On Wed, Mar 31, 2021 at 4:28 PM Amir Sarabadani <ladsgroup(a)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