Guillaume-
Sorry, according to the discussion I read, I thought alternative logo
was
not welcome. I effectively saw many intresting variant of Paullus logo
(as
an example) on his own page, but they are not on the vote page. Do you planed to allow to vote on all those variant ?
This is not my decision, it is the artist's decision. He/she can choose up to 5 versions of each logo. But it would be unfair if anyone could simply bypass the first voting round and put anything they want on the final, limited ballot. Miwiki is among the finalists anyway -- if Olie wants Miwiki to be part of *other* logos than his own, he needs to convince the artists. Olie has made clear that this is OK with him, so I don't see a problem.
I didn't speak about submit whatever people want, but just propose alternative logo based on elected concept.
I just regret that the rules was not cleary defined before vote start
That's simply not true. The voting rules have all been on [[International logo vote]] before the vote started. I have been careful not to change any rules during voting.
I don't specially like to be treat as lier especially when I'm not ;o) When the vote begun, the rules of the second round didn't allowed variants. This (good) rule was add by you the 6th of september at 12:55 (to be precise). http://meta.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=International_logo_vote&dif... Imho, 4 variants is verry few, but perhaps no much varants may be produce until the deadline so it's not a problem.
and deadlines are so short.
Honestly, I don't think they are short. Just think about all the complaining you could do before the deadline even has elapsed! That alone shows it's long enough ;). As I said earlier: We can always work on optimizing the final logo.
Sure I had better to work hard on logo variants instead of speaking in the wind :o) But I didn't wanted to work on something I may be unable to submit, so I waited to much... In fact, Olie kindly released my idea that I will put on my own page over the logo :op
I don't undertand why the fact Olie tryed to make variant of all logo
with
his ant is a problem.
Some people perceive it as such. This has more to do with the logo/mascot distinction than with the contest as such. But if the artists accept the Miwiki variants, then they will be voted on like all other logos. For example, Paullusmagnus has accepted one Miwiki variant.
Paullus seem open to alternative idea. It's nice. Hope to see 5 variants of his logo.
Regards,
Erik
Aoineko