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Organisation visual identity guidelines

Logos

The logo of the Wikimedia Foundation and related projects are trademarks, registered under xxxx.

As such, they can not be altered or used for derivative works, and of course not been put under GFDL or any other license.

If you wish to make a logo for the Wikimedia Foundation or any of the projects, you will have to follow the following steps:

• make a proposition to the WMF board
• for your logo to be used officially, its copyright will have to be transfered to the Wikimedia Foundation.

Colors

Wikimedia logo

• RGB
• CMYK

Wikimedia Local chapters

• Local chapters recognized by the Foundation must follow the following rules for the use of the logo:
• Colors and design: that of the Wikimedia logo.
• Font: Gill Sans
• Layout: Round logo on top, Wikimedia underneath, and on another line when possible, the name of the country in its original language. Standard size of the name of the country is about 85% of the name Wikimedia, with a width of maximum 125% to spread the name as much as possible under the name Wikimedia. All logos from Wikimedia chapters need to be approved by the board.
• List of Wikimedia chapters logos:

A little history of the Wikimedia Logo

Author: Neolux

I have had a couple of messages relating to how the Wikimedia logo was created and what it represents.

The colours are red, blue and green, representing the three primary colours of light, as well as the three colours that used for links on MediaWiki projects. The current default theme has changed the green links to a different shade of blue though I think, so it may be a bit outdated.

In terms of the shape of the logo, the white space in the main circular area forms a stylised "w" representing "wiki". This, also allows the green area to represent a book, which is a symbol of knowledge. The blue arc surrounding the book hopefully represents "encompassing" that knowledge, which is something that the Wikimedia projects hope to do. The smaller red circle interrupts the blue arc, which can show the incomplete nature of a wiki. Completing the arc would imply that all knowledge has been encompassed, which is a practical impossibility. Serendipitously, the combination of all these elements also forms a humanoid, with the red circle being the head, the blue arc being arms and the book of knowledge being the heart/torso.

Simple to see, but perhaps it was chosen because it can represent so much, and be very relevant to the Wikimedia project.

I also designed the WikiQuote logo, and the Wikimedia Commons logo was derived from my WikiMedia design.

If anyone wants more clarification or has any other questions, feel free to leave a message for me here, or email admin (at) neolux (dot) biz.

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