The decision shouldn't be made based on population, but on whether there would be a significant benefit. A Scottish group could be much more effective in Scotland than a UK group. The same isn't true of London. Londoners have a reputation for forgetting the rest of the country exists, but they don't object to it. On Sep 13, 2011 11:28 PM, "geni" <[email protected]> wrote: > On 13 September 2011 13:05, Thomas Dalton <[email protected]> wrote: >> One solution to that is to actually have some devolution. If there are >> people interested in taking responsibility for Scottish cultural >> outreach, then they could just be given a budget and left to get on >> with it (with some oversight from the board, of course). > > An approach that gives you a real headache when someone makes the same > request for London (on population grounds it makes sense). There is at > the present time nowhere near the the level of activity for that kind > of split to make sense. Even if we did have the numbers slits work far > better if they cover areas that everyone in that area can access. A > group that covered everything from Gretna to Thurso makes little > sense. > > -- > geni > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia UK mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l > WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org
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