On Mon, Sep 12, 2011 at 5:00 PM, Richard Symonds
<chasemewiki(a)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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The biggest problem with that is NPOV - something like that implies that
WMUK supports the opposite position (i.e., Thatcher lacked compassion,
Rooney doesn't deserve his money). That perhaps isn't what we want.
It might also be a good idea to look at producing merchandise for other
projects as well - they could do with the exposure more than enWP, I'm
sure.
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Regards,
George Watson
<http://dendodge.me>