages be
extended to Irish Gaelic, which is in big trouble as a spoken
language. It'd be really nice to see pan-British Isles collaboration
on scholarship and general education in smaller languages, learning
lessons from the resounding success in Wales, for example. Even though
there's now a dedicated TV channel in Irish and it's a compulsory
subject throughout school, there's a big need to promote its actual
use and make it a community-based initiative. This, you understand, is
coming from someone who suffers from non-Irish-speaking-Irishperson
guilt, so I'd be happy to help out with this.
Cormac / Cormaggio