I confess! The vandal was me. I reverted it this morning and hope I didn't
cause too much upset. It was only meant to be a playful celebration of a
long-awaited milestone, but ^demon has appropriately blocked me for 31
hours. I promise I won't do it again.

Cheers!
Kaldari

On Fri, Feb 27, 2015 at 8:38 AM, Yaron Koren <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Anyone now going to mediawiki.org will see this image for the logo:
>
> https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/mediawiki/b/bc/Wiki.png
>
> It's the regular MediaWiki logo with a moustache and a "NOW WITH MUSTACHE"
> inscription; the change was made this morning.
>
> I'm pretty sure that the change is an excited reference to MediaWiki now
> making use of this:
>
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mustache_(template_system)
>
> However, as far as I can tell there's no explanation for the change
> anywhere in the site. Which means that a fair number of visitors to the
> site, I would have to guess, will think that it's been hacked. That was my
> first instinct, at least, when I saw the logo.
>
> I don't think there's anything wrong with being lighthearted on a
> documentation page, or even with playing around the logo - Google wrote the
> book on that sort of thing. But this particular change seems like an inept
> attempt at humor; could it please be reverted?
>
> -Yaron
>
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