Hi all, I've just finished the new logo from the Markus idea: - http://dl.dropbox.com/u/177440/wikidata/20120407_wikidata10.png Now, I stop and wait for comments and others critics.
Cheers, -- Ben On Fri, Apr 6, 2012 at 1:56 PM, Markus Krötzsch < [email protected]> wrote: > On 06/04/12 12:35, Benjamin Bois wrote: > >> Hi Markus, >> thank you for helping us (designers) to find the way :) >> To help us a bit more, can you (and the other members) give us elements >> to be integrated to the logo in reference to the WikiData philosophy? >> > > Well, just making suggestions ... in the end (like with all Wikimedia > projects), the community will decide about the logo. The Wikidata developer > team might only decide about the logo for the software (just like MediaWiki > has an own logo that is different from Wikipedia's logo). So in fact we > will need two logos :-) > > So what should go into a Wikidata logo? I think: everything that people > collect data about: people, animals, cars, chemistry, music, math, flowers, > computers, ... Like the puzzle globe emphasizes the textual nature of > Wikipedia (in many languages), a Wikidata logo should emphasize that the > project is about the "things" themselves. I don't know how to make this > visually appealing and clearly recognizable at the scale of a normal wiki > logo, but I think it could be done. > > Good luck :-) > > Markus > > >> On Fri, Apr 6, 2012 at 1:21 PM, Markus Krötzsch >> <[email protected] >> <mailto:markus@semantic-**mediawiki.org<[email protected]> >> >> >> >> wrote: >> >> Thanks for all the input! >> >> One thing I would like to keep in mind is that Wikidata is meant to >> be easy and welcoming for a wide audience. As a computer scientist, >> I understand and appreciate imagery like a steel database cylinder, >> but I think it could look a bit technocratic to "normal" people. I >> don't have concrete proposals, but I would find it amazing if the >> logo could have a human touch to it. >> >> One idea maybe: many people will know the Unilever logo [1] (a U >> made of a variety of objects). There are various logos in similar >> style (see also the "earth" category at logotrends 2011 [2]). Maybe >> something like this would be suitable for us, to show that Wikidata >> is about a wide range of topics and people. But making such a logo >> is a bit of work. >> >> Cheers, >> >> Markus >> >> [1] https://www.google.com/search? q=unilever+logo&um=1&tbm=isch >> >> <https://www.google.com/**search?q=unilever+logo&um=1&**tbm=isch<https://www.google.com/search?q=unilever+logo&um=1&tbm=isch> >> > >> [2] http://www.logolounge.com/ article.asp >> >> <http://www.logolounge.com/**article.asp<http://www.logolounge.com/article.asp> >> >? >> >> >> >> >> On 05/04/12 08:39, Lydia Pintscher wrote: >> >> Hey folks :) >> >> You're all awesome for creating pretty logos! Love them. >> Can you all add them to >> http://meta.wikimedia.org/ wiki/Talk:Wikidata#WikiData_ >> logo_candidate >> <http://meta.wikimedia.org/**wiki/Talk:Wikidata#WikiData_** >> logo_candidate<http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Wikidata#WikiData_logo_candidate> >> > >> please so we don't lose any of them? >> >> >> Cheers >> Lydia >> >> >> >> ______________________________ _________________ >> Wikidata-l mailing list >> [email protected] <mailto:Wikidata-l@lists.** >> wikimedia.org <[email protected]>> >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/ mailman/listinfo/wikidata-l >> >> <https://lists.wikimedia.org/**mailman/listinfo/wikidata-l<https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata-l> >> > >> >> >> >> >> >> ______________________________**_________________ >> Wikidata-l mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/**mailman/listinfo/wikidata-l<https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata-l> >> > > > ______________________________**_________________ > Wikidata-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/**mailman/listinfo/wikidata-l<https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata-l> >
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