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However, with years, the logo became outdated and we realized that it had several problems, including but not limited to: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_MediaWi... . 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
I love this. It looks great on the site. Thanks Serhio and all :)
On Wed, Mar 31, 2021 at 7:28 PM Amir Sarabadani ladsgroup@gmail.com wrote:
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_MediaWi... . 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
Amir (he/him)
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Nice outcome. Congrats to all
Anthere
PS: yet a little bit sad though :(
Le 01/04/2021 à 01:27, Amir Sarabadani a écrit :
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 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_MediaWi... https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Project:Proposal_for_changing_logo_of_MediaWiki,_2020 . 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 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T274678). There is a logo guideline for MediaWiki now: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:MediaWiki_logo_guidelines https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:MediaWiki_logo_guidelines
We already deployed changes to mediawiki.org http://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. 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) 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
Amir (he/him)
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Hi
So Sorry, I immediately associated it with the logo BP rolled out in the late 1990's except with new colours. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BP
On Thu, 1 Apr 2021 at 10:29, Florence Devouard fdevouard@gmail.com wrote:
Nice outcome. Congrats to all
Anthere
PS: yet a little bit sad though :(
Le 01/04/2021 à 01:27, Amir Sarabadani a écrit :
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_MediaWi... . 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
Amir (he/him)
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On Thu, Apr 1, 2021 at 4:53 AM Gnangarra gnangarra@gmail.com wrote:
Hi
So Sorry, I immediately associated it with the logo BP rolled out in the late 1990's except with new colours. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BP
See https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Project:Proposal_for_changing_logo_of_MediaWi...) They are similar only to the extent any two stylized round flower logos would look similar.
Also, this has been cleared against registered trademarks. That's why it took five months from the selection process until rolling it out.
On Thu, 1 Apr 2021 at 10:29, Florence Devouard fdevouard@gmail.com wrote:
Nice outcome. Congrats to all
Anthere
PS: yet a little bit sad though :(
Le 01/04/2021 à 01:27, Amir Sarabadani a écrit :
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_MediaWi... . 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
Amir (he/him)
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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?
Yours truly,
Rehmanhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Rehman
________________________________ From: MediaWiki-l mediawiki-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org on behalf of Amir Sarabadani ladsgroup@gmail.com Sent: 01 April 2021 04:57 To: wikitech-l wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org; MediaWiki announcements and site admin list mediawiki-l@lists.wikimedia.org; Wikimedia Mailing List wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org 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_MediaWi... . 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.orghttp://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 -- Amir (he/him)
Probably waiting until after April 1st to do all the updates
On Thu, 1 Apr 2021 at 12:02, Rehman Abubakr rehman.wikimedia@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?
Yours truly,
*Rehman https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Rehman*
*From:* MediaWiki-l mediawiki-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org on behalf of Amir Sarabadani ladsgroup@gmail.com *Sent:* 01 April 2021 04:57 *To:* wikitech-l wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org; MediaWiki announcements and site admin list mediawiki-l@lists.wikimedia.org; Wikimedia Mailing List wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org *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_MediaWi... . 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
Amir (he/him)
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On Thu, Apr 1, 2021 at 6:02 AM Rehman Abubakr rehman.wikimedia@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*
*From:* MediaWiki-l mediawiki-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org on behalf of Amir Sarabadani ladsgroup@gmail.com *Sent:* 01 April 2021 04:57 *To:* wikitech-l wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org; MediaWiki announcements and site admin list mediawiki-l@lists.wikimedia.org; Wikimedia Mailing List wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org *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_MediaWi... . 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
Amir (he/him)
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Hi Amir,
Thank you & the whole team that worked on making this change. The logo alone makes the website now look really different & being someone that loves UI changes, I love this change.
I remember it like just yesterday when I participated in the voting process. This is a great effort! Thanks
*--*
*Derick A.*
*From One Developer to Another!*
On Thu, Apr 1, 2021 at 1:41 PM Amir Sarabadani ladsgroup@gmail.com wrote:
On Thu, Apr 1, 2021 at 6:02 AM Rehman Abubakr rehman.wikimedia@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*
*From:* MediaWiki-l mediawiki-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org on behalf of Amir Sarabadani ladsgroup@gmail.com *Sent:* 01 April 2021 04:57 *To:* wikitech-l wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org; MediaWiki announcements and site admin list mediawiki-l@lists.wikimedia.org; Wikimedia Mailing List wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org *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_MediaWi... . 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
Amir (he/him)
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Great job!! Congratulations to each and everyone who worked to get this feat achieved.
Namaste,
Rajeeb.
On Thu, 1 Apr 2021 at 18:11, Amir Sarabadani ladsgroup@gmail.com wrote:
On Thu, Apr 1, 2021 at 6:02 AM Rehman Abubakr rehman.wikimedia@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*
*From:* MediaWiki-l mediawiki-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org on behalf of Amir Sarabadani ladsgroup@gmail.com *Sent:* 01 April 2021 04:57 *To:* wikitech-l wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org; MediaWiki announcements and site admin list mediawiki-l@lists.wikimedia.org; Wikimedia Mailing List wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org *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_MediaWi... . 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
Amir (he/him)
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Will Wikitech logo follow?
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чт, 1 квіт. 2021 о 16:40 Rajeeb marajozkee@gmail.com пише:
Great job!! Congratulations to each and everyone who worked to get this feat achieved.
Namaste,
Rajeeb.
On Thu, 1 Apr 2021 at 18:11, Amir Sarabadani ladsgroup@gmail.com wrote:
On Thu, Apr 1, 2021 at 6:02 AM Rehman Abubakr rehman.wikimedia@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*
*From:* MediaWiki-l mediawiki-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org on behalf of Amir Sarabadani ladsgroup@gmail.com *Sent:* 01 April 2021 04:57 *To:* wikitech-l wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org; MediaWiki announcements and site admin list mediawiki-l@lists.wikimedia.org; Wikimedia Mailing List wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org *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_MediaWi... . 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
Amir (he/him)
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Hi,
There are a few suggestions from my understanding but it's still being decided which to use for wikitech. See https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T279087
On Thu, 1 Apr 2021 at 18:49, Vira Motorko vira.motorko@gmail.com wrote:
Will Wikitech logo follow?
*--* *Vira Motorko // Віра Моторко* mobile: +380667740499 | facebook: vira.motorko https://www.facebook.com/vira.motorko | wikipedia: Ата https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Ата
If this email is about your daily job and it reaches you outside of the working hours, please, feel free to answer when it's appropriate! // Якщо це робочий лист і Ви отримали його не в робочий час, будь ласка, відповідайте, коли вважаєте за потрібне!
чт, 1 квіт. 2021 о 16:40 Rajeeb marajozkee@gmail.com пише:
Great job!! Congratulations to each and everyone who worked to get this feat achieved.
Namaste,
Rajeeb.
On Thu, 1 Apr 2021 at 18:11, Amir Sarabadani ladsgroup@gmail.com wrote:
On Thu, Apr 1, 2021 at 6:02 AM Rehman Abubakr rehman.wikimedia@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*
*From:* MediaWiki-l mediawiki-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org on behalf of Amir Sarabadani ladsgroup@gmail.com *Sent:* 01 April 2021 04:57 *To:* wikitech-l wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org; MediaWiki announcements and site admin list mediawiki-l@lists.wikimedia.org; Wikimedia Mailing List wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org *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_MediaWi... . 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
Amir (he/him)
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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
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