I think we can all agree that Ryan could have made the joke much more funny
if he had created an RFC[1] for the logo change, held several public IRC
meetings about it over a few months until consensus was reached, and then
worked with the design department to refine the artwork and the community
department to iron out a roll out plan.

Or, maybe not.

Seriously though, Ryan, I'm sorry nobody thought it was humorous.

- Trevor

[1] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment

On Fri, Feb 27, 2015 at 3:06 PM, Max Semenik <[email protected]> wrote:

> Oh come the heck on people! [1]
>
> Have everyone forgot about the concept of fun! A little reminder: fun is...
> fun! [2] I don't recognize the community I started contributing to, are we
> all so obsessed of staying serious? If we continue down this road, we will
> next be allowed to celebrate only MediaWiki's transition to Enterprise
> JavaBeans. And celebrate by allowing one exclamation mark per person on
> mailing lists? Come onnnnn, there has to be some room for fun, sometimes
> even silly fun.
>
> And block for that. Really? [3] Already after Kaldari reverted the logo
> back? [4]
>
> The only problem about the logo itself I see is that due to its home-made
> mad skillz style, someone might have thought that the site is defaced. But
> even that does not warrant all the shit Ryan got for it. He worked really
> hard on bringing us one step colser to the world of modern webdev, and
> everything he got for that was... Ugh.
>
> ----
> [1] https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:The_wikipedias_serious.jpg
> [2] https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Drunk-kitteh.jpg
> [3] https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:NO_MOAR_BLOCK_lolcat.jpg
> [4] https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:PiksherDeleted.jpg
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