[WikiEN-l] Autograph pages

[David Gerard]

On 07/03/07, Aude <audevivere at gmail.com> wrote:

> Smartie960's user page has this bouncing Wikipedia logo, which clicking on
> takes you to Special:Random.
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Bouncywikilogo.gif
> I know the logo is copyrighted, but I suppose people can put it on their
> userpage?  I find it distracting in this case, but since apparently a number
> of other users put it on their user pages then it's okay?


Put it this way: the risk of the Foundation suing is 0.

And apparently the strident enforcement of the visual identity
guidelines only applies to the Wikimedia Foundation logo, not the
actual fourth-best brand in the world. So that's all right then.


- d.