Re: [Foundation-l] Chapter Selected Board Seats - Time for questions

2012-03-02 Thread Tomasz Ganicz
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[Foundation-l] Polish Wikimania scholarship program

2012-02-16 Thread Tomasz Ganicz
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Re: [Foundation-l] ACTA analysis?

2012-01-25 Thread Tomasz Ganicz
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Re: [Foundation-l] ACTA analysis?

2012-01-25 Thread Tomasz Ganicz
2012/1/25 Federico Leva (Nemo) nemow...@gmail.com: Tomasz Ganicz, 25/01/2012 09:22: I don't know if there is manpower for this - but it would be great if the analysis covers also impact of ACTA on EU law and EU related Wikipedias (those which have majority of editors from EU countries

Re: [Foundation-l] RevisionRank: automatically finding out high-quality revisions of an article

2011-12-20 Thread Tomasz Ganicz
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Re: [Foundation-l] A proposal for a Wikimedia project that helps people find solutions to their problems

2011-11-19 Thread Tomasz Ganicz
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Re: [Foundation-l] Blackout at Italian Wikipedia

2011-10-04 Thread Tomasz Ganicz
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Re: [Foundation-l] Blackout at Italian Wikipedia

2011-10-04 Thread Tomasz Ganicz
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Re: [Foundation-l] Wiki Loves Monuments (Was: On curiosity, cats and scapegoats)

2011-09-12 Thread Tomasz Ganicz
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Re: [Foundation-l] help openstreetmap to translate their license ...

2011-08-22 Thread Tomasz Ganicz
lawyer or at least revised and accepted. Otherwise the translated text is worth nothing from legal POV. -- Tomek Polimerek Ganicz http://pl.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Polimerek http://www.ganicz.pl/poli/ http://www.cbmm.lodz.pl/work.php?id=29title=tomasz-ganicz

Re: [Foundation-l] help openstreetmap to translate their license ...

2011-08-22 Thread Tomasz Ganicz
that translation. -- Tomek Polimerek Ganicz http://pl.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Polimerek http://www.ganicz.pl/poli/ http://www.cbmm.lodz.pl/work.php?id=29title=tomasz-ganicz ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https

Re: [Foundation-l] help openstreetmap to translate their license ...

2011-08-21 Thread Tomasz Ganicz
-fide lawyer who does this job. I guess SwisCC chapter has such a lawyer or lawyers as well and I guess they might help... -- Tomek Polimerek Ganicz http://pl.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Polimerek http://www.ganicz.pl/poli/ http://www.cbmm.lodz.pl/work.php?id=29title=tomasz-ganicz

Re: [Foundation-l] Question: Elmer Fudd Wikipedia?

2011-07-09 Thread Tomasz Ganicz
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Re: [Foundation-l] Plethora of overlapping Categories

2011-06-21 Thread Tomasz Ganicz
/ should go on the discuss pages, but category discuss pages don't attract much attention. [cut] -- Tomek Polimerek Ganicz http://pl.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Polimerek http://www.ganicz.pl/poli/ http://www.cbmm.lodz.pl/work.php?id=29title=tomasz-ganicz

Re: [Foundation-l] Fwd: Copyright problems of images from India

2011-05-10 Thread Tomasz Ganicz
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Re: [Foundation-l] Fwd: Copyright problems of images from India

2011-05-10 Thread Tomasz Ganicz
in India. -- Tomek Polimerek Ganicz http://pl.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Polimerek http://www.ganicz.pl/poli/ http://www.cbmm.lodz.pl/work.php?id=29title=tomasz-ganicz ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https

Re: [Foundation-l] Access to academic journals (was Re: Remarks on Wikimedia's fundraiser)

2011-03-16 Thread Tomasz Ganicz
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Re: [Foundation-l] Access to academic journals (was Re: Remarks on Wikimedia's fundraiser)

2011-03-08 Thread Tomasz Ganicz
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Re: [Foundation-l] [Fwd: Ubuntu Wiki to be re-licensed to CC BY-SA]

2011-02-15 Thread Tomasz Ganicz
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Re: [Foundation-l] A question for American Wikimedians

2010-11-17 Thread Tomasz Ganicz
2010/11/17 Ziko van Dijk zvand...@googlemail.com: According to the statistics only 0.2% of the page views in Germany go to Wikipedia in Turkish, by the way.Turks in Germany belong largely to social classes that tend not to read much in an encyclopedia, and when they need one for school, they

Re: [Foundation-l] Should we offer to host citizendium?

