On Wed, Mar 31, 2021 at 4:28 PM Amir Sarabadani <ladsgr...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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. It looks beautiful and professional. Excellent work by Serhio, the organizers & everyone else who made this change happen. The installer variant [1] is also very clever. The sunflower logo (which I quickly put together many years ago based on a lovely photograph by Florence) has certainly had a good run, but it was well past time for a fresh look, IMO. As you pointed out, it violates basically all rules of good logo design. >:-) Fun fact: It was originally a submission to the Wikipedia logo contest, where it came in third and the current Wikimedia logo came in second. [2] It was pretty close - in some parallel universe, the internationally recognized symbol of Wikipedia may not be the puzzle globe, but a sunflower surrounded by square brackets. Make of that what you will. ;-) Warmly, Erik [1] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/File:MediaWiki-2020-installer-large-icon.svg [2] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/International_logo_contest/Results _______________________________________________ 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, <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe>
