Re: [Foundation-l] Spectrum of views (was Re: Sexual Imagery on Commons: where the discussion is happening)

2010-05-14 Thread Jussi-Ville Heiskanen
Elias Gabriel Amaral da Silva wrote:
 2010/5/13 Jussi-Ville Heiskanen cimonav...@gmail.com:
   
 Samuel Klein wrote:
 
 I agree strongly with this.  You are right to point out the connection
 to improving BLP policies -- we should be much more careful to
 confirming model rights for people in any potentially exploitative or
 embarrassing photos.

 Such ideas have been around for a long time.  What are the arguments
 against implementing stronger requirements for images of people?

   
 Not an argument as such, but I would imagine that
 with regard to amateur photography of all sorts, in
 the long term the main effect would be to educate
 them in the correct practices of model rights. After
 all I would expect that amateur photographers would
 not really have great difficulty in obtaining model
 rights, once they know that is a requirement.
 

 Why just amateur photos? Professional should respect model rights as
 much as amateur photos.

   
I think my unwritten assumption was that amateurs
might not in all cases know what is required, but
professionals do -- as a default; the professionals who
don't, not deserving the name.


   
 None of these is an argument against, as such, just
 pointing out some of the ramifications that might
 follow. My guess is that after a lot of existing images
 were removed, the ratio of new images uploaded would
 infact be skewed *in* *favor* of amateur images,
 rather than *against*. I could be wrong of course.
 

 Interesting. Why do you think so?

   

I think deep down it comes down to the profit
motive. Enthusiasts rarely are governed by it,
so they give freely. I would imagine that if some
amateur photographer in the process of donating
their images learned more about model releases
and all that jazz, they would infact be grateful,
and more motivated than ever to pay forward for
the learning experience. Certainly it has been my
personal experience writing on wikipedia, that as
I learn more, the more I feel an obligation to pay
forward, for what I have recieved.


Yours,

Jussi-Ville Heiskanen


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Re: [Foundation-l] Along with Vector, a new look for changes to the Wikipedia identity

2010-05-14 Thread Robert Rohde
Some technical questions about the logo:

1)  What software was used in making the 3D model?
2)  Are the data files for that model available somewhere?  (Or will
they be made available?)
3)  The SVG files provided appear to be based on painted wire frames
rather than true 3D renderings.  This makes the files more easily
scalable (and more compatible with SVG in general), but it also makes
the sensation of depth less realistic.  Is this a deliberate choice,
and if so, why?

-Robert Rohde

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[Foundation-l] Fwd: [Commons-l] [POTY2009] Votin Round 1 now open

2010-05-14 Thread Kanonkas
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From: miya narniancat.m...@gmail.com
Date: 2010/5/14
Subject: [Commons-l] [POTY2009] Votin Round 1 now open
To: common...@lists.wikimedia.org


Dear Wikimedians,

Wikimedia Commons is happy to announce that it has now
opened the 2009 Wikimedia Commons Picture of the Year competition.

Any user registered at a Wikimedia wiki since 2009 or before
with more than 200 edits before 16 January 2010 (UTC) is welcome to vote.

Nearly 900 images that have been rated Featured Pictures
by the international Wikimedia Commons community in the past year
are fighting to impress the highest number of voters. From
professional animal and plants shots, over breathtaking
panoramas and skylines, restorations of historically relevant images,
images portraying world's best architecture, maps, emblems and diagrams
created with the most modern technology and impressing human portrays,
Commons features pictures for all flavours.

Two rounds of voting will be held:
In the first round, you can vote for as many images as you like.
In the final round, when about 20 images are left, you must decide
for one image to become the Picture of the Year.

Check your eligibility now
http://toolserver.org/~pathoschild/accounteligibility/?user=wiki=event=9http://toolserver.org/%7Epathoschild/accounteligibility/?user=wiki=event=9
and if you're allowed to vote, you may use one of your accounts for the
voting.

In Round 1 we have sorted the images into topic categories for your
convenience.
Feel free to vote for as many images as you like,
there's no limit in vote numbers in Round 1.
The Round 1 category winners and the top 10 overall will then make it to the
final.

