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Good morning, good evening, and good day to all our Wiki Readers, Wiki Ninjas Authors, Wiki Ninjas Judges, and Wiki guests around the world.
Did we succeed to keep you in suspense?!? We had the result few days ago, but we decided to publish on the date we said we will… So here we are on January 31, 2020 with the final results of the TechNet Wiki Banners & Logo contest ?
Oh… But not so fast... let’s first go over some background, history, and most important the Thanks!
So, what is the TechNet Wiki Banners & Logo project?
The TechNet Wiki is an online community which operates in several different channels, such as articles at Microsoft TechNet Wiki, Blog, Facebook, and more. As an Online community we use images (banners and logo) to promote our activities. For example, authors can use the images for their TNWiki articles, Council members and groups leaders can use the images in announcements, we use the banners for our official Facebook groups, and bloggers can use the images in their posts. The goal of the project is to provide new images for the use of the community’s members in their posts.
The contest is just a fun way to make it more interesting and to help us choose the best images as the official banners.
Full history
- On 25 Nov 2012, Ana Paula de Almeida provided a set of Wiki Ninja Stick Figures images.
- On 3 Marsh 2015, Alan Nascimento Carlos upload to the Wiki Gallery several images promotional images to use in the TNWiki Articles and in the TechNet Wiki blog. And published it in a Wiki article.
- On 16 July 2014, Ronen Ariely founded the first official Facebook group for the TechNet Wiki community, and few local groups followed it.
- On 2014 Davut Eren created the first banner for the Facebook groups.
- On December 2015, The birth of the TechNet Wiki Banners & Logo project: At the end of 2015 Ronen Ariely asked on Facebook if someone can help to design a new banner for the group. The goal was to get one or maybe two new images, but it become much more. We had to choose between multiple banners sent by the community and we decided to have a contest. The images that made it into the final selection were upload to a Facebook Album and in this article.
- On 2 January 2016, we posted the result of the first TechNet Wiki banners contest. In this contest we select a single banner to be used.
- On 4 Dec 2017, Call-to-arms to all designers - The banners & Logo project.
- On 31 January 2018, TechNet Wiki Banners for 2018 – Announcing the winners.
- On 1 December 2018, Call-to-arms to all designers and the registration Wiki.
- On 2 January 2019, TechNet Wiki Banners for 2019 - Announcing the winners.
- On 25 November 2019, Kamlesh Kumar published the Call-to-arms to all designers for banners & logo for 2020.
- On First January 2020, we opened the voting to the community.
- And today it is the time to announce the winners of the Banners & Log contest for 2020!
The voting procedure
The voting this year was a bit different. First, it was 100% done by the community (with an automatic promotion algorithm according to few parameters). Second, instead of only ranking the banners in the order you liked them, we asked to give points (from 1 to 10) for each image separately.
This procedure required from the voters more work, since you had to go over all the images and select your score. The advantage is that people could give the same score for multiple images.
Next Once we closed the voting, we started the analysis and summarize procedure.
The voting is over, the votes were counted, the calculations were made, and the winners were determined!
We present only the images which got the final highest amount of points in each category, but you can download and watch all the final banners and Logo in this link.
Top 11 banners for 2020
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5. Davut Eren |
6. Neeraj Bali |
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7. Ronen Ariely |
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9. Utkarsh K |
10. Vikram Singh |
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Top 11 Logo’s images for 2020
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1. Neeraj Bali |
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3. Syed Shanu |
4. Davut Eren |
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6. Arul Mouzhi |
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8. Syed Shanu |
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9. Roshan Jayendran |
10. Mustaeen Rahaman |
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11. Gaurav Arora |
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New! Top Banners created by Ninjas under the age of 15
This is the first time we got contributions from members under the age of 15! This is a huge start and maybe next year we can have a separate contest for the young community’s members and the children of the community’s members. It will be awesome!
I want to thank Roshan Jayendran and Mustaeen Rahaman on their awesome work and I hope we will see you guys join us in other activities and in the next year banners contest. Well done!
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1. Mustaeen Rahaman |
2.Roshan Jayendran |
Thanks!
We want to use this opportunity to thank all the members who took part in the project and posted their work. Thank you! Arul Mouzhi, Ronen Ariely, James van den Berg, Hamid Sadeghpour Saleh, Mohamed El-Qassas, Kamlesh Kumar, George Chrysovaladis Grammatikos, George Kosmidis, Jayendran Arumugam, Roshan Jayendran, Utkarsh K, Davut Eren, Mustaeen Rahaman, Ousama EL HOR, Neeraj Bali, Gaurav Arora, Nanddeep Nachan, Vikram Singh, Syed Shanu, , and our Gold medal winner Etzion Goel Illustrator.
Thanks to all the members who participate in the discussions in the Facebook group. You feedback gave the tools to choose the final 100 images for the contest and gave the creators the help to improve their work.
I want to thank the team behind the scene who help manage and execute the project: Kamlesh Kumar, Gaurav Arora, and myself (Ronen Ariely).
Please join me to thanks everyone who contributed their work, the project team, and join me to congratulate the winners!
Thanks,
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