On 13 December 2013 18:56, rexx <[email protected]> wrote:
> Andy: the latest position is, I believe, at:
>
> http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Visual_identity_guidelines
>
> At present, the simplest advice for museums, etc. is not to use the
> Wikipedia globe or the stylised wordmark or even the stylised W icon without
> prior permission from WMF.

Thank you. That's disappointing. I made my views clear to the WMF
legal team, in a 90+ plus phone conversation, that there needs to be a
freely-usable, easliy-recognsable logo for such cases.

> There is no problem with using the word "Wikipedia" in plain text, so
> captions such as "Scan this QRcode to read the corresponding Wikipedia
> article" would be perfectly acceptable as I understand it.

Indeed; though so much English text is inadvisable where multi-lingual
audiences are expected. Just "Wikipedia:" may suffice.


-- 
Andy Mabbett
@pigsonthewing
http://pigsonthewing.org.uk

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