wait, what do you mean by "new local associations"? If you mean regional Wikipedia groups in France and elsewhere in the French-speaking world... http://br.wikipedia.org/ http://oc.wikipedia.org/ http://wa.wikipedia.org/ http://ca.wikipedia.org/ http://als.wikipedia.org/ http://lu.wikipedia.org/ http://ht.wikipedia.org/ http://mg.wikipedia.org/ ...and other languages spoken along with French in parts of the Francophonie (I'm not sure what else I should add to the list) Many smaller Wikipedias have a problem with awareness, and those capable of editing them may be editing a different Wikipedia in complete ignorance of their existance. mark On Sun, 31 Oct 2004 18:39:12 -0700, Mark Williamson <node.ue(a)gmail.com> wrote: >I have no problem with halloween decorations, but is it even >widespread in France, other than perhaps due to recent >internationalism? > >I know that in the US, many people find halloween offensive because >they believe it's satanic (ha!), and for that reason I would not >advocate using a halloween theme on en.wikipedia; however this might >be different in the francophonie. > >mw > > > >On Sun, 31 Oct 2004 11:34:38 -0800 (PST), Anthere <anthere9(a)yahoo.com> wrote: > >>Two years ago, the french wikipedia celebrated its >>upgrading on phase III software. >>We spent the day hunting bugs, fixing user accounts >>and generally making everything work again. >> >>Two years later, we celebrate a rather happy time. >> >>Little vandalism, no conflict, nearly 60 000 articles, >>new local associations, as well as pumpkins and >>cooking art on >> >>http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recettes_du_mois#Octobre_2004 >> >>(for all those complaining, we also celebrate >>Christmas, end of Ramadan, Carnaval and any other nice >>special days you can think of) >> >>Happy Halloween to Kira as well ;-) >> >>__________________________________ >>Do you Yahoo!? >>Yahoo! Mail Address AutoComplete - You start. We finish. >>http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail >>_______________________________________________ >>Wikipedia-l mailing list >>Wikipedia-l(a)Wikimedia.org >>http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikipedia-l >> >

Sure, but even a couple of new users are appreciated.

As for the logos - perhaps most of the challengers are concerned because it goes against their own POV, and when their own POV is included as well, they are silenced. However this is hardly NPOV. anyhow, I personally think that, POV or not, it is harmless and basically a non-issue until there are large organisations accusing fr.wikipedia of worshipping Satan or something rediculous like that because of this. --mark