On 6/30/06, Delphine Ménard <notafishz(a)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