Erik Moeller wrote:
What was missing was a good overview of the pros and cons of each logo. This has technical reasons -- with the pages already very big and over 130 submissions, discussions had to be relegated to relatively hidden talk pages. I'm not very happy with this, because I believe in the principle of *informed* democracy.
Yes, I agree entirely with this. I think the winner got so many votes because it incorporates words in many languages, which probably appealed to people because it looks "international". But this excessive text is *exactly* what makes it a terrible logo - it doesn't scale down and the filesize is TOO BIG for the web.