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-boun...@lists.wikimedia.org [mailto:wikimediauk-l-boun...@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 <chasemew...@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 _______________________________________________ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org ----- No virus found in this message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 10.0.1392 / Virus Database: 1520/3892 - Release Date: 09/12/11 _______________________________________________ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org
