On 5/17/07, Guillaume Paumier guillom.pom@gmail.com wrote:
Hello,
First, sorry for answering this thread only now.
On 5/15/07, Andrew Whitworth wknight8111@hotmail.com wrote:
Who has the final say in the logo? can each wikibooks project select a logo individually, or do all wikibooks projects have to have the same logo? What I mean to ask is, can the en.wikibooks community vote on the issue themselves, or do we have to have a "global" discussion on meta only?
The board has the final say in the logo. It should take a decision about logos chosen by members of the community after asking recommendation from the Marketing Committee.
About the color issue: logos must be specific from each project. It should avoid Wikimedia colors and blue derivative ones, as we already have too many blue logos. A logo is the most important vector of visual identity and each project must have its own identity, thus its own color in logo.
Thanks Guillaume,
but this is not made clear anywhere obvious - if at all. After a root around I found http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Marketing - but there is no mention of this on http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Logo, where I think it should be - go edit!
The idea of a colour scheme was introduced very late into the Wikiversity logo vote, and I gather it was likewise in the Wikibooks one too. The subsequent vote on the Wikiversity logo colour change was not to change it. ;-) So, what should we do? And will/should this colour scheme apply to all projects, effectively prompting a series of logo changes?
I think it would be great if the Marketing committee would give guidance and leadership on the issue of the logo - provided this is open to discussion. I'm open to rethinking the whole process in the light of various comments in this branding discussion - is this something the committee have thought about?
Cormac