Forwarding to Foundation list - this is being put as a trademark
question, not a technical question.
The question: is it allowable to translate the "Powered by MediaWiki"
and "A Wikimedia project" logos? Given the puzzle globe is routinely
translated ...
- d.
On 04/09/06, Steve Summit <scs(a)eskimo.com> wrote:
Rob Church wrote:
It is not technically possible to translate the
"powered by MediaWiki"
logo at present.
So many things that need to be parameterizable, so little time... :-)
I'm not from the Foundation, but I think that
translating the "powered
by MediaWiki" logo will lead to inconsistencies with other uses of the
software; that button brands all MediaWiki wikis, and should be kept
as such.
I'm not from the Foundation, either (and know less about it than
Rob does), but it seems to me that retaining the image part of
each image, and the names "Wikimedia" and "MediaWiki", and the
background shading and the text font and color and the overall
look and feel and everything, while changing only the words
"A ... project" and "Powered By" to proper translations in a
wiki's local language, ought to be perfectly acceptable (if it
was technically possible).
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