Fastfission wrote:
Hi all -- I just signed up to this list and was looking atht e archives a bit. I noticed the discussion about the Wikimania German site, and was curious after reading this comment:
Part of their logo, however, is a distorted version of the Wikipedia
logo, which I believe is not kosher; whoever contacts them to request they change their logo should also press them to change the name of the project.
I went to the site and it did look a lot like our logo. But I found a little section on their page about themselves which talks about their logo: http://www.wikimania.co.uk/wiki/index.php?title=Wikimania:%C3%9Cber_Wikimani...
See the "Unser LOGO" section. My German isn't that great anymore but they basically say they got theirs from a book which came out in 2001 and that it is very sad that we picked a similar logo (if I'm not reading it wrong, they are subtlely claiming that we stole in from them).
The book: http://www.informatik.hu-berlin.de/~gutsche/ideen-werkstatt/Ssingh2.jpg
This is from 2001, our current logo didn't evolve until 2003 according to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Logos_and_slogans
So... yeah. Looking over the logo discussion, I don't see any evidence that our current logo was influenced by that book or the German website: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image_talk:Paullusmagnus-logo_%28small%29.png
Our progression was:
- Text on a ball
- Ball made of puzzle
- Text on puzzle
- Individual letters on puzzle
It seems like an independent visual genealogy, unless I'm missing something. Very odd. Anyway, I don't think we have a strong claim about them copying us.
So.. beyond that.. hi! Glad to be here!
FF _______________________________________________
Thanks for the information FF
Incidently, this pushes forward the fact it is very important to keep old versions or old discussions available somewhere (rather than to delete them). In case of a conflict over logo creation, we can show the different steps (and dates) we used before agreeing on the current logo.
Ant