Hey again.
I just wanted to remind people that the first round of voting has started,
you can vote on the general look and design of the proposals (but you can't
add more anymore). This will continue for a month and after that there will
be another round of voting for variants of the top designs (like different
wordmarks, different colors, etc.)
Thank you for your contributions on this project.
Best
On Sun, Jul 19, 2020 at 3:44 PM Amir Sarabadani wrote:
> Hello everyone,
> Thank you for your enthusiasm around the logo. It made me so happy, and
> also thank you for all of the feedback around the process, I'm certainly
> learning.
> Based on the feedback I want to say some notes:
>
> With all other discussions happening at the same time this can be draining
> and having a global pandemic going on is not going to help either. So the
> deadlines are pretty relaxed.
>
> It's already been a month (almost) and let's add three weeks for adding
> and discussing proposals, meaning until 10th of August you can add and
> discuss proposals. After that, we will have a month for the first round of
> voting, In this round, you can vote on the logo designs in general, meaning
> until 10th of September you can vote on logos general look and design (not
> the colors, wordmark, number of pedals, etc). The second round of voting
> will be a month afterwards (meaning until 10th of October) which you can
> vote on different variants of the top logos of the first round (like
> different wordmarks, different colors, and so on) and after that we will
> move forward with implementing the top logo and variant.
>
> In short, there will be three phases:
> - Current phase (until 10th of August): Suggest proposal and discuss
> proposals.
> - Second phase (until 10th of September): Vote on general design of all
> proposals
> - Third phase (until 10th of October): Vote on different variants of the
> top proposals.
>
> If anyone wants to help with facilitating discussions, I'd be more than
> happy to have some help. Send me a private message and we can form a group.
>
> Also, I would like to humbly ask everyone to be more mindful in their
> comments, each proposal is a product of someone's creative thinking and
> work. Especially avoid criticizing people. In other words, please be
> kinder, we all can use a little bit of kindness these days.
>
> Thank you.
>
> On Mon, Jun 22, 2020 at 2:39 AM Amir Sarabadani
> wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>> The current logo of MediaWiki was adapted slightly more than fifteen
>> years ago and hasn’t changed since. This logo despite having the nice
>> concept of sunflower, is old. The sunflower represents the diversity, the
>> constant growth and also the wildness.
>>
>> Among its biggest issues I can point out that it’s a bitmap picture so
>> it’s unusable in large sizes (like large posters) and it’s too realistic
>> making it unusable in small sizes.
>>
>> Most, virtually all, software products use a simpler and more abstract
>> form. For example, docker, kubernetes, Ubuntu, VueJs, React, Apache Kafka,
>> and many more. It’s a good time for MediaWiki to follow suit.
>>
>> My request is for changing the logo of MediaWiki and I have no plans or
>> interest in changing logo of any other project.
>>
>> Please show your support, oppose or your comments in the discussion page.
>> You can also add more suggestions.
>>
>> The discussion page:
>> https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Project:Proposal_for_changing_logo_of_mediawiki,_2020
>>
>> Best
>> --
>> Amir (he/him)
>>
>>
>
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> Amir (he/him)
>
>
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