Since youre here Anthere,
Yes ?
Maybe I can axe you a couple questions... I actually like the idea of merging ideas and such with two winning logo desigs merging to make something better, but Im not sure that the way whats his name has been going about it is bordering on --well being rude and whatnot.
Oliezekat is his name. We call him Kat
Besides, just throwing a toony 7th place ant on a winning (and shaping up) 1st place logo, only makes the ant look like something we should stomp on.
I see that people feel that way. But the ant escaped me a long time ago. I don't know what toony means. It is not in the dictionnary.
But I also like the ant as a concept animal -- for a mascot probably even more than I like the Wikipede -- which was a clever play on the wikipedia name, but doesnt necessarily mean anything internationally. I mention on the Wikipedie bio that the only reason he looks cute at all is because he only has six appendages instead of a hundred. In that silly sense, the Wikipedia is less of a centipede than it is an
ant
anyway.
I like your wikipede very much. I have no problem finding cute a animal with 100 appendages :-) (in truth, it is rather about 30 I think). I think both could be mascot, but I also think both would not be great mascots, because both animals are insects, and insects tend not to be liked by many people. I know the ant is a bit scarry to some people (I think Angela mentionned it) and probably the wikipede as well. Very few insects are well perceived.
I do not feel entirely favorable in truth, to a mascot idea. I do not need that to focus on the concept :) A great idea imho, is the blown dandelion fruit, used on our dictionnaries, representing the dispersion of the seeds of knowledge.
Flowers carry concepts very well. Even cactii :-)
But what I really want to know --this sort of cheezy way of trying to curvumvent the voting process on the mascot--- Is this just a case of 'pushy French attitude' ;) or am I missing something?
Cheezy ? Lol. Our cheese are culturally different Steve.
It would be best not to generalize I think. Unless you want me to pick up one american wikipedian to generalize a specific type of widely-considered typical american attitude.
Perhaps, two people are not enough to make hasty generalization over a whole population. And perhaps also, here, only pushy people may survive and get somewhere.
But, yeah, that is pushy :-) I agree.
See the bright side of him : a strong desire of involvement. A willingness to strengthen communities ties. Enthousiam !
Usually americans are the pushy ones, french more attentists and diplomatic. Perhaps here, the french are the pushy ones, and unable to be diplomatic. Though, on that whole matter, I think more than one person lost hir diplomacy.
I don't like spoiling fun others are having. Users will choose in the end. And being neither diplomatic nor ambassador, it is not mine to say things :-)
What would you suggest doing Steve ?
Culturally illiterate, -S-
So do I
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