Hello everyone, and congratulations, all!
It is exciting to see that this work is now complete and we have a winning
sound selected by the movement!
As some of you recall, between November 2020 and October 2021, I was the
Chair of the Wikimedia Foundation’s Board of Trustees’ ad hoc Brand
Committee. This committee worked closely with WMF staff, as well as with 9
advisors from our global community, to create a Brand strategy that would
guide the Wikimedia Foundation’s work on Brand. Our work culminated in a
Board resolution
<https://diff.wikimedia.org/2021/10/14/wikimedia-foundation-board-of-trustees-new-resolution-on-branding/>
on the topic, with one of the main areas of work being exploring the idea
of creating a sound logo for the movement, in order to improve the
attribution of Wikimedia content on audio devices. It was a priority for
the Board that listeners accessing our content on audio devices have an
opportunity to learn about the trusted source of their information, and
that the thousands of volunteers creating our ecosystem receive the credit
and recognition they deserve.
I then had the pleasure of participating in the judging panel that led to
the final 10 choices the community voted on.
So it has been a 3-year-long fascinating journey, and I am extremely
thankful and grateful for the effort, thoughtfulness and diligence of both
our staff and volunteers, who made this happen the ‘wiki way’ – openly,
collaboratively and with great care.
Congratulations, Thaddeus, for the winning sound! Your contribution has now
equipped our movement with a sound logo for audio devices and settings for
years to come. I hope you join me in congratulating him and the team
working on this.
And of course, share the sound! I’ve already heard of someone making it
into a ringtone, and I look forward to learning about additional creative
ways we can use it to promote our work on free and open knowledge to
everyone.
Best,
Shani
Shani Evenstein Sigalov
<https://wikimediafoundation.org/profile/shani-evenstein-sigalov/>
Vice Chair, Board of Trustees
Chair, Community Affairs Committee
Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/>
On Tue, 28 Mar 2023 at 16:10, Mehrdad Pourzaki <mpourzaki(a)wikimedia.org>
wrote:
*Just in case the previous email arrived with the
links all jumbled in
your inbox!!!*
Hi everyone,
On behalf of the Sound Logo team of staff and community collaborators,
it’s my great pleasure to officially introduce the winning Wikimedia
sound logo, the sound of all human knowledge. *Read the full story on
Diff and access translations. *
We invite you to listen and explore more sounds from the contest and to
visit the sound logo resource hub on Meta to learn more.
Thank you!
Whether we personally use smart audio devices or not, we see–and hear–them
everywhere. Preparing Wikimedia content for audio settings and most
importantly, doing it in a way that was true to our values and practices,
and at the same time fun, was not an easy endeavour. We needed a whole
orchestra. Many thanks to the screening team of volunteers, the selection
committee, the dynamic team of community liaisons, and you. We are
grateful to many of you who took part in on-wiki, virtual, or in-person
conversations, listened, shared, voted, or in any other way participated to
help bring us to where we are today. With your help, we were able to nurture
this initiative, bring it to life, and make it better than originally
conceived. You can read more about the journey of this project from a
novel concept to a global contest and a community vote on wiki and Diff.
Thank you, very well played.
On behalf of the sound logo team,
Mehrdad
Useful links
-
*The winning sound:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikimedia_Sound_Logo_Finalist_VQ97.…
<https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikimedia_Sound_Logo_Finalist_VQ97.wav>*
-
*The announcement on Diff + previous communications:
https://diff.wikimedia.org/2023/03/28/have-you-heard-wikimedia-has-a-sound-…
<https://diff.wikimedia.org/2023/03/28/have-you-heard-wikimedia-has-a-sound-logo/>
*
-
The resource page on Meta:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Communications/Sound_Logo
-
Category on Commons:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Wikimedia_sound_logo_submissions
-
Screening team experience:
https://diff.wikimedia.org/2022/10/31/screening-3235-sound-submissions/
-
The selection committee:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Communications/Sound_Logo/Contest_proposal#…
-
Community liaisons:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Communications/Sound_Logo#Project_team
-
Community conversations:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Communications/Sound_Logo#Community_convers…
*Mehrdad Pourzaki*
Lead Movement Communications Specialist
wikimediafoundation.org
On Tue, Mar 28, 2023 at 9:57 AM Mehrdad Pourzaki <soundlogo(a)wikimedia.org>
wrote:
Hi everyone,
On behalf of the Sound Logo team of staff and community collaborators,
it’s my great pleasure to officially introduce the winning Wikimedia
sound logo
<https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikimedia_Sound_Logo_Finalist_VQ97.wav>,
the sound of all human knowledge. *Read the full story on Diff
<https://diff.wikimedia.org/2023/03/27/have-you-heard-wikimedia-has-a-sound-logo/>
and access translations. *
We invite you to listen and explore
<https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Wikimedia_sound_logo_submissions>
more sounds from the contest and to visit the sound logo resource hub on
Meta <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Communications/Sound_Logo> to
learn more.
Thank you!
Whether we personally use smart audio devices or not, we see–and
hear–them everywhere. Preparing Wikimedia content for audio settings and
most importantly, doing it in a way that was true to our values and
practices, and at the same time fun, was not an easy endeavour. We needed a
whole orchestra. Many thanks to the screening team
<https://diff.wikimedia.org/2022/10/31/screening-3235-sound-submissions/>
of volunteers, the selection committee
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Communications/Sound_Logo/Contest_proposal#How_will_the_final_selection_happen?>,
the dynamic team of community liaisons
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Communications/Sound_Logo#Project_team>,
and you. We are grateful to many of you who took part in on-wiki, virtual,
or in-person conversations
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Communications/Sound_Logo#Community_conversations>,
listened, shared, voted, or in any other way participated to help bring us
to where we are today. With your help, we were able to nurture this
initiative
<https://diff.wikimedia.org/2022/03/15/you-cant-see-the-puzzle-globe-on-an-audio-speaker-a-sound-logo-for-wikimedia/>,
bring it to life, and make it better than originally conceived
<https://diff.wikimedia.org/2022/05/24/refining-a-global-contest-to-create-the-sound-of-wikimedia/>.
You can read more about the journey of this project from a novel concept
to a global contest
<https://diff.wikimedia.org/2022/09/13/the-call-is-out-wikimedia-sound-logo-contest-launches/>
and a community vote
<https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Sound_Logo_Vote> on wiki and
Diff.
Thank you, very well played.
On behalf of the sound logo team,
Mehrdad
Useful links
-
The announcement on Diff + previous communications:
https://diff.wikimedia.org/2023/03/27/have-you-heard-wikimedia-has-a-sound-…
-
The resource page on Meta:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Communications/Sound_Logo
-
Category on Commons:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Wikimedia_sound_logo_submissions
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