[Foundation-l] Logos continued, now with a WiktionaryZ edge.

[Gerard Meijssen]

Hoi,
WiktionaryZ is not Wiktionary. It is a different project. The first logo 
we had had more with Wikidata to do than with WiktionaryZ. So when this 
proposal was made for a new logo, it was a easily better than the one 
before. I was amused and touched that someone could come up with the 
slogan: "WiktionaryZ, light in the darkness". Given that we are 
pre-alpha and see a light at the end of the tunnel, I thought it was apt 
for where we are. Our "International Beer Parlour" is called that way 
because we wanted to emphasise that we ARE international, a beer parlour 
is certainly a few steps up the ladder from a "kroeg". A kroeg is the 
name of the place where the Dutch have their palavers. We also have a 
place where we discuss bugs.. the "Insect room"..

WiktionaryZ is doing really well, it improves visibly, this week alone 
we have had the first versioning: we now have history with our edits. We 
have some experimental queries.. We have a new tool that allows 
bureaucrats to add new languages.. We have added Mandarin, Min Nan, 
Turkish, Latvian, English (United Kingdom), Persian and some more..

When you want to check WiktionaryZ out, you are welcome at 
http://wiktionaryz.org.. add your Babel templates, read the articles on 
the DefinedMeaning and we are happy to give you edit rights.. You can 
also find us on IRC at #wiktionaryz.

Thanks,
     GerardM


Nicholas Moreau wrote:
> Oh gawd. Shouldn't WiktionaryZ's logo be similar to that of Wiktionary? Why
> does:
>
> http://wiktionaryz.org/new_logo
>
> even exist?
>
> Nick
>
> BTW, they call the village pump the "International Beer Parlour".
>
>
>
> On 9/12/06, foundation-l-request at wikimedia.org <
> foundation-l-request at wikimedia.org> wrote:
>   
>> Message: 7
>> Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2006 16:55:17 +0200
>> From: "Erik Moeller" <eloquence at gmail.com>
>> Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] Logo Contests
>> To: "Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List" <foundation-l at wikimedia.org>
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>> On 9/12/06, Delphine M?nard <notafishz at gmail.com> wrote:
>>     
>>> Familiarity in that case is dull.
>>>       
>> I agree with Delphine here. The one exception I would make is the
>> Commons logo, since it has such a strong connection to Wikimedia as a
>> whole. However, I find the Wikispecies logo disappointingly mundane,
>> and cringed when I saw a "lamp of knowledge" design for Wikiversity in
>> the Wikimedia colors.
>>
>> Unfortunately, without divine intervention, the trend towards dull
>> logos seems unstoppable. Which will leave us with an inconsistent
>> mess, as usual. ;-)
>>
>> WiktionaryZ, by the way, has its own unique logo design:
>> http://wiktionaryz.org/
>>
>> Look, it even has a lens flare effect!  ;-)
>>
>> --
>> Peace & Love,
>> Erik