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markus.glaser at wikimedia

Jul 29, 2013, 3:45 PM

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[Wikimedia-l] WCA Quest for the Cool Name

Dear all,

in its July voting, the WCA has decided to open up membership for
thematic organisations and give user groups a voice. If you are a
representant of a thematic organisation or a user group and would like
to know more about the WCA, feel free to get in touch!

Now we're facing a situation where the name (Wikimedia _Chapters_
Association) is inconsistent with who we actually define as our member
base. So we need to change name.

Our first stab was "Association of Organisations". It was not accepted,
but hey, I'm not overly sad. I guess, we can do better. But we need your
ideas! What's a good name? Put your suggestions here or support a
proposed name:

http://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikimedia_Chapters_Association/Quest_for_the_Cool_Name

Eternal fame awaits you if our suggestion is chosen. Oh, apropos.
Decision upon a new name shall be made in Hong Kong on Thursday, August 8th.

For those who are wondering what the WCA is doing, here's a short
update. We are here to help Wikimedia organisations in their various
matters of daily and strategic business. Among the projects we do are:
* WCA Journal [1]: a medium to keep up to date in the organisations world
* Chapters Manual [2]: a resource to look up any questions regarding
operating a Chapter
* Peer Review: we offer to double check your organisations strategy,
funding requests or projects
* Organisations Seminar [3]: Two days packed with experience and
discussion about running Chapters and Wikimedia organisations.

Best,
Markus

[1] http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Chapters_Association/Journal
[2] http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WCA_Chapters_Manual
[3]
http://wikimania2013.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Chapters_Association_-_Organisations_Seminar

--
Markus Glaser
WCA Council Member (WMDE), Chair
Wikimedia Deutschland e.V.

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Jul 29, 2013, 3:48 PM

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The process for renaming the WCA is to be completed in two weeks?!
That seems totally at odds with its entire history, I wonder if it's
turning over a new leaf or if the selection will be subject to
criticism for not including enough people / giving sufficient months
or years for debate.

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markus.glaser at wikimedia

Jul 29, 2013, 3:53 PM

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Am 30.07.2013 00:48, schrieb Nathan:
> The process for renaming the WCA is to be completed in two weeks?!
> That seems totally at odds with its entire history, I wonder if it's
> turning over a new leaf or if the selection will be subject to
> criticism for not including enough people / giving sufficient months
> or years for debate.
The WCA is on its way to become an agile organisation ;) The backdoor
is: if we can't agree on a new name, we'll continue to operate as "WCA".
So no harm is done either way.

Seriously, I made the experience that people react to these kind of
creative polls either at the beginning or at the end of the voting time.
So we decided to just skip the time in between.

Best,
Markus

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WCA Council Member (WMDE), Chair
Wikimedia Deutschland e.V.

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pharosofalexandria at gmail

Aug 6, 2013, 5:32 AM

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Re: [Wikimedia-l] WCA Quest for the Cool Name [In reply to]

A reminder that there's still some time to for cross-fertilization of "cool
name" ideas, for the artist formerly known as the WCA:

http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Chapters_Association/Quest_for_the_Cool_Name

Thanks,
Richard
(User:Pharos)

On Mon, Jul 29, 2013 at 6:53 PM, Markus Glaser
<markus.glaser [at] wikimedia>wrote:

> Am 30.07.2013 00:48, schrieb Nathan:
>
> The process for renaming the WCA is to be completed in two weeks?!
>> That seems totally at odds with its entire history, I wonder if it's
>> turning over a new leaf or if the selection will be subject to
>> criticism for not including enough people / giving sufficient months
>> or years for debate.
>>
> The WCA is on its way to become an agile organisation ;) The backdoor is:
> if we can't agree on a new name, we'll continue to operate as "WCA". So no
> harm is done either way.
>
> Seriously, I made the experience that people react to these kind of
> creative polls either at the beginning or at the end of the voting time. So
> we decided to just skip the time in between.
>
> Best,
> Markus
>
>
> --
> Markus Glaser
> WCA Council Member (WMDE), Chair
> Wikimedia Deutschland e.V.
>
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