Guillaume Paumier wrote:
Hi,
On Tue, Jul 22, 2008 at 3:54 PM, Lennart Guldbrandsson wikihannibal@gmail.com wrote:
Sorry for cross-posting this, but as Cbrown pointed out: not everybody reads the logo page on Meta.
Anyway:
Wikimedia Sverige http://se.wikimedia.org/wiki/Huvudsida, the Swedish chapter, are going to make a 3D version of the Wikipedia logo, a meter in diameter. But this means that we need to know what is on the puzzle pieces on the back of the globe. Which symbols are on the back?
It seems that we should probably have some official answer to this - or we will have to improvise ourselves.
My guess is that there will be no « official » answer to your question, simply because there is nothing on the back. Either « be bold » or look at http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Wikimania_2007_Wikiball
I would guess that the desire for an "official" answer has more to do with simply going ahead. Since the project names and logos are in a sense owned by the Wikimedia Foundation as trademarks, it would be nice to have derivatives of them properly cleared. Please ask Sue or Mike Godwin, but I don't expect it should be a big concern to have chapters doing something like this.
As for what actually goes there, since the original concept came out of the community, it makes sense to me for the community to be the one to extend it. Whether that's more language characters, project logos, or something else is up to them, and may depend on what it's for. I can see that sponsor logos could fit in the context of an event with those sponsors, but it wouldn't be appropriate elsewhere. So anyone can come up with an idea that fits their needs. We don't need a definitive 3D version, I don't anticipate changing the "official" logo from the two-dimensional one anytime soon.
--Michael Snow