On 6/20/05, Delphine Ménard notafishz@gmail.com wrote:
Yes, the logo is, as SJ said, a mutant anyway. :-)
--Jimbo
OK, I am fishing this from the dead zone. I just realized my "Erik, please can you get rid of the logo?" sent after Jimbo's comment had been sent to Jimbo only, unfortunately.
I wouldn't mind seeing more non-mutant logos around, particularly if they have little to do with other wiki[mp]edia logos. For fun and great justice. I was pleased when the barnstar subproject started multiplying the collection of awardable icons, and when the template subprojects started adding little icons to identify their templates. Anything that improves readability and consistency across a subproject is scalably excellent in my book.
I will therefore re-state my point. The research team, as I understand it, is somewhat part of the board. I do not understand, and do not
As I understand it, the research tea^B^B^Bnetwork is not at all part of the board. Nor is it innately more or less authoritative as a network than any of the less-visible groups that discuss and work on Wikimedia research. However, it is being actively mentored and promoted by Erik, which makes this network more visible, and in ways more effective, than other related networks. None of this has to do with the board.
Erik's research position *is* officially granted by the board -- both a recognition of his interests and work to date, and a request for him to keep on top of research efforts in the community. His own words were that, in light of both this recognition and this burden, he is focusing his effort on this network (rather than other projects of interest); which focus I hope will bear great fruit. But, you know, it's just another project with its own logo dreams.
If you /really/ want to protest, perhaps we should create some more projects with their own logos, just for the design challenge. A Wikimon logo, maybe. Or a [[m:Press Corps]] or [[w:POTD]] logo, to make into stickers for one's camera-bag. Perhaps a [[w:Wikipedia:WikiProject]] logo to spice up the hundreds of wikiproject pages...
+SJ+