Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Many user groups instead of One Chapter?

2014-09-07 Thread Asaf Bartov
On Sep 6, 2014 8:03 AM, "Arun Ganesh" wrote: > > > About a year ago there was some interest in creating a Mediawiki India group but met with opposition from the chapter. > > Is there currently a restriction on creating user groups independent of the chapter? It would be good to know what this is?

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2014-09-07 Thread Paigham AFAQUI
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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Many user groups instead of One Chapter?

2014-09-07 Thread Vikram Vincent
Hi, Doing a bit more analysis on your suggestion. On 7 September 2014 13:15, Pradeep Mohandas wrote: > > The activity of the Chapter and the User Groups should flow to forward the > movement. > It does not appear that way. Your suggestion seems to point to a more anarchist approach which has fa

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Many user groups instead of One Chapter?

2014-09-07 Thread Pradeep Mohandas
Hi, The activity of the Chapter and the User Groups should flow to forward the movement. Chapter is not democratically elected by the Community. It is a subset of the Community, recognised by WMF. There is a large Community member pool who are not Chapter members, whose membership stands betw

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Many user groups instead of One Chapter?

2014-09-07 Thread Dhaval S. Vyas
+1 On 7 Sep 2014 07:53, "Vikram Vincent" wrote: > HI, > > On 7 September 2014 11:38, Pradeep Mohandas > wrote: > >> I meant that the SIG system is similar to the User Group system. In the >> SIG affiliation is to the Chapter and in the User Group, the affiliation >> is to WMF directly. >> >> Th