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(a)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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