I'm not sure we can really separate the branding that way, since our en.wiki activity mostly consists of advertising for off-wiki events. If someone from en.wiki shows up at a "WALRUS" event and starts talking to someone from meta who believes it to be a "Wikimedia US" event, there's still going to be some degree of confusion (and resulting brand dilution).Personally, I think we're at the point where we need to select a single brand and stick with it everywhere, rather than trying to maintain multiple competing brands.Cheers,KirillOn Tue, Aug 13, 2013 at 6:39 PM, Pharos <pharosofalexandria@gmail.com> wrote:
(User:Pharos)RichardI was thinking that we could differentiate the two by developing the 'WALRUS' branding more as a wikiproject-type campaign on enwiki, while reserving the "official unofficial" name of 'Wikimedia United States Coalition' for the more bureaucratic niceties of meta (widespread use of the latter name outside of meta without explicit WMF go-ahead might also be problematic).
Thanks,On Thu, Aug 8, 2013 at 10:13 PM, Kirill Lokshin <kirill.lokshin@gmail.com> wrote:
The template looks good, but shouldn't we be using the same "Wikimedia United States Coalition" terminology that we use in the meta version of the template, so as to be consistent?Cheers,KirillOn Fri, Aug 9, 2013 at 10:10 AM, Pharos <pharosofalexandria@gmail.com> wrote:
(User:Pharos)RichardFollowing up on Bob's idea of regional "sister cities" cooperation, I've grouped together some of the more active cities on the new enwiki template, by the Northeast, Midwest, South, and West:
Maybe it could be a good idea in future to have an on-wiki noticeboard for each of these four very rough chunks of the country, just to help with regional communication and scheduling of events (and especially as a way to reach out to some of the smaller / less active cities, and e.g. help the Texans settle on a meetup location).
Thanks,On Sat, Jul 13, 2013 at 9:00 PM, Samuel Klein <meta.sj@gmail.com> wrote:
(yet!)
On Sat, Jul 13, 2013 at 3:42 PM, Bob the Wikipedian
<bobthewikipedian@gmail.com> wrote:
> But none of those cities have a WALRUS chapter. :P
>
> Bob
>
>
> On 7/13/2013 11:35 AM, Samuel Klein wrote:
>>
>> Boston is engaged in sibling rivalry and virtual event coordination
>> would be natural with the cities of
>> Boston and New Boston in NH, NY (an enclave of Red Sox Nation), IN,
>> IL, OH, MI, KY, MO, AL, GA, and TX.
>> Cambridge in PA, ID, IA, KS, ME, MD, MN, NB, VT, and WI... and NY
>> again (enclaves 2 and 3)
>> Brighton in CO, OR, and TN (and enclaves 4-6 in NY)
>>
>> That covers about half of the country.
>>
>> SJ
>>
>> On Sat, Jul 13, 2013 at 11:13 AM, Bob the Wikipedian
>> <bobthewikipedian@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> Actually, we're already doing this in Indiana. Evansville, Bloomington,
>>> and
>>> Indianapolis are sister cities since we're within several hours of one
>>> another. We've been taking turns hosting the annual Wiknic.
>>>
>>> Bob (Evansville)
>>>
>>>
>>> On 7/12/2013 9:40 AM, Pharos wrote:
>>>
>>> Perhaps it might be a good idea to connect different local Wikimedian
>>> efforts through an informal sister cities / regions program...
>>>
>>> Think of it:
>>>
>>> Cascadia and New England!
>>>
>>> Minnesota and Colorado!
>>>
>>> LA and Atlanta!
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Richard
>>> (User:Pharos)
>>>
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