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When it comes to the Wikimedia Marks, there are some cool things you can do and some cool things you can't do — at least not without asking Wikimedia Foundation.
 
You may make t-shirts, desktop wallpaper, or baseball caps with Wikimedia Marks on them, though only for yourself, your friends (meaning people from whom you don't receive anything of value in return), and donors and other Chapter or Foundation supporters, so long as you are giving them away rather than selling them. You can't put the Wikimedia Mark(s) on anything that you produce commercially (whether or not you make a profit) — at least not without receiving the Foundation's written permission. Of course, the Foundation may own and operatesoperate online stores (such as the Wikipedia store within CafePress), and the Foundation may authorize and license other commercial stores in the future that may offer a variety of Wikimedia Foundation trademarked merchandise.
 
There are two additional broad categories of things you shouldn't feel authorized to do with Wikimedia Marks (absent express permission from the Foundation).