Hey there, thanks for the report, quite an interesting read!
I have just published a blog post (in German) with a summary of the report plus a comment for the community about how they can get involved and created a project page on DEWP to better inform the DE community about the work of the AffCom. http://blog.wikimedia.de/2013/05/16/jahresbericht-des-affiliations-committee/ http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Affiliations_Committee Best regards, Nicole On 12 May 2013 19:47, Gregory Varnum <gregory.var...@gmail.com> wrote: > Nemo, > > I'm not sure what you mean by a single person's POV. Are you referring to > Stephen? > > While it is true that WMF Legal did the final writing of some guidelines - a > few points: > 1. They are guidelines - and AffCom has flexibility if it so desires and > finds necessary. > 2. They were written based on feedback from non-AffCom folks on talk pages, > Milan, and elsewhere - as well as based on input from AffCom. > 3. Naming guidelines exist for chapters and other entities - this is nothing > new. > 4. A final summarizing guideline or document being written by one person with > unique skills, such as legal, is also nothing new, unusual, or implies that > only their views are represented - that's just not true. > > - greg aka varnent > > > On 12 May, 2013, at 2:04 AM, Federico Leva (Nemo) <nemow...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Bence Damokos, 11/05/2013 15:13: >>> Yes, to be fair, since the closing of the report, we had made some >>> progress on this issue (e.g. we've had some user group name templates >>> pre-approved[1] during a meeting in Milan with Stephen from the legal team >>> and had clarified the process and responsibilities for names that don't >>> match those templates for example in the case of thorgs). It remains to be >>> seen if things do go smoother going forward with these improvements, but >>> the goodwill is there on each side. >> >> It's a bit weird that "the Affiliations Committee is tasked with ensuring >> that the name matches" a single person's POV from a talk page. >> >> Nemo >> >> _______________________________________________ >> 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 -- Nicole Ebber International Affairs Wikimedia Deutschland e.V. | Obentrautstr. 72 | 10963 Berlin Tel. +49 30 219158 26-0 http://wikimedia.de Wikimedia Deutschland - Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e.V. Eingetragen im Vereinsregister des Amtsgerichts Berlin-Charlottenburg unter der Nummer 23855 B. Als gemeinnützig anerkannt durch das Finanzamt für Körperschaften I Berlin, Steuernummer 27/681/51985. _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l