Re: Logo discussion

On 5/17/07, Guillaume Paumier <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> First, sorry for answering this thread only now.
>
> On 5/15/07, Andrew Whitworth <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> >
> > Who has the final say in the logo? can each wikibooks project select a
> > logo
> > individually, or do all wikibooks projects have to have the same logo?
> > What
> > I mean to ask is, can the en.wikibooks community vote on the issue
> > themselves, or do we have to have a "global" discussion on meta only?
>
>
> The board has the final say in the logo. It should take a decision about
> logos chosen by members of the community after asking recommendation from
> the Marketing Committee.
>
> About the color issue: logos must be specific from each project. It should
> avoid Wikimedia colors and blue derivative ones, as we already have too many
> blue logos. A logo is the most important vector of visual identity and each
> project must have its own identity, thus its own color in logo.


Thanks Guillaume,

but this is not made clear anywhere obvious - if at all. After a root
around I found <http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Marketing> - but there
is no mention of this on <http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Logo>, where
I think it should be - go edit!

The idea of a colour scheme was introduced very late into the
Wikiversity logo vote, and I gather it was likewise in the Wikibooks
one too. The subsequent vote on the Wikiversity logo colour change was
not to change it. ;-) So, what should we do? And will/should this
colour scheme apply to all projects, effectively prompting a series of
logo changes?

I think it would be great if the Marketing committee would give
guidance and leadership on the issue of the logo - provided this is
open to discussion. I'm open to rethinking the whole process in the
light of various comments in this branding discussion - is this
something the committee have thought about?

Cormac