> 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 >
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. -- Regards, George Watson <http://dendodge.me>
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