[Foundation-l] January 15 retro?

Lodewijk lodewijk at effeietsanders.org
Thu Jan 6 00:43:36 UTC 2011


Changing it on one date doesn't exclude changing it again on another. I dont
know if that is a common concept around the world, but if I can find an
excuse to party twice for the same thing, I want to do that!

Lodewijk

2011/1/6 MZMcBride <z at mzmcbride.com>

> Lodewijk wrote:
> > wouldn't it be nice to change the logo of Wikipedia on January 15th back
> for
> > one day to those old logo's? Give people a retro feeling? (would love to
> see
> > enwiki go back to the american flag, but perhaps the round text logo
> would
> > lead to less overload of the OTRS queues) How can these logo's be changed
> if
> > there is a wish to do so? It used to be possible through Wiki.png, but
> that
> > is no longer the case.
>
> I'm not sure why any other Wikipedia besides the English Wikipedia would
> want to change their logo on January 15. The other Wikipedias weren't
> started on that date, so they have nothing to celebrate or commemorate.
> Perhaps they'd want to change their logos on their own birthdays or
> decennials.
>
> I believe it's still possible to change the logo by changing
> "File:Wiki.png"
> on certain Wikimedia wikis. Check the configuration files at
> noc.wikimedia.org.
>
> MZMcBride
>
>
>
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