2010-11-12 Thread Tomasz Ganicz
2010/11/12 John Vandenberg jay...@gmail.com: On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 8:13 PM, Gerard Meijssen gerard.meijs...@gmail.com wrote: Hoi, Providing help to an organisation that can be considered part of the Wikimedia movement makes sense. The issue with Citizendium is that they explicitly distance

Re: [Foundation-l] Should we offer to host citizendium?

2010-11-12 Thread Tomasz Ganicz
2010/11/12 John Vandenberg jay...@gmail.com: On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 9:03 PM, Tomasz Ganicz polime...@gmail.com wrote: 2010/11/12 John Vandenberg jay...@gmail.com: On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 8:13 PM, Gerard Meijssen gerard.meijs...@gmail.com wrote: Hoi, Providing help to an organisation

Re: [Foundation-l] Increasing the number of new accounts who actually edit

2010-09-22 Thread Tomasz Ganicz
2010/9/22 Risker risker...@gmail.com: On 22 September 2010 04:27, Andre Engels andreeng...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 9:55 AM, Lennart Guldbrandsson wikihanni...@gmail.com wrote: Did you know that less than a third of the users who create an account on English Wikipedia make

[Foundation-l] Yesha Council prapares to war on Wikipedia?

2010-08-19 Thread Tomasz Ganicz
Yesha Council prapares to war on Wikipedia? See: http://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/news/the-right-s-latest-weapon-zionist-editing-on-wikipedia-1.308667 any comments? Anyway, I checked the entry Jewish family in English Wikipedia and it is just a redir to Judaism which is IMHO (at least at

Re: [Foundation-l] Why should Wikimedians meet?

2010-07-31 Thread Tomasz Ganicz
2010/7/31 Thomas Dalton thomas.dal...@gmail.com: On 31 July 2010 16:27, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote: On 31 July 2010 16:21, Amir E. Aharoni amir.ahar...@mail.huji.ac.il wrote: But all of the above are nice dreams about the future. Is there any proven experience from the past that

Re: [Foundation-l] Discussion Questions for Potentially-Objectionable Content

2010-07-25 Thread Tomasz Ganicz
2010/7/25 Andreas Kolbe jayen...@yahoo.com: From: David Gerard dger...@gmail.com Yes, the devil is in the details, and in working out the correct parameters for default IP access. Each language version of any project could make its own determination in this regard. Arabic, no Mohammed

Re: [Foundation-l] Money, politics and corruption

2010-07-15 Thread Tomasz Ganicz
2010/7/15 Keegan Peterzell keegan.w...@gmail.com: Okay, this thread has intrigued me and I thought the answers would pan out and it seems to have gone in various directions, but it was initiated by Milos so I'll focus on what I perceive to be his problem:  Corruption (through careerism,

[Foundation-l] Funny news from Poland

2010-05-13 Thread Tomasz Ganicz
As you maybe now, after the sudden death of Lech Kaczynski (jn airjet crash in Smolens) we have now fast presidential election. One of the most serious candidates Bronisław Komorowski was cached with printed copy of Wikipedia article about Rada Bezpieczeństwa Narodowego

Re: [Foundation-l] Along with Vector, a new look for changes to the Wikipedia identity

2010-05-13 Thread Tomasz Ganicz
2010/5/13 Jay Walsh jwa...@wikimedia.org: SVG versions of the new globe, and the Wikipedia identity can be found here: http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Wikimedia_official_marks I don't believe all of those assets have migrated to Commons yet. Hope you won't forget to change the logo

