Wikipedia, the online encyclopedia, is in need of a new logo. The website’s current logo is a simple green and white rectangle with the Wikipedia name written in blue. The website’s current design is not very user-friendly and it could use some improvement. A better logo would help make Wikipedia more visible and easier to navigate. There are many different logos that could be used for Wikimedia Foundation, the organization that runs Wikipedia. Some possible options include a simple green and white rectangle with the Wikimedia Foundation name written in blue, a stylized version of the organization’s acronym W3C (World Wide Web Consortium), or even a variation on the Wikipedian symbol for “a” (A). If you have any suggestions for a new Wikimedia Foundation logo, please let us know. We would love to hear your thoughts!
The Wikimedia Foundation is seeking a sound that it wants people to associate with “the sound of all human knowledge.” The idea is to identify content coming from its different projects, such as Wikipedia, whenever visuals are not available — for example, if you ask your phone’s assistant for information on something and it pulls content from Wikipedia.
Wikimedia said on the contest page, “with a sound logo, people will always hear the same sound when responses come from a Wikimedia project. The expectation is that this mnemonic device will, with time, help increase positive emotional responses to the Wikimedia brand, and since the source of content will be accurately identified, it could lead to more people thinking of Wikimedia as a trusted source of verifiable information.”
If you have any idea of what that might sound like, then you should submit your idea to the Wikimedia sound logo contest by October 10th. Submissions will be reviewed by a panel of Wikimedia volunteers, sound logo experts, and a musicologist until November 29th. From there, the ten best sounds will be put up for an online vote that will finish on December 19th. If your sound wins, you’ll receive $2,500 and a trip to a recording studio to produce the final sound. More information about the contest is available at the source link below.
Source: The Wikimedia Foundation
