[Foundation-l] January 15 retro?

Thu Jan 6 00:24:03 UTC 2011

Lodewijk wrote:
> wouldn't it be nice to change the logo of Wikipedia on January 15th back for
> one day to those old logo's? Give people a retro feeling? (would love to see
> enwiki go back to the american flag, but perhaps the round text logo would
> lead to less overload of the OTRS queues) How can these logo's be changed if
> there is a wish to do so? It used to be possible through Wiki.png, but that
> is no longer the case.

I'm not sure why any other Wikipedia besides the English Wikipedia would
want to change their logo on January 15. The other Wikipedias weren't
started on that date, so they have nothing to celebrate or commemorate.
Perhaps they'd want to change their logos on their own birthdays or
decennials.

I believe it's still possible to change the logo by changing "File:Wiki.png"
on certain Wikimedia wikis. Check the configuration files at
noc.wikimedia.org.

MZMcBride