Yay. This is awesome! I'm so glad it worked out for the organization to get this status now.
Sydney Sent from my iPhone On Jun 6, 2013, at 10:17 PM, Samuel Klein <s...@wikimedia.org> wrote: > 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 _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l
