[Wikipedia-l] Re: Press release : Logo putsch on the French Wikipedia !

[Anthere]

Joyeuses fêtes sounds perfect for that matter...

That leaves the issue of the end of the Ramadan we missed...
But we can do just as in any wikipedia article. Information missing does 
not really make an article pov, it just makes it a work in progress.


Jimmy Wales a écrit:
> Well, that's fun!  Perhaps it would be more NPOV (is NPOV fun, though?
> ha ha) for it to say "Happy Holidays" if a similar phrase exists in
> French?  
> 
> 
> Anthere wrote:
> 
> 
>>This is an ugly copy (non html) of our last internal
>>press release. To be found on
>>http://en2.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia%3AAnnouncements
>>
>>---------
>>Press release : Logo putsch on the French Wikipedia !
>>
>>French Wikipedia always promoting novelty and fun :
>>Wikipedia-wide approved logo replaced by another, to
>>celebrate forthcoming Christmas event
>>
>>During the night between the 9th and the 10th of
>>december, the french logo was mysteriously changed,
>>and a new, very colourful and happy one now stands in
>>place.
>>
>>12 hours later, no reversion has been done yet to the
>>grayer version, much to the surprise of external
>>observers. User:Tim Starling reaction was to shake his
>>head; his comment on that lack of reaction was
>>"amazing".
>>The lack of reaction of french wikipedians might have
>>several explanations : it may be suggested that some
>>just did not notice. It may also be that french
>>wikipedians are all editing under cologne blue skin (a
>>statistician might be able to give more feed back on
>>this). User:Anthere also suggested that the old logo
>>might still be in the "cache" for most users.
>>
>>External observers reactions were diverse. Some
>>thought the new logo great. User:Angela commented
>>"That's so unfair! Fr have such a beuatiful logo for
>>Christmas and en still have the old boring white one."
>>She also asked "I hope it does stay. I love it. Do you
>>think there is any chance it would be allowed on en?".
>>
>>Some wondered why this logo appeared so early before
>>Christmas; however, some answered that Christmas fun
>>time was beginning just after Thanksgiving in the US,
>>and that Thanksgiving was now over. Other mentionned
>>the new logo might be POV, and wondered if french
>>Wikipedia had an equivalent logo during the Ramadan
>>(nde : the Ramadan just ended last week).
>>
>>Evidence shows the logo was uploaded by
>>w:fr:Utilisateur:Guillaume Bokiau, but it is yet
>>unclear how the official logo could be so easily
>>replaced without technical input. Some users
>>mentionned User:Brion VIBBER or User:Eloquence names,
>>as being likely to be involved in logo change issues.
>>Rumours also suggest that Guillaume could be the
>>author of the new logo as well, though this fact has
>>not been confirmed yet.
>>
>>ant 
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