I and a few other people have been thinking lately that, while it certainly has its quirky charm, the present Wikipedia logo isn't quite right. For one thing, it would be a good idea to include the word "Wikipedia" and possibly also the words "The Free Encyclopedia" as part of the logo.
Would anyone like to have a go at generating some new logo ideas? The challenge is making something that fits the spirit of the project, includes one or more of the words above, and (!) fits in the upper right hand corner of the web page!
Of course, this isn't high priority. We could easily go on living with the present logo. A new logo might just be a nice little improvement.
Logo ideas could be posted on http://meta.wikipedia.com and announced from [[Wikipedia Announcements]].
Larry
On Tuesday 20 November 2001 03:40, you wrote:
I and a few other people have been thinking lately that, while it certainly has its quirky charm, the present Wikipedia logo isn't quite right. For one thing, it would be a good idea to include the word "Wikipedia" and possibly also the words "The Free Encyclopedia" as part of the logo.
Would anyone like to have a go at generating some new logo ideas?
How do you feel about animated GIFs?
If it's not too distracting, add it to http://meta.wikipedia.com/wiki.phtml?title=Logo+suggestions and we'll see :)
Magnus
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On Tuesday 20 November 2001 03:40, you wrote:
I and a few other people have been thinking lately that, while it certainly has its quirky charm, the present Wikipedia logo isn't quite right. For one thing, it would be a good idea to include the word "Wikipedia" and possibly also the words "The Free Encyclopedia" as part of the logo.
Would anyone like to have a go at generating some new logo ideas?
How do you feel about animated GIFs?
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Wow, there are a bunch of them already on http://meta.wikipedia.com/wiki.phtml?title=Logo+suggestions
Any more??
A few in there are better than what we've got, maybe--heck, maybe all of them are!
Larry
I think many in the open source movement are opposed to gifs for some intellectual property reasons. I'm pretty ambivalent on the issue, myself, but I also think we can respect those opinions fairly easily.
--Jimbo
Michel Clasquin wrote:
On Tuesday 20 November 2001 03:40, you wrote:
I and a few other people have been thinking lately that, while it certainly has its quirky charm, the present Wikipedia logo isn't quite right. For one thing, it would be a good idea to include the word "Wikipedia" and possibly also the words "The Free Encyclopedia" as part of the logo.
Would anyone like to have a go at generating some new logo ideas?
How do you feel about animated GIFs?
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No. There's a special format, MNG (I think), for animations that is licence-free, but browsers don't seem to support it very well.
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Do PNGs animate?
On Tuesday 20 November 2001 18:54, you wrote:
I think many in the open source movement are opposed to gifs for some intellectual property reasons. I'm pretty ambivalent on the issue, myself, but I also think we can respect those opinions fairly easily.
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Michel Clasquin clasqm@mweb.co.za writes:
Would anyone like to have a go at generating some new logo ideas?
How do you feel about animated GIFs?
[general GIF issues already raised by Jimbo]
I think animated logos are unprofessional. While advertisements *want* to distract, logos generally are not made for this purpose.
I am under the impression that we want to let our content stand for itself, not get pushed to the side by noisy graphics. No big-wig site I know uses an animated logo. Most constrain that to ads.
Actually, I don't think Wikipedia needs a new logo in the near future ...
BTW, I would also never include a animated link-button on one of my pages.
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