Re: [Wikimedia-l] The Old Wikipedia logo is still widely used - what can we do?

2013-12-21 Thread Emilio J . Rodríguez-Posada
Put a big red notice in the old images page descriptions saying that the logo is deprecated and that the new logo is available in [link to the new version]. So when people click on them from Google, they will read it. 2013/12/20 Amir E. Aharoni amir.ahar...@mail.huji.ac.il Hallo. The old

[Wikimedia-l] The Old Wikipedia logo is still widely used - what can we do?

2013-12-20 Thread Amir E. Aharoni
Hallo. The old version of the puzzle globe Wikipedia logo was retired in 2010. It had wrongly painted letters in several languages as well as some graphical imperfections. The current logo has correct letters and improved vector graphics quality. Despite the replacement having taken place almost

Re: [Wikimedia-l] The Old Wikipedia logo is still widely used - what can we do?

2013-12-20 Thread K. Peachey
Most news agencies don't just go to the web for their images due to copyright reasons. They will have a media collection system that they have the logo stored in. So the best response would be for the Media Relations/Comms teams to actually contact them and request they use the updated logo.

Re: [Wikimedia-l] The Old Wikipedia logo is still widely used - what can we do?

2013-12-20 Thread Federico Leva (Nemo)
Well, one thing we did was actually retiring the old logo, just few months ago. :) Odder provided no less than 108 Wikipedias with a v2 logo. http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikipedia-l/2013-May/031550.html Nemo ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list

Re: [Wikimedia-l] The Old Wikipedia logo is still widely used - what can we do?

2013-12-20 Thread Asaf Bartov
On Dec 20, 2013 1:58 PM, K. Peachey p858sn...@gmail.com wrote: Most news agencies don't just go to the web for their images due to copyright reasons. They will have a media collection system that they have the logo stored in. That is no doubt true for major media corporations, but a lot of

Re: [Wikimedia-l] The Old Wikipedia logo is still widely used - what can we do?

2013-12-20 Thread Svip
On 20 December 2013 22:02, Amir E. Aharoni amir.ahar...@mail.huji.ac.il wrote: Can we do anything about it? My SEO skills are about non-existent. A Facebook friend suggested changing the title of the Commons file File:Wikipedia-logo.png to File:Wikipedia-logo-v1.png and

Re: [Wikimedia-l] The Old Wikipedia logo is still widely used - what can we do?

2013-12-20 Thread Federico Leva (Nemo)
Svip, 20/12/2013 23:27: Looking at the Google results, the first two are from Wikipedia (and these are the old logo), but from the articles [[Wikipedia:Wikipedia logos]] and [[Logo of Wikipedia]]. Both of which still includes the old logo. I think the article(s) in question might be key to