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La Coalición Estadounidense de Wikimedia (Wikimedia United States Coalition), anteriormente la Federación Estadounidense de Wikimedia (Wikimedia United States Federation) y el Consejo de las secciones estadounidenses de Wikimedia (Wikimedia United States Chapters Council), es un marco para la fundación de secciones de la Fundación Wikimedia en los Estados Unidos, y un marco para la promoción de la cooperación entre las secciones.

Discussions about a national Wikimedia US chapter have waxed and waned over time. A new research project on how to structure cooperation among the WMF affiliates in North America started in 2023.

A diferencia de secciones en otros países, estas secciones representan regiones y áreas metropolitanas. Las primeras secciones aprobadas son Wikimedia Ciudad de Nueva York y Wikimedia Distrito de Columbia.

United States chapters may be founded on the level of metropolitan areas, which are informally defined urban areas surrounding major cities, with a local orientation as community groups. It may be practical to extend the regions of operation significantly beyond the Census definition of the metropolitan area, since many parts of the United States are not in any metropolitan area.

Existing efforts have focused on the participation of those engaging in Wikipedia Meetup events, which is a good way to get started organizing, and it may be helpful for regions of operation to be roughly congruent with the area for which travel to such events is convenient. The utilization of the Geonotice tool, and hopefully other improved geoip tools in future, is a good path to build up such local organization in the medium term.

It may be helpful to look at C. Etzel Pearcy's 1973 redrawn map of the United States (explanation) of "natural" borders centered on major concentrations of population.

In areas where the major concentrations of population are not too divergent from state boundary lines (or where population is not dense at all, as especially in the rural West), it may be most beneficial to simply define chapters on a state-level basis.

The regions of operation of chapters will not be strictly defined, but people may participate in whatever chapter (or chapters) it is convenient or preferable to them to attend the meetings of.

The function of the coalition will be to promote the founding of new chapters, and to maintain a forum for communication among the different chapters.

This might include the organization of community-based nationwide efforts such as the in the example of Wikipedia Loves Art, but on a more regular basis it would also involve joint activities among neighboring chapters in the organization of larger events, and if there is more than one chapter in a state, the coordination of state-level promotional activities.

The coalition should also explore the issue of how organize local chapters or groups in a coordinated or non-coordinated manner:

Comunidades con potencial para nuevas secciones

The communities showing the greatest potential for new chapters are those that have successfully organized multiple Wikipedia Meetup events in the past, or have shown the potential to do so.

• Noreste
  • (en Wikimedia Ciudad de Nueva York)
    • Ciudad de Nueva York
    • Filadelfia (véase discusiones históricos de Wikimedia Pennsylvania - Pensilvania)
    • Pittsburgh
  • Washington, DC (véase discusiones de Wikimedia DC)
  • Nueva Inglaterra (véase discusiones de Wikimedia New England)
    • Boston
    • Connecticut
    • Maine
    • Nueva Hampshire
• Costa Oeste
  • Seattle (véase discusiones de Wikimedia Cascadia)
  • Oregón (see Wikimedia Cascadia discussions)
  • San Francisco (véase discusiones de Wikimedia California)
  • Sur de California (see Wikimedia California discussions)
• Sur
  • Florida (see Florida Librarians of Wikipedia)
  • Atlanta, Georgia (see Georgia Piedmont Wikimedians User Group)
  • North Carolina (see North Carolina Wikipedians)
  • Texas
  • Tennessee
• Medio Oeste (véase discusiones de Wikimedia Midwest)
  • Chicago
  • Colorado (see Wikimedians of Colorado User Group)
  • Detroit / Ann Arbor
  • Indianápolis
  • Minnesota
  • Ohio (véase discusiones de Wikimedia Ohio)
  • San Luis (St. Louis)
  • Topeka

Eventos

Discussion of this framework occurred at Wiki-Conference New York 2009 and Wiki-Conference New York 2010.

All chapters-interested folks in the US were invited to attend and represent their region. We were also glad to be joined by some like-minded friends pursuing their own efforts in Canada, as well as by Free Culture groups from across New England, who have their own experience with national and local chapters to share.

Also, check out West Coast WikiConference as a forum for similar regional discussions.

An annual calendar:

Comunicación

Lista de envío WikimediaUS-l

Listas de envíos

IRC

Tenemos muchas salas de chat de IRC.

Comité WALRUS

El Comité WALRUS (Wikimedians Active in Local Regions of the United States "Wikipedistas que son activos en las regiones locales en los Estados Unidos," la palabra inglesa "walrus" es "morsa") es una fase preparatoria de la federación nacional, que consiste de una asociación de secciones existentes y secciones planeadas, y también wikipedistas activistas primarios y organizadores de reuniones en otras regiones en los EEUU.

The WALRUS home on English Wikipedia is at WP:WALRUS.

Through this effort, cities across the US celebrated The Great American Wiknic in June 2011 and again in June 2012.

The WikimediaUS-l mailing list is home to related discussions.

Starting in 2012, the mailing list schedulde monthly IRC meetings (for a time on the second Wednesday) at #wikimedia-us ^conectarse :

• skipped for Wikipedia Day
• febrero de 2018
• marzo de 2018
• skipped for Art+Feminism
• mayo de 2018
• Skipped for summer break
• julio de 2018
• agosto de 2018
• septiembre de 2018
• octubre de 2018
• noviembre de 2018
• diciembre de 2018

There was in the past some thought being given to founding a legal entity, a Wikimedia United States Federation, Inc. This would have been a 501c3 nonprofit, whose organizational members would consist of all official Wikimedia chapters in the United States, as well as recognized chapters-in-formation groups that have chosen a board and have achieved a sufficient level of organizational maturity. A decision has been made to shelve such a proposal for now.