On Wed, Mar 31, 2021 at 4:28 PM Amir Sarabadani ladsgroup@gmail.com wrote:
After more than one year of design, discussion, vote, iteration, and months of legal work, I’m happy to announce that the logo of MediaWiki has been officially changed.
It looks beautiful and professional. Excellent work by Serhio, the organizers & everyone else who made this change happen. The installer variant [1] is also very clever.
The sunflower logo (which I quickly put together many years ago based on a lovely photograph by Florence) has certainly had a good run, but it was well past time for a fresh look, IMO. As you pointed out, it violates basically all rules of good logo design. >:-)
Fun fact: It was originally a submission to the Wikipedia logo contest, where it came in third and the current Wikimedia logo came in second. [2] It was pretty close - in some parallel universe, the internationally recognized symbol of Wikipedia may not be the puzzle globe, but a sunflower surrounded by square brackets. Make of that what you will. ;-)
Warmly, Erik
[1] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/File:MediaWiki-2020-installer-large-icon.svg [2] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/International_logo_contest/Results