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Changing Urdu Wikipedia logo with one which has "Urdu font"
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Hello, The current logo of Urdu Wikipedia has text in "Naskh", a non-Urdu font, and the community desires that this be changed to the logo available on this link. I'm unsure what's the way forward for this: a local community on-wiki consensus is required but I want the consensus to be fruitful and heard. I'd appreciate the guidance from experts over here and will follow right away.

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Aafi renamed this task from Changing Urdu Wikipedia logo with one which as "Urdu font" to Changing Urdu Wikipedia logo with one which has "Urdu font".Jan 17 2024, 6:04 PM
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@TheAafi , please always follow https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Requesting_wiki_configuration_changes when requesting such site configuration changes. Thanks!

I have initiated a local Village pump discussion and will get back here once there appears to be a community consensus.

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@Aafi The desired logo is too large for display, at least in Vector skin, you may check the test result at [1]. Due to no language knowledge, I can not revise the picture and I'm de-claim the task. If the picture is edited to a proper size, I will be happy to help again.

[1]: https://logo-test.toolforge.org/?wiki=ur.wikipedia.org&logo=File%3AUrduWikipediaLogo.svg

@Hamishcn, a resized version of the logo has been uploaded. Could you please take a look if it works?

Though it's been a long, the logo was recently adjusted according to the relevant en variant, and seems to work one. The tests seem fine on my side.

Hamishcn changed the task status from Open to In Progress.May 6 2025, 5:45 AM
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Hamishcn moved this task from Backlog to Working on on the Wikimedia-Site-requests board.

@Aafi Glad to help again. The current logo also works on my end, and I will do the change soon.

@Aafi I'm really sorry for taking your time, but, after digging into some comments, it appeared that your new logo is using a non-free licence font "nastaleeq", which is not accepted as per WMF's policy. However, those comments are made before 10 years and the free licence of the font could be released within these years. As I said before I have no knowledge of Urdu font so I need your further clarification on the licence of "nastaleeq", would you provide us with any clue to display its free licence?

Pppery changed the task status from In Progress to Stalled.Jul 26 2025, 3:11 AM