I don't have much experience with asking schools and churches to take
pictures of them for Wikipedia. However, I have been carrying a camera
around with me in Cambridge so that if I bump into anyone (or anything)
famous, (famous being defined as having a en.wp article) I can take a
picture of them. The people are generally fine with being taken portraits
of; saying you're taking it for Wikipedia usually suffices (otherwise they'd
wonder why you don't put yourself into the picture). Using the name of the
chapter often gives some "official status" if needed, however that usually
isn't needed.
Care should be taken, however, not to give the
school/church/etc. the
impression that you are representing the chapter or acting in any kind
of official capacity (unless the chapter does actually give you some
kind of official position or ask you to represent it).
On the other side of the planet, for WM Hong Kong we're fine with any
paid-up member to go out in the name of us unless we told them not to. I
think it's overly conservative to preemptively prevent a member of your
organisation to go out and do things as "a member of Wikimedia UK"...
On 3 February 2011 19:32, David Gerard <dgerard(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On 3 February 2011 19:22, Thomas Dalton
<thomas.dalton(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Care should be taken, however, not to give the
school/church/etc. the
impression that you are representing the chapter or acting in any kind
of official capacity (unless the chapter does actually give you some
kind of official position or ask you to represent it).
If he keeps doing this sort of thing he'll get drafted ;-)
-d.
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