@Ladsgroup Hi :) Have you decided that there will be a full-fledged competition without pre-training (Brainstorming ideas and project positioning)?
Topic on Project talk:Proposal for changing logo of MediaWiki, 2020
I'm sorry for the confusion. This time (until August 10th) is also the time for brainstorming ideas and project positioning. Do you want to help on facilitating the discussion?
Yes, I have already created a task in the Phabricator phab:T256989, and I thought someone would join it. But since no one is there, can we just create a poll about MediaWiki?
For such questions, when the result of the process is the fruit of the efforts of many people, it is important for the community to have the opportunity to express their ideas. And when we choose from these ideas, what do we pay attention to?
How to form a common image from our thoughts, shapes, colors - each represents something different. Will it be a sunflower in brackets or just some abstract allegory?
If we want to rely on the opinion of the majority, then there are many democratic processes that we can organize, for example, a vote or a poll about whether the participants like something or not. But who sits on the jury? Who makes the decision?
The more complex the decision-making process, the better it will be, but the less transparent the community's understanding of what it is. But I will not repeat myself, I'll just give a link
In one hand, I totally understand, mediawiki is a product and needs a product discussion around its brand, wordmark, logo and etc.
On the other hand, and this is really important, it's also a project in the Wikimedia movement and things need to be done the wiki-way and community needs to drive the discussion and make the calls. What I am doing in this discussion is basically duplicate of the process wikivoyage and wiktionary followed a couple of years ago (while it wasn't perfect, I admit) but doing it any other way will likely backfire (m:COLOR). So I highly recommand, having the discussion in one place, in a wiki, the wiki way.
I know it is late, but I start write Project:Proposal_for_changing_logo_of_MediaWiki,_2020/Poll:What_is_MediaWiki_to_you :)