Sean-
I am pleased to report that I ordered two Wikipedia tile coasters from CafePress on [[19 January]], and received them in perfect order on [[23 January]]. A very smooth, satisfactory, and recommendable transaction.
How is the quality of the coasters? Is the text recognizable, are there any pixelization effects?
There are now $20 in commission. I've configured Cafepress to send me a check when there are $100, which will be passed on to Wikimedia.
It would probably be preferable to send the commission checks directly to Jimbo. To do so I need the full address and federal tax ID.
Regards,
Erik
Sean-
I am pleased to report that I ordered two Wikipedia tile coasters from CafePress on [[19 January]], and received them in perfect order on [[23 January]]. A very smooth, satisfactory, and recommendable transaction.
How is the quality of the coasters? Is the text recognizable, are there any pixelization effects?
For those who haven't seen the coaster at the CafePress site, it is a tile some 11.5cm (4.5 inches) square, showing a Wikipedia edit window in the Cologne Blue style, editing the [[Editing Wikipedia]] article. The edit summary is "Wikipedia rocks!"
I didn't notice when I ordered, but the Wikipedia logo is the old quote-ball, not the new puzzle-ball.
The edit text box is barely 6cm (2.35 inches) tall and holds 31 lines of text. I haven't seen text that small since I refinanced my house. It is readable at the moment, even with my several-decades-old eyeballs, but I seriously doubt that it will remain so after a few months of impacts from mug bottoms. Even now, the text is blurred (not pixellated) in places, an effect somewhat like the output of a laser printer that is running out of toner.
On the other hand, the blue of the sidebar menu is vivid, the swollen lines of text in the quote-ball logo are recognizable as text (tho it cannot be read) and the tile itself is decent quality. For less than $10 each, I am satisfied.
However, I must warn those of sensitive social consciousnesses that these coasters were made in China.
However, I must warn those of sensitive social consciousnesses that these coasters were made in China.
-- Sean Barrett
That's mildly ironic, considering that Wikipedia was banned in China.
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I'll send that to you now. I suspect that the tax id should be kept semi-private so as to make fraud harder for anyone who might try to steal our money.
Erik Moeller wrote:
Sean-
I am pleased to report that I ordered two Wikipedia tile coasters from CafePress on [[19 January]], and received them in perfect order on [[23 January]]. A very smooth, satisfactory, and recommendable transaction.
How is the quality of the coasters? Is the text recognizable, are there any pixelization effects?
There are now $20 in commission. I've configured Cafepress to send me a check when there are $100, which will be passed on to Wikimedia.
It would probably be preferable to send the commission checks directly to Jimbo. To do so I need the full address and federal tax ID.
Regards,
Erik _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@Wikipedia.org http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l