On 5/27/06, Erik Moeller <eloquence@gmail.com> wrote:
I'm glad that Wikisource finally got rid of the iceberg photo. It was
never a logo. I always saw it as a placeholder, nothing more.
Unfortunately, the stagnant situation was caused, from what I have
observed, by a small but vocal group of users who know very little
about design or identity, but who "liked" the iceberg photo and fought
tooth and nail to defend it. This is apparently the reason why the
best that could be done is a stylized version of the very same
iceberg. Oh well.
That's not completely accurate. The reason the stylized logo is the best that could be done is more related to the fact that no one who wants to change the logo has actually completely followed through in setting up a method to change it, in whatever form that may be--vote, debate, etc. Many of the users who like (or don't dislike) the current logo don't have the motivation to go through and change it (we've got other interests and projects were more motivated to do), and those who try to change it give up fairly quickly and early on in the procedure, thus leaving two failed attempts to change the logo.
It's not so much that the current logo was successfully defended by a "small but vocal group of users who know very little about design or identity" as it was that it was unsuccessfully opposed by a group of users who *do* know about design and identity.