Free Travel-Shirt

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The Idea

  

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The idea of the Free Travel-Shirt cropped up during the meetup of some Wikipedians in Hanover, Germany, on 3 March 2009. The objective is to raise awareness on a worldwide scale of the international movement for free knowledge and to bring Wikipedians all over the globe closer together. It is also intended to demonstrate to Wikipedians that they are part of one of the world’s most important networks ever launched. Thus, the T-shirt idea is meant to contribute to the foundation’s mission statement “to empower and engage people around the world to collect and develop educational content under a free license or in the public domain, and to disseminate it effectively and globally”.

With the help of Wikipedians everywhere, the T-shirts are supposed to circle the globe very much like the well-known torch relay before the start of the Olympic Games and invigorate people (Wikipedians-to-be as a matter of fact) all over the place. A blueish T-shirt from Wikimedia Deutschland e. V. (size "L") with "Enzyklopädist" written on it (which is German for "encyclopaedian"), and a white T-shirt (size "XL") (picture: English Wikipedia-logo) will hopefully be taken to many different places and people all over the world. Local Wikipedians are asked to pose with it for photographs to be taken together with distinctive motives, features, people and the like as a proof that the shirts have actually been in a particular spot during their trips. These pictures will then be uploaded to Commons and added to this page as a proof that not only thoughts are free. Thus, anyone who ever wanted to know where the idea of free knowledge can take Wikipedians and a T-shirt can join the journey around the world in 363 days till 1 March 2010.

At the end of the journey, the two T-shirts will – hopefully – be back again in Hanover in time for the start of next year’s CeBIT on 2 March 2010. They will ultimately come up for auction for the benefit of Wikimedia Foundation Inc.

As the project is still in its planning phase, you are welcome to comment on the idea and share your views with us on the discussion page.

See Free Travel Shirt 2009 on Wikimedia Commons.
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