Hello,
In the German WP we just had a discussion that a mascot (like Tux the Linux Penguin) for Wikipedia would be a nice idea.
What do you think? Ideas for animals, names, artwork greatly appreciated :-)
I thought that an owl would be appropriate: everybody familiar with greek mythology associates it with wisdom and the artwork, based on old Athenian coins could be easily done.
greetings, elian
I think that Wikipedia's mascot should be an image which anyone can draw on and add to at any time. Perhaps some sort of Java applet would be useful, with a variety of drawing tools and a built-in edit history of the image so we can easily revert it when people add the Goatse image or other copyrighted clip art. We could do the same thing with the Wikipedia logo in the upper corner of the web pages.
No, I'm not actually serious. :)
Perhaps we could use Frankenstein's Monster as our mascot, to represent our approach to article writing?
Still not serious. :)
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