[Wikipedia-l] Logo consensus?

Sat Oct 11 09:22:57 UTC 2003

Targuin wrote:
>One thing we could try in future is and initial 
>vote on concepts, just to get an idea of what 
>peopel would like to see.

That was my understanding of the vote we did do - perhaps that should have 
been made more clear. 

>I'm happy with the nohat logo. I say go ahead and add it :)

Me to. Make it so! I'm sure some people will suggest even better tweaks in the 
next few weeks after we give the winning Nohat logo some exposure. 

>perhaps one of the runner-ups from the 10 finalists 
>could be the Wiki*M*edia logo. 

I suggested the very same thing a while ago. Neolux's concept got second place 
in the first vote and this specific logo
http://meta.wikipedia.org/upload/f/f1/Ncwikicol.png got second place in the 
second vote. So I say we should go with that (or another Neolux variant) at 
least for a temp Wikimedia logo. NOTE: There still is the nagging issue that 
the Neolux logos look like another famous logo, but nobody has been able to 
pin that down. Perhaps it is an inherent brilliance of the design. 

>At least until we decide to do this all over again to 
>try to get a unified look across all project logos.
>I like the funky W in spots.

Eh? IMO, each project needs to have its own unique logo that is designed by 
its own participants. There is not much in common between the different 
Wikimedia projects other than an umbrella organization and the fact that they 
are all free content wikis. The Wikiquote logo is brilliant, for example, and 
I wouldn't change a thing. How could that be tied in with the other logos? 

Simply have "A [Wikimedia] project" below every logo on every Wikimedia 
project ([Wikimedia] would be a link to the portal at http://wikimedia.org/).

-- Daniel Mayer (aka mav)