One of the lovely things about the Wikimania logo -- which was designed by Ben Yates for Wikimania 2006 -- is that it is so adaptable. It's easy to draw with a couple of markers when you need to make a quick sign pointing attendees in the right direction, it's easy to print on a t-shirt, and it's easy to make derivatives of. I am so pleased to see the concept continuing to be used after all of these years, and I'm pleased to see each event make it their own :) 

best, 
Phoebe 
 


On Sun, Aug 17, 2014 at 8:22 AM, Deryck Chan <deryckchan@gmail.com> wrote:

It's quite clear to me that the London 2014 logo is a derivative work of the original Wikimania logo, just very rectilinear! But I guess I'm very familiar with the Wikimania logo so I shouldn't be surprised that people don't naturally realise they're the same thing.

On 17 Aug 2014 01:10, "Nkansah Rexford" <nkansahrexford@gmail.com> wrote:

I couldn't spot the use of the official Wikimania logo in any part of this year's event in London, from signs to booklets to social media.

As far as I know, this is the official Wikimedia foundation copyrighted logo for Wikimania: https://wikimania2014.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikimania_logo_with_text.svg

Didn't see any bit of this logo totally anywhere whatsoever!

Any rationale behind?

The logo used (or I saw) throughout this year's event is this: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikimania_2014_Shard_logo_v3_with_logotype_and_date_(small).svg authored by Edward.

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