On 6/30/06, Delphine Ménard notafishz@gmail.com wrote:
First. At this stage, the Wikimedia Visual Identity guidelines do indeed apply to the Wikimedia Logo only.
Second. There is a fundamental difference between the Wikimedia logo and the Wikipedia logo in this that the Wikimedia logo still needs to be established in the mind of the general public. It represents the organisation, and the wish behind the Wikimedia Identity guidelines was to make sure that no derivation of the logo would be used to ends that do not serve the organisation, or for misrepresentation. The Wikipedia logo is well established and recognizable, even when transformed.
I noticed today Wikimedia visual identity guidelines has no translation, at least on the foundation site. For me it seems to worthy to translate in several languages. Or not?
If we have translation(s) a certain policy, however, it will be useful to determine whether the translation is as official as the original one(s). Which case is that? Or can we simply say "as for all policies of the Wikimedia Foundation, basically you should consider the original one(s) as official"?