[Foundation-l] The Chinese New Year Wikipedia Logo

Gerard Meijssen gerard.meijssen at gmail.com
Sat Feb 17 07:31:30 UTC 2007


Hoi,
I have always been in favour of pigs. They are intelligent animals.. 
They serve an interesting role in nature...
So the year of the pig has started :)
Thanks,
    GerardM

Sources:
    http://www.omegawiki.org/User:GerardM


Erik Moeller schreef:
> On 2/17/07, Łukasz Garczewski <lgarczewski at gmail.com> wrote:
>   
>> Obviously we will not change the logos on all the projects or even on
>> all the language versions of one project (say Wikipedia) for any given
>> occasion. If we allowed alternative logos, some would be altered, some
>> not. A mess.
>>     
>
> People will scream when it goes too far. It is pretty much
> self-regulating. Yes, it tends to be culture-centric and POV, but as
> long as it is generally considered non-offensive and non-divisive,
> that should not be a problem.
>
> To every rule, there can be an exception.
>
> I do appreciate being notified here beforehand, and I think that
> should be general practice. I might have been slightly surprised
> seeing a deeply red Chinese Wikipedia logo otherwise ..
>   




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