A new logo, differing substantially from the community-established standards, has been installed on the French wikipedia. The person who created the logo felt that Jason's asking the community was inappropriate, and threatened to lead a fork of the project so that the French wikipedia would be under the complete control of Francophones.

His remarks included such phrases as "my frensh friends are angry" and "you want the war?"

Well, no, I don't want the war.

So, the new logo is installed for now. If a consensus develops among the speakers of French that it would be better to pursue a more harmonious logo with the world community, that'll be fine. I really don't care about the logo one way or the other.

Again, I am deeply saddened when I find the globally neutral spirit of our pursuit of knowledge without regard to barriers of any kind becomes entangled in what can only be called nationalism. But, I do not wish to fight. I only wish that the project move forward. It is the articles that matter, not us.

--Jimbo