I love this. It looks great on the site. Thanks Serhio and all :) On Wed, Mar 31, 2021 at 7:28 PM Amir Sarabadani <ladsgr...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello, > After more than one year of design, discussion, vote, iteration, and > months of legal work, I’m happy to announce that the logo of MediaWiki has > been officially changed. This applies to both the software and logo of > https://mediawiki.org. > > The old logo of MediaWiki was adopted slightly more than fifteen years > ago. This logo was featuring the nice concept of a sunflower representing > diversity, constant growth and also wilderness. > > However, with years, the logo became outdated and we realized that it had > several problems, including but not limited to: > > - It was a bitmap picture so it’s unusable in large sizes > - Its high details (“too realistic”) made it unusable in small sizes > - Its fixed and realistic style made it hard to have variations or > adaptations > > Most, virtually all, software products use a simpler and more abstract > form following basic logo design guidelines and best-practices to avoid > above (and more) issues. For example, docker, kubernetes, Ubuntu, Vue.js, > React, Apache Kafka and many more. > > You can find the discussion of changing the logo in > https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Project:Proposal_for_changing_logo_of_MediaWiki,_2020 > . As you can see on this page, a lot of interesting practical and > theoretical exchanges happened, leading to the final vote and decision. > > The new logo represents a collection of projects built on our engine: each > petal is one of the many wikis that we support, and the lack of an explicit > core shows that we are part of these projects, as well as and they are part > of MediaWiki. The new logo also reflects the fact that evolution never > stops, and like the petals of a flower, the development of each project, > the growth of each community built on our engine allows everyone else to > grow. > > The designer of the new logo is [[User:Serhio Magpie]]. With the nice > abstraction baked-in, you can use it in large or small sizes or you can > adapt it for different usecases (there’s one already for mediawiki on > docker: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T274678). There is a logo > guideline for MediaWiki now: > https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:MediaWiki_logo_guidelines > > We already deployed changes to mediawiki.org and landed related patches > on master, meaning from 1.36 release onwards, it’ll come with the new logo. > You can follow the work of rolling it out in > https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T268230. > > I humbly ask Wikimedians to update their wikis, for example usages on the > main pages, Wikipedia articles, templates, and more. You can use the logos > in this category on Commons. The files are already protected against upload > vandalism. > https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:MediaWiki_logo_(2020) > > A big thank you to all who helped this project to finish. From designers, > community members, people who voted and discussed it intensively for > months, Wikimedia Legal for doing all the necessary work for transferring > the rights, clearing it and filing it for trademark. And many many more > people. > > Best > -- > Amir (he/him) > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l > New messages to: Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe> > -- Samuel Klein @metasj w:user:sj +1 617 529 4266
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