Daniel Mayer wrote:
I don't agree with this at all - each project needs to have its own very distinct logo so that each project can be instantly recognizable when readers are using interproject links. Readers need to know very fast where they are.
If this is the case, then I think we need to come up with yet another logo for the overarching Wikipedia project, that'd be suitable for using on press releases and such (since picking any one language's logo is likely to be unpopular with the others, and using them all is likely to be infeasible). Given that various languages have different alphabets, I think this would be be a fairly simple logo with the text "Wikipedia" in it, and alternate versions -- identical but for the alphabet used to spell "Wikipedia" -- could be made for other languages if their news sources desire something with local spelling. A universal and recognizable "Wikipedia logo" of this sort would also help with various promotional materials, rather than splitting up our recognition between dozens of different logos.
I'm not opposed to individual language logos, but I think they should be in some ways subsidiary -- we have a generic "Wikipedia logo" and then each language can have its own unique logo to identify itself.
-Mark