We're now interested in your opinion which images qualify
for being the Picture of the Year 2009.

Thanks,

Wikimedia Commons Picture of the Year committee
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Picture_of_the_Year/2009

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Re: [Foundation-l] Legal requirements for sexual content -- help, please!

2010-05-14 Thread Jussi-Ville Heiskanen
Jussi-Ville Heiskanen wrote:
 Nathan wrote:
 On Thu, May 13, 2010 at 10:14 PM, Gregory Maxwell gmaxw...@gmail.com wrote:

   
 The obligation to protect people against an invasion of their privacy
 is not limited to, or even mostly applicable to sexual images.
 Although sexual images are one of several most important cases, the
 moral imperative to respect the privacy of private individuals exists
 everywhere.

 As such, Commons has a specific policy on this:

 http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Photographs_of_identifiable_people#Photographs_taken_in_a_private_place

 


 Not much of a policy, in my opinion. A general statement of principle,
 with no mechanism of enforcement, doesn't have much impact on the
 state of things. We don't require evidence of release, but we should.
 And in the case of explicit content, we should require that release
 even if the photograph is taken in a public place. Topless sunbathing
 on a beach in Nice is not the same as a worldwide license for
 unlimited publicity.

 
I may have said it before -- and I do apologize if I sound
like a record stuck into repeating the same groove again
and again -- but the issue in cases like that *decidedly*
isn't the explicitness of the image, but the _privacy_
_violation_.

It may be that here again the ugly head of my Nordic
liberal values may be rising above the parapet, but I
do not consider a female of the species enjoying the
sun without incurring tan-lines to their upper torso
as remotely explicit in any sensible sense of the
word -- any more than I would consider explicit an
image of a woman breastfeeding her one year old baby.

Though I do recognize the sentiment that people who
have very few opportunities to see womens breasts in
the flesh, might feel otherwise. I forget who it was
in relation to a campus ban on shows of affection, that
said Kissing in public in front of lonely people is like
eating a hamburger in front of people on the point of
starvation. -- or words to that effect.

So to recap, I wouldn't support a selective standard only
applied to explicit images, no matter how defined.


Yours,

Jussi-Ville Heiskanen



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Re: [Foundation-l] Along with Vector, a new look for changes to the Wikipedia identity

2010-05-14 Thread Nikola Smolenski
Robert Rohde wrote:
 Myself and several other people find the new Wikipedia logo to be
 rather disappointing.  Specifically it seems too small (lots of empty
 white space), and the edges of the puzzle pieces lack definition when
 shown at the web scale.  For a discussion of this, including possible
 tweaks to make it bolder, see:
 
 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_%28technical%29#New_logo

I have to say I agree. Another bad thing I don't see mentioned is gray 
on gray syndrome - dark gray letters on light gray background make for a 
very bland logo, and I believe this would be especially bad in print.

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Re: [Foundation-l] Legal requirements for sexual content -- help, please!

2010-05-14 Thread Andreas Kolbe
Someone uploading a nude picture of their ex-girlfriend can be far more 
injurious to the woman concerned than the same person uploading an image of her 
making tea.

Requiring an OTRS release from the model for any nude and sexually explicit 
content seems appropriate to me.

Andreas



--- On Fri, 14/5/10, Jussi-Ville Heiskanen cimonav...@gmail.com wrote:

 From: Jussi-Ville Heiskanen cimonav...@gmail.com
 Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] Legal requirements for sexual content -- help, 
 please!
 To: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org
 Date: Friday, 14 May, 2010, 10:36
 Jussi-Ville Heiskanen wrote:
  Nathan wrote:
  On Thu, May 13, 2010 at 10:14 PM, Gregory Maxwell
 gmaxw...@gmail.com
 wrote:
 
    
  The obligation to protect people against an
 invasion of their privacy
  is not limited to, or even mostly applicable
 to sexual images.
  Although sexual images are one of several
 most important cases, the
  moral imperative to respect the privacy of
 private individuals exists
  everywhere.
 
