Message: 6 Date: Mon, 8 Sep 2003 01:09:14 -0700 From: Daniel Mayer maveric149@yahoo.com Subject: [Wikipedia-l] Cheating on logo voting To: wikipedia-l@wikipedia.org Message-ID: 200309080109.14539.maveric149@yahoo.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"
Aoineko wrote:
If we must vote for a final logo (no change after
vote)
I think we really need a lot of variants and I think
1
week is very short to be able to create all them.
They already had an entire month to create variants silly!
--mav
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Silly ? :-)
I am not complaining below, nor asking any extension of deadlines, just stating facts.
People had one full month to create variants. In that full month, I have had a computer available for about 5 days, the first days of the contest, and the last days, just when I came back home.
During the first few days I was still online, I tried to design 3 logos. Of course, I could not do anything when away.
When I came back, I hurried to help with the press release, especially since I understood that at that point, 300 000 was planned to be about nowadays.
On the day I came back, I also found the french wiki in eruption because of a "problematic user". He had been ip-wide-range banned the very same day, and there was every reason to think he would be user-banned very soon. I do not support hard banning :-). Thanks for french users to let me try fixing things another way. That was kind. I spent hours going through all the reading material left during my big 3 weeks off (and my, have they been writing !), then to try to cool things down, to end up with an entire sleepless night fixing the most problematic article (now stable :-)).
In short, I had no time really trying to fix logos, except to introduce miwiki on them with Olie help.
I wrote to the original author of the book two times to get a high resolution version. After no answer, the second time,
I like very much the first version of the logo, with the face, the triangle and the 01011010 leaving the book, to melt in the background.
But I have no high res of it. So that logo can't be used for the contest. I am no graphist. I can try to do that myself, but it would take me a lot of time. And I doubt very much it will be nice in the end :-)
This week and next week, I have a very big deadline at work, and most of the available computer time will be on one computer with no adobe photoshop on it. Too old and junked. That was not planned. Hence, I won't be able to really make variants of the logo, in particular, to remake the initial version. Just to fix things.
If anyone feels motivated, just raise your hand (sorry, school time started again last week :-)); I will send you all the original versions I have, book, realistic ants, miwikis. I am sure Olie will try, but if anyone else feels interested, just say.
It is no big deal at all. I also am aware it can't be the winner, so I won't make a fuss on it. It was really nice to see that some people liked that logo anyway ;-)
That is just an echo to Mav comment. Yup, that is silly, but that is just the way it is. No big deal.
I also am glad Aoi is taking care of these matters, and hope everyone stays civil.
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