This would definitely be worth looking into as it could potentially help some members formalise their status and perhaps increase their charitable impact quite considerably.  

Andy, you mentioned that business cards were promised.  So far as I can recall, nothing along these lines has been brought to the board for at least a year.  Although I’m aware there were some discussions before then, which I believe may have been somewhat contentious (I’m not sure, as it was before my time), I can certainly see that there could be benefits in allowing trusted members to represent the charity over a wider range of situations than is the case at the moment. The extent to which we are allowed to provide members with materials that use the Wikipedia Globe logo will be limited by the trademark licence that we have from the WMF, but we can certainly investigate.

May I suggest that this is taken to the Water Cooler [1] so that we don’t lose sight of any suggestions (easy to do on a mailing list)  ?

Andy, perhaps you could kick off a discussion there by summarising the sort of recognition and/or materials that you would find it helpful for the charity to supply?

Best regards

Michael


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Michael Maggs
Chair, Wikimedia UK 

[1]   https://wikimedia.org.uk/wiki/Water_cooler



I know is some history about business cards and recognition, 
On 15 May 2014, at 12:01, Stevie Benton <stevie.benton@wikimedia.org.uk> wrote:

Hi Andy, everyone,

I think this is a really good idea. I'm more than happy to look at this as I'm sure we can do something. If there are specific ideas for branded materials (I quite like the idea of a trilby with a Wikipedia-branded "press card" sticking out from the band, but that's maybe because I've been reading too much Raymond Chandler lately) then I can look into it. What would be most useful?

in terms of business cards, this is something I'm happy to look at again. There were objections at board level when we last looked at this (a while ago, under a previous board) but I think it's worth revisiting. It may be that business cards go alongside a (very) lightweight volunteer agreement but that's a detail for later.

I hope this helps,

Stevie


On 15 May 2014 11:43, Edward Saperia <ed@wikimanialondon.org> wrote:

I suggest some thought is given to providing WMUK volunteers who are
likely to attend press calls and related events with something to
identify them in a crowd; this could include microphone windshields,
tabards, baseball caps, or perhaps something else.
 
I strongly suggest that the primary brand used should be Wikipedia,
with Wikimedia and WMUK (or WikiNews or whatever) beings secondary, as
it is the former which the lay public recognise most readily; and
which elicits the positive response referred to above.

Strong agree!

Edward Saperia
Chief Coordinator Wikimania London
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On 15 May 2014 12:34, Andy Mabbett <andy@pigsonthewing.org.uk> wrote:
Reading about the making of videos at Eurovison:

   https://blog.wikimedia.org/2014/05/10/no-interviews-except-wikipedia-documenting-eurovision-song-contest-commons/

I was stuck by the positive response to the "Wikiepdia
representative", not least engendered by his use of a branded
microphone windshield (see third picture in the above post) [*].

Similarly, my local branch of OpenStreetMap issues mappers with
branded high-viz vests; these often reassure the public (or at least
facilitate the opening of a discussion), when someone is walking down
their road noting house numbers and other features.


On a related note, are we ever going to get the promised business cards?


[*] That windshied is far too big for use on the Zoom H1 which I use
for the voice project, but something smaller would be useful.

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Andy Mabbett
@pigsonthewing
http://pigsonthewing.org.uk

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