Hi,
Little bit of a different thread today--but something's been kind of biting
at me over the last couple of weeks and I thought it'd be best to get it
out there :)
What support would there be for changing the MediaWiki logo and
being consistent with it?
I'm not suggesting a drastic change, like substituting puppies for the
flower. I'm looking at a more subtle change, as in moving from our
current logo to something like[0]. Originally, I didn't like the SVG version
but over time it's managed to grow on me quite a bit. Although, I stil
think the text could use tweaking, something closer to the current color
would be nice. There's a couple of pretty big reasons I think we should
switch to this (or something like it):
1) It scales much nicer. The current version looks absolutely awful at
higher resolutions, and at lower ends becomes rather featureless. A
version natively designed as an SVG (but keeping the original design
ideas) takes care of that.
2) It fits much nicer with the other WMF logos (other than the puzzle
globe, which will never match :)
3) We've already started selling stickers based on the SVG version[1],
so it might be good to update it on
MediaWiki.org to match.
So...thoughts? Should we do this more formal-like in an RfC or
something? Other colors you'd like to paint the bikeshed?
-Chad
[0]
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Mediawiki_logo_reworked_2.svg
[1]
http://shop.wikimedia.org/products/wikimedia-project-stickers-pack-of-12
