Wikipedia:WikiProject Council/Proposals/Wikipedia editor business card project

The following discussion is an archived proposal of the WikiProject below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the project's talk page (if created) or the WikiProject Council). No further edits should be made to this page.

The proposed WikiProject was not created. Interesting project idea, but momentum seems to have waned years ago. Feel free to re-propose sometime. Ajpolino (talk) 16:33, 8 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Description

A project to standardize contact methods with those outside of Wikipedia to assist in research and to promote the Wikipedia brand. Paul McDonald (talk) 14:00, 24 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]

This is a "one-off" project proposal, as I can find nothing really like it on Wikipedia. However, I think it would be of benefit to Wikipedia and Wikipedia editors. The idea is to have standardized suggestions for business cards, e-mail footers, and other material to help editors in their research. Also, this contact information can assist enthusiastic editors in gaining press passes to events to take photographs and upload images to Wikipedia, giving us a larger pool of freely available files.

I do think we could incorporate the work done at Wikipedia:Service awards and help editors by creating templates of common communication materials.

For example, I envision a business card that might look something like this rough draft:

	Wikipedia the online encyclopedia User:Paulmcdonald Senior Editor III Labutnum of the Encyclopedia
email (optional) - telephone (optional) - Overland Park, Kansas

Support

Also, specify whether or not you would join the project.

Support and I will join the project. Paul McDonald (talk) 14:00, 24 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Support and I will join the project. • Sbmeirow • Talk • 02:16, 30 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Support and I might join. Grognard 123chess456 (talk) 18:52, 17 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Discussion

I think it would be valuable to talk to the Wikinews folks about this. What you want might already exist over there. WhatamIdoing (talk) 22:06, 29 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]

I think a Wikipedia approved business card printer would be best. • Sbmeirow • Talk • 02:25, 30 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]

I'm not sure if its wise to use a persons Service Award, unless the printer verified the number of edits before approving the order. I think a generic title would be better, like "Editor" or some other generic word. • Sbmeirow • Talk • 02:25, 30 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]

This is a good idea, service awards would be nice, but also allow me to shove barnstars, GAs, WP:4AWARDs, WP:TRIPLECROWNs, and FAs on that. I want to deck out my hypothetical business cards with ALL my achievements. Grognard 123chess456 (talk) 18:52, 17 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

It's been a while... there are some good points here. I'd like to see this revised and have a Wikipedia (or Wikimedia) application that will automatically size and verify credentials for editors. Shouldn't be too tough to do, right?--Paul McDonald (talk) 23:27, 9 July 2017 (UTC)[reply]

dewiki have it: de:Wikipedia:Förderung/E-Mail-Adressen_und_Visitenkarten. Kipala (talk) 10:57, 10 July 2017 (UTC)[reply]

I could literally print something like this at work, or get 500 glossy embossed ones for a tenner, so my question really is, what makes these special?

You might want to add QR codes linking to your userpage, QR codes are all the rage right now.

Wiki news has [[1]] which issues 'press passes'.

Users identified to Wikimedia could have a extended verification..

We have a range of {{Icons}} which could be used to 'deck out' the cards, but the limited space on a card should be noted.

There are many millions of editors, on Wikipedia you can tell who is relevant by extended confirmed status and service awards, so if these are profiled and confirmed by wikimedia and a verfication url/qr code generated to put on the card, then the cards would carry more weight.

It is totally pointless restricting the printer, better to give people a service which generates PDF files, a card can be verified in seconds if it has QR codes for people to scan, the moment you show someone your card, they can duplicate the design, so the actual physical card is never going to verify anything.

giving people PDF files to print with their own printer / printing service reduces cost and breaks down physical borders. It has the additional advantage of allowing people to print these things on plastic cards. Dysklyver 13:30, 13 October 2017 (UTC)[reply]

At editathons my students sometimes want to exchange business cards. I wouldn't want one with barnstars and awards, since they have no idea. What would be good is cards with puzzle globe and the facts, namely name, username and E-mail, plus QR code to scan that information. I have failed to find templates or similar guides in Commons. That's somewhat surprising, and perhaps I just don't know how to find them. Jim.henderson (talk) 05:03, 18 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the project's talk page (if created) or at the WikiProject Council). No further edits should be made to this page.