From: Daniel Ehrenberg littledanehren@yahoo.com Subject: [WikiEN-l] Mascot (re)vote

I propose that we have a mascot vote similar to the logo vote, possibly (but not necessarily) starting over. The current mascot frontrunner (the centepede) was voted over the course of six months, but not many people have voted for any of the mascots the mascots (at least compared to the logo vote). Many people voted before the Miwiki project was started and didn't see how well it would turn out.

We don't need to start all over for the mascots, we just need to publicize it more to get more entries and, more importantly, more votes. When voting on variants for the elected logo, it seems that Mav vetoed all miwiki variants because the centepede is winning by 3 votes (or was it for some other reason?). I don't think that's enough of a margin. I think that the mascot should be on the logo some way or another. I think to get more people to vote on the mascot, all we need to do is publicize it on the main page and set a deadline. If you don't want a mascot, that's fine, but then we need to say that we don't want a mascot and not have this ongoing vote. LDan

My feeling over that mail

1. People are really tired of voting right now

2. I think we really have more urgent issues right now. Actually, the little speed that we could gain from *not* uploading mascot testing images would be valuable for some of us.

3. You suggest that the mascot should be included to the logo, while at the same time ml is buzzing about complaints of people who already find the logo too complicated

4. Several people are getting active in trying to find a way to have a multilingual democracy, and suggest that for example, discussions are held in several languages. I can't help putting this in perspective that very few wikipedias have translated the instructions for the current vote. Between the first and the second vote, I had to correct about 10 french votes, mostly because people who did not understand how to vote, did not set their meta user page properly, along the guidelines. And this was an easy vote. Choice on pictures only. Note though that most discussions on logos pages were held in english. Not translated. Any other multilingual votes will really require more effort of multilingual translations and discussions.

As Tarquin suggested, we should have had guidelines of size, weight... If we learn from this, we should do the same for the mascot Then all the guidelines must be translated.

What do I see that you propose here ?

A vote suggestion On an english page With the suggestion of advertisement on the english main page Suggestion made on the english mailing list

Apologies for not being very enthousiastic right now. Please come back in 3 months Dan :-)

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