New subject: The Wikipede

21 Feb 2003

If there's consensus that we want a mascot, I suggest putting a call for  
suggestions on all the mainpages, with a link to an English page on Meta.  
That might seem like overkill, but I really think we should use the wiki  
process here. There are many species -- prehistoric animals, insects,  
animals living only in a single, small world region -- which are largely  
unknown, yet unbelievably photogenic. I also think that any mascot we  
choose should reflect the fact that we are a cooperative, social project,  
in other words, it should be a social animal or insect. Dolphins, whales,  
ants, bees etc. all work nicely. Of course, we could also choose a monkey  
sitting behind a typewriter ;-)

With a cooperative process, who knows what we might come up with.

This is also, like the logo, a case where we eventually need to set up a  
vote, period.

Regards,

Erik

Wikipedia mascot