Hi Amir, Thank you & the whole team that worked on making this change. The logo alone makes the website now look really different & being someone that loves UI changes, I love this change.
I remember it like just yesterday when I participated in the voting process. This is a great effort! Thanks *--* *Derick A.* *From One Developer to Another!* On Thu, Apr 1, 2021 at 1:41 PM Amir Sarabadani <ladsgr...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > On Thu, Apr 1, 2021 at 6:02 AM Rehman Abubakr <rehman.wikime...@live.com> > wrote: > >> Hello, >> >> Congratulations to Serhio, Amir, and the rest of the team, for the >> relatively smooth transition. >> >> A quick comment: I noticed that the favicon is still showing the old >> version. Is that due to an update lag, accidental omission, or is it >> intentional? >> > > You just need to clear the cache. Ctrl + Shift + R. > >> >> Yours truly, >> >> *Rehman <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Rehman>* >> >> >> ------------------------------ >> *From:* MediaWiki-l <mediawiki-l-boun...@lists.wikimedia.org> on behalf >> of Amir Sarabadani <ladsgr...@gmail.com> >> *Sent:* 01 April 2021 04:57 >> *To:* wikitech-l <wikitec...@lists.wikimedia.org>; MediaWiki >> announcements and site admin list <mediawik...@lists.wikimedia.org>; >> Wikimedia Mailing List <wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org> >> *Subject:* [MediaWiki-l] Logo of MediaWiki has changed >> >> 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 However, with years, the logo became outdated and we realized that it had 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> >> > > > -- > 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> >
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