[Foundation-l] Wikipedia Logo - errors

quiddity blanketfort at gmail.com
Wed Jun 27 08:01:34 UTC 2007


On 6/26/07, phoebe ayers <phoebe.wiki at gmail.com> wrote:
...
> Incidentally: There is a version of the logo on meta w/ English text that
> has the accent error described removed:
> http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/meta/9/91/Nohat-logo-XI-big-text.png
> Is there some reason we're not using that on the actual site, instead of the
> old one?

See also:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Wikipedia-logo_thue.png
as pointed out just today at
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Ambuj.Saxena/Wikipedia-logo#All_the_related_discussion_links

and as I said June 16:
> Most languages use the original image as a base, with the obvious
> accent errors. http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Nohat-Wiki-logo-2.png
> however a handful of languages use the newer image, which has the
> accent errors removed.
> http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Wikipedia-logo.png
> See the list at http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia
>
> So we're inconsistent too.

e.g. in these languages:
http://ar.wikipedia.org/
http://am.wikipedia.org/
http://lt.wikipedia.org/
etc



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