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«the English and Tagaog Wikipedia»: typo.

«Another key difference between the English and Tagaog Wikipedia movements is that there is significant overlap between Wikimedians and Wikipedians in this context»

Wikipedians *are* wikimedians, although they might be unaware of it. See the definition: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedian
Perhaps you mean chapters members, but chapter active members are usually (and mostly) active project contributors.

«Thus, what would traditionally be a separation between a Wikimedia issue of whether Tagalog Wikipedia’s language policies conforms to government standards easily overlaps with the Wikipedia question of how those policies can be improved to best serve the needs of Tagalog Wikipedia readers»

I don’t understand this dichotomy. Wikipedia issues are Wikimedia issues because Wikipedia is part of Wikimedia. More importantly, I don’t see why wikipedians are supposed not to care about whether their policy conforms to government standards.

«As much as Wikimedia Philippines has absorbed the rhetoric of English Wikimedia and says that it does not involve itself with the content of Tagalog Wikipedia [...]»

There’s no such thing as “English Wikimedia”. And this is not rhetoric, it’s legally mandatory and pretty obvious.
As I said above, wikipedians want to improve their policies; the chapter provides some help with “physical contact” with somebody (in this case a governmental body); the community then uses the advice to decide whether and how to change the policy. The chapter can’t enforce any policy and the community isn’t unaware of general issues: they just work on different grounds and with different roles with the same goals.