Brianna Laugher wrote:
Hello,
- Is there a wikiversity mailing list? If so, I couldn't find it at
mail.wikipedia.org .
Yes, there is:
_______________________________________________ Wikiversity-l mailing list Wikiversity-l@wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikiversity-l
- Is this in fact the official logo for Wikiversity?
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Wikiversity-logo.svg
I do not know. There have been some logo contest rumblings so you might check with others at the mailing list or at the Colloquium: http://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/Wikiversity:Colloquium
- If so, whose fool idea was it to use a third-party LGPL icon as a
logo (rather hard to subsume as {{CopyrightByWikimedia}} like the other project logos), and what is the status of this vote? http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikiversity/logo
Looks like the voting process status is layed out. "In *phase 4*, which lasts from 16 October http://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=October_16&action=edit until 31 October http://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=October_31&action=edit, you can now determine the winning logo! *Vote for ONE logo only.* Please note that if the winning logo should happen to use Wikimedia colours or have blue as its most prominent colour, those colours *will have to be changed* afterwards to something which is okay with the Wikimedia Marketing Department."
Perhaps not so foolish. If the image is actually LGPL then it can be used without permission on the Wikimedia Foundation when people wish to publish GFDL'ed materials from Wikiversity ..... correct?
IIRC it took months/years for the Wikibooks people to sort out how to go about publishing a Wiki Junior book due to trademark and logo issues surrounding the "Wikibooks" trademark and logo.
If you find out the status of the vote after 31 October 06 please be sure to let us know at the Wikiversity mailing list.
regards, mirwin