Hello, The WMF Board has recognized Amical Wikimedia as the first Wikimedia Thematic Organization. Please join me in celebrating their work and success! http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WMF_Resolutions/Recognition_of_Amical_Wikimedia
This group was founded in 2008 as Associació Amical Viquipèdia, focused on Catalan language and culture. You may know them from the regular reports they have published to this list and to Meta for years. They have organized dozens of successful cultural projects, including public events, research, GLAM initiatives, and content liberation. http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Amical_Wikimedia#Activities After first applying to become a chapter four years ago, Amical members later helped the Movement Roles working group develop new models for affiliation, and were the first to apply to be a thematic organization. Gomà and Arnaugir, the founder and current chair of Amical, attended the Milan conference and shared their projects and their future plans. An in-person meeting there helped to resolve the remaining bureaucratic steps in the process of becoming a thematic organization. Thank you to everyone from AffCom and Amical who have been involved throughout this process, particularly Bence and Bishakha for their guidance since the first movement roles discussions, and Gomà and María for their facilitation. Regards, Sam, on behalf of the Board == About Thematic Organizations == Thematic Organizations are one of the new affiliation models created last year, to recognize organizations that have consistently done interesting work with partners and in outreach, both online and offline. They are meant to be well-established and persistent organizations, focused on a common theme. The review and approval process for Thematic Organizations is similar to that for chapters. A list of groups considering becoming thematic orgs can be found on Meta. http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Thematic_organizations http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_affiliation_models/Thematic_Organizations -- Samuel Klein w:user:sj @metasj +1 617 529 4266 _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l
