Hi Yana,

The blog post is not entirely clear as "Wikimedia logo" can have a different meaning in different contexts. Reading the blog post, I can't define precise what a "Wikimedia logo" is. "Wikimedia logo" can mean:

* the logo used by Wikimedia: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikimedia-logo.svg

* this logo and all the derivatives of it (for chapters, Meta, etc)

* all logos of all the Wikimedia wikis, including the Wikipedia logo

The blog post speaks in plural form of logos. And the blog post is speaking about the MediaWiki and Community logos as exception, which differ much from the Wikimedia logo, I suspect that the blog post tries to say that all the logos from Wikipedia, Wikiquote, Wikisource, Wikinews, Wikibooks, Wiktionary, Wikidata, Wikispecies, Incubator, Commons, Wikivoyage, Wikiversity, Wikimania, + all screenshots of wiki pages with the logo of a Wikimedia-wiki on it, all the derivatives of these logos, including the Wikimedia family logo. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikimedia_logo_family_complete-2013.svg

Can you confirm this, just for the sake of clarity?

Thanks!

Romaine

2014-10-27 18:51 GMT+01:00 Yana Welinder <ywelinder@wikimedia.org>:

Hi folks,

I'm happy to announce that we are re-licensing the Wikimedia logos on
Commons to CC BY-SA 3.0:
https://blog.wikimedia.org/2014/10/24/wikimedia-logos-have-been-freed/

I would really appreciate your help with replacing the {{Copyright by
Wikimedia}}
<https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Template:Copyright_by_Wikimedia>[1]
templates on the logos with the {{Wikimedia trademark}}
<https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Template:Wikimedia_trademark>[2] and
{{cc-by-sa-3.0}} <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Template:Cc-by-sa-3.0>[3]
templates. But we don't want to replace templates on the MediaWiki
<https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:MediaWiki.svg>[4] and the Community
<https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikimedia_Community_Logo.svg>[5]
logos, which were originally released under free licenses.

There are also some pages on Commons, like this one
<https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Licensing>[6], that may need to
be updated based on the re-licensed logos.

Thanks,

Yana

[1] https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Template:Copyright_by_Wikimedia

[2] https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Template:Wikimedia_trademark

[3] https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Template:Cc-by-sa-3.0

[4] https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:MediaWiki.svg

[5] https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikimedia_Community_Logo.svg

[6] https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Licensing


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