Jay,
If I understand you correctly, your vision of future Wikimedia PR is (1) not that one finds a lot of elements at Meta/Commons, but well presented and easy to find, to put them together, but that (2) someone who needs materials in his language can order a localized version from Wikimedia, in a well concepted and performanced piece, unified visual identity and so on?
Ziko
2008/8/12 Jay Walsh jwalsh@wikimedia.org:
Thanks for this, Sean. I'm sure there have been other efforts to make this happen before, but I feel like we can create a solid, long-term plan from here and stick to it. Ultimately I don't want to use meta as a storage place - I just want to find everything that's out there, figure out what's still relevant and then put relevant, timely materials on the Foundation wiki - particularly so the chapters can use it.
I'll also be developing a more robust space on the internal wiki that will contain design-ready, high quality templates (for business cards, documents, etc). Some of these will use the trademark, so they shouldn't be broadly available.
And it's worth mentioning that this is one of the reasons to find all the materials on meta/commons and put it in one place. A lot of those pieces are basically offering up use of the trademark with little or no regard for vis-identity.
So bear in mind this isn't about creating a defacto place where all of these things will live. This is about creating a temporary space where we can look and decide what is still relevant, what needs to go away, and then where the good pieces should be hosted for the longterm.
This would be a big help for me and for the Foundation. Creating a long-term plan for housing approve, accurate, high-quality communications products and templates will go a long way to supporting our overall communications objectives.
Thanks!
-- Jay Walsh Head of Communications WikimediaFoundation.org +1 (415) 839 6885 x 609
On Aug 12, 2008, at 10:22 AM, Sean Whitton wrote:
Hello all,
A project to get involved in: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/PR_material_cleanup
"An effort has been started to bring together all the PR and communications material out there around various wikis and other locations in one organised space here on meta. It is being loosely co-ordinated by Sean Whitton and involves ComCom, ComProj and Jay Walsh. At the moment the project is being planned on this page, which you are invited to pitch in and edit (discussion should take place on the ComProj list). When this planning is complete, things will go ahead per the below plan (which of course can be changed).
The idea is to have a plan and brutally work away at it in order to get this done in a reasonable timeframe. By focussing on just PR/communications stuff, we should be able to avoid drifting off and should be able to finish this project. So, once this page has been open for planning for a week or so, we'll just get going."
Interested? Go and sign up and contribute to the skeleton and plan :)
Thanks,
Sean
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