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, GLAM, outreach to specific groups?)'
• 'I would like to teach others to edit Wikipedia/contribute to Wikimedia projects'
• 'I would like to volunteer in the office' (different options here)
• 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

Plain background - cheaper!

Wikimedia UK logo, green box background

Text

"...promote and support the widest possible public access to, use of and contribution to open content of an encyclopaedic or educational nature..."

- Wikimedia UK's charitable objects

When you hear 'Wikimedia' what do you think of? Perhaps you think of Wikipedia - the world's largest online encyclopaedia read by millions of people around the globe every month. Yet the Wikimedia project is bigger than this, and underpinned by principles that go beyond providing information online for free.

Wikimedia UK is a UK registered charity that supports the key principles that create and sustain Wikipedia; a commitment to collaborating to achieve the best outcome, of releasing the results of that effort under creative commons licence for anyone to read or re-use, and to encourage the widest possible access to educational content - all completely for free.

In the 21st century there will be more mobile phones in use than people in the world. Access to knowledge continues to be a barrier to progress for people around the globe, particularly when they are prevented from accessing education because of poverty or politics. . Neutrally written, community driven and curated online knowledge, published in three times the languages than the World Health Organisation publishes in, can be a powerful tool. To reach people, engage them, and to be grown by voices from across the world who haven't been heard before. Wikimedia UK has a commitment to growing Wikipedia and its sister projects in this way, to ensure this happens.

In the UK we are working with world-class galleries, archives, libraries and museums to unlock hidden public archives and document community histories. We are working with educational institutions to bring the benefits of free-knowledge culture and collaborative approaches to a new generation of students. We are using technology to connect, correct and expand the millions of articles and huge amount of media we've already collected. You can be a part of it.