International logo contest/Final logo variants/Matthewmayer

2003 Wikipedia international logo contest (logo comments, Matthewmayer)

This was an international contest held from July 20 to August 27 2003, gathering 150 proposals. After the early proposal by Chuck Smith on October 12, 2002, the contest was first proposed on June 14, 2003 by Erik Moeller, who argued that the logo (adopted in January 2002 from the Logo suggestions) was unaesthetic, not international, and portrayed a text-only Wikipedia.

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Preparation Vote on voting method Vote instructions Select ten finalists from the submitted proposals. Logos 1-25 Logos 26-50 Logos 51-75 Logos 76-100 Logos 101-125 Logos 126-150 All logos on one page Select the winning logo. Finalists Ballot and invalid ballots Ratify logo selection. Results Ratification Final logo variants and subpages

Too cluttered? So, how about we chop out just a portion of the sphere? (Sorry, very rough sketch which could be neatened up) And the central piece could be coloured differently for different Wikimedia projects.

Ah, just thought this is a bit like the Microsoft Office logo. Too similar? Matthewmayer 12:41, 27 Sep 2003 (UTC)

This is how other projects could work

I like it, and I don't think it's to similiar (done in the right way). See also

, an idea like this I just had. -- Tillwe 13:27, 27 Sep 2003 (UTC)

Which absolutely begs for

Gutza 14:31, 27 Sep 2003 (UTC)

That's really nice! -- Tarquin 17:22, 27 Sep 2003 (UTC)

It is! Wikipedia text is also nice. I love to see Chinese characters version or Arabic variants. -- Taku

Hey, you really made me smile with that -- didn't see it in my sketch, but of course, that could be the mascot ;-) -- Tillwe 17:09, 27 Sep 2003 (UTC)

Really cute - has kind of a 'human' touch, because its handpainted but on the other hand its simple enough to be recognized as a type of wikipedia brand. In addition its scaleable. I like it very much! Sansculotte 23:34, 27 Sep 2003 (UTC)

I like that idea a lot more than the sphere idea, but of course it can be developed further. A mascot has many more uses than just a logo does. ElusiveByte 03:43, 29 Sep 2003 (UTC)

This is brilliant. I'm all for it. User:Lament

To Matthew: I would rotate your image 180° degree, then you also get the person-likeness, which could be much friendlier than "someone hanging down". And shouldn't the different projects not be represented with different puzzle pieces, not only the central one? -- Tillwe 17:12, 27 Sep 2003 (UTC)

Does someone with a bit more artistic talent want to have a play with it? I do like the 'puzzle piece as a person' idea, the red/blue/green men are really cute! Matthewmayer 18:24, 27 Sep 2003 (UTC)

I still don't think they are logo-usable, cute as they are. But even here are colorful people: (Tillwe 21:33, 27 Sep 2003 (UTC))

=== No Way!!!=== I don't like the logo one bit... it's too much like the Microsoft Office idea. Last thing we need is Microsoft complaining about a ripoff of their logo, ay ay ay!!! --User:ILVI

This is the MS Office logo for comparison [1] - Matthewmayer

Yes, definitely too similar to MS's, which would be wrong on so many levels. :) Fuzheado

Against all rules, I put the puzzle pieces up to The mascot vote (which usually needs a second user to support it). Does anyone like to? -- Tillwe 20:23, 29 Sep 2003 (UTC)

I think this is really beautiful (much more than the globe), but I've got the feeling that the symbol of puzzle pieces getting together is lost... And does that one coloured piece represent wikipedia or a wikipedian? Figuratively, why is he couloured and others not? Or maybe there is actually no idea behind it. I would really dislike that. Guillôme 12:47, 5 Oct 2003 (UTC)