Gerard Meijssen wrote:
When I read what is proposed, the impression is given that a process will start with a compulsory outcome. I understand the rationale for one shared logo and favicon. The problem is that it is people outside of Wiktionary that want to improve the Wiktionary "brand" and the last time it was very much these outsiders that made the selection.
Exactly. Despite the fact that fr.wikt and a few others eventually adopted the logo, the logo debacle was not en.wikt's making. It wasn't a refusal to accept the the outcome of the proposal, it was a reluctance to be dictated to by people who weren't a part of the community. I'm afraid this will be interpreted the same way, if we're proposing to just slap a sitenotice on all the Wiktionaries telling them to discuss a new logo. There needs to be community impetus for the change, so that the meta discussion evolves out of actual community desire for a new logo. We should start at places like en.wikt's [[Wiktionary:Beer parlour]], fr.wikt's [[Wiktionnaire:Wikidémie]], and es.wikt's [[Wikcionario:Café]], not foundation-l.
Dominic
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Dominic wrote:
Gerard Meijssen wrote:
When I read what is proposed, the impression is given that a process will start with a compulsory outcome. I understand the rationale for one shared logo and favicon. The problem is that it is people outside of Wiktionary that want to improve the Wiktionary "brand" and the last time it was very much these outsiders that made the selection.
Exactly. Despite the fact that fr.wikt and a few others eventually adopted the logo, the logo debacle was not en.wikt's making. It wasn't a refusal to accept the the outcome of the proposal, it was a reluctance to be dictated to by people who weren't a part of the community. I'm afraid this will be interpreted the same way, if we're proposing to just slap a sitenotice on all the Wiktionaries telling them to discuss a new logo. There needs to be community impetus for the change, so that the meta discussion evolves out of actual community desire for a new logo. We should start at places like en.wikt's [[Wiktionary:Beer parlour]], fr.wikt's [[Wiktionnaire:Wikidémie]], and es.wikt's [[Wikcionario:Café]], not foundation-l.
I have to respectfully disagree that a proposal that will affect all these projects has to originate in thirty different places. Since there is no central Wiktionary community, the Meta project, and Foundation-l as well as Wiktionary-l (which was cross-posted) is the place to get the discussion going.
While the English Wiktionary community may or may not be satisfied with the logo as-is, in the interest of maintaining a visual identity, one logo has to be used across projects, whether or not the English Wiktionary wants it or not. The discussion has to get started, no matter where it is, and meta and the two mailing lists are, in fact, the appropriate place to start the discussion. I do expect (and have asked) that links to that discussion are made from those projects (and in the Central Notice as well)
I would find it sad if the English Wiktionary were to choose not to involve itself in a process that will ultimately affect its appearance; however, I don't anticipate this will actually be the case.
Cary
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Cary Bass wrote:
While the English Wiktionary community may or may not be satisfied with the logo as-is, in the interest of maintaining a visual identity, one logo has to be used across projects, whether or not the English Wiktionary wants it or not.
I'd like a chance to rephrase this, for poor grammar, as well as unintended harshness.
The Wiktionary projects should maintain a unique visual identity. It is of the utmost importance that the identity be unique to Wiktionary, but common among the projects.
Also, I want to point out: Guillaume Paumier did a great presentation at Wikimania 2007 on Visual Identity here: http://wikimania2007.wikimedia.org/wiki/Proceedings:GP1
The PDF linked has some well-researched information about Visual Identity, and the workshop was extremely interesting.
Cary
Cary Bass wrote:
While the English Wiktionary community may or may not be satisfied with the logo as-is, in the interest of maintaining a visual identity, one logo has to be used across projects
My impression is that the current split is a natural result of the fact that nobody has yet put forward a satisfactory solution. The "classic" logo is not a logo at all, but has the inertia of long use. The new logo would give some consistency but is not compelling, a mixture of good ideas and serious flaws. Since it's not a clear upgrade in the way that the Wikipedia logo was, it's not surprising that different parts of the project have decided not to go with it.
Given that background, I would conclude that neither of the current options is desirable, and we need to develop a new Wiktionary logo. I think a well-executed logo would not have much difficulty securing adoption across the project. My own suggestion would be to use individual blocks but to have them be like type pieces from a printing press. This would incorporate some aspects of both current logos - from the older one the feel of a dictionary, and from the newer one the more logo-like benefits, while dropping the appearance of game pieces. As I'm not a graphic designer, I'm not going to attempt to actually create the logo, but I would be very interested to see what someone with professional skills could come up with using this concept.