  As such, Commons has a specific policy on
 this:
 
  http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Photographs_of_identifiable_people#Photographs_taken_in_a_private_place
 
      
 
 
  Not much of a policy, in my opinion. A general
 statement of principle,
  with no mechanism of enforcement, doesn't have
 much impact on the
  state of things. We don't require evidence of
 release, but we should.
  And in the case of explicit content, we should
 require that release
  even if the photograph is taken in a public place.
 Topless sunbathing
  on a beach in Nice is not the same as a worldwide
 license for
  unlimited publicity.
 
      
 I may have said it before -- and I do apologize if I sound
 like a record stuck into repeating the same groove again
 and again -- but the issue in cases like that *decidedly*
 isn't the explicitness of the image, but the _privacy_
 _violation_.
 
 It may be that here again the ugly head of my Nordic
 liberal values may be rising above the parapet, but I
 do not consider a female of the species enjoying the
 sun without incurring tan-lines to their upper torso
 as remotely explicit in any sensible sense of the
 word -- any more than I would consider explicit an
 image of a woman breastfeeding her one year old baby.
 
 Though I do recognize the sentiment that people who
 have very few opportunities to see womens breasts in
 the flesh, might feel otherwise. I forget who it was
 in relation to a campus ban on shows of affection, that
 said Kissing in public in front of lonely people is like
 eating a hamburger in front of people on the point of
 starvation. -- or words to that effect.
 
 So to recap, I wouldn't support a selective standard only
 applied to explicit images, no matter how defined.
 
 
 Yours,
 
 Jussi-Ville Heiskanen
 
 
 
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Re: [Foundation-l] Legal requirements for sexual content -- help, please!

2010-05-14 Thread Ilario Valdelli
On Fri, May 14, 2010 at 3:56 PM, Andreas Kolbe jayen...@yahoo.com wrote:
 Someone uploading a nude picture of their ex-girlfriend can be far more 
 injurious to the woman concerned than the same person uploading an image of 
 her making tea.

 Requiring an OTRS release from the model for any nude and sexually explicit 
 content seems appropriate to me.

 Andreas


Except the case that you make a photo of yourself. In this case the
OTRS ticket is not important like is not important in the point of
view of copyright.

In any case what means injurious? It can change in relation of the
cultural point of view but also in relation of the environment where
the photo has been made (i.e. a picture taken in a nudist beach cannot
be considered injurious).

Ilario

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Re: [Foundation-l] Legal requirements for sexual content -- help, please!

2010-05-14 Thread Nathan
On Fri, May 14, 2010 at 10:17 AM, Ilario Valdelli valde...@gmail.com wrote:
 Except the case that you make a photo of yourself. In this case the
 OTRS ticket is not important like is not important in the point of
 view of copyright.

 In any case what means injurious? It can change in relation of the
 cultural point of view but also in relation of the environment where
 the photo has been made (i.e. a picture taken in a nudist beach cannot
 be considered injurious).

 Ilario

It can't be? I think you (and Jussi-Ville) have a pretty narrow
concept of what might be injurious. If you release an image of
yourself to your friends, does that mean you'd be happy to see it on
the evening news? If you're tanning on the beach, is that permission
to have your image republished in a major feature film? Your argument
addresses what you believe the photographer should be allowed to do,
but ignores the potential for negative impact on the subject of the
photograph. That's pretty unfortunate.

Surely there is a way to meet educational goals without risking the
privacy or abuse of content subjects? There is tension between
cultural values, obviously, and some self-serving interpretation of
that tension (everyone seems to think they are being pressured to
abide by the values of the misguided), but there must be some middle
ground that allows for some minimal effective protection for people
who are not party to the armchair philosophical debate.

Nathan

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Re: [Foundation-l] Legal requirements for sexual content -- help, please!

2010-05-14 Thread Ilario Valdelli
On Fri, May 14, 2010 at 4:49 PM, Nathan nawr...@gmail.com wrote:
 On Fri, May 14, 2010 at 10:17 AM, Ilario Valdelli valde...@gmail.com wrote:
 Except the case that you make a photo of yourself. In this case the
 OTRS ticket is not important like is not important in the point of
 view of copyright.

