| Izno added a comment. |
In T142104#2627607, @thiemowmde wrote:Criticizing others work is easy. Where are you guys proposals?
Careful--please remember the rules of Phabricator. (Aside: We are under no requirement to provide proposals.) That said, I definitely did already--just without the pretty visualization. I trust, if you wanted to, you could make the same using one of the already-provided icons fairly trivially.
I believe a good candidate could be a lego brick, a socketed microchip (like the Wikidata logo proposal https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:WikiData_logo_candidate_1_icon.svg) or simply the Wikibase logo (https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikidata_logo_proposal_variation_3.svg).
That's the Wikibase logo? o.o
Maybe a better way, instead of attempting to throw spaghetti at the wall and see what sticks, is to lay out some acceptance criteria for a notification icon. Some thoughts:
- Intelligible -- the icon should be understandable at 30px
- Don't have to get close to the monitor to understand the logo
- Don't need to read anything
- Distinction
- The shapes used have a meaning and preferably only one meaning
- Evocation -- the icon should evoke some_value, where some_value may be (depending on scope of this task):
- Event type e.g. addition of an interwiki link, addition of a statement, editing of an item
- Wikidata
- Wikibase
- Another as consented to in this task
- Evoke only something from the above list
- E.g. as I suggested above, why a speech bubble when we are not doing any sort of speaking, and notifications already have their own symbol(s)
Others appreciated.
Another idea from me would be the hub and spoke design (1 hub, center, with n spokes) of e.g. the main page lead image. Would this fit the criteria above?
In T142104#2627593, @Jan_Dittrich wrote:Lydia wrote:They have their own Wikibase install with their own logo.
If the intention was to provide a logo to be used in connection to the Wikidata-Project, using Wikidata’s logo makes sense to me. If @thiemowmde’s suggestions would be the standard-icon for all installs, this would indeed be a problem and a not-project-bound logo would do better imho.
Lydia's reply actually confused me, because it seemed to me that this task was specifically about the Wikimedia use case, not the 3rd party use case. If we all agree this is about Wikimedia use case, maybe @Lydia_Pintscher should open a task for the generic case.
Cc: Izno, thiemowmde, Jan_Dittrich, Charlie_WMDE, Pginer-WMF, Aklapper, Lydia_Pintscher, matej_suchanek, Quiddity, Trizek-WMF, D3r1ck01, Wikidata-bugs, aude, Mbch331
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