[Wikipedia-l] logo - I will be bold

[Steve Vertigum]

I dont think its all that much of a mess -- so much to
blame Erik.  It is a mess, though and there are some
lessons to be sifted from all of this -- but I think
for the most part -- as a preliminary round sort of
thing, I think its gone fairly well. Only one will win
out, and it looks like the puzzle concept is by far
the strongest, all around.  It looked like a winner
from the beginning, and it still looks that way
(though its way too damn busy and cluttered as it is).

All in all, the next time a big vote comes around,
there needs to be *radiobutton and cgi-counted votes -
*excluding repeat IPs *standard time deadlines
--*votes on the deadlines - not just a day or twos
discussion.

All is well that doesnt fall on your head at
4km/second.
-S-

--- Anthere <anthere6 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Erik,
> 
> I am a bit disturbed
> 
> You started the new logo contest. You made the
> pages,
> you set the rules. Some people are following all the
> cheating that is occurring along, and you have no
> reaction whatsoever. A certain degree of cheating is
> no big deal, but to my opinion, there are limits. I
> think as the organizer of the contest, you could at
> least react to some of the worse irregularities.
> Right
> now, anyone can vote under an ip, anyone can vote
> without anyone knowing them, anyone can replace the
> logo of someone else by his, in particular in the
> top
> 10. And perhaps a logo which was in the top 10
> before
> being replaced by another won't be in the top 10
> anymore, just because someone had fun replacing that
> top 10 logo.
> 
> And there are no reactions whatsoever.
> 
> The logo issue in itself is not important. But
> again,
> this case is an experiment. It is the experiment of
> how of whole organization could work together with a
> common decision process. With respect and honesty
> toward those who created the artwork, and respect
> and
> honesty toward those who came to vote, and have the
> belief we are all sharing something.
> 
> User:Kat left a couple of days ago, because too
> disgusted by the decision process on the en wiki,
> among other things. Right now, at wikipedia-wide
> level, community does not scale either. I think any
> of
> the international votes are important because they
> are
> big scale experiment of how a "big" community could
> take decisions together.
> 
> If we are so careless with these kind of decisions,
> I
> see not why we would be better with more important
> decisions. What is occuring is reflecting a broken
> organisation.
> 
> Since no one reacted except Olie himself, I will be
> bold. Whatever the outcome of the logo contest, if
> logo 124 is not in the top 10, there will be 11
> logos
> in the top 10.
> 
> And I also think the next international vote will
> need
> to be much better organised.
> 
> 
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