On 6/30/06, Delphine Ménard notafishz@gmail.com wrote:
My personal opinion on projects logos is that they *can* be transformed, as long as they are properly tagged with the Wikimedia copyright notice and *only* used in the Wikimedia projects.
Yes, I agree. Community use is separate from external use, and giving people a little leeway here is better than constantly trying to clean up after them.
The Wikimedia logo however should at all times follow the present Wikimedia Visual identity guidelines.
You know that we've argued about this in the past. I don't agree with the rationale that increasing awareness is a good reason to do this, but in some ways, the notion that the Wikimedia logo - being about the organization rather than the individual projects - needs to be "sacred" does make sense. It is, after all, strongly tied to the notion of organizational authority.
I do still believe that there might be some derivatives that we should explicitly authorize, such as slight variants for each committee. I don't see a consistent pattern of combination of the unmodified Wikimedia logo with a small icon representing a particular area of work (communications, research, etc.) as inconsistent with the need for a stable corporate identity.
Erik