The new logo has been ratified by all Wikipedias. I have asked Paullusmagnus (the designer) to make the final modifications he deems necessary in accordance with the requests of various people who have made comments and will then replace the logos on the servers. I have asked him to create three different additional variants of the subtitle "Wikipedia", namely French, Latin and Esperanto. (I personally think it's very bad that the name is different in these languages. Many people have expressed a strong desire to keep the differences, though.) Further language variants may be designed as needed.
In the past weeks, substantially different implementations and variations of the same logo concept have been created. Please take a look at them at
http://meta.wikipedia.org/wiki/Final_logo_variants
I believe Nohat's variants are especially noteworthy. However, these are not the logos people have voted for and it is doubtful that consensus can be reached to use one of them instead of the current one. I will be happy to be proven wrong here and encourage informal opinion polls in the next weeks to figure out how people feel about these logos.
Failing consensus, given the current voter fatigue, I suggest revisiting the issue one or two months from now. This gives us enough time to work on new and exciting variants, and at that point, we may decide to hold another vote on whether we want to replace the current concept implementation or keep it. I hereby resign my role as contest coordinator, as the original contest is finished, but will provide assistance if necessary for any new vote.
Regards,
Erik
--- Erik Moeller erik_moeller@gmx.de wrote:
Failing consensus, given the current voter fatigue, I suggest revisiting the issue one or two months from now. This gives us enough time to work on new and exciting variants, and at that point, we may decide to hold another vote on whether we want to replace the current concept implementation or keep it. I hereby resign my role as contest coordinator, as the original contest is finished, but will provide assistance if necessary for any new vote.
Its also possible that we can put a nice new one up anyway, and take a complaint/compliment ratio--which of course is all a part of a "process" and is not "voting." I dont think that people would regard gradual improvements as being
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--- Erik Moeller erik_moeller@gmx.de wrote:
Its also possible that we can put a nice new one up anyway, and take a complaint/compliment ratio--which of course is all a part of a "process" and is not "voting." I dont think that people would regard gradual improvements as being alterations of their vote.
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On 01 Oct 2003 22:54:00 +0200, Erik Moeller erik_moeller@gmx.de gave utterance to the following:
http://meta.wikipedia.org/wiki/Final_logo_variants
I believe Nohat's variants are especially noteworthy. However, these are not the logos people have voted for and it is doubtful that consensus can be reached to use one of them instead of the current one. I will be happy to be proven wrong here and encourage informal opinion polls in the next weeks to figure out how people feel about these logos.
I think that combining Nohat's first variant with one glyph per piece and Stevertigo's yellow-oriented colour scheme would actually look quite acceptable (negative imagery of the jigsaw concept notwithstanding) I'd love to see the home page in that more professional lookign colour scheme, and not so much like a baby nursery.
Erik Moeller wrote:
In the past weeks, substantially different implementations and variations of the same logo concept have been created. Please take a look at them at
http://meta.wikipedia.org/wiki/Final_logo_variants
I believe Nohat's variants are especially noteworthy.
Wow! I would have given the PM original a negative number if this was possible, but I really like some of the variants on that page. Especially the b/w ones, but anything is better than the pastel colours from the main page.
Thanks Erik for organizing.
Kurt
Erik Moeller wrote :
The new logo has been ratified by all Wikipedias.
Hebrew, Interlingua, Inukitut and Romanian people all vote against this ratification. Theirs opinions don't care just because they are less than 10 !? For english wikipedia we have 46% of people against this ratification. Don't you think there is a problem ??
Aoineko
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