[resending to foundation-l]
August seems to be "Wiki conference month" this year : WikiSym is
moved back to Aug 21-23 (in Odense), and both Dutch Wikimedians (ca.
August 20) and Chinese Wikimedians (August 27-29) are arranging
August meetups around Wikimania. I like the familiar look of the
Chinese page... ;-) but there are logo / name issues involved.
How should such events be named? The Dutch event gets "Wikimedia
Conference" in there. 'Wikimania' is a nice nickname for the global
conference; it might be useful if it were unique. But it would also
be nice to have a way of indicating solidarity among other related
events. (For geeks in the US, think 'Foo Camp' vs. 'Bar Camp')
http://nl.wikimedia.org/wiki/WCN
http://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:2006%E4%B8%AD%E6%96%87%E7%B6%AD%E5%9…
Below is an email sent by Siriudie from Chinese Wikipedia to the
foundation, asking whether they could use a derivative of the
foundation logo for their satellite event... which raises the
question: what do we want to do for Wikimania proper? Does it make
sense to have a separate icon for Wikimania, in addition to the
(unaltered) Wikimedia logo? There was a recent suggestion that we use
a version of Ben Yates' swoosh logo for Wikimania:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fundraising_ideas/Cafe_Press#Print-On-Demand…
Regards,
SJ
On 3/13/06, wikimania-l-bounces(a)wikipedia.org
<wikimania-l-bounces(a)wikipedia.org> wrote:
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Wikimedia Foundation <board(a)wikimedia.org>
To: siriudie(a)mail.sdu.edu.cn
Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2006 17:35:44 +0000
Subject: Re: [Ticket#2006031310004535] Request for grant of the logo.
Dear Siriudie,
Thank you for your mail.
I forward it to wikimania mailing list, because I am not entirely sure what
you mean by Chinese Wikimania 2006. They will certainly be able to help you.
Greetings
Anthere
Siriudie <siriudie(a)gmail.com> écrit:
Dear Sir,
I am a wikipedian from China. And "Chinese Wikimania 2006" is now under
preparation. So, I modify the logo of WIKIMEDIA FOUNDATION for the logo for
"Chinese Wikimania 2006".Someone tell me that I should be authorized by
WIKIMEDIA FOUNDATION before we use it, so that I'm writing to request for
grant.
Yours Sincerely.
*Siriudie*
Yours sincerely,
Florence Devouard
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Wikimedia Foundation
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