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Alternative Wikidata logo for social media and circular frames
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abian
Feb 19 2019, 4:10 PM
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F30380905: wdt.png
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Feb 19 2019, 4:10 PM
F28246615: w-mark.png
Feb 19 2019, 4:10 PM

Description

The Wikidata logo, a horizontal ~81:50 rectangle, is great, but its shape can be a problem when it has to fit a circular frame. This is an increasingly frequent need, now most social network services use circular instead of square or rectangular shapes for profile pictures (Twitter, Facebook, Telegram, Mastodon, Quora, etc.). For these cases, Wikipedia has the 'W' mark, which looks great both as a favicon and as a picture for circular frames, but Wikidata doesn't have its own.

w-mark.png (385×696 px, 178 KB)

Just an example, @Mahir256 made a circular version inspired by the rectangular Wikidata logo to include it in https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:WikiProject_India_bars.svg. This version is being used temporally for https://twitter.com/wikidataindia.

WikiProject_circlesvg.svg.png (500×500 px, 35 KB)

https://twitter.com/wikidata_es currently uses...

wdt.png (512×512 px, 8 KB)

Questions

  1. Does Wikidata need an alternative logo/mark for circular frames?
  2. If so, what this alternative logo/mark should be? Would there be any legal/administrative procedures to follow before using this alternative logo/mark officially?

Event Timeline

I made the circular element for WikiProject India's regular logo (https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:WikiProject_India_bars.svg) as a substitute for the chakra in the center of the Indian flag, and not initially in the interest of having a logo fit perfectly inside a circular frame. (The logo which is present on the account to which David linked is meant to represent a datathon running from the 21st to the 24th and will be substituted with the regular logo at the datathon's conclusion.)

For brand recognition, we may not want to heavily transform or cut out from a project's logo.

The official Mastodon and Twitter accounts for Wikidata add padding around the logo to accomodate the circular crop:

-ui9qCIu_400x400.jpg (400×400 px, 14 KB)

Mastodon at https://wikis.world/@wikidata (IceCubes client):

IMG_0289.PNG (567×750 px, 167 KB)

Twitter (destop web client):

capture.png (892×1 px, 344 KB)