Wayne, Well, engineering WE's visual identity could be as involved as completely rearranging all the elements of a page, in a complete separation from WMF's monobook skin. This is usually referred to as "re-skinning" the wiki. Wikia did this, I would imagine, in order to incorporate user interactions that didn't fit in with monobook. Re-skinning is not something one can do without having a separate copy of WE's version of MediaWiki to test. To me, it seems so much of a hassle that one would need to have a very good reason to change it.
Do you think there will be a necessity for this sort of thing? Jesse On 05/09/2009 17:33, Wayne Mackintosh wrote: > Hi Jesse, > > Good question. The purpose of this discussion is restricted to the > logo and favicon (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Favicon ) largely to > gauge interest in the community and number of candidate submissions we > receive. At this point we'll need to think about constituting a > workgroup to take the design and decision of our logo forward. > > You're right -- visual identity is much more than just the logo - and > included all the other things you refer to, i.e. colour scheme, design > of the landing page, structure of the page, its relationship with > usability, conversion rates, and its relationship with style > guidelines etc. > > WikiEducator will need to reflect and focus on its visual identity as > a package some time in the future -- but I suspect that this task is > more comprehensive and would need a separate work group for this purpose? > > Cheers > Wayne > > > 2009/9/6 Jesse Groppi <jagro...@gmail.com <mailto:jagro...@gmail.com>> > > I just want to clarify some things about the "visual identity" of > the wiki. I'm definitely no expert, but I think that in web > design terms this usually includes the logo, colour scheme, > structure of the page, and can also include the methods in which a > user interacts with the page. Is it this entire group of things > that you're talking about? > > Jesse > > > On 04/09/2009 21:54, Wayne Mackintosh wrote: >> Hi Everyone, >> >> As an independent project -- WikiEducator needs to develop a >> visual identity and new logo. As an open collaborative >> initiative we invite all WikiEducators around the world to join >> us in developing a new logo for WikiEducator. >> >> *History of the current logo* >> >> I did not put much thought or energy into the design of the logo >> currently used on the WikiEducator site. Back in April 2006, when >> WikiEducator was relocated to a hosted server funded by the >> Commonwealth of Learning, I had to supply a logo for the website. >> In the rush to get the server operational, we simply tweaked the >> visual identity of COL's 2003-2006 three-year plan (see: >> http://www.col.org/progServ/3YR/Pages/2003-2006-3YR.aspx ). This >> was back in the days when we had 12 registered accounts on >> WikiEducator -- now with over 10,000 users we have more minds to >> come up with a better idea ;-). >> >> We have come a long way since then. The strap line of "free >> eLearning content" does not even begin to describe the breadth >> and depth of the WikiEducator comunity or its projects. WE are >> also now far larger than the Commonwealth and a truly global >> project. The time has come to design and implement a new visual >> identity for WikiEducator! >> >> *Progress and plan to develop a new logo for WE* >> >> Back in June 2008 there was some discussion and thought about >> developing a new logo and our first candidate for a new logo has >> already been submitted by one of our community members, see: >> >> http://www.col.org/progServ/3YR/Pages/2003-2006-3YR.aspx >> >> 1) We invite all WikiEducator to table a candidate for our new >> visual identity by 30 September 2009. Just add your visual idea >> to the list of candidates on this page: >> >> http://wikieducator.org/WE-Logo , listing candidate 2, candidate >> 3 etc. >> >> 2) If you have no artistic ability like myself, please post your >> ideas and thoughts on the corresponding talk page: >> >> http://wikieducator.org/Talk:WE-Logo >> >> 3) We will invite feedback from professional graphic designers >> and post these to the site by 15 October 2009 >> >> 4) We will then ask the community to vote on their preferred logo >> candidate closing votes by 30 October 2009. >> >> 5) The OER Foundation will commission a professional graphic >> design artist to develop our new visual identity. >> >> Get your creative juices going -- and we look forward to >> reviewing candidates for the new Wikieducator logo. >> >> Cheers >> Wayne >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> -- >> Wayne Mackintosh, Ph.D. >> Director, >> International Centre for Open Education, >> Otago Polytechnic, New Zealand. >> Board of Directors, OER Foundation. >> Founder and Community Council Member, Wikieducator, >> www.wikieducator.org <http://www.wikieducator.org> >> Mobile +64 21 2436 380 >> Skype: WGMNZ1 >> Twitter: OERFoundation, Mackiwg >> >> > > > > > > -- > Wayne Mackintosh, Ph.D. > Director, > International Centre for Open Education, > Otago Polytechnic, New Zealand. > Board of Directors, OER Foundation. > Founder and Community Council Member, Wikieducator, > www.wikieducator.org <http://www.wikieducator.org> > Mobile +64 21 2436 380 > Skype: WGMNZ1 > Twitter: OERFoundation, Mackiwg > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "WikiEducator" group. 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