On Tue, Apr 10, 2012 at 12:40, Markus Krötzsch <markus@semantic-mediawiki.org> wrote:

On 08/04/12 21:04, Benjamin Bois wrote:

Hi all,

I've just finished the new logo from the Markus idea:
- http://dl.dropbox.com/u/177440/wikidata/20120407_wikidata10.png
Now, I stop and wait for comments and others critics.

This is very nice. I do like the overall appearance of this assembled logo. Also, the whole work clearly says "I am a logo".

This is a type of logo where one can spend arbitrary amounts of time to optimize the appearance (e.g., some icons could be more abstract). But we should view this as a draft for now and not discuss every detail yet. The icons have a slight cultural bias (with the wine being the most controversial), but again this could be refined.

In my view, it would be worth elaborating this further. I hope more people agree. The main issue is to make the logo more prominent/recognizable on smaller scales (compared to the other logos at [1]), which could require some abstraction/coarsening of the icons.

Markus

[1] http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Wikidata_logo_proposals

On Fri, Apr 6, 2012 at 1:56 PM, Markus Krötzsch
<markus@semantic-mediawiki.org <mailto:markus@semantic-mediawiki.org>>

wrote:

On 06/04/12 12:35, Benjamin Bois wrote:

Hi Markus,
thank you for helping us (designers) to find the way :)
To help us a bit more, can you (and the other members) give us
elements
to be integrated to the logo in reference to the WikiData
philosophy?

Well, just making suggestions ... in the end (like with all
Wikimedia projects), the community will decide about the logo. The
Wikidata developer team might only decide about the logo for the
software (just like MediaWiki has an own logo that is different from
Wikipedia's logo). So in fact we will need two logos :-)

So what should go into a Wikidata logo? I think: everything that
people collect data about: people, animals, cars, chemistry, music,
math, flowers, computers, ... Like the puzzle globe emphasizes the
textual nature of Wikipedia (in many languages), a Wikidata logo
should emphasize that the project is about the "things" themselves.
I don't know how to make this visually appealing and clearly
recognizable at the scale of a normal wiki logo, but I think it
could be done.

Good luck :-)

Markus

On Fri, Apr 6, 2012 at 1:21 PM, Markus Krötzsch
<markus@semantic-mediawiki.org
<mailto:markus@semantic-mediawiki.org> <mailto:markus@semantic-

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wrote:

Thanks for all the input!

One thing I would like to keep in mind is that Wikidata is
meant to
be easy and welcoming for a wide audience. As a computer
scientist,
I understand and appreciate imagery like a steel database
cylinder,
but I think it could look a bit technocratic to "normal"
people. I
don't have concrete proposals, but I would find it amazing
if the
logo could have a human touch to it.

One idea maybe: many people will know the Unilever logo [1] (a U
made of a variety of objects). There are various logos in
similar
style (see also the "earth" category at logotrends 2011
[2]). Maybe
something like this would be suitable for us, to show that
Wikidata
is about a wide range of topics and people. But making such
a logo
is a bit of work.

Cheers,

Markus

[1] https://www.google.com/search? q=unilever+logo&um=1&tbm=isch
<https://www.google.com/ search?q=unilever+logo&um=1& tbm=isch
<https://www.google.com/search?q=unilever+logo&um=1&tbm=isch>>
[2] http://www.logolounge.com/ article.asp
<http://www.logolounge.com/ article.asp
<http://www.logolounge.com/article.asp>>?

On 05/04/12 08:39, Lydia Pintscher wrote:

Hey folks :)

You're all awesome for creating pretty logos! Love them.
Can you all add them to
http://meta.wikimedia.org/ wiki/Talk:Wikidata#WikiData_
logo_candidate
<http://meta.wikimedia.org/ wiki/Talk:Wikidata#WikiData_
logo_candidate
<http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Wikidata#WikiData_logo_candidate>>
please so we don't lose any of them?

Cheers
Lydia

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