Marketing
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Visual guidelines |
Events – VRT |
Marketing |
Leaflet – Cheatsheet |
Exhibitions – Presentations |
Translation (requests) |
Marketing includes such topics as materials for promoting the projects, and guidelines for layout, design, and production of new materials, including how to use the project logos and suggest useful materials for translation.
If you create promotional materials for your Wikimedia project please put it and the source of that file here. This way other projects can also make use of it. Please add date, description and a contact person for each file you add here.
There are separate pages for special types of promotional materials (such as Advertisements or Leaflets). On these pages you usually find versions of the text which you can translate into other languages.
Important: To make material usable for print, it should not be licensed under GFDL (the license text wouldn't fit on the flyer, see ;-) When you draft texts for promotional use, as with Press releases, add {{PD notice}} on top.
Useful links:
- Wikimedia visual identity guidelines - a must-read for everyone designing promotional materials for Wikimedia. In the absence of specific project guidelines most points are valid for the project logos as well.
- Logo
- Commons:Category:Wikimedia and Commons:Category:Wikimedia promotion
Marketing subcommittee
[edit]The Marketing subcommittee is a subcommittee of the Communications committee. It oversees the use of the project logos and the production of promotional materials for Wikimedia and its projects, specifies visual guidelines, and is the central address point for layout and design questions.
Membership
[edit]The committee currently consists of three members:
- Portfolio: Leaflet, Cheatsheet, Press kit, Wikipedia exhibition (german), Wikipedia ABC (german), Banners
- Portfolio: Visual identity guidelines, Business card and letter design, Wikimania 2005 visual identity, German Wikimedia flyers, Wikipedia banners
- Portfolio: see User:guillom/portfolio. Currently working on: Wikimedia documents initiative
You can contact us on the talk page or on IRC in #wikimedia-marketing.
The procedure for becoming a member of the committee is simple: submit good work ;-) If you have a skilled hand for design and like creating needed promotion stuff, we're happy to welcome you as new member.
Of course you don't have to be a member to create promotion stuff - but if you do on a regular basis, we're happy to hear from you, review work together and help.
Applicants
Current tasks
[edit]- /Todo
- Extend the Wikimedia visual identity guidelines for project logos and corporate identity (graphical part of the to be developped Logo and trademark policy)
- Create a basic set of promotional stuff in a uniform layout in some core languages
- Leaflet (see cover drafts)
- Cheatsheet
- modular information kit for journalists, sponsors and business partners
- Wikimedia intro, free content, wiki definition
- Biographies of trustees and others
- Project descriptions
- Statistics
- Financial information
- Contact addresses
If you are a skilled designer, be it professional or amateur, you are welcome to help. Voice your opinion on the drafts or submit your own.
Brochures, Flyers & Postcards
[edit]- Leaflets in different languages
- de: German flyer (sample and for print), Akl, 2004
- Wikipostcards by notafish
- Cheatsheet by Elian, translated (en, fr, es, it, de)
- Deskdisplay for public meetings of local chapter: WP:F-Aufsteller, done by Elya
- Door poster/flyer by Piotrus: Image:Wiki poster.png
- Pamphlets
Posters (outdated)
[edit]- nl: Dutch poster1 (Dutch poster1 source file - OpenOffice)
- en: English poster1, pdf (English poster1, source file - OpenOffice)
- sv: Swedish poster. Some versions available from here.
- de: German poster (outdated)
- is: Icelandic poster
- nn: Norwegian (nynorsk) poster
For Wikipedia presentations on events, you can use printouts of the large PDF version of the logo. These scale reasonably well to A2 and even to A0:
Some magazines give free advertisement space for non-profit projects. If you find one, Benutzer:Sansculotte has created some ads which can be used. See Ads for a gallery
- de: 1/3 A4 high, 1/3 A4 landscape
- jpg: Image:Wikipedia anzeige2.jpg, Image:Wikipedia anzeige2b.jpg, Image:Wikipedia anzeige2c.jpg
- pdf: Image:Wikipedia lexikon3 anzeige.pdf, Image:Wikipedia anzeige2c.pdf, Image:Wikipedia anzeige2b.pdf, Image:Wikipedia anzeige2c.pdf
- en: 1/3 A4 high
- jpg: Image:Wikipedia anzeige2ce.jpg, Image:Wikipedia anzeige2ce.jpg
- pdf: Image:Wikipedia_anzeige2en.pdf
- en: See Ads#The Onion