[Foundation-l] Swedish Wikipedians removes Wikimedia logos

John Vandenberg jayvdb at gmail.com
Tue Mar 30 06:25:13 UTC 2010


2010/3/30 Delphine Ménard <notafishz at gmail.com>:
> ...
> This means that Wikimedia logos are now _not used_ in the Swedish
> Wikipedia to illustrate articles on the Wikimedia projects, I suppose.
> Right?
>
> But as I understood Lennart's first email, I think that sv Wikipedia
> also has decided not to use the logos even on internal navigation
> templates and such to link/identify other Wikimedia projects, right?

That is correct.
e.g.
http://sv.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?diff=11402949&oldid=11192788

> What about the top left corner of every page, has it also been decided
> that the Wikipedia logo used to identify the website should go too?

That is the website UI, which is not content.  They could say that the
UI should also be completely "free" of copyrighted works.  IMO that
would be going overboard.

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John Vandenberg



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