Link to v2 logo:
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikipedia-logo-v2-en.png
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d6/Wikipedia-logo-v2-en.png

I am not sure I understand the request.

You are saying that two images viewed in monobook have bad spacing, so you have fixed them and supplied the fix. However, I am not sure I would make that change, its more of a UI change.

Also, this woudl change a lot of other items... not sure who handles this, but I am not certain it is me either.

To clarify on the images -- it's nothing to do with JPEG compression.

The default "/images/wiki-en.png" and similar logos are still an old 8-bit PNG version which uses binary transparency instead of smooth alpha. This gives it a hard-edged appearance on darker backgrounds but was necessary for compatibility with IE 6 in the olden days. (The hard edge is usually not a big deal on the lighter standard skin backgrounds, but it bugs some people more than others.)

If current new logo images aren't still using the hard-edged binary transparency, then it's probably a good idea to either:

a) replace the old default images with newer default ones

or

b) change the $wgLogo settings that still point to those old default files to point at more appropriate new default files

Talked about this during the Hackathon, cc-ing Roan.

By the way, now that Wikipedia has a new logo, I think it oughta be updated to the current one:

• http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikipedia-logo-v2-en.png

( http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d6/Wikipedia-logo-v2-en.png )

Please note that all major wikis (both those with old logos and with the v2 logos) link to the versions on Commons that have alpha transparancy. It's the older/smaller wikis without a localized logo that link to the out-of-mediawiki path "/images/wiki-en.png" which is the old logo, in English, in 8-bit.

Although there is something to be said about IE6 support / alpha transparency.
Given that there hasn't been support for that in any major logo in many years, and all PNG-renders for SVGs may be alpha transparent, I don't see why it should be supported in the old fallback logo. (plus, there's fixalpha() [1] for that, right ? )

Krinkle

[1]: fixalpha in IEFixes, which seems to cover the logo as well: http://svn.wikimedia.org/viewvc/mediawiki/trunk/phase3/skins/common/IEFixes.js?view=markup&pathrev=77922#l20

bugs wrote:

*** Bug 27297 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Thehelpfulonewiki wrote:

Bumping this - has it been completed now?

Default changed to logo on commons

File on NFS has been updated

reedy@fenari:/home/wikipedia/common$ git commit -a
[master ea9a05e] Bug 24278 - Update old /images/wiki-en.png to v2-logo (also fixes 8-bit PNG white edges)
1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
reedy@fenari:/home/wikipedia/common$ git push origin
Counting objects: 7, done.
Delta compression using up to 2 threads.
Compressing objects: 100% (4/4), done.
Writing objects: 100% (4/4), 479 bytes, done.
Total 4 (delta 3), reused 0 (delta 0)
remote: Resolving deltas: 100% (3/3)
remote: Processing changes: refs: 1, done
To ssh://gerrit.wikimedia.org:29418/operations/mediawiki-config.git

5851952..ea9a05e  master -> master