Welcome to board, friends. I know it has not been easy for Ganesh and to the Nepal team. Congrats!
2013/5/30 Tonmoy Khan <tonmoy...@gmail.com> > Congratulations to Nepali Wikimedians!! > > Ali Haidar Khan (Tonmoy) > Wikimedia Bangladesh > On May 30, 2013 11:12 PM, "Deryck Chan" <deryckc...@wikimedia.hk> wrote: > > > 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 <bdamo...@gmail.com> 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 > > > Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > > > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Wikimedia-l mailing list > > Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l > > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list > Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l > -- *Atentamente: Iván Martínez Presidente Wikimedia México A.C. wikimedia.mx Imagina un mundo en donde cada persona del planeta pueda tener acceso libre a la suma total del conocimiento humano. Eso es lo que estamos haciendo <http://es.wikipedia.org>. * _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l