Forwarding to Foundation list - this is being put as a trademark question, not a technical question.
The question: is it allowable to translate the "Powered by MediaWiki" and "A Wikimedia project" logos? Given the puzzle globe is routinely translated ...
- d.
On 04/09/06, Steve Summit scs@eskimo.com wrote:
Rob Church wrote:
It is not technically possible to translate the "powered by MediaWiki" logo at present.
So many things that need to be parameterizable, so little time... :-)
I'm not from the Foundation, but I think that translating the "powered by MediaWiki" logo will lead to inconsistencies with other uses of the software; that button brands all MediaWiki wikis, and should be kept as such.
I'm not from the Foundation, either (and know less about it than Rob does), but it seems to me that retaining the image part of each image, and the names "Wikimedia" and "MediaWiki", and the background shading and the text font and color and the overall look and feel and everything, while changing only the words "A ... project" and "Powered By" to proper translations in a wiki's local language, ought to be perfectly acceptable (if it was technically possible).
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