Store/Historical/Think Free

Buy a Think Free poster from the Wikipedia Store to show your support for Wikipedia and free culture.

Wikipedia is something new: a sea of knowledge, free for anyone to read, edit, or reuse. But the idea of liberation is very old.

Each poster contains text from Wikipedia (for example, Walt Whitman's photo contains his life story), and the tagline Wikipedia: Think Free.

Walt Whitman

Buy a Walt Whitman poster or T-shirt.

Wikipedia says this about Whitman:

Walter Whitman (May 31, 1819 - March 26, 1892) was an American Romantic poet, essayist, journalist, and humanist. Proclaimed the "greatest of all American poets" by many foreign observers a mere four years after his death, his works have been translated into more than 25 languages. Whitman is among the most influential and controversial poets in the American canon. His work has been described as a "rude shock" and "the most audacious and debatable contribution yet made to American literature." He largely abandoned the metrical structures of European poetry for an expansionist freestyle verse—"irregular" but "beautifully rhythmic"— which represented his philosophical view that America was destined to reinvent the world as emancipator and liberator of the human spirit. As Whitman wrote in Leaves of Grass (By Blue Ontario's Shore ), "Rhymes and rhymers pass away— . . . America justifies itself, give it time . . .

Read quotes from Leaves of Grass on Wikiquote.

This image was created by hundreds of people.

George C. Cox took a photograph of Whitman (1887)
Many people wrote and vetted Whitman's Wikipedia article (2001-present)
Howcheng cropped Cox's photograph, color-corrected it, and uploaded it to Wikipedia (2006)
Tlogmer combined the Wikipedia text with the portrait and added a tagline written by Mav (2007)

Earth from space

Buy an Earth poster.

This image shows an astronaut surrounded by a halo of text about the Earth. Letters spell "Wikipedia: Think Free" down the left-hand side (though you'll have to view the full image to see them.)

This image was created by hundreds of people.

NASA designed and launched the Space Shuttle (1970s-1980s)
A fellow astronaut photographed Bruce McCandless II during extravehicular activity (1984)
Many people wrote and vetted the "Earth" Wikipedia article (2001-present)
Tianxiaozhang uploaded the photograph to Wikipedia (2006)
Tlogmer cropped and filtered the photo, combined it with Wikipedia text, and added a tagline written by Mav (2007)

Other Think Free items

Here are a few of the ones we're working on:

If you like the project, add your ideas to the discussion page.