[Wikipedia-l] New logo and further process

[Tomasz Wegrzanowski]

On Fri, Sep 26, 2003 at 11:36:01AM +0300, Gutza wrote:
> Richard Grevers wrote:
> 
> >Yay - months of process and what do we get? The worst result - the 
> >logo that has the biggest technical problems in terms of reproduction 
> >in other media. Its greyscale version is incredibly unclear because it 
> >is far too busy.
> >You just doubled or tripled the cost of Wikimedia letterhead, folks, 
> >so everyone who voted for it had better donate extra.
> 
> Plus it's horrible. No offence to anyone, the thing already won, so it's 
> not a matter of offending the author anymore, but that logo stinks big 
> time. If this is democracy in action, imagine running a country this way.

OK, we've seen voting in action twice - first with article count reform,
now with a logo. And both times with a horrible results. If anyone wasn't
convinced that voting is bad, he can definitely see it now. So can we stop
making decisions this way now ?