Re: [Foundation-l] On problems in commons

2010-05-09 Thread Tomasz Ganicz
2010/5/9 marcos tal_t...@yahoo.es: Please, read good. Common Sense. Do you think it´s of common sense delete this?... Yes. If we are really to follow your POV. Muhammad pictures are far more offensive for muslim people than porno stuff. -- Tomek Polimerek Ganicz

Re: [Foundation-l] Jimbo's Sexual Image Deletions

2010-05-08 Thread Tomasz Ganicz
2010/5/8 David Levy lifeisunf...@gmail.com: Samuel Klein wrote: I don't think this is a technical issue at all.   Considering how flexible and reversible wiki-actions are, it seems eminently appropriate to me for the project founder to have 'unlimited technical power' on the projects -- just

Re: [Foundation-l] Statement on appropriate educational content

2010-05-08 Thread Tomasz Ganicz
2010/5/8 Anthony wikim...@inbox.org: I dunno, when framed that way it seems the answer is to be family-friendly, and to let the specialists get their information in specialist resources. So... are we now going to start writting USfamilyfriendlypedia(tm) ? There is plenty of stuff to be delete

Re: [Foundation-l] Jimbo's Sexual Image Deletions

2010-05-08 Thread Tomasz Ganicz
2010/5/8 Anthony wikim...@inbox.org: On Sat, May 8, 2010 at 5:39 PM, Tomasz Ganicz polime...@gmail.com wrote: Well.. maybe... but bear in mind that it is really hard to discuss the pictures you can't see, and commons-delinker bot actions are really difficuilt to revert. So fix commons

Re: [Foundation-l] Call for Wikimania Scholarship Applications

2010-03-26 Thread Tomasz Ganicz
2010/3/26 Svip svi...@gmail.com: On 25 March 2010 20:50, Isabell Long isabell...@gmail.com wrote: On 25 March 2010 19:48, Yaroslav M. Blanter pute...@mccme.ru wrote: I don't think there are any restrictions but then I am not overly familiar with EU law. I guess you will not be able to fly

Re: [Foundation-l] Call for Wikimania Scholarship Applications

2010-03-25 Thread Tomasz Ganicz
2010/3/25 Isabell Long isabell...@gmail.com: On 24 March 2010 22:41, Cary Bass c...@wikimedia.org wrote: The call for applications for Wikimania Scholarships to attend Wikimania 2010 https://wm10schols.wikimedia.org/in Gdansk, Poland (July 9-11) is now open. The Wikimedia Foundation offers

Re: [Foundation-l] policy and the guideline wikipedia - ja

2010-03-06 Thread Tomasz Ganicz
2010/3/6 ksaka98 ksak...@gmail.com: Hi from jawp. 山吹色の御菓子(kigen2700nen) 's question is http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/wiki/foundation/190708#190708 Wikipedia英語版にはWikipedia's principlesがあります。 これは、各言語版に於いて参加者の裁量で自由に変更することができるのですか? Wikipedia英語版にあるprinciple and

Re: [Foundation-l] Strategy n WMF Staff

2010-02-26 Thread Tomasz Ganicz
2010/2/26 Bod Notbod bodnot...@gmail.com: All of which led me to look at the foundation's staff page: http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Staff I think answers to these questions will be very useful to strategy volunteers and so I'd like permission (or explicit advice not) to paste up the

Re: [Foundation-l] Strategy n WMF Staff

2010-02-26 Thread Tomasz Ganicz
2010/2/26 Casey Brown li...@caseybrown.org: All this being said, don't feel bad if you want to run something through Cary first.  He can always help you figure out who's the best person to handle your query, it might not necessarily even *be* a staff member. For my experience - even Cary

Re: [Foundation-l] Fwd: [Wikipedia-l] Please HELP save Wikipedia history ! (urgent)

