Re: [Wikimedia-l] [MediaWiki-l] Logo of MediaWiki has changed

[Derick Alangi]

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

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*Derick A.*

*From One Developer to Another!*


On Thu, Apr 1, 2021 at 1:41 PM Amir Sarabadani  wrote:

>
>
> On Thu, Apr 1, 2021 at 6:02 AM Rehman Abubakr 
> 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 *
>>
>>
>> --
>> *From:* MediaWiki-l  on behalf
>> of Amir Sarabadani 
>> *Sent:* 01 April 2021 04:57
>> *To:* wikitech-l ; MediaWiki
>> announcements and site admin list ;
>> Wikimedia Mailing List 
>> *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 However, with years, the logo became outdated and we realized that it had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)
>>
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Passing of User:Aboluay

[Derick Alangi]



May he rest in Peace!

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On Mon, Aug 5, 2019 at 3:10 PM Shlomi Fish  wrote:

> On Sun, 4 Aug 2019 12:20:41 -0700
> Pine W  wrote:
>
> > Dear colleagues,
> >
> > The community has learned of the passing of User:Aboluay (on Arabic
> > Wikipedia at
> >
> https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D8%B3%D8%AA%D8%AE%D8%AF%D9%85:Aboluay
> ,
> > and on English Wikipedia at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Aboluay).
> He
> > contributed over 21,000 edits to Arabic Wikipedia, and also participated
> in
> > other projects including Wikidata, English Wikipedia, and Commons. An
> > announcement of his passing was made on Facebook at
> >
> https://www.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=10157063852790590=501825589
> > .
> >
> > May he rest in peace.
> >
>
> Sorry to hear that.
>
> > Pine
> > ( https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Pine )
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[Wikimedia-l] [Google Summer of Code 2019 / Outreachy Round 18] Call for projects and mentors!

[Derick Alangi]

Hello everyone,

We are now recruiting projects to promote in Google Summer of Code 2019 and
Outreachy Round 18!

Both these programs have a similar timeline for the summer round. Accepted
candidates will work with mentors from May to August 2019.

Through both these programs, we bring new contributors to Wikimedia
technical projects. Browse through Outreach programs
 to learn more.

Earlier we promote the projects, better it works out for everyone. Students
get enough time to prepare their application, organization administrators
to do ample outreach and mentors to find a strong candidate for their
project.

If you are interested in mentoring a project, create a task on Phabricator
and tag it with #outreach-programs-projects
 and
#Google-Summer-of-Code (2019) or #Outreachy (Round 18). You can also choose
to mentor for projects already on outreach-program-projects

workboard. Remember, every project must have two mentors. Learn more about
the roles and responsibilities of a mentor
.

To get some idea of the nature of projects, see the completed Google Summer
of Code and Outreachy projects from last year
.


Help us spread the word about Wikimedia's participation in these programs
and looking forward to your participation! :)
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