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Thank you for contacting us about creating a Wikimedia Chapter in XXX. The best way to proceed is the following:

Please create the page
* [[m:Wikimedia_XX|Wikimedia XX]]
and link it from
*[[m:Wikimedia_chapters|Wikimedia chapters]]

even if you don't have much to put on it, add your name and that of the people who are interested in working on the chapter . We strongly recommend that you develop your ideas and documents on meta (in any language you like) rather than on a specific project (Wikipedia or other), so as to make sure that all people who could be involved in the chapter process can be involved and so as to make sure that all information concerning chapters is in the same place.

You should try and gather people from your Wikimedia project of choice and other Wikimedia projects relevant to your country to help you work on the chapter, so as to get some momentum as to what can be done and how it can be done.

The Step by step chapter creation guide, available here:
* [[m:Step-by-step_chapter_creation_guide]]
will give you a better insight as to what the process might look like.

It is of the essence that you also read those documents:
    
* [[m:Requirements_for_future_chapters|Requirements for future chapters]]
* [[m:Guidelines_for_future_chapters|Guidelines for future chapters]]

so as to make sure you understand the process and don't miss a step.

Note that creating a chapter is ot the only way to make sure that things happen around Wikipedia and Wikimedia projects in your country, there are a number of other options, such as for example applying for a grant to the Wikimedia Foundation <ref>[[m:Grants:Index|Wikimedia Foundation grant program]]</ref>  to support a particular "real life" initiative. This is not said to discourage you from working on a chapter, but rather to make sure that you don't get stopped by the workload that setting up a chapter may bring. Sometimes, putting together a real world event helps round up the necessary people to get the momentum to create a chapter. 

The chapters committee  <ref>[[m:Chapters_committee|Chapters committee]]</ref>will in any case make sure that you receive the appropriate support for your initiative to start a chapter.

If you have any questions, concerning chapters or other ways to make things happen around Wikipedia in your country, do not hesitate to contact me at <tt>xxx@xxx.xxx</tt> or to contact the Chapters committee at <tt>chaptercommittee-lXXXXwikimedia.org</tt>.

All the best,


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Thank you for contacting us about creating a Wikimedia Chapter in XXX. The best way to proceed is the following:

Please create the page

and link it from

even if you don't have much to put on it, add your name and that of the people who are interested in working on the chapter . We strongly recommend that you develop your ideas and documents on meta (in any language you like) rather than on a specific project (Wikipedia or other), so as to make sure that all people who could be involved in the chapter process can be involved and so as to make sure that all information concerning chapters is in the same place.

You should try and gather people from your Wikimedia project of choice and other Wikimedia projects relevant to your country to help you work on the chapter, so as to get some momentum as to what can be done and how it can be done.

The Step by step chapter creation guide, available here:

will give you a better insight as to what the process might look like.

It is of the essence that you also read those documents:

so as to make sure you understand the process and don't miss a step.

Note that creating a chapter is ot the only way to make sure that things happen around Wikipedia and Wikimedia projects in your country, there are a number of other options, such as for example applying for a grant to the Wikimedia Foundation to support a particular "real life" initiative. This is not said to discourage you from working on a chapter, but rather to make sure that you don't get stopped by the workload that setting up a chapter may bring. Sometimes, putting together a real world event helps round up the necessary people to get the momentum to create a chapter.

The chapters committee will in any case make sure that you receive the appropriate support for your initiative to start a chapter.

If you have any questions, concerning chapters or other ways to make things happen around Wikipedia in your country, do not hesitate to contact me at xxx@xxx.org or to contact the Chapters committee [1] at chaptercommittee-lXXXXwikimedia.org.

All the best,


[1] http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Index
[2] http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Chapters_committee