[Foundation-l] What is on the back of the logo?

[mboverload]

Talk about the most awesome screensaver ever.

It just occurred to me that the Wikipedia logo looks like a deathstar under
construction. Does this mean something?  =()


On Sun, Jul 27, 2008 at 2:49 AM, Brian McNeil
<brian.mcneil at wikinewsie.org>wrote:

> I will be very interested to see a completed 3D Wikipedia globe, and one
> thought strikes me - Wikipedia T shirts would be able to show front and
> back.
>
>
> Brian McNeil
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: foundation-l-bounces at lists.wikimedia.org
> [mailto:foundation-l-bounces at lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Gerard
> Meijssen
> Sent: 25 July 2008 01:58
> To: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List
> Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] What is on the back of the logo?
>
> Hoi,
> Sign languages are discreet languages and SignWriting allows you to write
> them. There are MANY sign
> languages<http://www.ethnologue.com/show_family.asp?subid=90008>and
> there is no way of knowing if this sign exist in any of the 120 othe
> sign languages and what it means if it exists.
>
> As to likelyhood to sharing the same sign, American and Danish Sign
> Language
> have their base in the French Sign Language. British Sign Language on the
> other hand does not.  I have heard that for really specialised terminology
> many signlanguages share the same sign.
>
> NB the reason for choosing ASL is, that they have a request for a WIkipedia
> and they hope to show no sooner then October how to make this a reality.
> Thanks,
>        GerardM
>
> On Fri, Jul 25, 2008 at 1:47 AM, Andrew Gray <andrew.gray at dunelm.org.uk>
> wrote:
>
> > 2008/7/25 Gerard Meijssen <gerard.meijssen at gmail.com>:
> > > Hoi,
> > > I have been told that the top part of the sign can be removed as this
> > > combination of signs is rare and is likely to be understood to be word.
> > The
> > > top part indicates movement and position. So for a big image, it can be
> > the
> > > complete sign and for a small ball the subset suffices.
> >
> > The other question... I understand there's a degree of mutual
> > intelligibility between various sign languages, usually at the simpler
> > end of things, but varying heavily by language and various factors;
> > and that signwriting can (at least in theory) represent pretty much
> > any sign language. Is this an ASL-specific sign, or would it be
> > understood by, say, an NZSL or BSL reader?
> >
> > We probably want to make sure we don't accidentally put up the symbol
> > for "lies" in another sign language ;-)
> >
> > --
> > - Andrew Gray
> >  andrew.gray at dunelm.org.uk
> >
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