[Foundation-l] [FR 07] Fundraiser 2007 -ResponsivenessofCommunity

Thu Sep 20 20:35:36 UTC 2007

I thought it was quite a good banner for use on a blog where you have
knowledge about the Foundation running the projects. However, that's quite a
small audience. My suggestion for improvement would be to add the WP logo on
the left, perhaps doing the same "partial" trick to keep the text in order.

Seriously, everyone and their dog has heard of Wikipedia, there is a serious
problem that they don't know it is run by the WMF and there are sister
projects.

Brian.

-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:foundation-l-bounces at lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Anthony
Sent: 20 September 2007 22:21
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Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] [FR 07] Fundraiser 2007
-ResponsivenessofCommunity

On 9/19/07, Michael Bimmler <mbimmler at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 9/19/07, Tim 'avatar' Bartel <wikipedia at computerkultur.org> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Titoxd at Wikimedia schrieb, am 19.09.2007 09:58:
> > > I'm pretty sure that they'll make something more subtle if
requested...
> > >
> > > By the way, I've thrown my hat into the mix and made an image for the
> > > fundraiser. I've uploaded it to Commons:
> > >
> > > http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Wikimedia_Fundraiser_2007.png
> > >
> > > (I'm using this email to release any copyright I may have and granting
it to
> > > the Foundation as well.) Hopefully you guys will like it. :)
> >
> > I don't want to be the bad guy but this logo does not match our visual
> > identity guidelines [1] and so it shouldn't be used at all.
> >
>
> As a clarification: It specifiically violates the sentence "Note that
> no derivative of the Wikimedia logo can be published without prior
> approval from the Foundation." Anyway, isn't this why we have a
> Community logo
(http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Wikimedia_Community_Logo.svg)
> which can be used without approval and without following the
> Foundation Logo guidelines?
>
> Michael
>
When I saw it (before reading the guidelines), I thought it was
because it was cut off.  And then, after reading the guidelines,
doesn't it violate "The logo should always be surrounded by margins of
at least the size of the red circle's diameter"?

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