Assuming of course that a chapter actually follows its bylaws.... ________________________________ From: Wikimedia-l <wikimedia-l-boun...@lists.wikimedia.org> on behalf of Ilario Valdelli <valde...@gmail.com> Sent: Friday, August 4, 2017 1:34:34 AM To: Wikimedia Mailing List; James Salsman Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-l] Update on Wikimédia France
The power of WMF, defined in the agreement, is basically limited to revoke the chapters agreement. There is no mention in the Chapters agreement that WMF can take a control of a chapter and to manage a General Assembly. You forget that the legal pilaster of a chapter is the bylaws. On 04/08/2017 10:02, James Salsman wrote: > Rogol, > > What content protected by safe harbor provisions would the Foundation > be exerting editorial control over by requiring governance standards > of a Chapter? > > Is there some French law that requires charities to be more > independent of their international affiliates than would be under such > a requirement? > > The chapter agreements already contemplate this sort of control, > because they state, "The Chapter agrees ... to refrain from ... > engaging in any activity that might negatively impact the work or > image of the Wikimedia Foundation," and are revocable upon three > months notice. > > > On Fri, Aug 4, 2017 at 2:38 PM, Rogol Domedonfors <domedonf...@gmail.com> > wrote: >> If the Foundation is seen to be directing the activities of a chapter at >> the proposed level of micro-management then it would jeopardise the legal >> status both of the Foundation (in terms of their safe harbour status) and >> of the chapter (as an independent and charitable body). The Foundation is >> free to fund or not fund, to recognise or derecognise. But not to control. >> _______________________________________________ >> Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: >> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and >> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l >> New messages to: 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 and > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l > New messages to: Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe> -- Ilario Valdelli Wikimedia CH Verein zur Förderung Freien Wissens Association pour l’avancement des connaissances libre Associazione per il sostegno alla conoscenza libera Switzerland - 8008 Zürich Tel: +41764821371 http://www.wikimedia.ch --- Questa e-mail è stata controllata per individuare virus con Avast antivirus. https://www.avast.com/antivirus _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l New messages to: 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 and https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l New messages to: Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe>
