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

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