Anthere wrote:

... I want us to take decisions together, to work deeply on that. Not to pretend working together, to be allowed at the last step to be sessionnists. ...

I agree 100% with you Anthere! We had a Wikipedia-wide vote for a Wikipedia-wide logo and we should stick with that (making improvements, of course). We need one logo for Wikipedia for instant recognition - no matter what language.

However, the idea of ratification does seem interesting, but in a different way; if a certain percentage of Wikipedias do not ratify the logo, then it is not adopted Wikipedia-wide and we are stuck with our old logos again and probably a new logo contest (simple up or down votes on the concept with no amendments or changes).

But a no vote would not mean that that Wikipedia version would be free to have whatever logo it wants. However, I'm sure a super majority (75% of all Wikipedia versions) will give the concept an up vote. That would mean that the logo will be adopted Wikipedia-wide as soon as it is improved enough to garner a majority yes vote.

-- Daniel Mayer (aka mav)