[Wikipedia-l] Logo contest

[Steve Vertigum]

I agree with everything Shepherd Jim said below, and
Ill bet dollars to donuts that he agrees with me that
a minimum good faith effort at least should be made by
Erik (or someone with axs) to look over the logs and
check for any ip's using more than one username.

Soon renaming my 'French fries' to 'Wikifries,'
-S-

--- Jimmy Wales <jwales at bomis.com> wrote:
> 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


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