[Foundation-l] Re: Wikimedia Research Team logo [was: Getting started]

Tue Jun 21 00:48:47 UTC 2005

On 6/20/05, Aphaia <aphaia at gmail.com> wrote:
> ...
> Honestly I can't figure an organisation which department or internal
> team has their own logos and don't use the organisation logo itself.
> ...

I absolutely love the logo. It gives the people who discuss research
topics or some sense of community, while keeping it very closely bound
to Wikimedia. Indeed, if you read Peopleware by Tom DeMarco (a seminal
book on people and team management), he describes an incredibly
successful team at a major company (IBM?) that formed its own identity
-- dressed alike, had a jargon, etc -- and was tolerated because they
did awesome stuff.

With thousands of wikimedians, having a subset of them create a sense
of group (or purpose) identity is well worth the trouble.
Additionally, any designer will tell you that a consistent graphical
language is important in building and maintaining a brand.

-ilya