tarquin wrote:
Erik Moeller wrote:
The first voting stage for the new Wikipedia logo has begun:
http://meta.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_logo_vote
has begun. Please add your signature under up to 10 logos. The 10 logos with the highest number of votes will then enter the final voting stage. The deadline for the first stage is September 5, 20:00 UTC.
With over 130 logos and many variants we have lots of excellent candidates to choose from. Thanks to everyone who contributed!
please could you enforce a byte limit for the images displayed on the list pages. Some are STUPIDLY large, eg that one featuring some sort of rodent which I removed.
with a modem it takes about 5 minutes for them all to load. people should upload a smaller version ( < 30 k ?) or be disqualified
I don't know if removing them is the right course of action, or if the size limit should be imposed on the contributor. Postage stamp designers do not do their work on a postage stamp sized canvas.
Having the original work in a large file is preferable because it can be scaled down. In scaling up a small file we will not be able to provide missing detail. Trimming a contribution to 30k should be done by software. If a scaled down logo loses too much information, we probably shouldn't adopt it.
Ec