We’re hoping to release v5.2.3 in the next few weeks. As usual, I’d like to hold a competition to design the banner image that is shown on the splash screen and within the opening HelloThere tiddler.
Ideally, the artwork should reflect some of the changes in the new version. I’ve updated the release note for the prerelease:
Entries will be accepted until Friday 22nd July 2022 at 8am UK time
The other rules/guidelines for the competition are:
The version number must be clear and readable even when the banner is shown at a reduced size
The version number must use the correct punctuation including the “v” prefix and clear full stops between the numbers
The image must be a PNG or JPEG of exactly 560x315 pixels
Note that the image is displayed at a smaller size on tiddlywiki.com, so check that your artwork is legible at the display size (the scaling is done in order to yield good quality on hi-dpi displays)
The bottom 46 pixels will be obscured by the banner text “What’s new in 5.2.3” when it is displayed within HelloThere
The image need not include the word “TiddlyWiki”. The banner image is only used in contexts where it is clear that it is about TiddlyWiki
Feel free to enter an updated version of artwork that was a runner-up in a previous competition
Reply to this message with your entry, or any questions
Please give lots of feedback here to encourage the artists
Here are the posts about previous artwork competitions:
I like to have a radical change here! While this is not the TiddlyWiki logo (it is the Motovun Jack), but as the splash screen image it can reflect some features of Tiddlywiki!
Tiddlywiki is
an amazing note taking tool
a wonderful nonlinear notebook
an amazing webapp
a task manager
a todolist app
a slideshow app (using plugin)
a static site generator
has Zettelkasten editions
…
and much more … (I cannot remember all of them )
Lets propose a banner reflect those features, what do you think?
As usual, I’ve set up the tw-logo-contest site to mirror the submissions posted here for easy browsing, and for quick trips down the memory lane of prior entries.
Great to hear from you, and thank you for the charming submission.
There is a chance that the detail of the paws might be lost – remember that the bottom 46 pixels is partially obscured when the image is used in the HelloThere tiddler. So it might make sense to move things up a little, and leave some emptier space at the bottom.
This is an homage to the feature I’m most excited about in this release; the enhanced CheckboxWidget that now lets you easily toggle individual values in a list - thank you @rmunn / Robin !
Anyone who is more graphically skilled is welcome to just take the concept and improve the image. The idea is that Motovun Jack checks the 2 and 3 while also indicating coming future progress.
Welcome to the banner image contest! I’ve updated my little gallery site to include yours and all the others up to now.
One nudge I’d make is that the wheelchair image for accessibility may be a bit confusing for a ARIA screen-reading features, since being in a wheelchair has little in common with needing a screen-reader. There are some icons out there that are more specific to audio access for vision-impaired and blind web users. I’m not sure what’s best, but for example: screen reader Icon - Free PNG & SVG 1702967 - Noun Project
One other consideration that people have occasionally raised is the size of the image. Though it’s just one image, if that images weighs in at 130KB – compared to most banners which have been around 18-30KB, this means proportionately much more demand on servers and web traffic and load times.
I just had a thought, Being from Australia I thought about making a Preferential voting system in tiddlywiki, the question is how to accept a vote tiddler from each user.
For example with a randomly ordered list of all the entries you do one of the following;
Mark each up to any number with 1, 2, 3 …
Use list draggable to manually order the list in your preferred order.
Ideally we use a mechanism like unique discourse name to limit votes to one
Then provide a method to determine the winner from all preferences given.
Lets say there are 5 entries, the 1st preference gets 5 points, the last preference gets 0 points
Why;
If few vote for your first preference your second preference influences the next likely.
However there are other maths behind the preferential voting needed.
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