Hi friends,
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
<https://diff.wikimedia.org/2023/03/28/have-you-heard-wikimedia-has-a-sound-logo/>
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
*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