Congratulations Ganesh and the Nepal team! Are there plans to move on and transition to an incorporated Wikimedia chapter? Deryck
On 30 May 2013 17:32, Bence Damokos <[email protected]> wrote: > Dear all, > > I am happy to inform you that the Affiliations Committee has approved the > recognition of a Wikimedia User Group today: Wikimedians of Nepal. > > Please join me in welcoming this new group into the fold of Wikimedia > entities, and let's celebrate their success and hard work as Wikipedia > turns eleven in Nepal! > > == Wikimedians of Nepal == > > Wikimedians of Nepal <http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Nepal> is a > group of enthusiastic Nepali Wikimedians working towards developing and > promoting Wikimedia projects in Nepal. They've been actively working to > help expand the community, launch projects in more languages of Nepal and > promote and support the existing ones. > > The group is working towards chapterhood, and have a good chance of > attaining that status this year. Granting them user group recognition > allows the movement to express its appreciation for their hard work even > while they are working on the bureaucratic aspects of meeting the > requirements of chapterhood. The timing is fortuitous in that the group is > going to mark the 11th anniversary of Wikipedia in a Nepali language on 3 > June, next Monday. > > Ganesh, the group's interim president has been invited to this year's Milan > conference, where he gave a comprehensive overview of the group's history, > its projects (including a successful 'wikiwomen" programme) and its > ambitions. The slides are at: > http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/45/WMNepal_WMC_2013.pdf > > The Affiliations Committee's > recognition< > http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Affiliations_Committee/Resolutions/Wikimedians_of_Nepal_-_May_2013 > >is > valid until 28 May 2014, or until they are recognized as a chapter. > > > == Wikimedia User Groups == > > Wikimedia User Groups are one of the three new types of affiliations > created last year to empower volunteers wanting to conduct offline work and > provide them recognition from the Wikimedia movement. > > User group status is meant to be an easy form of affiliation, where the > main requirements are an agreed goal, plans for offline work, at least > three people participating and a public wiki page with all the relevant > information). > > Under the movement roles > recommendations< > http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_affiliation_models/User_Groups> > , user groups are to be recognized in a quick and easy process directly by > the Affiliations Committee, for a fixed, renewable time-period and they are > to enjoy limited trademark use and simplified access to grants. > > > > Best regards, > Bence Damokos > Chair, Affiliatons Committee > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list > [email protected] > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l > _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l
