-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 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 <[email protected]> > >> 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> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ Wiktionary-l >> mailing list [email protected] >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiktionary-l >> > > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFJyWIQyQg4JSymDYkRAvWlAKCTgxmuS82tWjeSYWpU366f+b97RACgnIHa AEvEpe9MoKk5vNwm1V4Jhmc= =rKjs -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Wiktionary-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiktionary-l
