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If this email is about your daily job and it reaches you outside of the working hours, please, feel free to answer when it's appropriate! // Якщо це робочий лист і Ви отримали його не в робочий час, будь ласка, відповідайте, коли вважаєте за потрібне! чт, 1 квіт. 2021 о 16:40 Rajeeb <marajoz...@gmail.com> пише: > Great job!! Congratulations to each and everyone who worked to get this > feat achieved. > > Namaste, > > Rajeeb. > > On Thu, 1 Apr 2021 at 18:11, 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 However, with years, the logo became outdated and we realized that it 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> >> > _______________________________________________ > 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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