On 05/09/07, Stan Shebs stanshebs@earthlink.net wrote:
Among our thousands of editors, I'm sure there are a bunch who are also good graphic designers - do they know that we'd be interested in somebody volunteering to do a new design? Not to mention other professional designers who would leap at the chance to add "designed Wikipedia's overall look" to their resume, and would do the work gratis.
Actually no they didn't. The reaction was rather more hostile.
In fact, we should be able to announce the opportunity and then pick from several competitors - not every day that a graphic designer gets to do a makeover for one of the world's best-known websites.
Stan
We tried it. Given the response if I didn't know better I'd say you remarks were calculated to be undiplomatic.