Talk:Wikimedia Europe

Truncated map of Europe

I suppose that the map without Russia and Belarus is because there are no plans of getting them involved in the initiative due to the invasion of Ukraine, but the truncated map is a very unfortunate way to indicate their ineligibility (Why simply not mark them with another colour that explains it?). Furthermore, the initiative gathers Wikimedia affiliates, not official state representatives, so it's harsh to clamp down on the Wikimedians from those two countries simply because their state authorities conduct activities they're not happy with (Note that Wikimedians from Russia and Belarus have faced problems with the authorities for being openly against the invasion.).--Kiril Simeonovski (talk) 07:14, 28 June 2023 (UTC)

AFAIK, they are ineligible because the criterion to be part of WM-EU is to belong to a territory which is part of the Council of Europe, which unfortunatelly is not the case of those territories.--TaronjaSatsuma (talk) 22:23, 18 July 2023 (UTC)

Even if that's the case, the truncated map is not the right way to indicate it (see the map in the infobox of Council of Europe).--Kiril Simeonovski (talk) 21:49, 19 July 2023 (UTC)

Voice of volunteers

Especially now that the Movement Charter is being under vote, aiming to establish decision equity in the Wikimedia Movement, it's quite disappointing to learn that volunteers have explicitly been excluded from membership of Wikimedia Europe. Having a voice in strategic and budget planning, resource allocation and decision making of this organisation, can be of utter importance for us. Representation by a Chapter through Chapter membership will not bring much because of the colliding interests where it comes to content responsibiliy and liability. Kevin Bouwens (talk) 16:09, 8 July 2024 (UTC)