Congrats, this is wonderful news! It was good to meet you in Milan; good luck with your anniversary celebration.
SJ, remembering when Bibhustan Bista came to Wikimania and shared stories about the early Nepali wikiprojects... On Thu, May 30, 2013 at 1:12 PM, Deryck Chan <[email protected]> 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 <[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 -- Samuel Klein @metasj w:user:sj +1 617 529 4266 _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l