 In any case what means injurious? It can change in relation of the
 cultural point of view but also in relation of the environment where
 the photo has been made (i.e. a picture taken in a nudist beach cannot
 be considered injurious).

 Ilario

 It can't be? I think you (and Jussi-Ville) have a pretty narrow
 concept of what might be injurious. If you release an image of
 yourself to your friends, does that mean you'd be happy to see it on
 the evening news? If you're tanning on the beach, is that permission
 to have your image republished in a major feature film? Your argument
 addresses what you believe the photographer should be allowed to do,
 but ignores the potential for negative impact on the subject of the
 photograph. That's pretty unfortunate.

Please understand that one matter is the privacy, another is the
injury for publication of nudism.

We are speaking about nudism, probably the question of privacy must be
solved in another discussion.

I mean that solving the problem of nudism you don't solve the problem
of privacy *in general* but I am not saying that the privacy is not
important.


 Surely there is a way to meet educational goals without risking the
 privacy or abuse of content subjects? There is tension between
 cultural values, obviously, and some self-serving interpretation of
 that tension (everyone seems to think they are being pressured to
 abide by the values of the misguided), but there must be some middle
 ground that allows for some minimal effective protection for people
 who are not party to the armchair philosophical debate.

 Nathan


Most of all because the nudism is relative to the culture.

Ilario

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Re: [Foundation-l] Legal requirements for sexual content -- help, please!

2010-05-14 Thread Anthony
On Fri, May 14, 2010 at 9:56 AM, Andreas Kolbe jayen...@yahoo.com wrote:

 Someone uploading a nude picture of their ex-girlfriend can be far more
 injurious to the woman concerned than the same person uploading an image of
 her making tea.


It can be.  Then again, an image of her making tea might be far more
injurious.

Requiring an OTRS release from the model for any nude and sexually explicit
 content seems appropriate to me.


I agree.  But then, I can think of dozens of other situations which don't
involve nudity or sexuality but which should follow the same procedures.

Basically, if there's any reasonable chance the person would object to the
image, and the identity of the person in the image is not in itself
newsworthy/encyclopedic, we probably should require the person to give
permission.  I don't know what the law is in that situation (I thought film
productions had to get some sort of permission for filming people, even in a
public place), but it seems like the right thing to do.  Especially given
that Commons images are permitted (even encouraged) for use for commercial
purposes.

One necessary exception would be for situations in which the identity of the
person is itself newsworthy/encyclopedic.  If you snap a shot of a Mayor
accepting a bribe, the Mayor's permission is not needed.  Additionally, I
suppose an exception could be made in cases where the image is so innocuous
that no one is likely to object.
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Re: [Foundation-l] Legal requirements for sexual content -- help, please!

2010-05-14 Thread Ilario Valdelli
On Fri, May 14, 2010 at 6:59 PM, Anthony wikim...@inbox.org wrote:
 On Fri, May 14, 2010 at 9:56 AM, Andreas Kolbe jayen...@yahoo.com wrote:

 Someone uploading a nude picture of their ex-girlfriend can be far more
 injurious to the woman concerned than the same person uploading an image of
 her making tea.


 It can be.  Then again, an image of her making tea might be far more
 injurious.

 Requiring an OTRS release from the model for any nude and sexually explicit
 content seems appropriate to me.


 I agree.  But then, I can think of dozens of other situations which don't
 involve nudity or sexuality but which should follow the same procedures.

 Basically, if there's any reasonable chance the person would object to the
 image, and the identity of the person in the image is not in itself
 newsworthy/encyclopedic, we probably should require the person to give
 permission.  I don't know what the law is in that situation (I thought film
 productions had to get some sort of permission for filming people, even in a
 public place), but it seems like the right thing to do.  Especially given
 that Commons images are permitted (even encouraged) for use for commercial
 purposes.

