Change 330359 had a related patch set uploaded (by Jdlrobson):
Brand beta differently

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/330359

@Nirzar this task will be significantly simpler if we use the same logo for stable and beta. Is that possible? Otherwise I want to bump this to a 5 or 8.

@Jdlrobson will it be easier to add something on top of the logo if it is beta?

something like this?

Yes. Should be much easier that way.

just hide/show badge with .beta will it reduce the work to 1point :P

updated the description. should we re-estimate it?

Change 330359 abandoned by Jdlrobson:
WIP: Brand beta differently

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/330359

@Nirzar - do you think the icon would be appropriate? I'm not sure how users would know that it means "beta"

I agree, what is blue star?

Why not something like:

Summarising my talk with Nirzar:

• Wikipedia app uses star so this would be consistent
• Using an icon avoids i18n issues that text would have and makes implementation easier (trade off for getting new branding out the door quicker)
• We can revisit the icon later - the main purpose right now is to differentiate it from stable.

lol so we wanted to brand our beta mode. and Jared and May had come up with this star as Beta. unfortunately it's not being used in many places and does have recognition issues. The reason for not using "beta" is only space constraints (thus removing entire wordmark and using only W) but then the effort is 4 points higher for that. plus i18n issues.

Our audience for beta is very small, I agree that this is not a good solution, but this is how we prioritize our work. impact should match effort. if you think we can do the first proposal of W [Beta] in an easy way which is not more than 1-2 points, we should do that. if you say it takes 5-8 points for just writing W [beta] in header then I can give that up looking at context of audience and use.

@ovasileva @Jhernandez @Jdlrobson
How about this? toned down

Change 335706 had a related patch set uploaded (by Bmansurov):
Convey beta mode through site branding

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/335706

Hey @Nirzar, I wanted to get your opinion on the following cases.

1. On iPhone 5 there is not enough space to display the beta logo as it has 1em margin on both sides, so that it does not touch left or right elements bordering it. Below is a screenshot. Let me know how I should hand this case.

2. On bigger screen phones than iPhone 5, things seem to look OK. Jon mentioned the shift in the logo and I'm working on fixing that. Other than that things seem to look ok. Here is a screenshot. Let me know if it's not what you expected.

3. On tablets we have a similar situation to the case 1. Here is a screenshot.

In T152526#2996520, @bmansurov wrote:

Hey @Nirzar, I wanted to get your opinion on the following cases.

1. On iPhone 5 there is not enough space to display the beta logo as it has 1em margin on both sides, so that it does not touch left or right elements bordering it. Below is a screenshot. Let me know how I should hand this case.

@Nirzar Maybe we can apply a max-width to the logo at this banner? e.g. shrink it?
We can always merge the code as is without a fix to this and address it in a follow up. (yay dev branches)

2. On bigger screen phones than iPhone 5, things seem to look OK. Jon mentioned the shift in the logo and I'm working on fixing that. Other than that things seem to look ok. Here is a screenshot. Let me know if it's not what you expected.

3. On tablets we have a similar situation to the case 1. Here is a screenshot.

FYI, I had a chat with @Nirzar and we decided to use the text "β" rather than an SVG.

Change 335915 had a related patch set uploaded (by Bmansurov):
Fix test scenario names

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/335915

@Jdlrobson one more patch to review ^.

Change 335706 merged by jenkins-bot:
Convey beta mode through site branding

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/335706

Change 335915 merged by jenkins-bot:
Fix test scenario names

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/335915

Signed off from design