Hello everyone, and congratulations, all!
It is exciting to see that this work is now complete and we have a winning sound selected by the movement!
As some of you recall, between November 2020 and October 2021, I was the Chair of the Wikimedia Foundation’s Board of Trustees’ ad hoc Brand Committee. This committee worked closely with WMF staff, as well as with 9 advisors from our global community, to create a Brand strategy that would guide the Wikimedia Foundation’s work on Brand. Our work culminated in a Board resolution on the topic, with one of the main areas of work being exploring the idea of creating a sound logo for the movement, in order to improve the attribution of Wikimedia content on audio devices. It was a priority for the Board that listeners accessing our content on audio devices have an opportunity to learn about the trusted source of their information, and that the thousands of volunteers creating our ecosystem receive the credit and recognition they deserve.
I then had the pleasure of participating in the judging panel that led to the final 10 choices the community voted on.
So it has been a 3-year-long fascinating journey, and I am extremely thankful and grateful for the effort, thoughtfulness and diligence of both our staff and volunteers, who made this happen the ‘wiki way’ – openly, collaboratively and with great care.
Congratulations, Thaddeus, for the winning sound! Your contribution has now equipped our movement with a sound logo for audio devices and settings for years to come. I hope you join me in congratulating him and the team working on this.
And of course, share the sound! I’ve already heard of someone making it into a ringtone, and I look forward to learning about additional creative ways we can use it to promote our work on free and open knowledge to everyone.
Best,
Shani
Just in case the previous email arrived with the links all jumbled in your inbox!!!
Hi everyone,
On behalf of the Sound Logo team of staff and community collaborators, it’s my great pleasure to officially introduce the winning Wikimedia sound logo, the sound of all human knowledge. Read the full story on Diff and access translations.
We invite you to listen and explore more sounds from the contest and to visit the sound logo resource hub on Meta to learn more.
Thank you!
Whether we personally use smart audio devices or not, we see–and hear–them everywhere. Preparing Wikimedia content for audio settings and most importantly, doing it in a way that was true to our values and practices, and at the same time fun, was not an easy endeavour. We needed a whole orchestra. Many thanks to the screening team of volunteers, the selection committee, the dynamic team of community liaisons, and you. We are grateful to many of you who took part in on-wiki, virtual, or in-person conversations, listened, shared, voted, or in any other way participated to help bring us to where we are today. With your help, we were able to nurture this initiative, bring it to life, and make it better than originally conceived. You can read more about the journey of this project from a novel concept to a global contest and a community vote on wiki and Diff.
Thank you, very well played.
On behalf of the sound logo team,
Mehrdad
Useful links
The winning sound: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikimedia_Sound_Logo_Finalist_VQ97.wav
The announcement on Diff + previous communications: https://diff.wikimedia.org/2023/03/28/have-you-heard-wikimedia-has-a-sound-logo/
The resource page on Meta: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Communications/Sound_Logo
Category on Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Wikimedia_sound_logo_submissions
Screening team experience: https://diff.wikimedia.org/2022/10/31/screening-3235-sound-submissions/
The selection committee: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Communications/Sound_Logo/Contest_proposal#How_will_the_final_selection_happen?
Community liaisons: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Communications/Sound_Logo#Project_team
Community conversations: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Communications/Sound_Logo#Community_conversations
_______________________________________________On Tue, Mar 28, 2023 at 9:57 AM Mehrdad Pourzaki <soundlogo@wikimedia.org> wrote:Hi everyone,
On behalf of the Sound Logo team of staff and community collaborators, it’s my great pleasure to officially introduce the winning Wikimedia sound logo, the sound of all human knowledge. Read the full story on Diff and access translations.
We invite you to listen and explore more sounds from the contest and to visit the sound logo resource hub on Meta to learn more.
Thank you!
Whether we personally use smart audio devices or not, we see–and hear–them everywhere. Preparing Wikimedia content for audio settings and most importantly, doing it in a way that was true to our values and practices, and at the same time fun, was not an easy endeavour. We needed a whole orchestra. Many thanks to the screening team of volunteers, the selection committee, the dynamic team of community liaisons, and you. We are grateful to many of you who took part in on-wiki, virtual, or in-person conversations, listened, shared, voted, or in any other way participated to help bring us to where we are today. With your help, we were able to nurture this initiative, bring it to life, and make it better than originally conceived. You can read more about the journey of this project from a novel concept to a global contest and a community vote on wiki and Diff.
Thank you, very well played.
On behalf of the sound logo team,
Mehrdad
Useful links
The announcement on Diff + previous communications: https://diff.wikimedia.org/2023/03/27/have-you-heard-wikimedia-has-a-sound-logo/
The resource page on Meta: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Communications/Sound_Logo
Category on Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Wikimedia_sound_logo_submissions
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