 One necessary exception would be for situations in which the identity of the
 person is itself newsworthy/encyclopedic.  If you snap a shot of a Mayor
 accepting a bribe, the Mayor's permission is not needed.  Additionally, I
 suppose an exception could be made in cases where the image is so innocuous
 that no one is likely to object.

Perfect.

Ilario

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Re: [Foundation-l] Legal requirements for sexual content -- help, please!

2010-05-14 Thread wiki-list
Ilario Valdelli wrote:
 On Fri, May 14, 2010 at 3:56 PM, Andreas Kolbe jayen...@yahoo.com wrote:
 Someone uploading a nude picture of their ex-girlfriend can be far more 
 injurious to the woman concerned than the same person uploading an image of 
 her making tea.

 Requiring an OTRS release from the model for any nude and sexually explicit 
 content seems appropriate to me.

 Andreas

 
 Except the case that you make a photo of yourself. In this case the
 OTRS ticket is not important like is not important in the point of
 view of copyright.
 
 In any case what means injurious? It can change in relation of the
 cultural point of view but also in relation of the environment where
 the photo has been made (i.e. a picture taken in a nudist beach cannot
 be considered injurious).
 

Many nudist will tell you that what happens on the beach stays on the
beach. There is no expectation that a photo taken by a friend, or
stranger for that matter, will end up on a public website. Indeed there
have been recent case including in the US, where people who have posted
intimate photos of another has been arrested and convicted under various
privacy laws.

“It is one thing to be viewed in the nude by a person at some point in
time, but quite another to be recorded in the nude so that a recording
exists that can be saved or distributed and viewed at a later time,”
Judge Paul G. Lundsten wrote for the court.
http://www.wislawjournal.com/article.cfm?recID=72195


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Re: [Foundation-l] Legal requirements for sexual content -- help, please!

2010-05-14 Thread wiki-list
wjhon...@aol.com wrote:
 In a message dated 5/14/2010 7:50:00 AM Pacific Daylight Time, 
 nawr...@gmail.com writes:
 
 
 Surely there is a way to meet educational goals without risking the
 privacy or abuse of content subjects? 
 
 
 How is a person uploading a picture of themselves to Commons expecting any 
 privacy at all?
 

How do you ascertain the veracity of their statement?

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Re: [Foundation-l] Legal requirements for sexual content -- help, please!

2010-05-14 Thread wiki-list
David Goodman wrote:
 
 But all of this is irrelevant to the original censorship issue,
 because we are not protecting our audience, who can personally or by
 proxy protect themselves  have the responsibility for doing so; we
 are protecting our subjects, who cannot.
 

First you have to define who your audience is. It is beginning to sound
that the audience is a very small number of ideologues.



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Re: [Foundation-l] Legal requirements for sexual content -- help, please!

2010-05-14 Thread Ilario Valdelli
On 14.05.2010 20:38, wiki-l...@phizz.demon.co.uk wrote:
 Many nudist will tell you that what happens on the beach stays on the
 beach. There is no expectation that a photo taken by a friend, or
 stranger for that matter, will end up on a public website. Indeed there
 have been recent case including in the US, where people who have posted
 intimate photos of another has been arrested and convicted under various
 privacy laws.



In a big *yellow* wall if a small point is red for me and orange for 
you, this doesn't change the color of the wall.

Ilario

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Re: [Foundation-l] Legal requirements for sexual content -- help, please!

2010-05-14 Thread wiki-list
Ilario Valdelli wrote:
 On 14.05.2010 20:38, wiki-l...@phizz.demon.co.uk wrote:
 Many nudist will tell you that what happens on the beach stays on the
 beach. There is no expectation that a photo taken by a friend, or
 stranger for that matter, will end up on a public website. Indeed there
 have been recent case including in the US, where people who have posted
 intimate photos of another has been arrested and convicted under various
 privacy laws.


 
 In a big *yellow* wall if a small point is red for me and orange for 
 you, this doesn't change the color of the wall.
 

This wall you talk of, is it in some gaol?

