On Mon, Sep 12, 2011 at 5:00 PM, Richard Symonds <[email protected]> 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 _______________________________________________ Wikimedia UK mailing list [email protected] http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org
