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 <maxsem.wiki(a)gmail.com> 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.
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[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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