I support that fully. On Jun 12, 2012 5:48 PM, "Chad" <innocentkil...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi, > > Little bit of a different thread today--but something's been kind of biting > at me over the last couple of weeks and I thought it'd be best to get it > out there :) > > What support would there be for changing the MediaWiki logo and > being consistent with it? > > I'm not suggesting a drastic change, like substituting puppies for the > flower. I'm looking at a more subtle change, as in moving from our > current logo to something like[0]. Originally, I didn't like the SVG > version > but over time it's managed to grow on me quite a bit. Although, I stil > think the text could use tweaking, something closer to the current color > would be nice. There's a couple of pretty big reasons I think we should > switch to this (or something like it): > > 1) It scales much nicer. The current version looks absolutely awful at > higher resolutions, and at lower ends becomes rather featureless. A > version natively designed as an SVG (but keeping the original design > ideas) takes care of that. > 2) It fits much nicer with the other WMF logos (other than the puzzle > globe, which will never match :) > 3) We've already started selling stickers based on the SVG version[1], > so it might be good to update it on MediaWiki.org to match. > > So...thoughts? Should we do this more formal-like in an RfC or > something? Other colors you'd like to paint the bikeshed? > > -Chad > > [0] http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Mediawiki_logo_reworked_2.svg > [1] > http://shop.wikimedia.org/products/wikimedia-project-stickers-pack-of-12 > > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l > _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
