Prepare your ears for Wikipedia’s ‘sound of all human knowledge’
by Jon Porter from The Verge - All Posts on (#6A9SA)
With more and more information being delivered via audio sources like voice assistants, the Wikimedia Foundation thought it was time to adopt a so-called sound logo" for Wikipedia and its other projects. Think of it as Wikipedia's equivalent of the Netflix ta-dum," the HBO aaaaaaah," or Intel's iconic five-note chime. After an exhaustive search via Sound of All Human Knowledge" contest, Wikimedia thinks it found an audio clip representing its mission.
The winning entry was submitted by Thaddeus Osborne, a nuclear engineer and part-time music producer from Virginia, USA. Here's how he describes the sound:
My sound logo welcomes its audience into a world of information. The sound of a page turning quickly becomes a library like a...