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

2021-04-01 Thread RhinosF1 -
Hi,

There are a few suggestions from my understanding but it's still being
decided which to use for wikitech. See
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T279087

On Thu, 1 Apr 2021 at 18:49, Vira Motorko  wrote:

> Will Wikitech logo follow?
>
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>
>
> чт, 1 квіт. 2021 о 16:40 Rajeeb  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  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 However, with years, the logo became outdated and we realized that it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
 

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

2021-04-01 Thread Vira Motorko
Will Wikitech logo follow?

*--*
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mobile: +380667740499 | facebook: vira.motorko
 | wikipedia: Ата


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  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  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)
>>>
>>> ___
>>> 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
>>> 

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

2021-04-01 Thread Rajeeb
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  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)
>>
>> ___
>> Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at:
>> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and
>> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l
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>
>
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] [MediaWiki-l] Logo of MediaWiki has changed

2021-04-01 Thread 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

*--*

*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)
>>
>> ___
>> 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
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>>
>
>
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>
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] [MediaWiki-l] Logo of MediaWiki has changed

2021-04-01 Thread Amir Sarabadani
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)
>
> ___
> 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,
> 
>


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

2021-03-31 Thread Gnangarra
Probably waiting until after April 1st to do all the updates

On Thu, 1 Apr 2021 at 12:02, 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?
>
> 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] [MediaWiki-l] Logo of MediaWiki has changed

2021-03-31 Thread Rehman Abubakr
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?


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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