On Tue, 2011-09-13 at 12:15 +0100, Thomas Dalton wrote: > On 13 September 2011 09:22, Fae <fae...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Are there any views for or against using an image of "Wikimedia in > > Scotland" rather than just the WM-UK logo? My concern is that some > > will resist joining in a "UK" branded programme but would rush to > > support a country specific initiative. If it gets better results, we > > could follow a similar pattern for Wales and avoid appearing to push > > "UK" in every document (or teeshirt). > Before signing the chapters agreement with the WMF, we were careful to > amend it to include permission for us to call ourselves "Wikimedia > Scotland" (etc.) in order to leave our options open for this kind of > thing. You could, therefore, use a Wikimedia Scotland logo (with some > small print making clear that both Wikimedia Scotland and Wikimedia UK > are trading names of Wiki UK Ltd. on anything more important that a > t-shirt). > The downside of that is that it harms brand recognition, since neither > brand is getting used as much as a single brand would be. The only > question really is whether the benefit from appeasing Scottish > nationalists outweighs the harm from splitting our brand. I don't know > enough about Scottish nationalism to know, but I can believe that it > would be. A simple illustration of the view from this side of the border was expressed in today's freebie paper, the Metro. Surprisingly, it's near-identical to one I personally used over ten years ago when living in Belgium: "Scottish first, European second, and British last". That, as I'd hope people south of the border understand, is because to much of the rest of the world Britain = England. All three of the major UK political parties are looking seriously to, at a minimum, devolve their Scottish presence and give it far more autonomy. Further to that, a recent survey found that over 30% of the population expect to see a truly independent Scotland in their lifetime. Scottish national identity, and political awareness, has come a long, long way since I was a student chucking past-their-sell-by-date duck eggs at the Iron Lady. Brian McNeil. -- http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Brian_McNeil - Accredited Reporter. Facts don't cease to be facts, but news ceases to be news. _______________________________________________ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org
