Delirium wrote:
Daniel Mayer wrote:
... 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).
OK, I obviously wasn't clear enough: I specifically said interproject links /not/ interlanguage links. Each project should have its own logo (we are developing one for Wikipedia right now); Wikipedia needs its own, Wiktionary does too, so does Wikiquote and let's not forget Wikibooks. Those project logos should be internationalized enough so that they are usable by all language versions within the same project.
The translated interface tells the user instantly which language version they are in.
-- Daniel Mayer (aka mav)
Daniel Mayer wrote:
OK, I obviously wasn't clear enough: I specifically said interproject links /not/ interlanguage links. Each project should have its own logo (we are developing one for Wikipedia right now); Wikipedia needs its own, Wiktionary does too, so does Wikiquote and let's not forget Wikibooks. Those project logos should be internationalized enough so that they are usable by all language versions within the same project.
The translated interface tells the user instantly which language version they are in.
Oh ok, that makes perfect sense then. We might want a "Wikimedia Foundation" logo, but it'd be for activities of the Foundation itself, not its subsidiary projects. I think the mere proliferation of so many major projects with the prefix "Wik" is likely to have a strong "World Domination" type of effect without one overarching logo -- even though we're not the only wikis out there, to a casual observer it's probably obvious that "Wikipedia" and "Wiktionary" and "Wikibooks" are all related.
-Mark
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