File talk:Wiki-logo-bracket-earth.PNG

The planet earth picture is from a Wikipedia article. The quality is not perfect. It would need to be redone by someone with photoshop skills! — The preceding unsigned comment was added by Tarquin~metawiki (talk) 09:21, 20 July 2003 (UTC)[reply]

This still has English text in it. Aren't we trying to remove that? CGS 17:23 20 Jul 2003 (UTC).

you're not looking at the right image! the sunflower is a different logo! -- Tarquin 18:30 20 Jul 2003 (UTC)

I like it! As soon as we get a slightly better-quality picture of Earth, it'll be perfect! :-) --Bdesham 18:49 20 Jul 2003 (UTC)

I suppose there will be made an effort to choose a picture of the Earth from a non-easily-recognoscible angle (maybe hack it a little so it isn't really any real continent?)... and maybe bigger brackets would be good (or maybe not). I definitively like it. — The preceding unsigned comment was added by 80.28.47.78 (talk) 21:53, 21 July 2003 (UTC)[reply]

en:Antarctica is the last neutral continent! Failing that, plenty of cloud cover -- Tarquin 22:25 21 Jul 2003 (UTC)

I could give you a PNG of the planet that I made for my desktop background. It's a POV-Ray procedural texture, so any resemblence between it and any real planet, living or dead is entirely coincidental... It even comes with clouds. Paullusmagnus 22:29 21 Jul 2003 (UTC)

People who have never used Wikipedia will have no clue what the brackets are. It should be a universal logo, not only something that editors would know about. 129.97.90.101 19:21 22 Jul 2003 (UTC)

It is hard to find such universal logo. At least the brackets are truly international to all editors, more than "wikipedia". -Wshun 04:37, 24 Aug 2003 (UTC)

The brackets are recognizable as brackets to computer-users world-wide, and thus, for those who don't get it, this logo has the virtue of having (only two, in English, at least) obvious verbal descriptions: "The world in double brackets" and "Earth in double brackets". Those descriptions, and their translation(s) in any language, are Google-able, so an imaginative reader can find out from the logo alone what the logo means. In any case, the "edit this page" link makes readers quickly aware of their opportunity to edit, and if anything, the tease of the cryptic double-brackets may encourage them to guess that looking at an edit page will scratch that itch. If they do, they'll quickly see how easily they can edit too. - Jerzy '03 Sep 05 18:52 UTC

Wikipedia extends beyond the petty limit of our planet.We need a universal logo. Colipon 20:08 22 Jul 2003 (UTC)

The world represents here the scope of our editor- and reader-ship, not the scope of the content. When we have Klingons among them, we can work on the All-Galactic logo. Jerzy '03 Sep 05 18:29 UTC

How about a diagram of the solar system in brackets? Jon

How about merging this with some version of [8]? It looks a lot more wikipedic to me: not only about Earth, but about everything you can imagine (implicit in the fractal nature of the logo)... 147.156.28.134 13:19 29 Jul 2003 (UTC)