[Foundation-l] Fwd: [Wikipedia-l] Please HELP save Wikipedia history ! (urgent)

[Chad]

On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 4:47 PM, David Gerard <dgerard at gmail.com> wrote:
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> From: Florence Devouard <Anthere9 at yahoo.com>
> Date: 19 February 2010 21:19
> Subject: [Wikipedia-l] Please HELP save Wikipedia history ! (urgent)
> To: wikipedia-l at lists.wikimedia.org
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> An editor on META is having the crazy idea of tagging all historical
> logo propositions made during the Wikipedia logo contest back in 2003
> with a template
>
> "This image has no license information attached to it. This means that
> it has an unknown copyright status. Unless the copyright status is
> provided and a license is given, the image will be deleted one week
> after this template was added."
>
>        Example:http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:EloquenceSunflowerBlue-Small.png
>
>
>
> Please help save Wikipedia history and weight in to avoid all those
> images being deleted. We are reaching the limits of non sense.
>
>
> Ant
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I know the actual logos are trademarked, but the proposals aren't. If
these are creations by Wikimedians, then hopefully they are under a
free license. They should be uploaded to Commons and organized, if
so!

-Chad