2010-02-21 Thread Tomasz Ganicz
2010/2/21 Ray Saintonge sainto...@telus.net: Anthony wrote: Tomasz Ganicz wrote: Do we agree with the idea, that at that time everything uploaded was under GNU FDL or not Definitely not.  You were supposed to release uploads under the GFDL, *if you were the copyright owner

Re: [Foundation-l] Fwd: [Wikipedia-l] Please HELP save Wikipedia history ! (urgent)

2010-02-21 Thread Tomasz Ganicz
2010/2/21 Ray Saintonge sainto...@telus.net: Tomasz Ganicz wrote: 2010/2/20 Ray Saintonge: Probabilistic arguments are difficult to establish when the majority still believes in legal certainty in the same way that it believes in God. I am not quite sure what you wanted to say :-) Anyway

Re: [Foundation-l] Fwd: [Wikipedia-l] Please HELP save Wikipedia history ! (urgent)

2010-02-20 Thread Tomasz Ganicz
2010/2/20 geni geni...@gmail.com: On 20 February 2010 05:54, The Cunctator cuncta...@gmail.com wrote: Yes. This is idiotic. The logo contest followed the same rules as all other submissions to Wikipedia -- they were submitted under the GFDL. Evidence? -- Evidence of what? At the beginning

Re: [Foundation-l] Fwd: [Wikipedia-l] Please HELP save Wikipedia history ! (urgent)

2010-02-20 Thread Tomasz Ganicz
2010/2/20 geni geni...@gmail.com: On 20 February 2010 19:14, Tomasz Ganicz polime...@gmail.com wrote: 2010/2/20 geni geni...@gmail.com: On 20 February 2010 05:54, The Cunctator cuncta...@gmail.com wrote: Yes. This is idiotic. The logo contest followed the same rules as all other submissions

Re: [Foundation-l] Fwd: [Wikipedia-l] Please HELP save Wikipedia history ! (urgent)

2010-02-20 Thread Tomasz Ganicz
2010/2/20 Thomas Dalton thomas.dal...@gmail.com: On 20 February 2010 22:49, Tomasz Ganicz polime...@gmail.com wrote: Evidence? :-) Is there any formal document of Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees which says, that logo candidates are a special case for copyright issues or it is just your

Re: [Foundation-l] Fwd: [Wikipedia-l] Please HELP save Wikipedia history ! (urgent)

2010-02-20 Thread Tomasz Ganicz
2010/2/20 Ray Saintonge sainto...@telus.net: Probabilistic arguments are difficult to establish when the majority still believes in legal certainty in the same way that it believes in God. I am not quite sure what you wanted to say :-) Anyway - this cited sentence is for me a nice expression

Re: [Foundation-l] Fwd: [Wikipedia-l] Please HELP save Wikipedia history ! (urgent)

2010-02-19 Thread Tomasz Ganicz
2010/2/19 David Gerard dger...@gmail.com: -- Forwarded message -- From: Florence Devouard anthe...@yahoo.com Date: 19 February 2010 21:19 Subject: [Wikipedia-l] Please HELP save Wikipedia history ! (urgent) To: wikipedi...@lists.wikimedia.org An editor on META is having the

[Foundation-l] Batuta Army for those who remember

2010-02-08 Thread Tomasz Ganicz
Hi, I think it is worth reading: http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/%22Batuta%27s_case_became_something_of_a_milestone_in_the_development_of_Wikipedia%22_-_interview_with_Konrad_Godlewski IMHO perfect example showing why Wikipedia is unique :-) Cheers, -- Tomek Polimerek Ganicz

Re: [Foundation-l] Statistics and chapters: searching for chapters

2010-01-16 Thread Tomasz Ganicz
2010/1/15 Milos Rancic mill...@gmail.com: Based on Erik's statistics [1] and Nikola's addition of Internet users [2] and the list of Wikimedia chapters [3], here is the first set of conclusions. * United Arab Emirates, Bulgaria, Uganda, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan: I have good contacts with

Re: [Foundation-l] Case Study: Fan History’s Pro posal For Being Acquired by the WMF

