[Wiktionary-l] Divergent Wiktionary logos

[Анатолій Гончаров]

I think that "new" logo is easier for creating (and translating). That's why
I chose "new" variant of logo for uk.wiktionary logo. And community
supported me.

2009/3/25 Cary Bass <cary at wikimedia.org>

> Hi all,
>
> The two largest Wiktionary projects (English and French) have two
> completely different logos.  [1], [2]
>
> The reason for this, from what I understand, is that a vote was taken
> place about the logo fr.wiktionary currently has, on meta [3]; which
> the English Wiktionary community chose not to be bound by, because
> they, as a community, disagreed with the outcome.
>
> I understand that there are complaints that new logo has elements too
> closely resembling Scrabble pieces, or are otherwise too cartooned to
> some.  The "new" logo does maintain some visual identity as a project
> logo, while the "classic" logo isn't really a logo at all, and
> diverges wildly from project to project.  Of the top ten Wiktionary
> projects, four of them use the new version, while 6 of them use some
> variation of the classic version:
>
> fr: new
> en: classic
> tr: new
> vi: new
> ru: classic (a variation which little resembles the original)
> io: classic (English version)
> el: new
> zh: classic (divergent variation)
> pl: classic (divergent variation)
> fi: classic (English version)
>
> As a whole, I seem to remember that Wiktionary is the second most
> visited site of the Foundation's websites, and I really do think it
> should be appropriate that the site should reflect a common visual
> identity, one that the classic logo does a poor job of creating.  The
> new logo, however, met with rather heavy resistance in, at the very
> least, the English Wiktionary community.
>
> I do, rather strongly, believe that the Wiktionary identity needs to
> be squared away, having some poll in general inclusive of, yet binding
> of all Wiktionary projects, and then if that fails, starting the
> process again, and succeeding to foment an individual logo like the
> recent successful Wikibooks logo revamp.
>
> Cary
>
> [1] <http://en.wiktionary.org>
> [2] <http://fr.wiktionary.org>
> [3] <http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wiktionary/logo>
>
>
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