On Thu, Apr 1, 2021 at 6:02 AM Rehman Abubakr <rehman.wikimedia(a)live.com>
wrote:
Hello,
Congratulations to Serhio, Amir, and the rest of the team, for the
relatively smooth transition.
A quick comment: I noticed that the favicon is still showing the old
version. Is that due to an update lag, accidental omission, or is it
intentional?
You just need to clear the cache. Ctrl + Shift + R.
Yours truly,
*Rehman <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Rehman>*
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*Subject:* [MediaWiki-l] Logo of MediaWiki has changed
Hello,
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. This applies to both the software and logo of
https://mediawiki.org.
The old logo of MediaWiki was adopted slightly more than fifteen years
ago. This logo was featuring the nice concept of a sunflower representing
diversity, constant growth and also wilderness.
However, with years, the logo became outdated and we realized that it
had several problems, including but not limited to:
- It was a bitmap picture so it’s unusable in large sizes
- Its high details (“too realistic”) made it unusable in small sizes
- Its fixed and realistic style made it hard to have variations or
adaptations
Most, virtually all, software products use a simpler and more abstract
form following basic logo design guidelines and best-practices to avoid
above (and more) issues. For example, docker, kubernetes, Ubuntu, Vue.js,
React, Apache Kafka and many more.
You can find the discussion of changing the logo in
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Project:Proposal_for_changing_logo_of_MediaW…
. As you can see on this page, a lot of interesting practical and
theoretical exchanges happened, leading to the final vote and decision.
The new logo represents a collection of projects built on our engine:
each petal is one of the many wikis that we support, and the lack of an
explicit core shows that we are part of these projects, as well as and they
are part of MediaWiki. The new logo also reflects the fact that evolution
never stops, and like the petals of a flower, the development of each
project, the growth of each community built on our engine allows everyone
else to grow.
The designer of the new logo is [[User:Serhio Magpie]]. With the nice
abstraction baked-in, you can use it in large or small sizes or you can
adapt it for different usecases (there’s one already for mediawiki on
docker:
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T274678). There is a logo
guideline for MediaWiki now:
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:MediaWiki_logo_guidelines
We already deployed changes to
mediawiki.org and landed related
patches on master, meaning from 1.36 release onwards, it’ll come with the
new logo. You can follow the work of rolling it out in
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T268230.
I humbly ask Wikimedians to update their wikis, for example usages on
the main pages, Wikipedia articles, templates, and more. You can use the
logos in this category on Commons. The files are already protected against
upload vandalism.
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:MediaWiki_logo_(2020)
A big thank you to all who helped this project to finish. From
designers, community members, people who voted and discussed it intensively
for months, Wikimedia Legal for doing all the necessary work for
transferring the rights, clearing it and filing it for trademark. And many
many more people.
Best
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