On 5/17/07, Guillaume Paumier <guillom.pom(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Hello,
First, sorry for answering this thread only now.
On 5/15/07, Andrew Whitworth <wknight8111(a)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