[Wiktionary-l] Divergent Wiktionary logos

[Cary Bass]

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We also have the issue of the favicon to consider.  At the moment,
it's identical to Wikipedia's, and will be, unless the logo gains wide
acceptance.

See [4]

Cary

[4] <https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16315>

Анатолій Гончаров wrote:
> 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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