2009-12-20 Thread Tomasz Ganicz
2009/12/20 Laura Hale la...@fanhistory.com: This was posted to the Strategy wiki but I don't think I ever mentioned it on list.  The case study itself can be found at http://www.fanhistory.com/FHproposal.pdf .  The blog entry about the case study can be found at

Re: [Foundation-l] Case Study: Fan History's Proposal For Being Acquired by the WMF

2009-12-20 Thread Tomasz Ganicz
2009/12/20 Tim Starling tstarl...@wikimedia.org: Tomasz Ganicz wrote: 2009/12/20 Laura Hale la...@fanhistory.com: This was posted to the Strategy wiki but I don't think I ever mentioned it on list.  The case study itself can be found at http://www.fanhistory.com/FHproposal.pdf .  The blog

Re: [Foundation-l] Building The Great Monument of Bureaucracy

2009-11-22 Thread Tomasz Ganicz
2009/11/22 Ray Saintonge sainto...@telus.net: Tomasz Ganicz wrote: The idea is to create a Staging Area - a wiki (or non-wiki) project which is not public and can be used for media and meta-data mass storage before sending the stuff to public projects. The idea is that all permissions

Re: [Foundation-l] Building The Great Monument of Bureaucracy

2009-11-22 Thread Tomasz Ganicz
2009/11/22 Robert Rohde raro...@gmail.com: For some applications (though not necessarily all), it might help if the OTRS process was replaced by a standard online permission form rather than having Wikimedians negotiate with outsiders in the hope of getting them to say magic words. I might

Re: [Foundation-l] Fwd: Wikipedia christmas calendar?

2009-11-03 Thread Tomasz Ganicz
2009/10/31 Olli ollinpos...@gmail.com: -- Forwarded message -- From: Olli ollinpos...@gmail.com Date: 2009/10/31 Subject: Wikipedia christmas calendar? To: translator...@lists.wikimedia.org What about a wikipedia christmas calendar? It can maybe preview some articles or

Re: [Foundation-l] Iran?

2009-06-20 Thread Tomasz Ganicz
2009/6/20 Ray Saintonge sainto...@telus.net: Milos Rancic wrote: I've got the first report. There are no information that something happened to any Wikimedian. Take a look at [1]. I don't expect bigger scale problems in Iran, but not just because of that analysis. Except theocratic

Re: [Foundation-l] Usability Study Results (Sneak Preview)

2009-05-08 Thread Tomasz Ganicz
2009/5/8 Nikola Smolenski smole...@eunet.yu: I am wary of this: Users often missed the ‘edit’ buttons next to each section, clicking on ‘edit this page’ all the way at the top. In my experience, users do exactly the opposite, and I have seen new users who know how to edit sections asking how

Re: [Foundation-l] Congratulations to Gdansk!

2009-05-07 Thread Tomasz Ganicz
2009/5/7 Dedalus deda...@wikipedia.be: Congratulations to the Poland team for winning the Wikimania 2010 bid! Thank you :-) Actually we are all very happy but also shocked in Poland. Now, we feel great responsibility to organize Wikimania as well as we are able or even better :-) I think all

Re: [Foundation-l] PGP-keysign at the tech/chapter-meeting

2009-04-01 Thread Tomasz Ganicz
2009/3/31 DaB. w...@daniel.baur4.info: Hello all, I think that when such a number of people come together it would be nice to have a key-signing in Berlin. If you have no idea, what a key-signing is, look at the wikipedia-article [[en:Key_signing_party]]. If you don't own a pgp-key yet and

[Foundation-l] Wikimedia Polska Conference 2009

2009-03-09 Thread Tomasz Ganicz
Hi, Wikimedia Polska Conference 2009 s a fourth event organized by the Wikimedia Polska to encourage ideas, exchange of Wikimedia projects users in Poland and people connected with free software, free knowledge and free culture in a information society. We invite everyone interested in all areas

