On 4 February 2011 11:13, Deryck Chan <[email protected]> wrote: >> Care should be taken, however, not to give the school/church/etc. the >> impression that you are representing the chapter or acting in any kind >> of official capacity (unless the chapter does actually give you some >> kind of official position or ask you to represent it). > > On the other side of the planet, for WM Hong Kong we're fine with any > paid-up member to go out in the name of us unless we told them not to. I > think it's overly conservative to preemptively prevent a member of your > organisation to go out and do things as "a member of Wikimedia UK"...
The problem is that we could be legally responsible for what someone does while representing us. They can say that they are a member, that's a simple fact, but we need to maintain some degree of control over what is done in our name. (The same is probably true in HK - you should be careful.) _______________________________________________ Wikimedia UK mailing list [email protected] http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org
