Volunteer Support Germany-Austria-Switzerland/E-mail addresses and business cards

This page is a translation of de:WP:Förderung/E-Mail-Adressen und Visitenkarten. It gives an overview of the support programs for volunteers residing in Germany, Austria, Switzerland and South Tyrol. The translation is for information purposes only. Addressed volunteers may use the original page. Last update: March 2019

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Support programs

Current activities

Contact and country-specific information:

WMDE

WMAT

WMCH

E-mail addresses, business cards, and mailing lists

For external relations regarding your participation in Wikimedia projects, you can obtain business cards and an official e-mail address. Mailing lists can be created for project coordination.

Offer

E-mail addresses

E-mail addresses can be assigned based on the pattern [first name.last name]@… or [user name]@…. You can choose from the following domains:

for Germany

... @wikipedia.de
... @wikibooks.de
... @wikiquote.de
... @wikisource.de
... @wikiversity.de

for Austria

... @wikipedia.at
... @wikibooks.at
... @wikiquote.at
... @wikisource.at
... @wikinews.at
... @wikispecies.at

for Switzerland

... @wikipedian.ch
... @wikipedians.ch
... @wikimedian.ch
... @wikimedians.ch

Template for business cards

Template for business cards from WMDE (standard version)

Template for business cards from WMDE with any desired Wikimedia Commons picture.

The address will be set up as a forwarding “alias” to an e-mail address that you specify. Ask your provider what technical steps are necessary so that you also send e-mails with this address, not only receive them. Unfortunately, this is not possible with all providers.

Mailing lists

Wikimedia Deutschland provides mailing lists for projects, which are usually assigned with the format[project-l] @ ... and one of the domains listed above. In order to share the responsibility among several people, mailing lists should be applied for and administered by two to three project participants.

Business Cards

In addition to the project logo, business cards contain first and last name, and/or user name, e-mail address, phone number and, if desired, a home address. Usually, 100 cards are printed per request.

Approach

The prerequisite for obtaining e-mail addresses or business cards is the active and regular participation in Wikipedia or its sister projects, which is usually determined based on the right to vote in de-WP.

Send the completed and signed form (see below) to the Wikimedia chapter of the country where you reside. You'll get a notification when the e-mail address has been set up. Business cards are sent to the specified address.

→ Here you can find additional information on setting up the e-mail address.
provider-specific instructions, not translated here

Wikimedia Deutschland

Online form for requesting business cards, e-mail addresses, and mailing lists

Alternatively, you can fill in this PDF form and send it as a scan to community@wikimedia.de or my mail to:

Wikimedia Deutschland
Team Ideenförderung
Postfach 61 03 49
10925 Berlin

The support guidelines of Wikimedia Deutschland apply.

Wikimedia Österreich

form with user agreement (PDF)

Please send the form to:

Wikimedia Österreich
Stolzenthalergasse 7/1
1080 Wien

The support guidelines of Wikimedia Österreich apply.

Wikimedia CH

Please send en e-mail to info@wikimedia.ch to get the necessary forms for e-mail addresses and business cards.

Documentation

Please tell us and others about your experiences, for example on a subpage of your user page and link them here (in German only). By doing so, you will on the one hand help the Wikimedia organizations to understand the benefits of the support initiative; on the other, your experiences can be helpful to others. Did the address actually help you to open doors? Are you now being taken more seriously as project staff by organizers or media?

Information for other chapters
Visitenkarten und E-Mail-Adressen für Freiwillige (learning pattern in German)

Business cards and email adresses for volunteers (learning pattern in English)