Re: [Wikimediach-l] [Chapters] Wikimedia CH approved by Wikimedia Foundation board

2006-04-14 Thread Nathan Carter
Well done everybody Delphine Ménard wrote: >Hi all, > >just a note to confirm that following the advice of the Chapters >committee, the Board of Trustees of the Wikimedia Foundation has >approved the creation of Wikimedia CH. > >http://ch.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Bylaws/De&oldid=2080 >Engl

Re: [Wikimediach-l] Bylaws

2006-04-14 Thread Frederic Schutz
Michael Bimmler wrote: > My proposal: move the "otherwise the committee constitutes > itself" (german: Im übrigen etc.) away from §10.3 to §10.1 (The > committee consists of a president and 4 – 6 further members), there it > fits much better. +1 Frederic _

Re: [Wikimediach-l] Bylaws

2006-04-14 Thread Frederic Schutz
Michael Bimmler wrote: Thanks to everyone for providing explanations... I must admit of being quite surprised about some of the content of the English translations; I am not a specialist of English vocabulary about legal matters, but some sentences indeed look strange. > PS: I hope we have not an

Re: [Wikimediach-l] Bylaws

2006-04-14 Thread Michael Bimmler
On 4/14/06, Delphine Ménard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 4/14/06, rupert thurner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > i fully agree, i would even give it to some native english speaker > > after the strangenesses are sorted out. i would also agree to change > > it to "board" instead of "comittee", btw

Re: [Wikimediach-l] Bylaws

2006-04-14 Thread Delphine Ménard
On 4/14/06, rupert thurner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > i fully agree, i would even give it to some native english speaker > after the strangenesses are sorted out. i would also agree to change > it to "board" instead of "comittee", btw :) Well, the English translation is really there for us to lo

Re: [Wikimediach-l] Bylaws

2006-04-14 Thread rupert thurner
i fully agree, i would even give it to some native english speaker after the strangenesses are sorted out. i would also agree to change it to "board" instead of "comittee", btw :) rupert. On 4/14/06, Michael Bimmler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 4/14/06, Frederic Schutz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wro

Re: [Wikimediach-l] Bylaws

2006-04-14 Thread Michael Bimmler
On 4/14/06, Frederic Schutz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Jürg Studer wrote: > > >>> The minutes are to be made available to the Association members not > >>> more than two months after a decision has been made, otherwise the > >>> committee constitutes itself. > >> I understand the general idea, bu

Re: [Wikimediach-l] Bylaws

2006-04-14 Thread rupert thurner
frederic, you are right, this is somehow broken. and the two completetely independet things: * provide the minutes within 2 months (a long time i thing ...) * decide who does what within the comittee are mixed up in a sentence. i think the whole bylaws is a little broken in this respect. it is a

Re: [Wikimediach-l] Bylaws

2006-04-14 Thread Frederic Schutz
Jürg Studer wrote: >>> The minutes are to be made available to the Association members not >>> more than two months after a decision has been made, otherwise the >>> committee constitutes itself. >> I understand the general idea, but my dictionaries do not know any >> meaning of the work "constitu