I'm always a sucker for peens, mugs, mousemats, t-shirts etc & students even more so however..
I don't know how feasible it is but could the item (either hardcopy or on usb stick etc) be customised to be related to the event/venue/organisation eg if it were a GLAM meeting with WP:Somerset & the Museum of Somerset (topically as the museums reopens this month & we'd like to do a joint meeting) then the handouts would include a copy of the current article on the museum (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Museum_of_Somerset) or some of their exhibits (eg http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frome_Hoard ) - but with markup which says "citation needed", "expand" or whatever included. If it was being held in a town or city then the article for that location could be used. If a group eg BCS then use http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Computer_Society. If a speaker or organiser of the event has an article then that could be included.
Probably much too much work - but blue skies
Rod
-----Original Message----- From: wikimediauk-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org [mailto:wikimediauk-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Bod Notbod Sent: 12 September 2011 18:24 To: wikimediauk-l@lists.wikimedia.org Subject: Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Suggestions for Merchandise
On Mon, Sep 12, 2011 at 5:00 PM, Richard Symonds chasemewiki@gmail.com wrote:
That said, we can worry about the specific legalities later - I don't want to get bogged down in them now.
The idea that there may even be any sort of legal dimension hadn't occurred in even the most over-active and alert synapses of my fevered brain! So, I don't know how I managed to plant that seed...
No, I was just trying to picture the merchandise, so whether it was going to have a UK mention on it or just be plain Wikimedia was about picturing it.
I'm hoping for some blue-sky ideas. If you could hand something to someone in the street - one thing - that would
make
them edit Wikipedia, what would you like it to be? Something that makes
the
person go "hmmm..." or "ooh!"...
WereSpiel's ideas of mousemats and mugs are tried and tested but I think none the worse for that. If it were within our abilities to revolutionise merchandising I suspect we'd be typing our emails on solid gold keyboards.
But, OK, blue-sky and would really "make me edit"?
I think the one thing that would most make me want to edit would be to see something wrong or that I disagreed with. So it could be a typo. You'd have a badge saying "this is a badje [edit]" or "this is a quayring [edit]" or "this is a mugg [edit]".
Or, more provocatvely, "Margaret Thatcher was the world's most compassionate woman. [edit]" or "Wayne Rooney deserves every penny he gets. [edit]". The trick with those, though, is identifying people who are likely to disagree.
Some places do promotional USB drives now. I'm trying to think what one could pre-load them with, but I'm coming up blank. Maybe it could have all of Wikipedia's unusual articles on as seen here...?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WEIRD
Bod
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