[Textbook-l] Wikiversity logo

[Michael R. Irwin]

Brianna Laugher wrote:

>Hello,
>
>1) Is there a wikiversity mailing list? If so, I couldn't find it at
>mail.wikipedia.org .
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Yes, there is:

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Wikiversity-l mailing list
Wikiversity-l at wikimedia.org
http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikiversity-l



>2) Is this in fact the official logo for Wikiversity?
>http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Wikiversity-logo.svg
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I do not know. There have been some logo contest rumblings so you might 
check with others at the mailing list or at the Colloquium: 
http://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/Wikiversity:Colloquium


>3) If so, whose fool idea was it to use a third-party LGPL icon as a
>logo (rather hard to subsume as {{CopyrightByWikimedia}} like the
>other project logos), and what is the status of this vote?
>http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikiversity/logo
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Looks like the voting process status is layed out. "In *phase 4*, which 
lasts from 16 October 
<http://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=October_16&action=edit> 
until 31 October 
<http://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=October_31&action=edit>, 
you can now determine the winning logo! *Vote for ONE logo only.* Please 
note that if the winning logo should happen to use Wikimedia colours or 
have blue as its most prominent colour, those colours *will have to be 
changed* afterwards to something which is okay with the Wikimedia 
Marketing Department."

Perhaps not so foolish. If the image is actually LGPL then it can be 
used without permission on the Wikimedia Foundation when people wish to 
publish GFDL'ed materials from Wikiversity ..... correct?

IIRC it took months/years for the Wikibooks people to sort out how to go 
about publishing a Wiki Junior book due to trademark and logo issues 
surrounding the "Wikibooks" trademark and logo.

If you find out the status of the vote after 31 October 06 please be 
sure to let us know at the Wikiversity mailing list.

regards,
mirwin