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 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.wav
The announcement on Diff + previous communications: 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#How_will_the_final_selection_happen?
Community liaisons: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Communications/Sound_Logo#Project_team
Community conversations: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Communications/Sound_Logo#Community_conversations

	Mehrdad Pourzaki Lead Movement Communications Specialist wikimediafoundation.org

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