Wikinews/Logo/Proposals

This page serves to collect logo proposals for Wikinews. Please note that the current logo policy of the Wikimedia Foundation is that logos are not meant to be open content, because this conflicts with possible trademarks. Instead, the copyright of the logo is to be transferred to the Foundation by the creator. If you want to upload a new logo, please add the copyright tag {{CopyrightByWikimedia}} to the image description page. If you are the creator of one of the logos below, please change the copyright on the image description page accordingly.

The logo proposal stage will last until December 1, 2004 at least. For an overview of all current Wikimedia project logos, see Logos.

Drawing hands by User:Eloquence	Admittedly this looks more like drawing than writing. I was aiming for two hands working on a newspaper, but I suck at drawing and didn't find a good newspaper clipart to use. The hand/pen is from OpenClipart.org.--Eloquence See also: comments at Image talk:Wikinews-draftlogo.png
Draft logo created by User:Neitram	A logo idea following the stylized design of a typical newspaper title page, intended to look staid and reputable. --Neitram Note: This logo is too big, the width should be 135 pixels or less.
Draft logo created by User:Neitram	The same, reduced to a width of 135 pixels. --Neitram
Draft logo created by User:Neitram	Same idea as above, but with some perspective added to make it more dynamic and to increase the impression of a newspaper front page. --Neitram
Draft logo by User:Stw	Quite different from the other suggestions, but perhaps someone likes it? Comments are welcome on Image talk:Wikinews-logo-stw-1.png --Stw
Suggestion.	My suggestion with the map of the world by night. A con is that it is different from many other wikimedia-logos. Väsk 21:07, 25 Oct 2004 (UTC) A worthy generalisation of what makes a logo good, as taught to me by all my graphic design teachers, is that someone whose seen the logo once can easily draw it. This seems to be too much of an illustration. -- user:zanimum
Pipes logo, rough draft	Different streams uniting into one. Authoritative and powerful. --Brevity I really like this one, for some reason. It combines the 'W' of "Wiki" with the 'N' of "News", albeit in a way reminiscent of the CNN logo. Either way, this is my pick of the ones on this page at the moment. - Mark Ryan 12:23, 31 Oct 2004 (UTC) While this is an extremely solid design, the CNN point works against it. What about if it was reformatted as so... -- user:zanimum Okay, both of you feel it reminds you of CNN. That's not good if it's the first thing you see. Changing the relationship of type to text does not solve the problem. So I made another variant. I hate presenting two options that are too similar. I'll trash this 'pipes' logo and thread if you think the new one is superior. Brevity
Heartbeat logo, rough	Two streams join into one shape which resembles a heartbeat monitor. --Brevity
Papers logo, very rough	Two newspaper sheets, of different origin, folded together. This is just an idea -- the concept needs refinement. --Brevity
Image:wikinews-brevity.pdf	PDF/Adobe Illustrator source for my logos above. --Brevity
Globe.	Another suggestion with image from en:earth. Väsk 16:19, 26 Oct 2004 (UTC) If you take away the text, it's just a common photo. If you take the words away from the McDonalds or Nike logos, or even Wikipedia or Wikimedia for that matter, you can still recognise them. -- user:zanimum
Simple wordmark Simple wordmark Simple wordmark	Keep it simple. This is a wordmark, like 99% of newspapers have, compared the logos everyone else has submitted. Gill Sans and News Gothic used. Blue and orange contrast, one is more modern and out of the ordinary, like the unconventional Wikinews concept, the other serious, like a traditional newspaper. User:Zanimum You have an excellent point, but I think you took it a bit too far. Being respectable is important, but so is uniqueness. Orange is so popular now I'm not sure it's enough to convey that idea. Brevity There. There's infinite colour schemes. -- user:zanimum
World Reading, very rough	Another suggestion made during a coffee break. The idea is what counts. Julio Herrera 16:39, 26 Oct 2004 (UTC)
Newspaper and wordmark combined.	Another version of World Reading. This logo is flexible. You can use just the word alone and the newspaper looks a bit like an arrow. If you flip it 90 degrees counter-clockwise, you'll get a nice iconic forward-pushing arrow (speed). Väsk 18:35, 29 Oct 2004 (UTC)
Wikinews in many other scripts User:Tussikanin	You can see much of scripts.. --Tussikanin Frankly too much of the scripts. That's not attractive, and not memorable. It shows internationality of the project, which is good, but we need a design, not a visual hourah for the scope of the project. -- user:zanimum
User:Squash design	This is a logo designed and made by me initally for Wikicommons where it came 2nd placed (See [1], at the comments I got suggestions to use this 'nice logo' on another Wikimedia project as there was already a more suitable logo at the time, So what I did is I tweaked the wording to a different font so it looks modern with the current modern flower and what resulted is a nice looking logo. I made the image in the GIMP using plugins and a lot of my own time tweaking it adding a drop shadow which would make the flower look really nice on the current Monobook background and such. In addition, the logo can be easily resized and changed to a transparent background freely (See this screenshot [2]). The logo is simple, but without compromising any good looks as seem with the flower which contains the depth, visual appeal but does not have any inconsistent edges. The flower, or the pedals to be specific is supposed to represent that the news of the word comes from all different directions of the world (NEWS - North East West and South). The text is larger then the Wikicommons text because it is needed for accessbility, so that a person can look at it straight away and see it without examinaning further details such as the current Wikipedia logo. Also it is a different text because the Wikinews logo should be distinguished a bit from the Wikimedia logo and other projects but still keeping that Wikimedia feeling in it. If the Wiki community thinks that this is the best design for Wikinews then may it then be so. Thank you for reading. Squash 22:54, 13 Nov 2004 (UTC)