How that happened? This group presented objectives based on Education and Research, but all "actives" showed was not even close to the educational scope.
- Activities: <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Brazilian_Group_of_Education_and_Research#Projects_and_Activities>: Wiki Loves Earth, not academic, Campus Party Brasil, not even close to be academic, edit-a-thon outside the academic world... "Book chapter regarding Wikipedia Education Program in Brasil" = work made trough the WMF Catalyst Programme, not a WUG activity = scheming to seem more important than it is... AffCom recently renewal another WUG group here in Brazil that do not do any activities, and uses chapters tools, and do not give us any criteria used to explain the renewal, you will give the whys here? And the creator of this group do not even have the trusty from the ones who adopted him when he arrived at the Wikimedia Movement in Brazil: "I really do not understand what is happening to this group and what's on your minds. Helped sling it and defend it and then I was shooed away without any defined process or transparency" [1] the group that he is talking is the first WUG created here in Brazil, the dorm one mentioned above, that using the WMF Brazil Programme + AffCom closed the WMBR initiative (hooray!). And some of them clearly showed to be oppose to that:[2] AffCom acts very strange when the topic is Brazil, the WMBR proposal, after years do not received any justification to why they want so bad to avoid [3], they force a creation of a new group to assume the leadership in Brazil, and now are approving another chapter initiative with headers that not even the guys that the AffCom put against WMBR to create the WUG-BR, trust... [1] https://br.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia:%C3%81gora#Adequa.C3.A7.C3.A3o_do_wiki [2] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Wikimedia_Brazilian_Group_of_Education_and_Research/User_Group_Proposal#Oppose [3] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Wikimedia_Brasil/AffCom#A_message_from_the_Affiliations_Committee On 13 April 2015 at 14:36, Santi Navarro <santiagonava...@wikimedia.org.es> wrote: > Parabéns / Congratulations > > > El 2015-04-12 13:28, ma...@wikimedia.org.ve escribió: > >> Dear all, >> >> The Affiliations Commitee has approved the recognition[1] of the >> Wikimedia Community Brazilian Group of Education and Research as a >> Wikimedia User Group. The focus[2] of this new group is the >> integration of the Brazilian and Lusophone academic community into the >> Wikimedia movement, thus supporting the development of new projects, >> research, contests, events and other activities. >> >> Please, join us in welcoming the newest member of the family! >> >> Parabéns e tudo de bom! >> >> Carlos >> >> 1: >> >> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Affiliations_Committee/ >> Resolutions/Wikimedia_Community_Brazilian_Group_of_ >> Education_and_Research_-_Liaison_approval,_April_2015 >> 2: >> >> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Brazilian_ >> Group_of_Education_and_Research/User_Group_Proposal >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: >> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines >> Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org >> Unsubscribe: >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, >> <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe> >> > > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/ > wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines > Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe> > -- Rodrigo Tetsuo Argenton rodrigo.argen...@gmail.com +55 11 979 718 884 _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe>
