Congratulations to Nepali Wikimedians!! Ali Haidar Khan (Tonmoy) Wikimedia Bangladesh On May 30, 2013 11:12 PM, "Deryck Chan" <deryckc...@wikimedia.hk> wrote:
> Congratulations Ganesh and the Nepal team! Are there plans to move on and > transition to an incorporated Wikimedia chapter? > Deryck > > On 30 May 2013 17:32, Bence Damokos <bdamo...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Dear all, > > > > I am happy to inform you that the Affiliations Committee has approved the > > recognition of a Wikimedia User Group today: Wikimedians of Nepal. > > > > Please join me in welcoming this new group into the fold of Wikimedia > > entities, and let's celebrate their success and hard work as Wikipedia > > turns eleven in Nepal! > > > > == Wikimedians of Nepal == > > > > Wikimedians of Nepal <http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Nepal> > is a > > group of enthusiastic Nepali Wikimedians working towards developing and > > promoting Wikimedia projects in Nepal. They've been actively working to > > help expand the community, launch projects in more languages of Nepal and > > promote and support the existing ones. > > > > The group is working towards chapterhood, and have a good chance of > > attaining that status this year. Granting them user group recognition > > allows the movement to express its appreciation for their hard work even > > while they are working on the bureaucratic aspects of meeting the > > requirements of chapterhood. The timing is fortuitous in that the group > is > > going to mark the 11th anniversary of Wikipedia in a Nepali language on 3 > > June, next Monday. > > > > Ganesh, the group's interim president has been invited to this year's > Milan > > conference, where he gave a comprehensive overview of the group's > history, > > its projects (including a successful 'wikiwomen" programme) and its > > ambitions. The slides are at: > > http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/45/WMNepal_WMC_2013.pdf > > > > The Affiliations Committee's > > recognition< > > > http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Affiliations_Committee/Resolutions/Wikimedians_of_Nepal_-_May_2013 > > >is > > valid until 28 May 2014, or until they are recognized as a chapter. > > > > > > == Wikimedia User Groups == > > > > Wikimedia User Groups are one of the three new types of affiliations > > created last year to empower volunteers wanting to conduct offline work > and > > provide them recognition from the Wikimedia movement. > > > > User group status is meant to be an easy form of affiliation, where the > > main requirements are an agreed goal, plans for offline work, at least > > three people participating and a public wiki page with all the relevant > > information). > > > > Under the movement roles > > recommendations< > > http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_affiliation_models/User_Groups> > > , user groups are to be recognized in a quick and easy process directly > by > > the Affiliations Committee, for a fixed, renewable time-period and they > are > > to enjoy limited trademark use and simplified access to grants. > > > > > > > > Best regards, > > Bence Damokos > > Chair, Affiliatons Committee > > _______________________________________________ > > 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 > _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l
