[Wikipedia-l] Logo contest

[Jimmy Wales]

To date, the logo contest has been a strictly volunteer and ad hoc
effort with Erik leading the way to create a fair and open process.
Yes, there have been some problems, but in my opinion, the problems
are much overblown considering the excellence of all of the top
contenders.

It looks like some specific decisions are going to have to be made,
and in a timely fashion, and so I'm hereby officially authorizing Erik
to make structural adjustments to the contest as necessary and in the
spirit of openness as much as is feasible, so that we can come to a
quick resolution that we can all support.

When there are irreconcilable quarrels, it comes down to me making a
final decision of some sort, but I don't really have the time or
energy to mediate this one, and Erik's done a good job of it so far.

Erik knows to treat everyone with respect and to try to make decisions
that will be popular and reasonable.  Since he's spearheaded the whole
voting thing, and since he knows the details of what's going on, we
can all trust him to do the right thing all around.

--Jimbo