Re: [Foundation-l] Request for your input: biographies of living people

2009-03-04 Thread Tomasz Ganicz
2009/3/4 Sue Gardner sgard...@wikimedia.org:  Erik had proposed that articles which meet these three criteria be deleted upon request: 1) they are not balanced and complete, 2) the subject is only marginally notable, and 3) the subject wants the article deleted. This would shift the bar

Re: [Foundation-l] Request for your input: biographies of living people

2009-03-02 Thread Tomasz Ganicz
2009/3/2 Sue Gardner sgard...@wikimedia.org: Hi folks, I've been increasingly concerned lately about Wikimedia's coverage of living people, both within biographies of living people (BLPs) on Wikipedia, and in coverage of living people in non-BLP text.  I've asked the board to put this issue

Re: [Foundation-l] How to dismantle a language committee

2009-01-11 Thread Tomasz Ganicz
2009/1/11 Gerard Meijssen gerard.meijs...@gmail.com: When you talk about reasonable decisions, what is it that makes something reasonable? The fact that people like Mohamed consider Egyptian Arabic as ignorant makes clear their position, but is that reasonable ? The language committee has

Re: [Foundation-l] How to dismantle a language committee

2009-01-11 Thread Tomasz Ganicz
2009/1/11 Milos Rancic mill...@gmail.com: On Sun, Jan 11, 2009 at 9:34 PM, Milos Rancic mill...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Jan 11, 2009 at 12:10 PM, Tomasz Ganicz polime...@gmail.com wrote: Well, I think there should be not only computer-linguists experts like Evertype in LangCom, but you

Re: [Foundation-l] transparency or translucency?

2009-01-10 Thread Tomasz Ganicz
2009/1/10 James Rigg jamesrigg1...@googlemail.com: Thanks geni. So, to put it crudely, the talk of full transparency and lack of hierarchy is now viewed as just naive idealism that existed at the start of the project, and which has now been abandoned? I think it was all about Wikimedia wiki

Re: [Foundation-l] Why is the software out of reach of the community?

2009-01-09 Thread Tomasz Ganicz
2009/1/9 Brian brian.min...@colorado.edu: Why are so few community-developed mediawiki extensions used by the Foundation? Why do developers have such priviledged access to the source code, and the community such little input? Why must the community 'vote' on extensions such as Semantic

Re: [Foundation-l] Emphasis on edit

2008-12-22 Thread Tomasz Ganicz
2008/12/22 Milos Rancic mill...@gmail.com: Many times we raised the issue that many (maybe majority of) users of Wikimedia content don't realize that it is possible to edit pages on Wikipedia and other Wikimedia projects. Last time I was talking about it a couple of days ago, during the

Re: [Foundation-l] Britannica became free

2008-12-22 Thread Tomasz Ganicz
2008/12/22 David Gerard dger...@gmail.com: 2008/12/22 Milos Rancic mill...@gmail.com: Then, I wanted to see what is the value of Britannica; without success. It is a private company (in US sense of that meaning; public companies in European sense are just companies owned by some local or

Re: [Foundation-l] and what if...

2008-12-12 Thread Tomasz Ganicz
2008/12/12 Florence Devouard anthe...@yahoo.com: We all perfectly know that if this particular image was borderline, there are images or texts that are illegal in certain countries. I am not even speaking of China here, but good old westernish countries. In some countries, it may be

Re: [Foundation-l] Trademarks

2008-11-25 Thread Tomasz Ganicz
2008/11/25 Mike Godwin [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Without criticizing Mozilla at all, I'll note that we're not that much like Mozilla in the scale on which license trademarks commercially. It's probably difficult for anyone outside the Foundation to imagine the sheer number of licensing opportunities

Re: [Foundation-l] A local chapter without Wikimedians

2008-11-24 Thread Tomasz Ganicz
2008/11/24 Florence Devouard [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Luiz Augusto wrote: First, is that wrong that a chapter is made in majority or entirety by non-editors ? I would tend to think it is unfortunate, but not wrong. A person may be part of the wikimedia mouvement without editing a lot. The person