Nathan, a sub national chapter does not preclude a national chapter. I am unable to foresee a national chapter in places where we are implementing sub national chapters, making this a moot point.
________________________________ From: Nathan <nawr...@gmail.com> To: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List <foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org> Sent: Tuesday, January 20, 2009 3:07:01 PM Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] Board resolutions (chapters) On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 5:52 PM, Erik Moeller <e...@wikimedia.org> wrote: > 2009/1/20 Ting Chen <wing.phil...@gmx.de>: > > Not quite. One criteria is that the chapters should have well defined > > geographical areas and they should not overlap. So an Amsterdam chapter > > beside a Dutch chapter is not possible. > > It was my understanding from the sub-national chapters document that > such chapters might be permitted to form anyway: > http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Sub-national_chapters > (Question: "Aren't we setting up sub-national chapters to compete for > funding with nation-based chapters?") > > What I'm taking your statement to mean is that when a subnational > chapter is formed where a national chapter could be later formed, the > overlap and potential harmful consequences of such overlap would have > to be carefully considered before national chapter is approved. Would > that be a fair characterization? Or are you meaning 'is not possible' > truly in the sense of 'will never happen'? > > Earlier in this thread, Ting clearly stated that recognition of a sub-national chapter meant a national chapter could not later be formed. Andrew Whitworth indicated the same. Is that not the definitive answer to the question? Nathan -- Your donations keep Wikipedia running! Support the Wikimedia Foundation today: http://www.wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Donate _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l