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Re: [Foundation-l] Along with Vector, a new look for changes to the Wikipedia identity

2010-05-14 Thread Samuel Klein
On Fri, May 14, 2010 at 7:06 AM, Casey Brown li...@caseybrown.org wrote:
 On Fri, May 14, 2010 at 12:27 AM, Samuel Klein meta...@gmail.com wrote:
 Is there a page on Meta for discussing the new logo?  Among other
 things, we need somewhere to discuss progress on localizing the new
 logo into different languages. Perhaps the old Logo page could be
 updated with the latest status and links to discussions on other wikis
 as they develop:
  http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia/Logo


 http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia/2.0

Thanks.  I've updated [[m:Logo]] and [[m:Wikipedia/Logo]].

 However, I don't think we should be localizing anymore until we figure out
 if the logo is going to be updated to include the suggested changes (which
 I think it will be).

nod

Sam

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Re: [Foundation-l] Along with Vector, a new look for changes to the Wikipedia identity

2010-05-14 Thread Jay Walsh
Hi folks,

The UX team folks have prepared a new rendering of the mark and it's available 
for review on the Prototype wiki:
http://prototype.wikimedia.org/en.wikipedia.org/Main_Page

I've made a short update the conversation thread on commons here:
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Wikipedia/2.0#Logo_revisions_need_input

Which is also where you can leave new feedback.  I discuss some of the nuances 
of the appearance of the identity on other browsers there, and I think others 
have also pointed those out.

Please take a look at the prototype version and share your comments on that 
commons thread.  We want to get a range of opinions to ensure it looks optimal 
on a lot of different browser settings, and also that we consider the 
observations about the transition from the previous.  We'll be collecting 
feedback through next week and we'll introduce a modification hopefully very 
shortly after that.

FYI the identity looks really, really good in non-digital settings (printed, 
used in graphic applications etc).  There are no major issues with how it 
translates into real-world objects (banners, posters, pins etc). 

Thanks for your input,
jay 

On May 14, 2010, at 12:59 PM, Samuel Klein wrote:

 On Fri, May 14, 2010 at 7:06 AM, Casey Brown li...@caseybrown.org wrote:
 On Fri, May 14, 2010 at 12:27 AM, Samuel Klein meta...@gmail.com wrote:
 Is there a page on Meta for discussing the new logo?  Among other
 things, we need somewhere to discuss progress on localizing the new
 logo into different languages. Perhaps the old Logo page could be
 updated with the latest status and links to discussions on other wikis
 as they develop:
  http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia/Logo
 
 
 http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia/2.0
 
 Thanks.  I've updated [[m:Logo]] and [[m:Wikipedia/Logo]].
 
 However, I don't think we should be localizing anymore until we figure out
 if the logo is going to be updated to include the suggested changes (which
 I think it will be).
 
 nod
 
 Sam
 
 --
 meta:sj
 
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Re: [Foundation-l] Along with Vector, a new look for changes to the Wikipedia identity

2010-05-14 Thread Jon Harald Søby
2010/5/14 Jay Walsh jwa...@wikimedia.org

 Hi folks,

 The UX team folks have prepared a new rendering of the mark and it's
 available for review on the Prototype wiki:
 http://prototype.wikimedia.org/en.wikipedia.org/Main_Page

 I've made a short update the conversation thread on commons here:

 http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Wikipedia/2.0#Logo_revisions_need_input

 Which is also where you can leave new feedback.  I discuss some of the
 nuances of the appearance of the identity on other browsers there, and I
 think others have also pointed those out.

 Please take a look at the prototype version and share your comments on that
 commons thread.  We want to get a range of opinions to ensure it looks
 optimal on a lot of different browser settings, and also that we consider
 the observations about the transition from the previous.  We'll be
 collecting feedback through next week and we'll introduce a modification
 hopefully very shortly after that.

 FYI the identity looks really, really good in non-digital settings
 (printed, used in graphic applications etc).  There are no major issues with
 how it translates into real-world objects (banners, posters, pins etc).

 Thanks for your input,
 jay

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That's looking much better! Fantastic. The only small thing I would change
is the darkness of the visible inside of the globe, as commented by Nohat
here: http://nohat.net/2010/the-awful-new-wikipedia-logo .


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