Nice outcome. Congrats to all
Anthere
PS: yet a little bit sad though :(
Le 01/04/2021 à 01:27, Amir Sarabadani a écrit :
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 <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However, with years, the logo became outdated and we realized that it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
<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
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T274678>). There is a logo
guideline for MediaWiki now:
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:MediaWiki_logo_guidelines
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:MediaWiki_logo_guidelines>
We already deployed changes to mediawiki.org <http://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.
<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)
<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)
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