Mark Williamson wrote:
The general Romanian dislike for anything perceived as Russian, including the Cyrillic alphabet, can also be seen on Wikipedia: even in their logo, they replaced the Cyrillic letter on the globe with a Romanian-Latin alphabet letter, something which no other Wikipedia has done. When they first did this, the font was really messed up for the text, so I just uploaded a new Romanian logo with the Cyrillic letter. That caused a lot of upset, though, and it ended up at the old logo. Now, imagine the upset if the entire WP had a button on-site to convert it into Cyrillic.
That seems particularly bizarre and directly contrary to the spirit of both Wikipedia as a project in general and the design of the logo in particular. I mean, despite often rocky Chinese-Japanese cultural relations, the Chinese Wikipedia hasn't removed the Katakana character visible in the logo or anything, and it would be pretty strange and provocative if they did.
-Mark