[Wikisource-l] Fwd: Re: [Foundation-l] [Announcement] Wikimedia promotion committee

Sat Oct 7 13:36:42 UTC 2006

Forward from foundation-l

Birgitte SB

--- Anthere <Anthere9 at yahoo.com> wrote:

> To: foundation-l at wikimedia.org
> From: Anthere <Anthere9 at yahoo.com>
> Date: Fri, 06 Oct 2006 14:51:22 +0200
> CC: wikimediafr-l at wikimedia.org
> Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] [Announcement] Wikimedia
> promotion committee
> 
> A little bump to mention how much this committee
> important is and to 
> invite people to join it.
> 
> I suggest that three focus are in particular
> important, and the three 
> requires very different people help.
> 
> The first is improvement of the material we can
> provide when we visit 
> potential partners. There is already a good work on
> this, and the 
> Foundation needs to provide further input and data
> to make it. 
> Suggestions from people in business in particular is
> welcome.
> 
> The second focus is about translation. The leaflets
> are already 
> translated in several languages, but probably not
> enough. They need more 
> translation AND MOSTLY, communities in various
> languages need to know 
> these documents exist.
> 
> Last is projects. We have a lot of documentation on
> Wikipedia. Very 
> little on Commons, Wikisource etc... We need MORE.
> 
> Incidently, the french language community has an
> urgent need for 
> Wikisource and Wikicommons projects to receive a lot
> of light from 
> french press.... within 2 weeks (yeah, short). We
> must be noticeable as 
> a french virtual library urgently :-)
> 
> Can it be a special urgent focus ?
> 
> ant
> 
> 
> Elisabeth Bauer wrote:
> > I'd like to announce here the creation of the
> Wikimedia promotion 
> > committee. It is a new subcommittee of the
> Communications committee 
> > which deals with the production of promotion
> material for Wikimedia and 
> > its projects and establishing guidelines to ensure
> that promotion 
> > material follows some quality standards.
> > 
> > == Membership ==
> > 
> > The subcom is currently composed of Arne Klempert
> and me. Some 
> > background: Arne has worked as media designer for
> some years and he has 
> > created much of the printed material for Wikimedia
> Deutschland. I'm a 
> > typesetter's daughter, interested and educated in
> typography since 
> > childhood and worked as a journalist for some
> years where I also got 
> > some insights into professional layout.
> > 
> > The procedure for becoming a member of the
> committee is simple: submit 
> > good work ;-) If you have a skilled hand for
> design and like creating 
> > needed promotion stuff, we're happy to welcome you
> as new member.
> > 
> > Of course you don't have to be a member to create
> promotion stuff - if 
> > you do on a regular basis, we're very happy to
> hear from you, review 
> > work together and help.
> > 
> > == Visual identity guidelines ==
> > 
> > The committee works on developing visual identity
> guidelines for the 
> > projects. In the absence of project specific
> guidelines, the guidelines 
> > for the Wikimedia logo are valid:
> >
>
http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Wikimedia_visual_identity_guidelines
> > 
> > If you design promotion stuff for your project,
> please follow them as 
> > closely as possible (or we'll come and hunt you at
> night ;-)
> > 
> > == Production of promotion material ==
> > 
> > It's obvious that two people can't do all the
> necessary design work for 
> > all the projects in the different languages.
> Currently, we focus on 
> > creating a basic set of necessary things:
> > * Brochure (threefold, DIN A4), see
> http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Leaflet
> > * Cheatsheet (DIN A long), see
> http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Cheatsheet
> > * Information kit for journalists, sponsors and
> business contacts (DIN A4)
> > 
> > The first steps towards an achieved corporate
> identity are currently 
> > done on
> http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Leaflet/cover (title
> page of 
> > brochures for wikimedia and all projects), please
> voice your opinion on 
> > the talk page about the drafts and/or submit own
> proposals.
> > 
> > == Logos ==
> > 
> > The promotion subcom will act as intermediate
> institution between 
> > community and board in the process of choosing new
> project logos. It 
> > will check if community chosen project logos
> fullfill the necessary 
> > requirements (format specification, copyright
> situation etc., see 
> > http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Logos) to become
> official project logos 
> > and submit them with a recommendation to the board
> for approval.
> > 
> > == Contact ==
> > 
> > You can contact as on
> http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Promotion, on 
> > IRC in #wikimedia-cc (akl and elian) or by email
> to elian at djini.de and 
> > arne.klempert at wikimedia.de
> > 
> > If you are interested in the activities of the
> promcom, please get in 
> > touch with us.
> > 
> > greetings,
> > elian
> 
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