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Pleasant Wikipedia by Trevor Blake. A page is added/subtracted from a book.

Named after the blog pleasant, at http://pleasant.blogspot.com/

Hmm...no colour? -- Whkoh 10:15 20 Jul 2003 (UTC)

Yes, so that it appears more similar on more displays (from b/w PDA to monochrome screens to everything else). - Trevor

You should have saved this as a PNG, Trevor. JPEG has given it very visible artifacts. CGS.

You are correct. I'm proud of the concept but my graphic and computer skills are mixed. If someone else takes the concept and makes a more attractive version then I'd be pleased to see it. But leave mine up to show the evolution of the idea. - Trevor

This is soooo 80s, reminds me of old CGA graphics :) -RD

I'll take that as a compliment. - Trevor

Is Wikipedia a book? I prefer a logo that is not linking it back to the "old technology" of a book with pages, but should emphasise the fact that it is interactive, etc - after all, the key element of wikipedia is that it is editable by users, not something that really works with books (margin notes excepted!). That said I don't have any better ideas just yet, not very constructive - sorry. 203.134.93.141 00:00 22 Jul 2003 (UTC)

Spine-bound books with text printed in movable type have been with us for only a few hundred years - very new technology compared to the centuries of our time on this planet without books. I tried to emphasize the amendable traits of Wikipedia with the page being added/subtracted. - Trevor

This logo is too plain. And what is that floating page for? 129.97.90.101 19:19 22 Jul 2003 (UTC)

The logo is plain on purpose, for reasons stated above. Better artists than I could make a better logo, similarly plain but more attractive. The floating page is being added or subtracted, just like in Wikipedia. - Trevor

I like it. Simple, will look the same everywhere, details won't be lost in small versions. -- Stephen Gilbert 22:22 22 Jul 2003 (UTC)

I agree with Gilbert. Willy 17:30 28 Jul 2003 (UTC)

Thanks! - Trevor

Looks a bit boring without color, but as Stephen I like it anyway. The floating page cound be used to construct national versions of the logo in much the same way as we did on the danish and swedish wikipedia. Malene 23 Jul 2003

Good idea! - Trevor

Theres something here -- only I agree its kinda boring -- It looks like something out of a religious theme... Some color (not too much, and an internationalist/globalist/digital/collaborative/ etc. second element. Good design is about the merging of elements. -Stevertigo 20:23 31 Jul 2003 (UTC)

This logo is really awful because it's so plain. I like simplicity, but there are other logos submitted which are simple and coloured and attractive. This logo isn't attractive at all. Roy Zagers