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Bug 27034 - Write a logo checker
Write a logo checker
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
Product: Wikimedia
Classification: Unclassified
General/Unknown (Other open bugs)
unspecified
All All
: Lowest enhancement (vote)
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Assigned To: Nobody - You can work on this!
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Blocks: 26992
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Reported: 2011-01-29 20:58 UTC by Mark A. Hershberger
Modified: 2013-05-18 08:50 UTC (History)
7 users (show)

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Description Mark A. Hershberger 2011-01-29 20:58:20 UTC
Logo requests for Wikipedia require that the logo's be checked as a first step to make sure that they fit within the guidelines for acceptable logos.  As much as possible these checks should be automated so that logo changes get immediate feedback where that is possible.  This bug is used to document what should be automated.  Ideas right off:

 1. Size
 2. Color
 3. Transparency

What other initial checks could be automated in order to enable communities to change their own Wiki.png without having to rely on someone with shell access to perform the checks?
Comment 1 Platonides 2011-02-19 23:06:01 UTC
I'm not sure about the purpose of this bug. Shell access to change the logo is only needed on first customization, or when changing urls (eg. back to [[Image:Wiki.png]] after they were forcefully moved to commons). Once it is set, updates can be done by the community with a reupload.
Comment 2 Mark A. Hershberger 2011-02-20 18:52:30 UTC
The idea is to completely automate the checking and standards enforcement that now requires a person.  Yes, the community can upload a logo, but if it doesn't conform to the standards set for Wikipedia, this checker would flag it or prohibit the use of the upload and say "this needs to be fixed".
Comment 3 MZMcBride 2013-04-23 14:12:38 UTC
(In reply to comment #2)
> The idea is to completely automate the checking and standards enforcement
> that now requires a person.  Yes, the community can upload a logo, but if it
> doesn't conform to the standards set for Wikipedia, this checker would flag it
> or prohibit the use of the upload and say "this needs to be fixed".

This seems like a wontfix situation to me.
Comment 4 Tomasz W. Kozlowski 2013-05-18 00:09:05 UTC
Currently, there are < 40 Wikipedias (out of 286) with logo issues (missing translation, small violations of logo creation guidelines, weird fonts, lack of SVG).

None of these issues can possibly be checked by an automated tool, I'm therefore closing this as a WONTFIX. Please reopen if necessary (for instance if you'd /really/ want to write a script checking Wikibooks/Wikiquote/Wikisource etc. logos).
Comment 5 Rainer Rillke @commons.wikimedia 2013-05-18 08:50:03 UTC
A look in the history tells you that it was previously a MediaWiki-bug and frankly, I like the idea avoiding requiring shell-access for the logo, though it would be difficult to implement, I guess and is not super-important (for most users of MediaWiki).

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