Volunteer/Join us handout

This is the drafting page for content for a new handout/leaflet for 2013 to allow people to express interest in volunteering and/or apply for membership on a tear-off and send section. All contributions welcome - we want to really pin point the benefits of volunteering for the Chapter.

How can you help?

• Case studies - tell us about an amazing thing you achieved, saw or did as a volunteer for Wikimedia UK.
• Quotes - do you have something to say about volunteering you think potential volunteers really need to hear?

Most of my favourite quotes are going into the Annual report 2012-13, so we could get some from there. Daria Cybulska (WMUK) (talk)

• Stats - are there relevant statistics about volunteers delivering our outreach programme?
• Pictures - what images from the past year best sum up the volunteer experience to you

Design brief

NB Costs may dictate some of the final decisions in relation to this

KB really likes a design like this - http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/meta/6/61/Wikimedia_folder_2013_NL.pdf

Purpose

• Hand out at Chapter run events
• Put in delegate packs for events
• Hand out at volunteer meetups
• Send out to donors
• Ask relevant partner institutions to display (BL, NHM, where else?)
• What else?

Target audience

• UK Editors who are not yet members of the chapter
• 'Fellow travellers' in free licence and open knowledge movements
• Other volunteers who are not yet members
• Event attendees
• Who else?

• Create a Wiki version to send to wikipedians who are active in UK based Wikiprojects or who display a UK based Userbox but who may not be members
• Create a Welsh language Wiki version to send to wikipedians who are active in the Welsh language Wikipedia (ditto Scots, Scots Gaelic, Kernow and Manx)

With this - I think it makes sense to have a nice online version of the physical document (whether that's a commons file or a wiki page) which we can run around and drop on talk pages, but frankly, we could just as easily drop a link to the volunteering or membership parts of the UK wiki (yes, its not in welsh which is naughty, but we can change that too) Therefore its almost a separate project (though a no less important one) and I'd like to get the physical document written and designed and being distributed and then move onto this :) I've highlighted the audiences we'd be targeting, so it's just making sure we've got a nice delivery mechanism and a good version in an online medium Katherine Bavage (WMUK) (talk) 10:07, 24 May 2013 (UTC)

NB these are general, and so not aimed a particular demographic. Can we leave a blank space as part of the design where we could stick a sticker aimed at, say, women or those in HE or BME editors with a QR code directing them to an extended reach page?

Information it will collect

• Name (Title, First Name, Surname)
• Email address
• Postal address (Address and Postcode)

Express interest in Volunteering

• 'I would like to attend a meetup'
• 'I would like to help run an event in my area'
• 'I would like to be involved in (insert a strand of program work we deliver, e.g. Education?)'
• Example

Express interest in Membership

• I would like to be a member of Wikimedia UK - please send me details on how to apply

Other considerations

Welsh language version?

Must include

• Company number, Charity number, and registered address
• Contact details
• Links to online presence (site, Facebook, twitter, IRC?)
• Freepost address on addressed postcard for tear off section

Section content

(This section structure follows that used by the WMNL leaflet example linked too above

Front page

Image background rather than plain?