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On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 1:51 AM, Michael Snow wikipedia@verizon.net wrote:
Given that background, I would conclude that neither of the current options is desirable, and we need to develop a new Wiktionary logo.
Yes, that's what Cary brought up. :-) On http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wiktionary/logo/refresh people have the option of commenting on whether or not they think we should use the 'classic' logo, the 'tile' logo, or design a new logo. He specifically set it up so that "If none of the three options gains a clear majority at the end of the second week of voting, then [he] propose[s] the vote default to option three."
My own suggestion would be to use individual blocks but to have them be like type pieces from a printing press.
Though actual proposals for new logos will be accepted later (once it is decided how things will work), you can leave a comment about how you feel here: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wiktionary/logo/refresh#Begin_from_Scratch :-)
2009/3/26 Casey Brown cbrown1023.ml@gmail.com:
On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 1:51 AM, Michael Snow wikipedia@verizon.net wrote:
My own suggestion would be to use individual blocks but to have them be like type pieces from a printing press.
Though actual proposals for new logos will be accepted later (once it is decided how things will work), you can leave a comment about how you feel here: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wiktionary/logo/refresh#Begin_from_Scratch :-)
Well, I did a really quick-and-dirty view of what Michael's tiles-logo-but-actually-movable-type image might look like. It's completely awful - I can't draw, and my Inkscape skills are worse - but I offer it up anyway: :-)
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:WiktionaryFr-JDF_movable_type_idea_sk...
The off-green was me failing to be bothered enough to find a gunmetal grey transition shade pair, and of course it's the same rough image just rotated and resized as appropriate, but... :-)
J.
On Fri, Mar 27, 2009 at 7:34 AM, Casey Brown cbrown1023.ml@gmail.com wrote:
My own suggestion would be to use individual blocks but to have them be like type pieces from a printing press.
Though actual proposals for new logos will be accepted later (once it is decided how things will work), you can leave a comment about how you feel here: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wiktionary/logo/refresh#Begin_from_Scratch :-)
I couldn't resist making a prototype:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Wiktionary/logo/refresh#Suggestion
I couldn't resist the same urge :)
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wiktionary_husky.svg
This is actually a submission from an earlier proposal for the Wikibooks logo.
-- Hay
On Fri, Mar 27, 2009 at 6:48 AM, Stephen Bain stephen.bain@gmail.com wrote:
On Fri, Mar 27, 2009 at 7:34 AM, Casey Brown cbrown1023.ml@gmail.com wrote:
My own suggestion would be to use individual blocks but to have them be like type pieces from a printing press.
Though actual proposals for new logos will be accepted later (once it is decided how things will work), you can leave a comment about how you feel here: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wiktionary/logo/refresh#Begin_from_Scratch :-)
I couldn't resist making a prototype:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Wiktionary/logo/refresh#Suggestion
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Hoi, What would the to be associate favicon look like ? Thanks, GerardM
2009/3/27 Hay (Husky) huskyr@gmail.com
I couldn't resist the same urge :)
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wiktionary_husky.svg
This is actually a submission from an earlier proposal for the Wikibooks logo.
-- Hay
On Fri, Mar 27, 2009 at 6:48 AM, Stephen Bain stephen.bain@gmail.com wrote:
On Fri, Mar 27, 2009 at 7:34 AM, Casey Brown cbrown1023.ml@gmail.com
wrote:
My own suggestion would be to use individual blocks but to have them be like type pieces from a printing press.
Though actual proposals for new logos will be accepted later (once it is decided how things will work), you can leave a comment about how you feel here: <
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wiktionary/logo/refresh#Begin_from_Scratch%3E
:-)
I couldn't resist making a prototype:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Wiktionary/logo/refresh#Suggestion
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On 3/25/09 10:51 PM, Michael Snow wrote:
Cary Bass wrote:
While the English Wiktionary community may or may not be satisfied with the logo as-is, in the interest of maintaining a visual identity, one logo has to be used across projects
My impression is that the current split is a natural result of the fact that nobody has yet put forward a satisfactory solution. The "classic" logo is not a logo at all, but has the inertia of long use.
Just as background -- I created the current logo over the course of about 5 minutes as a placeholder, figuring it would be replaced with a more permanent logo within a few weeks.
It's been about 6 years. :)
-- brion
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