[Wikipedia-l] Congratulations are in order (an overlooked milestone)

[Tomer Chachamu]

On Sat, 19 Mar 2005 18:59:52 -0700, Mark Williamson <node.ue at gmail.com> wrote:
> http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Www.wikipedia.org_template/temp
> (preview of actual appearance:
> http://portal-test.mediawiki.org/extract2.php?template=Www.wikipedia.org_template/temp
> )
> 
> I have received mostly positive feedback for the minor design
> modifications I made. A comment regarding the Cyrillic version of the
> name used in the background: it is intentionally based on the
> Ukrainian version rather than the Russian version because at the
> moment Ukrainian is higher in the list of largest Wikipedias. For the
> same reason, the Hebrew name instead of the Yiddish name, the Arabic
> name instead of the Farsi or Urdu names, etc.

The background is far too heavy. Lighten it a bit, maybe leaving blank
space around the circle of languages.