[Foundation-l] Wikimedia logo policy

Sat Jan 7 03:25:04 UTC 2006

Notafish (Delphine) has told me on my talk page that the 3D masthead I
made for my redesign of the www.wikimedia.org portal (which
incorporates the Wikimedia Foundation logo) violates a
newly-publicised Wikimedia Foundation policy about the use of the
Wikimedia logo.

Delphine also tells me that the file should also be deleted from the
Commons as well. Apparently the policy this image violates is that no
derivative of the logo may be used without the prior approval of the
Foundation.

Is there any chance the Board would approve my derivative of the logo?
The masthead in question is located at:

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Foundation_3D.png

and the logo policy that was made public after my logo had been on the
portal for several days is:

http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Wikimedia_visual_identity_guidelines

Forgive me for being a cynic, but was that policy made public solely
as a result of my logo derivative, in order to have it removed from
the portal? Apparently that policy had been on some "Internal Wiki"
for quite some time beforehand. If someone didn't like the logo
derivative I made then they could have just told me.

~Mark Ryan