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erik at wikimedia

Oct 23, 2009, 6:53 PM

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Office move completed

This is just a quick update that we've completed our office move to
149 New Montgomery in San Francisco, which also means that the
usability team is now integrated into the same location. This week
we've had two days of tech meetings and two and a half days of
all-staff meetings in the new space, which is very functional, thanks
to the hard work of Daniel Phelps, James Owen, Steve Kent, Rob
Halsell, Ariel Glenn, Fred Vassard, and many others who helped. It
gives us some room to grow, breathe and meet, and more than a single
bathroom :-). We'll post more details and photos to the blog and to
Commons soon.
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erik at wikimedia

Oct 26, 2009, 7:30 PM

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Re: Office move completed [In reply to]

Blog post by Jay is now up:
http://blog.wikimedia.org/2009/10/27/wikimedia-finds-a-new-home/

First photos here:
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Wikimedia_Foundation_149_New_Montgomery

More pics will come with time for those who can't get enough of seeing
office environments. ;-)
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geniice at gmail

Oct 27, 2009, 3:55 PM

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Re: Office move completed [In reply to]

2009/10/27 Erik Moeller <erik [at] wikimedia>:
> Blog post by Jay is now up:
> http://blog.wikimedia.org/2009/10/27/wikimedia-finds-a-new-home/
>
> First photos here:
> http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Wikimedia_Foundation_149_New_Montgomery
>
> More pics will come with time for those who can't get enough of seeing
> office environments. ;-)

So who's idea was it to model it after Terry Gilliam's Brazil?

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Oct 27, 2009, 4:50 PM

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On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 6:55 PM, geni <geniice [at] gmail> wrote:
> 2009/10/27 Erik Moeller <erik [at] wikimedia>:
>> Blog post by Jay is now up:
>> http://blog.wikimedia.org/2009/10/27/wikimedia-finds-a-new-home/
>>
>> First photos here:
>> http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Wikimedia_Foundation_149_New_Montgomery
>>
>> More pics will come with time for those who can't get enough of seeing
>> office environments. ;-)
>
> So who's idea was it to model it after Terry Gilliam's Brazil?
>
>
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We can manage to create 3d copies of the globe but we can't manage to fix
the logo? For shame ;-)

In all seriousness, new office looks nice.

-Chad

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Oct 27, 2009, 5:21 PM

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Re: Office move completed [In reply to]

2009/10/28 Chad <innocentkiller [at] gmail>

> On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 6:55 PM, geni <geniice [at] gmail> wrote:
> > 2009/10/27 Erik Moeller <erik [at] wikimedia>:
> >> Blog post by Jay is now up:
> >> http://blog.wikimedia.org/2009/10/27/wikimedia-finds-a-new-home/
> >>
> >> First photos here:
> >>
> http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Wikimedia_Foundation_149_New_Montgomery
> >>
> >> More pics will come with time for those who can't get enough of seeing
> >> office environments. ;-)
> >
> > So who's idea was it to model it after Terry Gilliam's Brazil?
> >
> >
> > --
> > geni
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> We can manage to create 3d copies of the globe but we can't manage to fix
> the logo? For shame ;-)
>
> In all seriousness, new office looks nice.
>
> -Chad
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Oh, that one looks awesome. Merchandise idea - having that 3D logo as a wall
lamp would be legen(wait for it)dary. ;-)

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sj at wikimedia

Oct 30, 2009, 12:54 PM

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Re: Office move completed [In reply to]

Congratulations to the office, and especially Daniel, on the move -- the new
space feels really comfortable and usable.

Chad

> > We can manage to create 3d copies of the globe but we can't manage to fix
> > the logo? For shame ;-)
>

That's fair. For those not following the very slow-burning logo drama
(complete with national media attention), there are 4-5 characters that have
been corrected over time, and a question about accents to answer for the
record:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Errors_in_the_Wikipedia_logo

A corrected version was used to make the 2.5D logo in those pics; we should
update the official logo as well. (from that it would seem the casual
consensus is: no accents, and each character is indeed meant to represent
'W' in the language in question, where possible) Is this already underway?

Jon Harald Søby writes:

> Oh, that one looks awesome. Merchandise idea - having that 3D logo as a
> wall
> lamp would be legen(wait for it)dary. ;-)
>

You are so very, very right. In the Taipei version, the lampshade would
rotate through a neat cut in the wall.

SJ
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lists at caseybrown

Oct 30, 2009, 3:34 PM

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On Fri, Oct 30, 2009 at 3:54 PM, Samuel J Klein <sj [at] wikimedia> wrote:
> Is this already underway?
>

Cary said yes: <http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Bastique#Wikipedia_logo>.
However, the page you linked is actually the old one. The new page
with discussion/the new logo plan can be found at:
<http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia/Logo>.

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meta.sj at gmail

Oct 30, 2009, 3:51 PM

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Re: Office move completed [In reply to]

Thanks. I was looking for this great graphic earlier for a presentation;
it's a nice example of what collaboration on an image can look like.
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikisymbols.png

On Fri, Oct 30, 2009 at 6:34 PM, Casey Brown <lists [at] caseybrown> wrote:

> On Fri, Oct 30, 2009 at 3:54 PM, Samuel J Klein <sj [at] wikimedia> wrote:
> > Is this already underway?
> >
>
> Cary said yes: <
> http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Bastique#Wikipedia_logo>.
> However, the page you linked is actually the old one. The new page
> with discussion/the new logo plan can be found at:
> <http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia/Logo>.
>
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